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See also References Further reading External links A acidulate To use an acid (such as that found in citrus juice, vinegar, or wine) to prevent browning, alter flavour, or make an item safe for canning. al dente To cook food (typically pasta) to the point where it is tender but not mushy. amandine A culinary term indicating a garnish of almonds. A dish served amandine is usually cooked with ...
Roasting is a cooking method that uses dry heat where hot air covers the food, cooking it evenly on all sides with temperatures of at least 150 °C (300 °F) from an open flame, oven, or other heat source. Roasting can enhance the flavor through caramelization and Maillard browning on the surface of the food. Roasting uses indirect, diffused ...
A typical Midwestern breakfast might have included meat, eggs, potatoes, fruit preserves, and pie or doughnuts. [7] At harvest time, families ate mostly home-produced foods. [9] More settlers began to arrive in the rural Midwest after the Erie Canal was completed in the 1820s.
An earth oven, ground oven or cooking pit is one of the simplest and most ancient cooking structures. The earliest known earth oven was discovered in Central Europe and dated to 29,000 BC. [1] At its most basic, an earth oven is a pit in the ground used to trap heat and bake, smoke, or steam food. Earth ovens have been used in many places and ...
Assamese cuisine is the cuisine of the Indian state of Assam. It is a style of cooking that is a confluence of cooking habits of the hills that favour fermentation and drying as forms of preservation [4] and those from the plains that provide extremely wide variety of fresh vegetables and greens, and an abundance of fish and meat.
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 particular, are often ...
Falafel – Middle Eastern fried bean dish. Green bean casserole – American dish from the 1950s. Hummus – Middle Eastern chickpea puree dish. Pea soup – Soup made from dried peas. Refried beans – Mexican dish of cooked, mashed, and fried beans. Vegetarian chili – Savory American stew with chili peppers and meat.
Shandong cuisine (simplified Chinese: 山东菜; traditional Chinese: 山東菜; pinyin: Shāndōngcài), more commonly known in Chinese as Lu cuisine, is one of the Eight Culinary Traditions of Chinese cuisine and one of the Four Great Traditions (四 大 菜 系). It is derived from the native cooking style of Shandong Province, a northern ...