Cooking Techniques
Ingredients
Famous Dishes
Kitchen Tools
Cooking Terms
100

This technique involves cooking food quickly, in a pan, with butter or oil.

What is sautee?

100

This herb, often used in Italian cuisine, is known for its aromatic leaves and is commonly used in pesto.

What is basil? 

100

This breakfast item is made by dipping bread in egg mixture and frying it.

What is French toast?

100

You use this tool to flip pancakes.

What is a spatula?

100

What type of cooking is best for making heating up corn tortillas for tacos?

Steaming
200

To cook food slowly in a liquid at a low temperature.

What is simmering?

200

What is the most common sauce used in Chinese cooking? 

What is soy sauce?

200

This Mexican dish is a folded tortilla filled with cheese, meat, or beans, then cooked in a pan.

What is a quesadilla?

200

This tool is used to remove the water from the pot and dry pasta.

What is a strainer?

200

To pour melted fat or juices over food while it cooks to keep it moist.

What is basting?

300

This method of cooking involves submerging food in hot oil. 

What is deep frying?

300

This ingredient makes bread rise.

What is yeast?

300

What type of soup has cow stomach in it?

Menudo

300

You use this to mix cake batter evenly

Wisk

300

The process is used to make beef jerky

Jerk

400

This technique involves cooking food with high heat on just the outside

What is searing?

400

This spice is made from dried tree bark.

What is cinnamon?

400

A Mexican dish is made from corn tortillas filled with various ingredients such as cheese, meat, and vegetables, then baked.

What are enchiladas?

400

This small hand tool is used to cut food into small thin slices.

What is a grater?

400

When you take spices and salt, spread them on the food and then push the flavor in with your hands. 

Rub

500

This technique involves putting small pieces of meat and vegetables on a stick and barbequing it. 

Kabob

500

What is the worlds most expensive spice?

Saffron

500

A French dish where beef is slowly stewed in red wine with mushrooms, onions, and bacon.

What is boeuf bourguignon?

500

This type of knife is big, square shaped and used to chop food.

Clever

500

To soak meat in a seasoned liquid.

What is marinate?