In the pantry · 8 uses
sumac
Sour without liquid, which is a genuinely useful thing to own — it brightens a finished dish where a squeeze of lemon would make it wet. Also crimson, so it doubles as color.
7
dishes and drinks that need it
1
more where it is worth adding
57%
of those are under 30 min
What it is usually standing next to
Olive oil is in 57% of the dishes that call for it — close enough to be a rule rather than a habit.
Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.
If you have twenty minutes
Built on it · 7
Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.
Worth adding · 1
These work without it. They work better with it.