Cooking Terms

to place in a oven and cook with dry heat

• Broil
• Bake
• Saute
• chill

rush or drizzle a liquid over cooked food to enhance flavor

• Blend

• Baste

• Simmer

blend together flour and a fat

• Cut-in

• Chill

• Fold

• boil

blend together flour and a fat

• Kneading

• folding

• Blend

• Marinate

soaking in a liquid to absorb moisture, flavor or heat

• Marinating
• Frying
• Baking
• Roasting

typically use with eggs, cooking in simmering water for a brief amount of time

• Poaching
• Grilling
• Roasting
• Frying

mixing together (usually with a blender) until it is smooth, and clump free

• Stirring
• Baking
• Frying
• Puree

burn top of a side of food with intense heat (seen when cooking on grills)

• Searing

• Boiling
• Frying
• Baking

refining dry ingredients such as flour, salt, or sugar into a more fine powder

• Sift

• Sear

• Poach

• Frying

Light boiling

• simmer

• boil

• poach

• sear