Cooking Basics – Delicious Cooking. Tips on how to cook

Pizza in a frying pan

Pizza has long been transformed from an exclusively Italian dish into an international delicacy. Each housewife has her own favorite pizza recipe, but there are different ways to prepare it, and our site would like to tell you about one of them. We are talking about the fastest and, perhaps, the most inexpensive way – pizza in a pan. ›

Gravy

Although there is not much difference between sauce and gravy, both in appearance and in taste it is a liquid sauce, from which the gravy differs only in that it is added directly to the plate with food (poured), and the sauces are served on the table in special dishes (sauce bowls). ›

Kefir pizza dough

The main advantage of the kefir dough is the speed and simplicity in its preparation, which makes it easy to make pizza for unexpected guests. And you can use a wide variety of products for pizza filling. ›

Yeast-free pizza dough

I wonder why this happens: you try one pizza and you can’t come off, but eat a slice of the other – it’s not at all that something is missing in it. What is the real secret of delicious pizza? Do you think in the filling? You are wrong, it’s all about the test and only about it. To make the pizza really tasty, you need to prepare the dough correctly! ›

How to cook starch jelly

Today, many housewives are glad that it has become much easier to feed their loved ones, it is enough to go to the store and buy products that do not require lengthy pre-processing. For example, packaged powders for making jelly, which only need to be diluted with boiling water. Of course, the preparation of such jelly does not require a lot of time, but we invite you to learn how to cook jelly from starch – exactly as our mothers and grandmothers did. ›

Sourdough bread

Baking bread in any national cuisine is always a sacred, mysterious act, almost witchcraft. The secret of making bread was carefully kept in every family and passed down from generation to generation. Sourdough bread baked in a Russian oven was tasty and aromatic, one might say that there is no such bread and cannot be anywhere else in the world. The ancient science of baking is not forgotten today. ›

Chicken sauces

Both on a festive table and at a quiet ordinary family dinner, fried, boiled, stewed, grilled or barbecued chicken meat is a real small holiday for relatives and friends. Well, if you serve such meat with a delicious sauce to emphasize the taste of the prepared dish, then it will simply be impossible to refuse such a treat. ›

Dough for dumplings. How to cook

No matter how beautiful and appetizing the dumpling lying on the plate in front of us looks like, it can be called real only if it was prepared from the correct homemade dough. It is a properly prepared dough for dumplings that can make dumplings dumplings. ›

How to salt lard at home

Sooner or later, many housewives think about how to salt lard at home, because lard cooked with your own hands is a wonderful hearty snack and a very healthy product. In addition, the cost of self-prepared lard is several times cheaper than the price of ready-made salted lard. If you do not know how to salt lard at home, tips and recipes from “Culinary Eden” will come to your aid. ›

Sweet sauces

Sweet sauces are not only the most important addition to baked goods, desserts and cereals, but also add their own “zest” to them, which enriches and enhances the taste of ready-made dishes. In some cases, sweet sauces are simply necessary to add the missing sweetness or sourness to the product. ›

Primary fish processing

It is better to consider the technology of cooking fish dishes in stages. The primary processing of fish includes the following processes: thawing of frozen fish, freeing it from contamination and inedible parts, as well as cleaning from scales, separating from fish parts that have a reduced nutritional value. ›

Toppings for pies

A good pie is not only an airy soft dough, but also a delicious filling. Poorly prepared pie fillings can ruin the whole venture if they are too dry or too runny. There are several rules for preparing excellent delicious fillings for pies and pies. ›

Shurpa

In Central Asia, the shurpa even became famous as a curative dish: with its help, anemia, tuberculosis, and rheumatism are treated. Lean shurpa on lean meat helps women in labor and postoperative patients recover. Sharp shurpa returns male strength and saves from a hangover. ›

Fajitos

It is not surprising that Mexican dishes have gained popularity in our country and have become frequent guests at our tables. Fajita is undoubtedly a vivid embodiment of Mexico, the concentration of its tastes and the pinnacle of culinary art – a dish known far beyond the borders of its country. ›

Pie dough on kefir

Sometimes you really want to pamper yourself and your family with delicious homemade cakes. In the arsenal of every good housewife there should be several recipes for making dough for pies and pies. Very delicate and aromatic pastries are obtained, for the preparation of which we used kefir pie dough. ›

Filling for tartlets

Elegant tartlets with various fillings are a wonderful appetizer for any meal. Now it is easy to choose and buy tartlets of any shape and size. For those who like to tinker in the kitchen, there are several recipes for homemade tartlets. But the filling for tartlets is a special conversation. ›

Kefir dough

Ask any hostess, and she will answer you that any homemade pastry made from kefir dough always turns out lush and tasty. In addition, the dough on kefir and cooks much faster than the same yeast or puff pastry. The recipes for kefir dough are simple, however, depending on what you want to cook: buns, dumplings, pies or pizza, the composition of the dough may vary. ›

Sour cream

Sour cream is not as popular as butter or protein. And the whole point is in its instability. But there are desserts that use only sour cream – Zebra, Tenderness or Honey cake. Due to its consistency, the cream perfectly saturates the cakes. ›

Cream sauce

At all times, making a good sauce was considered a real culinary art. Indeed, thanks to a well-prepared sauce, all kinds of dishes are able to play with completely new, sometimes surprisingly unexpected shades of taste, gain juiciness, piquancy and originality. Two completely identical dishes can be strikingly different from each other, thanks to … the sauce.
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Pie dough

No matter how tasty the filling is, if the dough for the pie failed, all the work done can be considered in vain. This can be said with certainty by every housewife, in whose culinary practice a similar incident took place at least once, after which there was no desire to touch the dough.
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