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Seasoning and Flavoring

Seasoning and Flavoring. Seasoning foods. Seasonings: Ingredients you add to a food to improve its flavor. Added small amounts cannot taste individual seasoning. Seasonings . Enhancing Natural Taste Intensifies natural taste Example: pasta cooked in salted water. Balancing Tastes

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Seasoning and Flavoring

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  1. Seasoning and Flavoring

  2. Seasoning foods • Seasonings: • Ingredients you add to a food to improve its flavor. • Added small amounts • cannot taste individual seasoning

  3. Seasonings • Enhancing Natural Taste • Intensifies natural taste • Example: pasta cooked in salted water. • Balancing Tastes • Overcome very strong tastes • Sour, sweet, bitter • Bitter vegetables are less bitter when salt is added. • Sour foods are less sour if you add sugar. • Cutting Richness • Very rich and fatty foods will be less so if salt is added

  4. Review • Why do chefs season food?

  5. Types of Seasoning • 4 basic types of seasoning • Salt • Pepper • Sugar • Acids

  6. Salt • Sodium Chloride • Used in all cuisines, in all countries • Added to foods during cooking or at table • Enhances flavor of food • High-Sodium Foods • Added to a dish adds salt • Example: soy sauce, bacon

  7. Where does Salt Come From? • Found underground • Mined • Found in the ocean • Water contains the salt. When it evaporates, the salt is left behind. • Salt lasts indefinitely • As long it does not get moist (humidity)

  8. Types of Salt • Table Salt • Refined to remove other minerals • Processed to give it a fine, even grain. • Iodized salt • Added to salt after WWI • Prevents iodine deficiency • Prevents goiters

  9. Types of Salt • Sea Salt • Made by evaporating sea water • Not refined • Contains other minerals and elements • May have a slight color • Various sizes

  10. Types of Salt • Kosher Salt • Salt without any additives • Flakier than table salt • Use twice the amount of kosher salt as you would table salt in a recipe.

  11. Types of Salt • Rock Salt • Less refined than table salt • Not used for consumption • Used in making ice cream, or a bed for oysters

  12. Types of Salt • Monosodium Glutamate • MSG • Not a salt • Used in the same way as a salt • Provides umami taste • Made from seaweed

  13. Pepper • Together withsalt, the most widely used seasonings in the world. • Actually a spice • Used as both a spice and a flavoring • Black and White pepper are seasonings

  14. Types of Pepper • Black Pepper: • Dried, unripe berries of pepper vine • Whole berries, cracked or ground • Grinding is preferable • Fresher, more aromatic

  15. Types of Pepper • White Pepper • Pepper berries are allowed to dry • Husks removed • Used in light colored sauces • Whole, cracked, or ground • Grinding is preferable

  16. Sugar and Light-Flavored Sweeteners • Used to enhance flavor of many dishes • As a seasoning: • Only add a small amount • Brown sugar has a flavor and is not a seasoning • Liquid Sweetener • Light corn syrup • Light honey • Light maple syrup

  17. Acids • Lemon, orange juice, vinegar, wine • Sour, tart flavor • Also improves appearance/texture of foods • Lemon juice keeps fruit from turning brown

  18. Review: • Name the four types of seasonings.

  19. Flavoring Foods • Seasoning enhances foods flavor • Flavoring changes the flavor of food

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