KITCHEN VOCABULARY
Peel – We peel fruit and vegetables when you don’t want to eat their skin.
Sentence: Do you peel your fruit before you eat them?
Chop – Cut into small pieces, usually even pieces.
Could you help me chop some vegetables for the risotto, please?
Dice – Cut into little cubes.
Cut the meat into dice
Slice – Cut into slices.
May I have a slice of cake, please?
Grate – made into tiny pieces.
We don’t have grated cheese. Could you help me grate some, please?
KITCHEN VOCABULARY
Marinate –To put meat or vegetables into a bowl with oils and herbs, or a sauce before cooking, so they will soak up all the flavours.
Sentence: You must marinate the chicken in the BBQ sauce the night before to get that rich flavour.
Stir- mix gently in a circular motion.
Sentence: Stir the soup occasionally, so it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan.
Blend – combining/mixing the ingredients using a blender.
Sentence: Put all the fresh vegetables in the blender and blend them together for a healthy breakfast smoothie.
Mince – make it into small pieces.
Sentence: We must get some minced beef if we want to make lasagne tonight.
KITCHEN VOCABULARY
Crush – compress or squeeze forcefully.
Sentence: The last thing you need is some crushed garlic.
Simmer- simmer is when water just starts boiling, so we can see some little bubbles.
Sentence: Once the sauce starts simmering, you can lower the heat.