How colonialism and convenience made bouillon cubes a popular ingredient in kitchens around the world.
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What Are Bouillon Cubes? (15 Little-Known Facts About This Popular Ingredient)
“Every home kitchen every grandma uses bouillon” says Mexican-American chef Edgar Rico of Nixta Tacqueria in Austin Texas. “Just like you’d find dried chiles avocados onions and garlic in a pantry there are bouillon cubes in my grandmothers’ pantries. They’re always the little baby cubes from Knorr.”
In Mexico as in much of Latin America Knorr's "caldo con sabor de pollo" is the favorite brand of broth easily recognizable by its iconic yellow-green packaging with a chicken on the front. Rico's grandmother uses it for mole stewed pork with chile verde and soups.
Elsewhere in the world other brands of bouillon may dominate and their products may instead be labeled as “bouillon cubes” or “stock cubes” but often the MSG-rich concentrate is a pantry staple nonetheless. Its relatively low cost ease of use and intense flavor have made bouillon a popular ingredient in kitchens on virtually every continent where the powders and cubes are used to flavor soups and stews and in some cases even sprinkled directly onto cooked plates of food.
