Cooking

Cooking

The process of preparing food, usually with heat.

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Steam

Culinary arts; Cooking

To cook a food in the vapour given off by boiling water.

Dried seeds or fruits with edible kernels surrounded by a hard shell or rind. Nuts are available in many forms, such as chopped, slivered, and halved. Use the form called for in the recipe. In most ...

Fillet

Culinary arts; Cooking

A piece of meat or fish that has no bones. As a verb, fillet refers to the process of cutting meat or fish into fillets.

Indirect grilling

Culinary arts; Cooking

Method of slowly cooking food in a covered grill over a spot where there are no coals. Usually the food is placed on the rack over a drip pan, with coals arranged around the pan.

Blackened

Culinary arts; Cooking

A popular Cajun cooking method in which seasoned fish or other foods are cooked over high heat in a super-heated heavy skillet until charred, resulting in a crisp, spicy crust. At home, this is best ...

Phyllo dough

Culinary arts; Cooking

Prominent in Greek, Turkish, and Near Eastern dishes, phyllo consists of tissue-thin sheets of dough that, when layered and baked, results in a delicate, flaky pastry. The word phyllo (sometimes ...