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Food Preparation

Before you start cooking, you need to prepare the food. This could be anything from:

• washing vegetables like spinach, broccoli,cabbage
• slicing thinly or thickly onions, carrots, celery
• peeling carrots, potatoes
• chopping finely or coarsely or into chunks onions, garlic, ginger, carrots
• shredding cabbage, cucumber
• marinating meat
• whisking the eggs or cream
• grating cheese
• Cooking

Blog_Cooking Verbs After you have prepared the food for cooking you might need to:

• melt some butter in a pan
• bring to the boil
• simmer gently
• steam some vegetables or fish
• fry some mushrooms
• grill the tomatoes
• roast the vegetables or meat
• stir-fry some chicken
• scramble the eggs
• While you’re cooking

You will need to:

• stir gently, constantly or occasionally
• whisk the hollandaise sauce
• turn the meat over
• season with salt and pepper
• sprinkle some herbs or spices