Basic Cooking Essay

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BASIC COOKING
8.1 Cooking definition:
• Cooking is an art of application of heat to prepare food.
• The objective of cooking is to bring chemical and physical change in food to make it a complete dish.
• It makes food eatable, improves its flavor or makes it easier to digest.
Cooking also makes eye appealing, creates an appetite makes food digestible and kills harmful bacteria.

8.2 Methods of cooking:
Moist / Wet Media:
1-Boiling:
• In this method, food items are totally submerged in hot water and cooked at 100 degree Celsius.
• The temperature is then reduced slightly and maintained at the simmering point where the liquid is just moving.
• Rice, pasta, pulses, meat etc cooking in this methods.

2-Blanching:
• Food items totally submerged into boiling water then after 30-40 second drained it and …show more content…

• It gives good flavor and it is served in large hotels, special restaurants, departmental stores etc.
Oven roasting:
• In this method food items are cooked at a temperature up to 230 degree Celsius.
• The food items are cooked on the bed of root vegetables.
• The food items are placed on the tray is kept inside the oven and roasted between 170 -230 degree Celsius.
Tandoori Roasting:
• In this method food items are cooked in clay oven.
• This system is more popular in north India.
• In this methods meat to be marinated with species and skewed on rods and placed over the clay oven and cooked.
• Roti, Naan, Paratha etc are also cooked by this method.

3-Grilling:
In this method food items are first marinated with fat, herbs, spices and left for sometimes and cooked on the grill bars heated by coal and electricity.
• Grilling under the heat /

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