All cooks learn tricks and techniques to create shortcuts in the kitchen to cook or improve the finished product. Here are some tips to make food preparation more efficient and enjoyable.
Garlic: Garlic can burn easily, so you should add at the last minute in a pan with onions or other vegetables. To easily peel a large quantity of garlic you can bake the whole bulb in the oven at 300F until the individual cloves start to open. Garlicmake yeast less active so use caution when added to bread recipes.
Spinach: cooking fresh spinach, rinse thoroughly and then when you put them in a skillet over medium heat and stir gently until wilted. The water on the leaves from washing is enough for cooking. Serve with butter and a splash of lemon juice.
Basil: Basil quickly spoil if refrigerated. Store at room temperature by the basil in a glass of water with only the stems,as you would a bouquet of flowers.
Soy sauce: Soy sauce can be used in color sauce as desired. Just add a couple of teaspoons of salt, when instead of preparing the sauce.
Mashed Potatoes: For fluffy mashed potatoes, a pinch of baking soda with milk and butter.
Hot Peppers: Use disposable gloves and rubber gloves when cubes Hot Chili Peppers to protect your hands from burning. And be very careful to get the juice around the eyes. IfThey cook a dish that calls for chili and I want it milder, remove the seeds, because they contain more heat.
Fish: frozen fish in milk before cooking to get rid of the taste Soak fish.
Zest: Recipes sometimes call for the vitality of other citrus fruit finely grated lemon o. For convenience, save the peels of lemons and other citrus fruits in the freezer if you need to add them as a recipe.
Cheese:If there is mold on the outside of cheese, just cut the moldy part before use. Cheese can be frozen, although the texture will be different after freezing. In this case it is well dissolved.
Homemade soup: soup may be thickened vessel mixing one part of your mixer and adding back through on. Soup to taste when you roast the vegetables such as onions, celery and carrot in olive oil first bearings and other ingredients. If yousmall amounts of vegetables left over sauce, meat and pasta save them to complete it in the freezer soup, homemade.
Browning Meat: Dry meat and paper towel before cooking to help with a better brown.
Herbs and Spices: When using your slow cooker or cooking any dish for a long time, add fresh herbs about an hour before the end of cooking time starts to dry. Herbs and spices can be added to. Be careful with the use of spicesbecause flavors will be concentrated during cooking, and you can always add more if necessary. When cooking beans, salt, and always end up hard.
Pasta: pasta dish not to be washed when using a cold inside
Rice: If you're too busy to cook rice to the note on the stove, cook in the oven instead. Use the same proportions: 1 cup rice 2 cups water ina covered casserole dish and bake for 45 minutes-1 hour at 350F.
We hope that these suggestions are useful and add to your pleasure of cooking.
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