It can be difficult to cook delicious meals on a tight budget. Luckily, one professional chef has three inexpensive options.
Frozen grocery store meals could be like Michelin-starred fine eating with three additions by TikTok chef Zoe Barrie.
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Zoe recommends that you add a sauce or a finishing oil to any meal. Also, include a textural element and a splash of color.
The chef demonstrated this process with an “average-looking pasta dish”Trader Joe’s Corn and Burrata Ravioli with a Brown Butter Corn Sauce.
According to the chef, the dish tastes like vomit and is not very good. This is why the chef suggested a meal makeover.
“Ideally the sauce or the finishing oil is a relevant or nicely-paired taste to whatever it is that you’re eating,”Zoe said this as she added shallot-infused olive oil to her pasta.
Before adding textural elements, the chef drizzled a few circles of paint around the dinner.
Zoe also used homemade garlic breadcrumbs for her special dish.
“These bread crumbs are not only going to provide added flavor, but they’re also going to add a different texture to that soft ravioli.”
The chef also suggests that amateur chefs add color to their dishes by using an edible flower or herb.
“One thing that separates home cooks from restaurants is the use of fresh herbs,”Zoe suggests using fresh basil to add color to the pasta dish.
Zoe also uses Maldon flaky sea sal to go further “add that last minute taste and crunch – so again, more texture.”
“If I was served this in a restaurant, I would be very excited to eat this dish. Before – not so much.”
She finishes her demonstration with a taste-test, claiming that the enhanced ravioli is the best she’s ever tried.
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