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Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)

This event was on Tuesday, August 13, 2024 at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern

Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.

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Question:

I am concerned about salt in-take. I have noticed salt being an ingredient used in vegan cooking. Should I be concerned about cooking with it? Do Rouxbe recipes have nutrient info?

— Debra Bell

Answer:

So salt is included in a lot of recipes. It's actually, um, in a lot of the Rouxbe recipes, it's much lower amount than would be in other recipes. So if you're doing a non wholefood plant-based diet, you are gonna find that there's a lot of salt in those. Um, at a typical culinary school, it's fat and salt are two of the things you add to be able to add flavors. So you'll find that a lot of, um, things have, a lot of salt restaurants in particular have very high salt contents. Um, and so you do want to pay attention to that nut nutri nutrient info. Um, the Rouxbe recipes don't actually have nutrient info. There are a few that do, but most of them do not. Um, so feel free to omit the sugar or the, uh, the salt on those or actually just do much less. Um, and just like anything else, you can add a little bit and then add as time goes to be able to see if you're getting the correct flavor that you want on that.
Dan Marek

Dan Marek

Director of Plant-Based Culinary & Dev

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