Cooking Vegetables

Appears in
Professional Cooking
Professional Cooking

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2014

  • About
Now that you have studied the whys and wherefores of vegetable cooking, you should be able to proceed to actual preparation with a clear understanding of what you are doing.
This chapter outlines the basic methods for cooking vegetables. Successful performance of these methods relies on your knowledge of the principles we have discussed.

The recipes given here reinforce your understanding through actual practice. The emphasis is on the method rather than on the particular vegetable used because each method applies to many vegetables. For this reason, variations are listed after basic recipes rather than presented as separate complete recipes. As in other chapters, recipes for sauces that appear and are used as components of subsequent preparations are not repeated here.