THE BASIC

COOKING METHODS

The commonly used basic cooking methods are divided into two general groups:

1.Dry heat cookery methods

2.Moist heat cookery methods

In dry heat cooking methods, the food being cooked does not use water to cook the food.

The food is left dry and heat is applied to cook the food.

When heat is applied to the food, the food cooks

in its own juice or the water added to the food during its preparation evaporates during the

heating process and this cooks the food.

The dry heat cooking methods are:

Baking

Steaming

Grilling

Broiling

Roasting

In moist heat cookery methods, liquid is used as a medium to cook the food.

Such medium could be water, coconut cream or oil etc…

The moist heat cookery methods are:

Boiling

Stewing

Frying: shallow frying & deep

frying

Barbequing

The food is usually marinated with spices and tenderizers before it is cooked.

Basting

“Cultivation to the mind is as

necessary as food to the body”

Marcus Tullius Cicero