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brine. To soak a food item in salted water. broasting. A method of cooking chicken and other foods using a pressure fryer and condiments. browning. The process of partially cooking the surface of meat to help remove excessive fat and to give the meat a brown color crust and flavor through various browning reactions.
Sweating (cooking) Sweating in cooking is the gentle heating of vegetables in a little oil or butter, with frequent stirring and turning to ensure that any emitted liquid will evaporate. [ 1] Sweating usually results in tender, sometimes translucent, pieces. [ 2] Sweating is often a preliminary step to further cooking in liquid; [ 1] onions, in ...
Leaf vegetables. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Leaf vegetables. Articles relating to leaf vegetables, plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots. Although they come from a very wide variety of plants, most share a great deal with other leaf vegetables in nutrition and cooking methods.
Blanching (cooking) Blanching is a cooking process in which a food, usually a vegetable or fruit, is scalded in boiling water, removed after a brief timed interval, and finally plunged into iced water or placed under cold running water (known as shocking or refreshing) to halt the cooking process. Blanching foods helps reduce quality loss over ...
Grape seed oil, a cooking and salad oil, also sprayed on raisins to help them retain their flavor. [90] Hemp oil, a high quality food oil [91] also used to make paints, varnishes, resins and soft soaps. [92] Kapok seed oil, from the seeds of Ceiba pentandra, used as an edible oil, and in soap production. [93]
This category holds articles about dishes and prepared foods primarily featuring plants or parts of plants culinarily used as vegetables, particularly those eaten in savory (as opposed to sweet) foods, including. all other non-fruit, non-seed parts, such as flower buds, stems, leaves, shoots, sprouts, bulbs, roots, and tubers.
Dum pukht. Dum pukht ( Persian: دُم پخت ), larhmeen, dampokhtak, or slow oven cooking is a cooking technique associated with the Mughal Empire in which meat and vegetables are cooked over a low flame, generally in dough-sealed containers. [1] Traditions assign its origin in pre-partition India to the reign of Nawab of Awadh Asaf-ud ...
This is a list of plants that have a culinary role as vegetables. "Vegetable" can be used in several senses, including culinary, botanical and legal. This list includes botanical fruits such as pumpkins, and does not include herbs, spices, cereals and most culinary fruits and culinary nuts. Edible fungi are not included in this list.