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Various cooking ways can enhance your creativity in the kitchen. To develop certain dishes, you need to experiment with the recipes to achieve a flavourful meal. Mastering and understanding the various cooking techniques are necessary for becoming a great cook or home chef. Continue reading about the three basic cooking methods and techniques that you must know.
Sauteing
The Indian version of sauteing is known as 'bhuna', where you can saute the vegetables, meat on a medium flame (to mix the spices that form the base of a dish). This method is crucial while making any dish from any cuisine. The saute is a french word that translates to “jump”; this step cooks food very quickly. To achieve excellent results in sauteing, make sure the oil in a pan is hot enough. Best foods for sauteing
Vegetables: onions, garlic, leafy greens, mushrooms can be sauteed in butter or oil to make a flavorful base for the dish you are making.
Meats: sauteing the meat helps to cook quickly and tenderly. Also, you can saute boneless pieces, strips, or cutlets before pouring them into the gravy.
Grilling
Traditionally and popularly, the grilling methods are similar to 'using a tandoor'. Food is paced into the skewer or heating rack on a hot charcoal layer. Grilling is similar to broiling, which uses radiant heat to cook food in lesser time. Nowadays, modern homes use the oven grill or the barbecue griller for cooking food varieties and replicating tandoor in their home. Best food for grilling:
Bread: You can grill any sandwich, burger, wraps which are moist and cooks up very quickly.
Tandoori starters: Dishes like tandoori paneer, soy, mushroom, chicken, naan, kebabs, and naans.
Baking or Roasting
Baking and roasting both use indirect heat for cooking from the sides. The baking includes cakes, muffins, bread, cookies, lasagna, pizza, chicken strips. The term roasting is used when you cook meat or vegetables. Both the cooking methods are similar, but the temperatures you cook in the oven are different.
Baking goods: Baking transforms from the wet dough, batter into a final solid product with a firm texture.
