2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
Culinary shows and blogs are gaining more and more popularity. There are now TV channels dedicated to food and how to prepare it, and on the Internet you can find all kinds of recipes and tips - from cooking beans to preparing delicious desserts.
Before embarking on culinary challenges, we must be familiar with the ways of cooking different products. Food can be served raw (eg vegetable and fruit salads, sushi), baked, fried and cooked.
Combinations of different heat treatments can also be used - for example, to fry some of the vegetables for the stew first, and then to cook them.
Spreading is a technique that is increasingly used in modern cooking. And what exactly is it? The term comes from the French language and is used to denote a special way of preparing eggs - eggs are boiled in hot, not boiling water.
Spreading is the process of boiling a product in water or another liquid at a temperature of about 70-80 degrees Celsius. The liquid should not boil, ie. should not reach 100 degrees Celsius.
Spreading is used to prepare tender products such as fish, some fruits and vegetables, eggs. Using this method preserves the true taste of the food. Its texture is also preserved - for example, the meat of the fish becomes tender, but does not crack, as it would if boiled in boiling water.
There are two main ways to spread. The first is to boil water in which to add spices. The liquid is then removed from the heat and the product is immersed in it and stays between 15 and 20 minutes inside.
The other way is to heat the product together with the liquid, but care must be taken to ensure that cooking takes place at a uniform temperature that does not exceed 80 degrees Celsius.
In the traditional Bulgarian cuisine the most famous recipe, in which the method of spreading is applied, is Panagyurishte eggs. Spreading is recommended in the preparation of salmon, trout, asparagus, Brussels sprouts.
Desserts made using this method are also becoming increasingly popular. Autumn is the right time to try to make poached pears or apples.
