Timpla: Asian Home Cooking

Most recipe apps hand you a list of steps and wish you luck. Timpla teaches you to taste. Every dish is mapped on the five tastes — salty, heat, sour, umami, sweet — so you can see where a recipe is going before you cook it, and every recipe has a Timpla Check step that tells you exactly what to taste for and how to adjust it. "Timpla" is Tagalog for seasoning something to taste. That is the whole idea. WHAT'S INSIDE 22 dishes, each written and tested to be cooked in a real home kitchen: Filipino classics like adobo, sinigang, kare-kare, sisig, tinola, pancit and lumpia, alongside pad thai, green curry, tom yum, pho, goi cuon, karaage, oyakodon, bulgogi, kimchi jjigae, mapo tofu, rendang, nasi goreng, Hainanese chicken rice and butter chicken. THE FLAVOR COMPASS Every recipe carries a five-taste profile, so you know whether you are making something bright and sour or deep and savory…