to make food ready to eat by heating it My father cooked us dinner. I am learning how to cook.
cooked / kukt / adjective cooked chicken Thesaurus
cook to make food ready to eat by heating it: My mother taught me how to cook. ♦ Who is going to cook dinner tonight? ♦ What's the best way to cook salmon? ♦ He cooked us a wonderful meal. boil to cook vegetables, rice, eggs, etc. in boiling water (= water heated to 212°F ) : Boil the rice for 15 minutes. ♦ Put the potatoes on to boil. ♦ Do you like boiled cabbage?
fry to cook food in a shallow pan of hot oil: Fry the onion and garlic for five minutes. ♦ There was a smell of bacon frying in the kitchen. ♦ fried chicken/fish/rice
bake to cook food in an oven without any extra fat or liquid: to bake bread/cookies ♦ We baked him a cake for his birthday. ♦ baked potatoes roast to cook large pieces of meat in an oven or over a fire; to cook vegetables in oil or fat in an oven: The turkey is roasting in the oven. ♦ You should boil the potatoes for a little while before you roast them. grill to cook meat or fish on metal bars over a fire: to grill steak/chicken/burgers/fish on the barbecue ♦ grilled salmon
broil to cook food under or over direct heat: to broil salmon/a steak ♦ We ate broiled chicken with vegetables.
cook 2 / kuk / noun
[count]
a person who cooks
She works as a cook in a big hotel.
He is a good cook.
cook • book / ' kukbuk / noun [ count ]
a book that has instructions for preparing different types of food
cook .ie Ф /'kuki/ noun[ count]
a kind of cake that is small, thin, and sweet Let's bake cookies. a chocolate chip cookie
cook . ing Ф / 'кикщ / noun
[noncount]
making food ready to eat
Who does the cooking in your family? cooking lessons
the food that you cook
He missed his mom's cooking when he went to college. Collocations Cooking preparing chop/slice the onions peel the potatoes/an orange grate the cheese/a carrot mix (together) all the ingredients cooking
heat the oven/the broiler/some oil in a frying pan
melt the butter/chocolate/cheese
cook food/fish/meat/rice
bake bread/a cake/cookies/muffins
boil potatoes/an egg/water
fry/stir-fry the chicken/vegetables
grill/broil/barbecue fish/meat/steak
roast chicken/turkey/potatoes
steam rice/vegetables
microwave food/popcorn/your dinner
cool Ф / kul / adjective ( cool er , :ool est )
1 a little cold; not hot or warm cool weather
It was a cool evening, so I put on a sweater. Thesaurus
