Rosheen Kaul: Secret Sauce - How to make anything delicious
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Here's the truth about great cooking: it's not about fancy techniques or expensive ingredients. It's about knowing how to make things taste ridiculously good with minimal effort. And the fastest route to that? A killer sauce, a punchy sambal, a flavour-bomb butter that turns plain rice, roast chicken, or yesterday's vegetables into something you'd happily eat three nights in a row.
Secret Sauce is your shortcut to seriously delicious dinners, no matter your skill level. Rosheen Kaul - the Condiment Queen herself - has cracked the code on what makes food irresistible, and she's sharing over 80 recipes for sauces, sambals, dressings, and butters that do all the heavy lifting for you. These aren't fussy, multi-step recipes that require a specialty grocer and half a day. They're smart, punchy, make-ahead flavour boosters that transform the everyday into the exceptional.
What this book does for your cooking:
- Makes you look like a genius in the kitchen - even if you're just heating up noodles or roasting vegetables, the right sauce makes it restaurant-worthy
- Saves you from dinner boredom - one batch of chilli oil, salsa verde, or miso butter gives you a week's worth of exciting meals with zero extra effort
- Builds your flavour confidence - learn how to balance heat, acid, richness, and umami so you can start improvising your own combinations
- Works with what you've got - these recipes are designed for real kitchens, real schedules, and ingredients you can actually find in New Zealand
Organised by colour (Red for sambals and chilli oils, Green for salsa verde and chimichurri, White for mayo-based magic, Black and Brown for soy wonders, Yellow for utterly butterly good), the book gives you 80 condiment recipes plus 80 ways to use them. It's the kind of cookbook that earns its spot on your counter because you'll reach for it constantly - not just when you're cooking something special, but when you need to make Tuesday night feel like a treat.
Whether you're an accomplished cook or someone who can barely manage two-minute noodles, Secret Sauce is your ticket to meals that taste like you really know what you're doing. Because you will.
Hardcover. Vibrant photography. A cookbook that makes everyday cooking exciting again.
About the Author
Rosheen Kaul is a leading Australian chef and coauthor of James Beard award-winning debut cookbook Chinese-ish. Born in Singapore to parents of mixed Asian heritage (Kashmiri, Peranakan Chinese, Filipino), she grew up between Melbourne, Malaysia, China and Indonesia. To her parents' horror she pursued a career in cooking, working at Lee Ho Fook, Smith & Daughters, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal and, most recently, Etta.
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