Do you look at the wonderful meals your friends and family members make and wonder how they do it? Anybody can make use of this article’s advice to refine and cultivate their cooking skills.
When you are cooking a stir-fry, ensure the meat is sliced to be very thin, and cut it on the bias. It is possible that you may have a little trouble doing so in a time efficient manner. Take the meat out of the freezer once it firms up (not frozen) then cut at an angle of 45 degrees across the grainy part of the meat.
The longer the cooking process, the more nutrients that you lose from most vegetables. If you are not serving the vegetables in their raw state, consider steaming, sautéing or even roasting your vegetables to protect their vitamin and nutrient content.
It is a good practice to place cut potatoes in a bath of cold water for about half and hour, before frying in order to get crispy fries. Soaking potatoes accomplishes two important things for your French fries; it takes out sugar and starch during the soaking process.
Garlic is a wonderful ingredient in recipes, but the smell is quite difficult to remove from your hands. By rubbing your hands inside a stainless sink after handling pungent smelling foods. This trick removes the offending scent from your hands, which prevents them from migrating to the foods you touch next.
Using smaller amounts of cooking oils will help you lose weight and make your diet healthier. There is a lot of unnecessary fat in butter and oil. Using cooking spray instead of oils will be a much healthier option.
If you’re using wooden skewers to cook, try soaking them in water for half an hour first. If you do not do this, your food may cook faster than you want, causing it to burn. To ensure that your food stays on the skewers, use two skewers instead of one to hold the food firmly in place.
Try to add some broths or other ingredients to recipes that call for liquid in place of what it asks for. Try adding some stock instead of water, or even the water your cooked veggies in. To replace milk, yogurt, sour cream and buttermilk can make good substitutes. Varying the liquids that are in your recipes is an excellent method of adding nutrition and variety to a dish.
Be sure to follow the advice in this article. Before you know it, the situation will be reversed, and guests eating your food will be the ones wondering how you make such delicious meals.