A combination of textures is an essential aspect of a delicious dish. Crunchy and creamy, chewy and runny, crisp and tender: part of cooking is learning how to play ingredients off each other in interesting and appealing ways. (And it doesn’t stop with texture, of course. Think of the push and pull of flavour in sweet-and-sour sauce, or the mingling of hot and cold in an ice cream sundae with warm fudge sauce.)
That’s a theme in our five recipes below.
