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cooking terms
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- 1Accompanimentsseparate food dishes that are served with main courses
- 2Accompaniments examplesPotatoes
Vegetables
Salad - 3Al DenteMeans firm/with a bite
- 4Al Dente Food examplesPasta
Rice - 5Au Gratina dish sprinkled with breadcrumbs or cheese and then baked.
- 6BruleeBurnt cream on top of a dessert
- 7Brulee examplesMainly used on Crème brûlée
- 8Coulisa sauce made from fruit or vegetables
- 9Coulis exampleRaspberry coulis served with a dessert
- 10CroutonsCubes of fired bread
- 11Croutons examples1) Served with salads
2) served with soups - 12Flambefood covered in alcohol and then set on fire
- 13Flambe examples1) Christmas pudding
- 14Garnishan edible decoration served with a meal
- 15Garnish Examplesa slice of lemon
herbs - 16Mise en Placepreparing both the ingredients and equipment before you start cooking
- 17Mise en Place examplesweighing and measuring out the amount of ingredients e.g. flour, butter, eggs
- 18Pureesmooth mixture made by blending food or putting it in a sieve
- 19Reduceboiling a liquid to evaporate some of the water
- 20Rouxa fat and flour mix. it's used to thicken a sauce
- 21sautefry by tossing in a small amount of hot fat
- 22saute examplescan saute vegetables
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- Flashcards on cooking terms, created by Rachel Hartley on 20/12/2018.
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