If you are searching for food-making methods? Then, you have come to the right place to find a solution related to your query; below I have mentioned the 6 easy ways of cooking food at home. There are various methods that you can try at home ranging from baking to poaching, let’s take a look at some of them, you can choose any type of cooking method you want to depending on the type of food you want to cook you may use one or more methods. Here, are some of the most common methods of cooking food.
Baking
Among the many ways of cooking food, baking is one of the easiest; baking is a method in which food is prepared in dry heat commonly in an oven but it also can be done in hot ashes and hot stones. It is used for making amazing bakery products such as bread, rolls, cookies, pies, muffins, pastries, and the type of food made by the flour, or any kind of grain.
There are things that you should keep in mind while baking a food temperature according to the food type. But, first when you check the corner bakery’s breakfast menu; you will see the fact that all the menu items they make use the baking method only for all the recipes.
Nowadays baking is done by the oven, first, before putting your tray in the oven preheat your oven to get consistent results, and prepare a batter with quality ingredients; now keep a raw batter in the oven and remember to rotate your pan halfway to ensure that food should be cooked properly from each side and prevent hot spots in the oven. Then, in the end, cool the food and remove it from the pan, keep in mind while making a batter do not mix hot ingredients into a batter or dough.
Grilling
Another popular method is grilling, which involves heat applied to the surface of the food, commonly from above, below, or from the side. It is not too easy, you have to check it again and again while using this method of cooking, grilling needs a significant amount of direct and radiant heat, and it is commonly used to cook meat and vegetables. This food is cooked on metal grates over the heat that helps food to get a smoky and charred flavor, researchers have found that eating grilled food reduces the chances of chronic diseases including heart disease, certain cancers, and type 2 diabetes.
Roasting
Roasting is also a common way of cooking food, a slow cooking process involves indirect, diffused heat used to cook ingredients of food. This method needs heat to create hot air around the food that helps the food not be uncooked from any side, keeping the right temperature is the major point here; the temperature should be at least 150 Celsius. Usually, there are 3 types of roasting spit roasting, oven roasting, and pot roasting; you should also take some measures while roasting food such as using a good pan, not overcooking the pan, flipping the vegetable to the other side once it is cooked from one side and use the foil paper to line the baking pan.
Boiling
There’s not a single person who has not tried boiling in their life, it is one of the easiest methods of cooking and most of us already know how to do it; but yes, there are some precautions and things to remember while boiling a food such as Keep yourself away from the pan filled with hot water and never carry a large, full pot by hand provide waterproof aprons.
How to boil? first, bring water to a boil or add food and water together in the pan, add salt to the boiling water then, add the food and boil for long as necessary. Boiling is a very safe and simple method of cooking even for people who don’t know how to cook; the boiling method is used in many recipes such as pesto boiled potatoes, macaroni salad, khichdi, and spinach soup with paneer.
Furthermore, it’s important to boil the food safely otherwise, it results in delicate foods breaking up. Boil the food on a light flame if the food is over-boiled then it makes the food soft and mushy. The disadvantage of boiling is it leads to a loss of vitamins and flavor of the food.
Boiling food in water for a long time can indeed lead to leaching some nutrients from the food, especially water-soluble vitamins, including vitamin C. But, the vegetables like broccoli, carrots, cauliflower, and spinach will help preserve their vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. According to my personal viewpoint, some foods literally taste terrible or tasteless when you boil them.
Stir-Frying
Stir-frying is the best cooking technique originating in China and recently it is one of the most popular cooking methods that has spread into other countries as a Western cooking technique. Do not get confused between frying and stir-frying, these are two different types of frying pan and deep frying. Stir fry means doing a saute very little oil is needed to make the food a little bit crispy and crunchy and then, stir the ingredients and toss them constantly. I hope you got the point! so do not be unclear about both cooking methods.
When you do stir-frying means crisping the vegetables to make them taste better and retain more nutrients as compared to boiling. When you use a very little amount of oil it may also help you to reduce the amount of fat gain in your body. So, it is much healthier than deep frying; in China, stir-frying is used in most homemade recipes, and this is a great way to get a healthy dose of vegetables.
If you want to know how to do stir-frying in a great way using the thumb rule?
It means if you are considering using the stir-frying technique properly you have to focus on these things such as first cooking your protein and vegetables separately and combining them once they both are fully cooked.
While stir-frying is common in China on the other side it is not that popular in other parts of the world. One special thing about the stir-frying method is that cooking with this is so quick and hot, that it scorches out ingredients, creates a natural aroma, brightens their flavors, and makes it much more tasty. So, what you are waiting for? Go give it a try let’s cook something!
Poaching
Poaching is a cooking method that originates from the French word poche which means small pouch or pocket, this cooking technique is used for making various delicacies such as dumplings, and nut custard. It’s not that easy to poach food, (it needs practice and time to cook food perfectly with the help of poaching); it is recommended that the viewers learn from someone who knows how to poach food or with the guidance of someone who knows the technique.
Here are the few steps that you need to follow to learn a poaching technique first, find a suitable size high-edged fry pan to fit the food in the pan, bring liquid to a boil, add food to the water, poach the food until it cooked as per the food item you are cooking. This type of cooking is often used for delicate foods that cook quickly, such as eggs, fish, and fruits; there should be enough space in the pan to keep food without overfilling it.
You should not stir the food while poaching it otherwise it doesn’t fall apart and break up, because it is the fastest, the poaching technique is not that easy; there are four types of poaching methods shallow, merge, and deep poaching. In addition, deep poaching has another two variations including butter poaching and oil poaching, so you can try any one of them but it takes a little bit of time to learn how to do great poaching for your cooking.