Cooking

Cooking is a process of chemical change in food items to become a complete dish in which more than two ingredients or food comodity. To make a compete dish akitchen should have skilled manpower.efficient teamwork, adequate mise-en place, clean kitchen, clean employees and standard presentation.Cooking is creating a flare of presentation of food so as to counterpart new changing taste and lifestyle of people. Cooking pleases the eyes and is respective to the palate and helps to stimulate the digestive juices. While cooking the colour of vegetables are brightened. Green vegetables fast boiled with a lid improve the green colour. Couliflower when boiled, in acid medium, gets a white refreshed look.
Cooking sterilize the food partially. Cooked food can be stored for a long time and it prevents food poisoning and disease. Some of disease producing germs are killed by cooking because of high temperature during the cooking process. It retains as far as possible, the nutritive and flovouring ingredients. The flavour devends upon the amount and kind of extractives presents. Cooking gives a verity to the menu, as one food items could be cooked in various ways and give different texture.eg. mutton in a soup, roast, joints, croquetts, stews, steaks, keema, boti kababs etc. Differents method of cooking when used make the menu interesting and enchance veriety. It is therefore, easier to balanced diet.