Kitchen Dictionary
Your cheat sheet to basic cooking. Know your cooking terms!
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dress
\ ˈdres \dressed; dressing; dressesDefinition of dress
To coat foods such as salad with a sauce. Also, to clean fish, poultry, or game for cookingtransitive verb
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dress
\ ˈdres \dressed; dressing; dressesDefinition of dress
transitive verb
has two definitions when it comes to cooking, firstly to coat foods (mostly salad leaves) in a sauce. It also refers to preparing poultry, fish and venison for cooking, which essentially is breaking them down off of their carcasses and sectioning the meat.
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fish sauce
nounalso known as patis in the Philippines is a popular ingredient made from salted anchovies or other fish that have been fermented for up to 2 years.Definition offish sauce
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marinate
mar·i·nate | \ ˈmer-ə-ˌnāt , ˈma-rə- \marinated; marinatingDefinition of marinate
transitive verb
to put meat or fish in a sauce for a period of time to add flavor or to make the meat or fish more tender
