Crêpes A Crêpe is a very thin type of pancake. There are two types of crêpe: sweet crêpes (crêpes sucrées) and savoury galettes (crêpes salées). Crêpes can be served in a variety of ways, with various fillings.The simplest with only sugar and lemon, to the flambéed Crêpe Suzette or elaborate savoury galettes. as in Crepe aux Fruit […]
Cooking Terminology
Coulis
Coulis Coulis (/kuːˈliː/ Koo-LEE) is a form of thin sauce made from puréed and strained vegetables or fruits. A vegetable coulis is commonly used on meat and vegetable dishes, and it can also be used as a base for soups or other sauces. Fruit coulis is most often used on desserts. Raspberry coulis, for example, […]
Concasser
Concasser Concasser, from the French “to crush or grind”, is a cooking term meaning to rough chop any ingredient, usually vegetables. This term is particularly applied to tomatoes, where tomato concasse is a tomato that has been peeled, seeded (seeds and skins removed), and chopped to specified dimensions. Specified dimensions can be rough chop, small […]
Consommé
Consommé Consommé is a type of clear soup made from richly flavoured stock, or bouillon that has been clarified, a process that uses egg whites to remove fat and sediment
Court Bouillon
Court Bouillon Court bouillon,( Koo-Bee-Yon), which means “short broth” in French, is an aromatic liquid consisting of (Depending on Use), water, a mirepoix(carrot, onion, celery), a bouquet garni(bay leaf, thyme, parsley), white wine, Lemon Juice or vinegar, herbs, zest, spices and peppercorns.It is used to poach foods such as fish, seafood, chicken, and sometimes fruit.
Caramelize
Caramelize Caramelization is the cooking of sugar until it turns brown.This process is used widely in cooking to achieve a sweet nutty flavour and brown colour.The term “To caramelize onions” is to cook the onions until they turn brown, where the sugar within the onions has Caramelized.
Canapé
Canapé Canapé is a type of hors d’œuvre, a small, prepared and often decorative food, consisting of a small piece of bread (sometimes toasted), puff pastry, or a cracker topped with savoury food, held in the fingers and often eaten in one bite..
Dust
Dust Dusting is the process of lightly sprinkling a fine layer of a powdered or granulated ingredient onto food, through a fine sieve. Usually, a cake may be dusted with powdered sugar, as a final decoration before serving.
Drizzle
Drizzle To Drizzle is to pour a very fine stream of liquid, such as melted butter or a sugar glaze over food for decorative purposes and/or to add flavour, as in a Lemon Drizzle cake.
Dress
Dress To dress is to prepare food for cooking or for serving. To dress a salad is to sprinkle a salad dressing over the prepared salad just before serving.Another version of Dressed is Dressed crab, where the meat of the crab is removed from the shell, broken down and returned to the cleaned body shell […]