Potatoes 1
A good type of potato to use when making French fries.
What is a russet (or Idaho) potato?
The distance above the floor that dried grains and dried legumes should be stored.
What is 6 inches?
Type of rice used to make Risotto.
What is arborio rice?
Do this to prevent potatoes from exploding when they bake.
What is pricking the skin?
This is how you know when to add pasta to the water, when preparing pasta.
What is boiling?
A good type of potato to use for baked potatoes.
What is a russet or Idaho potato?
The maximum length of time that legumes should be stored.
What is 1-2 years?
An Italian rice specialty made by stirring hot stock into rice that has been sauteed in butter.
A technique where you saute rice in butter and slowly add the liquid, to produce a creamy rice dish.
What is risotto?
An American-Jewish potato dish, also called a potato pancake.
What is a Latke?
The consistency or texture of properly cooked pasta.
What is al dente?
Potatoes that are small and are good for steaming and roasting.
What is a new potato?
A necessary step in preparing most legumes for cooking.
What is soaking?
A cooking method in which you saute rice in oil or butter, then simmer in stock or water, with a variety of seasonings.
A rice dish prepared using this method.
What is pilaf?
Temperature that potatoes should be stored at.
What is 45-55 degrees?
An important step in making pasta dough that handles well.
What is resting?
A yellow variety of potato.
What is a Yukon Gold potato?
An ingredient that should not be added to legumes too early when cooking.
What is salt?
The process of removing the germ, bran, and hull of the grain.
What is polishing/milling?
Baking, frying, roasting, boiling, steaming, sauteing
What are single-stage techniques for cooking potatoes?
The ratio of pasta to water when cooking pasta.
What is 1 lb./1 gal?
A 2-stage cooking method for potatoes.
What are Lyonnaise potatoes?
What is a twice-baked potato?
This makes up the largest portion of a kernel of wheat and contains carbohydrate and protein.
What is endosperm?
A poisonous compound that is present in green potatoes.
What is solanine?
An Italian dumpling.
What is Gnocchi?