Cooking dictionary
Check our cooking dictionary for information on herbs, spices, vegetables, fruits, cooking tools and cooking terminology.
| Saffron is a spice, used mainly to colorize food. It has a bitter taste and a dark yellow reddish color. Saffro... read more... |
| Sage is a native Mediterranean herb used for both
its culinary and medicinal uses. The leaves are narrow, oval shaped with a gray-green color and have a pungent, slightl... read more... |
| Salsa is another word for sauce (it comes from the same word in Italian and Spanish which means sauce). Salsas are widely used in Mexican and similar cuisines as sauces fo... read more... |
| Salt or sodium chloride is one of the most important ingredients in cooking, worldwide. It is used as a seasoning or as a preservative.The main effect of... read more... |
| Sangria is a famous Spanish drink that combines alcohol and fruit. There are two types of sangria... read more... |
| The serrano chili, together with the jalapeno, are the most popular chili in Mexico. It is small and slender with a dark green o... read more... |
| Sesame seed is a type of seed that is very popular in the Asian, Japanese and Southern cuisine. The seeds are tiny and flat shaped and come in a variety of colors ran... read more... |
| Shallot is another ingredient used widely in cooking, very similar to the onion. It comes in severa... read more... |
| Skirt steak is a long, flat cut of beef steak from the plate primal cut. It is very flavourful but tougher than other beef steak cuts. Because of its toughness,... read more... |
| Soya beans or soyabeans are a type of beans that are native to Eastern Asia. They are popular in the Asian cuisine but are used worldwide, mainly in vegetarian dishes... read more... |
