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How can I customise a meal base with seasonal vegetables and herbs?
Choose produce whose flavour and cooking time suit the base, and account for its water release. Add delicate herbs near serving if their fresh aroma is desired, and season after the mixture has stabilised.
Why it happens
Seasonal vegetables and herbs differ in sweetness, bitterness, moisture and texture. A meal base that works with one vegetable may become watery or strongly flavoured with another.
How it works
Vegetable chemistry and tissue structure vary by variety and maturity. These differences change moisture, cooking time and flavour balance even when the base remains the same.
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By the BhumiSutra kitchen team. Updated 25 October 2026. All products and figures on this prototype site are demonstration data.