Simple cooking tips for newbies

Cooking is meant to be fun for everyone, so please take a look at some of these tips right now.

1. Give yourself enough time in the kitchen. Do not set unrealistic goals. If you're planning for a party, make sure that you have enough time. Do not do last-minute preparation.

2. If you are thinking of trying out new dishes, make sure you have tried them for yourself. If not, you're asking for trouble. Learn what you know and have the dishes verified before you even serve them.

3. Make sure you do a checklist of the ingredients that you need. It doesn't make sense to be missing ingredients while cooking. So make sure you do a checklist when you go shopping. This will save you time and money.

4. You may also want to use popular recipes to help you. In fact, you can find many of these recipes in this blog itself. Following these simple recipes can help newbies like you.

5. You may also want to get tips from your family and friends. If you are struggling in the kitchen, then it is suggested that you learn from them. Sometimes, they can provide you with invaluable tips especially your mother!

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How to Saute Vegetables

We all love the delicious sauteed vegetables offered in restaurants. They are colourful, full of flavour, and tender as well. Sauteing is the technique of cooking over a high heat to concentrate the flavour of your food. The high heat evaporates the water inside and caramelizes them just enough to make them taste good outside and tender on the inside. A good saute always uses some kind of fat during cooking. It can either be butter, oil or animal fats. It adds flavour as well.

Tossing should be done only with small vegetable pieces. Larger pieces of potato, eggplant, or zucchini can be sauteed in a single layer until they are brown, and then turned carefully with tongs. If you are using a watery vegetable like tomatoes, you may want to try coating them with flour to help absorb the extra moisture. A good saute pan will have a heavy bottom to allow for even distribution of the heat. Prepare your vegetables well before chopping them up. Wash them thoroughly and pat them dry. Vegetables that work well in a saute include broccoli, bell peppers, onions, green beans, cauliflower, carrots, celery, mushrooms, potatoes, sweet potatoes, eggplant, etc.

Recipe for Vegetable Saute

What You Need:

• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 1 teaspoon garlic, minced
• 4 broccoli florets, chopped
• 1/2 zucchini, chopped
• 1/2 yellow summer squash, chopped
• 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 1/2 red bell pepper, chopped
• 1/2 yellow bell pepper, chopped
• 6 cremini mushrooms, chopped
• 2 tablespoons chicken stock

Heat a large saute pan over high heat. Add the olive oil and let it warm. Add the garlic and saute for about half a minute, stirring to prevent burning. Add the rest of the chopped vegetables and let them cook until they just begin to wilt; about 2 minutes. Add your oregano, chicken stock, and soy sauce, stirring well to incorporate them into the mixture. Cook until the vegetables are just tender; about 3 minutes. Do not overcook them. Remove the pan from the heat and serve with whatever sauce is in the pan.

Using Your Crock Pot

It is a wonderful thing to note that you cannot overcook your food under normal circumstances. The heat comes from the sides and not underneath, so you can be sure that the food is evenly cooked. You do not have to stir often and cleaning up is really easy. You can prepare many recipes using simple ingredients that you can prepare anytime!

Another tip while cooking is not to remove the lid too often. Every time you remove the lid, you let out a lot of heat and it takes time to recover. It may extend your cooking time.

If you are preparing bread or cakes recipes, it is highly recommended that you keep the lid in place during the first 2 hours.

You can also cook frozen meat and vegetables recipes in the crock-pot. All you have to do is add 2-3 hours cooking time. The important thing to note here is not to put frozen food directly into a heated crock-pot. It will damage the crock-pot due to temperature differences.

Preparing low sodium recipes

Preparing low sodium recipes can be very challenging. You wan to keep your recipes healthy but at the same time, you want to retain the flavours. You can use these simple low sodium cooking tips to help you.

Quality seasonings make a big difference when you are cooking. For the best results, find seasonings without potassium chloride, as it can add an off metallic taste to your food.

Using lemons help. This tip can be a little tricky here. You do not want to turn your recipe into a lemon recipe. What you can do is to ladle a small amount of soup into a bowl. Add a few drops of fresh lemon juice and stir. Then taste to see if you need to add more. A few drops of lemon juice, stir, and taste. This will give you some idea of how much lemon juice you will need to add to the pot. Don't add too much as it is difficult to take the taste away if you added too much.