Every winter, truffle fever hits Australia. In restaurants, you’ll see tiny black curls topping everything from pasta to roast potatoes, where they impart an intense umami flavour.
Truffles are a delicacy cherished around the world. The fungi grow underground and are renowned for their intense aroma and distinctive flavor, so truffles (actual truffles, not chocolate truffles) are often used sparingly to enhance the taste of various dishes. The most popular truffles for cooking are black truffles, used for their earthy and musky notes, and white truffles which are prized for their pungent and garlicky flavour. Due to their rarity and labor-intensive cultivation, though, truffles come at a high price. But if one whiff od truffle is enough to make you reach for your wallet, then you’ll want to save these truffle recipes for luxe at-home cooking. making them a symbol of luxury and culinary excellence.
Our truffles recipes come in the form of luxed-up steak sandwiches with truffled brie and simple omelettes with black truffle shavings, or you can add a small amount of truffle to sauces and side dishes to transform an otherwise humble meal into something to remember. Here are our best recipes using truffles to try this winter.
Parsnip soup with truffle and hazelnuts
Matt Stone and Ben Ing’s grilled Akoya with mushrooms and truffle jus
Blistered tomato, potato and truffle salami breakfast bread
Phil Wood’s potato purée with truffle butter
Baked whole truffles in salt (truffes au gros sel)
Rack of veal with truffle gravy, truffled scalloped potatoes and Brussels sprouts
Salt-baked truffled chicken with warm green bean and truffle salad
Truffled pork pies with watercress and beetroot salad
Creamed salt cod and roast garlic soup (Zuppa di baccalà mantecato)
Triple-cream cheese with Australian truffles, honeyed walnuts and fruit bread
Piedmontese-style veal carpaccio with truffle pecorino and sea salt grissini
Grilled tiger prawns with Ortiz anchovies
