Food and cooking vocabulary is an essential vocabulary stock especially prepared for those who speak English language as a second language. Native language is always a rich language in every aspect and when we look at speaker of non-native languages, they face many problems while speaking second language. Here is the list of all those food and cooking vocabulary words, which we use for food and cooking.
Food and cooking vocabulary
Bake
Meaning: We use this word to cook food such as bread or cake in an oven using dry heat as in microwave oven.
Example: We will bake few cakes for his birthday party.
Barbecue
Meaning: to roast or broil meat, chicken or fish over hot coals or an open fire.
Example: We barbecued fish and ribs last Sunday and enjoyed a lot.
Bite
Meaning: to cut food item by teeth to eat like cookies or sandwich
Example: He bit the cookie in half. She ate the sandwich in four quick bites.
Bitter
Meaning: a strong and unpleasant flavor or something too much sour
Example: These almonds are very bitter.
Bland
Meaning: lacking strong flavor and having no good or original taste
Example: This vegetable soup is very bland. It does not taste well.
Buffet
Meaning: Buffet is a meal with serving counter having multiple dishes in meal. It is normally served in restaurants and inns.
Example: We went to a Turkish buffet and enjoyed a good meal.
Creamy
Meaning: food made from cream or tasting like cream
Example: I would like to take a creamy peanut butter.
Crispy
Meaning: food that is dry and easily broken
Example: Fry the potato chips until they are crispy and brown.
Crunchy
Meaning: a type of food with hard texture and making a loud sound when chewed under teeth
Example: The peanut cookies were crunchy.
Dessert
Meaning: a sweet course normally served at the end of the meal.
Example: I do not like desserts in dinner but I am crazy for desserts in breakfast.
Pudding
Meaning: A thick soft and creamy food usually made from rice, eggs or bread that people eat normally cold and served in meal as desserts.
Example: In Pakistan, pudding is served as a dessert after meal.
Fish
Meaning: meat of salt-water fish / sea fish or fresh water fish
Example: We barbequed fish at dinner on last Sunday.
Fried
Meaning: something cooked in oil in a frying pan
Example: My son is crazy for fried potatoes chips.
Game
Meaning: meat of wild animals like rabbit, hare, partridge, pheasant etc
Example: Game birds are those birds those are legally allowed to hunt.
Grill
Meaning: to cook, fry or toast food direct over hot surface over fire
Example: During the summer, we grill meat outside usually.
Gulp down
Meaning: to swallow or eat very quickly in large quantity
Example: He gulped down the pizza in four bites.
Guzzle
Meaning: to drink something very quickly or greedily and in large amount
Example: He guzzled a glass of water after he finished the job.
Loaf
Meaning: a piece of bread or cake
Example: I ate one loaf of bread in breakfast.
Lump
Meaning: a small piece or amount of something
Example: Put of a lump of cream on top of the casserole to make the cake creamy.
Red Meat
Meaning: meet of lamb, pork or beef
Example: In Pakistani culture, people cook red meat mostly in wedding parties.
Microwave
Meaning: to make something heat up in microwave oven.
Example: Microwave the sandwich for two minutes and eat.
Mild
Meaning: not strong or harsh in taste
Example: The taste of these spices is very mild.
Overcooked
Meaning: something cooked for more time than required
Example: Overcooking made these potato chips crunchier.
Pan-fried
Meaning: fried in a frying pan
Example: Would you like a piece of fish fried in frying pan?
Pint
Meaning: a unit of measuring liquid
Example: She drank a pint of ale at the bar
Poach
Meaning: This word is used commonly (in food and cooking vocabulary) to cook in boiling liquid.
Example: I prefer to poach eggs in breakfast.
Portion
Meaning: a quantity of food taken during male
Example: Have you eaten your portion of desserts?
Poultry
Meaning: (“white meat”) meet of chicken, turkey, goose or duck
Example: Poultry is cheap than red meat.
Pour
Meaning: to put some liquid into something like glass, cup, jug etc
Example: Pour the cola over ice cubes and taste it.
Raw
Meaning: vegetables or food in natural state
Example: Salad is made from raw vegetables.
Ripe
Meaning: fruits or vegetable those are fully-grown and ready to eat.
Example: Make sure the apples are ripe so we can use them in the juice.
Rotten
Meaning: rotted or decayed food that is not able to eat
Example: This fish smells rotten; throw it away.
Roast
Meaning: to cook something with dry heat in an oven or over a fire
Example: Let us put chicken in the oven and roast for one hour.
Salty
Meaning: having a quantity of salt in it
Example: The potato chips were a bit salty and crispy.
Sip
Meaning: to drink in small quantity (to suck liquid by air into mouth)
Example: It is best to sip a coffee rather than gulp it down at once.
Snack
Meaning: a small amount of food eaten between meals
Example: I eat snack at four o clock usually.
Sour
Meaning: having an acid taste like lemon
Example: The milk had turned very sour.
Shake
Meaning: Move something forth and backward quickly to mix its ingredients.
Example: Shake the juice well and pour into a glass.
Starter / appetizer
Meaning: the first thing eaten as part of a meal
Example: People usually prefer salad and drinks as starter in their meal.
Stir
Meaning: This term is used in food and cooking vocabulary for to mix something with spoon or stick making a circular movement
Example: Stir the sugar well and enjoy juice with your favorite lunch.
Steam
Meaning: something placed in steam vapors before cooking (Steamed: cooked over a saucepan of boiling water)
Example: The easy way to cook many vegetables is to steam them before cooking for few minutes.
Stir-fried
Meaning: to fry something over high heat while being stirred continuously
Example: Usually I take stir-fried eggs in breakfast.
Stewed
Meaning: something cooked for a long time on a low heat
Example: Stewed foods are easy to digest.
Tasteless
Meaning: food that does not has a good taste
Example: The meat has been cooked for too long. It‘s tasteless.
Tough
Meaning: food with hard texture, difficult to chew
Example: The cookie was very tough. I could hardly chew it!
Unripe
Meaning: vegetables or fruits those are not full-grown and not ready to eat or cook and picked before their ripen time
Example: Oranges and bananas are picked unripe mostly and become ripe as they are shipped.