6 Different Types of Healthy Cooking Methods?

Posted: Jan 14, 2010 |Comments: 0 | Views: 779 |

Cooking looks to be a natural skill to others it's fraught with danger and disaster. Cooking need not be scary, let us analyze few of the primary cooking techniques and show you how simple it really is.

Once, you professional one or two of these cookery techniques, you'll then be prompted and self confident to try few of the others. Skills you pick up in one method could easily be applied for other.

Simply relax and enjoy it.

Baking:

This is a cooking process that cooks food in the oven by dry heat. Like a cooked potato. Baking is as well used to describe the cooking method of cookies, bread, and cakes

Roasting:

Just like baking this cooking process uses the oven, but it's generally used for vegetables and meat. Roasting usually asks some fat added up to protect the food and keep it wet while it's cooked at a relatively high temperature. It's better to use tender cuts of meat for roasting and cook it in a shallow tin to admit the air to spread. This will also help in the meat surface turning an appetizing brown. Make sure to turn the cooking juices into gravy to accompany the meat. Along with the meat you can join many vegetable including: carrots, potato, tomatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, tomatoes, fennel, peppers, parsnips, aubergines, garlic and turnips.


Basting:

This is the easy process of keeping fish, meat or poultry moist whilst roasting in the oven. All you need to do is spoon the fats and cooking juices over the meat various times while cooking. This will help keep it moist add flavor and better the visual aspect of the cooked meat. If you run out of cooking juices in the roasting tin then you can add up a bit stock or wine.

Grilling:

Grilling is an incredibly speedy and easy process of cooking, which is as well healthy. The food is cooked applying radiant heat. This makes sure that the outside of the food is also well cooked and browned whilst the inside stays moist. The grill needs to be preheated and the food napped with oil to apply some protection from the severe heat. Barbecuing is the out of door equivalent of grilling and is appropriate for all the foods listed below though it produces a smokier flavor.

Use good quality tender foods like - chicken, steak, sausages, chops and whole fish like trout and fish cutlets and fillets like salmon and cod. Vegetables such as aubergines, mushrooms, peppers, tomatoes and onions are also suitable for grilling.

Griddling:

A griddle used to refer to a flat metal plate, which was used to cook cakes and drop scones on top of the stove. Today the tem to griddle pertains to a ridged griddle pan alike to a frying pan it's a ridged surface, which patterns the food with appetizing brown stripes. It's newly become popular due to its use by many TV chefs. It's a healthy way of cooking due to only a light brushing of oil being required. Griddling is suitable for salmon fillets, squid, chicken, steaks and shellfish, and for vegetables such as courgettes, aubergines, onions and peppers.

Deep Fat frying:

This is the frying method where the food is completely immersed in hot fat. It needs to be really hot and commonly cooks the food speedily. Better oils for this are Soya bean oil and corn oil but groundnut oil is the best. In order to deep fry foods with success they need a protective coating to avoid drying out. The two most popular coatings are breadcrumbs and batter and these are most generally applied on chicken, fish, chips and seafood with a new fad being the mars bar. You've credibly seen this process of cooking performed several times before at your local store. A deep big pan is utilized to heat the oil and a wire basket used to lift the food out. More care is need because the oil is exceedingly hot and it could be quite harmful.

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