Classic Umami Mushroom Seasoning
Dried mushroom powder blended for an instant umami lift in dals, sabzis and soups.
Stir a spoonful into dal, sabzi or soup in the last few minutes of cooking for savoury depth.
About this product
Mushrooms naturally contain glutamate compounds — the same category of compound responsible for umami taste generally — which means dried mushroom powder can deliver a real savoury depth to a dish without needing added MSG or a heavy salt hand to get there. That's the entire idea behind this seasoning: it's milled dried mushroom, blended to be added at the end of cooking, doing the same job a spoon of MSG or an extra pinch of salt might otherwise do, but from an actual food ingredient.
It works best stirred into something already cooking rather than used as a raw table seasoning — a spoonful into dal in the last few minutes, folded into a sabzi just before it comes off the heat, or whisked into a soup base. Because it's a fine milled powder rather than flakes, it dissolves into liquid-based dishes cleanly instead of sitting as visible specks.
This is our most straightforward seasoning — no chilli, no specific cuisine angle, just concentrated umami — which makes it the most versatile one in the range if you're not sure which of our four seasonings to start with. It's vegan by nature, being entirely plant-and-fungi based, with nothing animal-derived in the blend.
