Recipes

Vocabulary:

Apple: a round fruit with a firm white flesh and a green, red or yellow skin.

Meat: the flesh of an animal when it is used for food.

Orange: a round sweet fruit which has a thick orange-colored skin and an orange-colored centre divided into many parts.

Soup: a usually hot, liquid food made from vegetables, meat or fish.

Hamburger: a round flat shape made of beef, which is fried and eaten between two halves of a bread roll.

Coffee: a dark brown powder with a strong flavor and smell that is made by crushing coffee beans, or a hot drink made from this powder.

Bread: a food made from flour, water and usually yeast, mixed together and baked.

Chicken: a type of bird kept on a farm for its eggs or its meat, or the meat of this bird which is cooked and eaten.

Banana: a long curved fruit with a yellow skin and soft, sweet white flesh inside.

Carrot: a long pointed orange root eaten as a vegetable.

Potato: a round vegetable which grows underground and has white flesh with light brown, red or pink skin, or the plant on which these grow.

Corn: plants, such as wheat, maize, oats and barley.

Fish: an animal which lives in water, it is covered with scales, and which breathes by taking water in through its mouth, or the flesh of these animals eaten as food.

Lemon: an oval fruit which has a thick yellow skin and sour juice.

Eggs: the oval object with a hard shell which is produced by female birds, especially chickens, and which is eaten as food.

Onion: a vegetable with a strong smell and flavor, made up of several layers surrounding each other tightly in a round shape, usually brown or red on the outside and white inside.

Milk: the white liquid produced by cows, goats, and sheep and used by humans as a drink or for making butter, cheese, etc.

Pepper: a vegetable that is usually green, red or yellow, it has a rounded shape and is hollow with seeds in the middle.

Pasta: a food made from flour, water and sometimes egg which is cooked and usually served with a sauce. It is made in various shapes which have different names.

Ice cream: a very cold sweet food made from frozen milk or cream, sugar and flavorings.

Pizza: a large circle of flat bread baked with cheese, tomatoes, and sometimes meat and vegetables spread on top.

Grapes: a small round purple or pale green fruit that you can eat or make into wine.

Rice: the small seeds of a particular type of grass, which are cooked and eaten as food.

Cake: a sweet food made with a mixture of flour, eggs, fat and sugar.

Pie: a type of food made with meat, vegetables or fruit covered in pastry and baked.

Strawberry: a small juicy red fruit which has small brown seeds on its surface, or the plant with
white flowers on which this fruit grows.

Lettuce: a plant with large green leaves, eaten raw in salads.

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Recipes

· Vocabulary employed to describe recipes:
Mash: to crush food, usually after cooking it, so that it forms a soft mass
Example: Mash the potatoes and then mix in the butter and herbs.

Melt: to turn from something solid into something soft or liquid, or to cause something to do this
Example: Melt the chocolate slowly so that it doesn't burn.

Mix: to cause different substances to combine, so that the result cannot easily be separated into its parts
Example: Mix the eggs into the flour

Fry: to cook food in hot oil or fat
Example: Fry the mushrooms in a little butter.

Spread: when something moves to cover a larger area
Example: She spread a thick layer of butter on her toast.

Mixture: a substance made from a combination of different substances, or any combination of different things
Example: The mixture of flour, water and yeast is then left in a warm place for four hours.

Toast: to make bread or other food warm, crisp and brown by putting it near a high heat
Example: Do you want this bread toasted?

Shred: to cut or tear something roughly into thin strips
Example: Shred the lettuce and arrange it around the edge of the dish.

Chop: to cut something into pieces with an axe, knife or other sharp instrument
Example: Chop the onions and carrots roughly.

Slice: to cut something into thin, flat pieces
Example: Slice the mushrooms thinly and fry in butter.

Cover: to put or spread something over something
Example: Cover the meat with a layer of cheese.

Diced: to cut food into small squares
Example: Peel and dice the potatoes.

(Definitions taken from Cambridge University Press, electronic dictionary (2003))