4 Simple Things To Learn How To Cook

If you want to improve your cooking repertoire, there are a lot of ways to do that. You can simply try out a few different cuisines that you have not tried before, or you might want to try learning to look at some simple dishes and accompaniments that you have never tried either. If you want to do the latter, there are certainly a few options in particular that you might want to be aware of. Let’s take a look at what those are right now so that you can expand your cooking abilities in no time.

Garlic Butter

Sometimes some of the most delicious sides and accompaniments you can make are also the simplest. This is pretty much the perfect example of that in action. Garlic butter is a very straightforward thing to put together. It’s just a case of melting butter down and combining it with garlic before reconstituting it again, and yet the result can be incredible. It’s also hugely diverse, and able to be used in a wide variety of dishes, so it’s definitely something you should learn to make at some point or another. You’ll find it really does add to a lot of meals. Make your own garlic herb butter and see how it turns out.

Bread

Baking a simple loaf of bread is probably much easier than you assume it to be, and that is something that you are going to want to think about if you want to expand your repertoire. To make a loaf of bread, you need to get some strong bread flour - high in gluten - and then mix it with a packet of dried active yeast and salt in a bowl. Slowly add water and turn the mixture round with your fingers. Then knead it on the table and leave to rise. After that, it’s all about shaping it and baking it - the smell of the home is something else!

Curry

There are of course so many different types of curry that you might want to make, but there are a few essentials that you can consider if you want to make sure that you are learning the essentials to it. More often than not, it’s just a case of frying onions and garlic with your preferred spices and herbs, and then adding in your other ingredients. For a Thai curry, that might be coconut milk followed by your protein of choice. For an Indian curry, it would likely be spicier. But that is the basic way to make a delicious curry, and it’s a great thing to know how to make.

White Sauce

A white sauce or a roux can be used in a lot of different meals, and it’s one of those chef staples that are really good to know about. On paper it’s simple, but it can take practice to perfect it. Generally, however, it’s just adding milk butter and flour together, and whisking until you have it at the right consistency. That’s all there is to it.