Cooking Verbs

We should saute the onions for Grate

five minutes. How about grating carrots for the
salad tonight?
Cooking Words with Pictures and
Examples
Break Fry Add
She breaks 2 eggs into a bowl. The ground was hot enough I’d like to add some pepper to the
to fry an egg on. bean curd.
Taste
My mom tastes the soup for the
lunch.
Boil
Melt You’re pathetic! Can’t you
Melt the chocolate and allow it to even boil an egg?
Peel
cool slightly. As you peel away the onion Barbecue
skin,you will find another skin If the weather is fine,
underneath. we’ll barbecue in the ranch.
Cut
Steam
She cut the meat into small pieces.
You should steam the carrots
until they are just beginning to be
tender.
Spread
He spread some strawberry jam Mix Roast
on his toast. After you have beaten the Are you going to roast the
eggs, mix in the flour gradually. Chop chicken?
chop the carrots up into small
pieces.

Layer Pinch
This cake has a layer of fruit in I pinch little salt into the soup.
the middle. Bake
Whip
Nowadays, I bake my own bread
I can easily whip up an omelette.
rather than buy it.
Slice
It’s best to slice into a rich cake
from the middle.
Roll out
She rolls out the pastry on a flat Pour
surface. When you’ve ground the coffee, use
Saute a funnel to pour it into the jar. Stir
I need a teaspoon to stir my tea.
Weigh
Please weigh out 10 pounds of  
potatoes.

CHOP: To cut into small pieces, generally MELT: to make something become liquid 
English
Sprinkle icing sugar over the
used with vegetables. through heating. cake.
 Chop the spring onions then add  Melt the butter before adding it to SQUEEZE: to extract a liquid or soft

Vocabulary together.
them to the dish.
COMBINE: To put two or more things
the mix.
MICROWAVE: To heat up food with a
microwave oven.
substance from something by compressing it
firmly.
 Squeeze the juice from three
The following list of verbs frequently appear COOK: To prepare food by heating it so that  Remove the food from the metal lemons.
when reading the cooking instructions of it is not raw and can be eaten. container before STEAM: To cook by placing the food above
recipes in English. I have included some  Cook the chicken until there are you microwave it. boiling water. Steam is the vapor that comes
examples sentences using each verb: no pink parts. MINCE: to grind food, normally meat, into from hot water.
CRUSH: To cause to separate or flatten by small pieces. A machine is often used to do STIR: To mix liquid ingredients by moving a
ADD: To put ingredients together; to put one extreme force, often used with garlic. this. spoon around in a circular motion.
ingredient with the others. CUT: To separate or divide a solid by using MIX: To combine two or more things using a  Stir until the sugar has completely
 Add more salt to the dish if a knife. spoon, spatula, or electric mixer. dissolved.
necessary.  He cut the meat into little pieces.  Mix the flour, melted butter and STIR-FRY: To cook small pieces of food by
BAKE: To cook in an oven using heat and DRAIN: to remove excess liquid from food sugar together. moving it quickly in a wok or pan with hot oil.
without extra fat, oil or liquid. after washing or cooking it. OPEN: To remove the top from a can or jar.  I’m going to stir-fry these
 It smells good in the kitchen  Drain the water from the pot of PEEL: To remove the skin or outer layer vegetables.
because I’m baking a cake. spaghetti. from fruit or vegetables. TENDERIZE: to make meat softer and
BARBECUE: To cook food (usually meat) FRY: To cook by putting the food into  Peel the potatoes before boiling easier to eat by beating it or adding
by using fire or hot coals on a grill outside. extremely hot oil. them. marinade before cooking it.
 I’m going to barbecue some  I fried some bacon and eggs for POUR: To transfer liquid from one container  I think we should tenderize the
sausages for lunch. breakfast. to another. steak before cooking it.
BEAT: To stir (usually eggs, cream, butter) GRATE: To divide into small parts by  Pour the chocolate sauce over the WASH: To immerse food in water to make
quickly and continually to make a smooth or rubbing on a serrated surface, usually used pears. sure it becomes clean.
frothy mixture. with cheese. ROAST: To cook (usually meat and  Wash the strawberries before
 Beat the cream until it starts to  Grate a large carrot and add it to vegetables) in the oven or over a fire. cutting them into pieces.
thicken. the salad.  We are going to roast the chicken WEIGH: To measure the weight (grams,
BLEND: To mix two or more substances so GREASE: To coat with oil or butter. and vegetables. ounces or pounds) of something.
they combine together. Often done in an  Make sure you grease the pan SAUTÉ: To quickly fry food by placing it in  Weigh the mix to make sure you
appliance called a blender which has quickly before putting the mix in otherwise hot oil in a frying pan. have the right amount.
rotating blades. the cake will stick to the sides. SCRAMBLE: To mix the white and yellow WHISH: to mix liquids, eggs, etc. into a stiff
 You can blend fruit to make your GRILL: To cook by putting the food on a parts of eggs together while cooking them in light mass, using a fork or a special tool
own smoothie. grill; similar to barbecue. Also refers to a pan. (such as a whisk).
BOIL: To heat water or another liquid until heating the food under a grill in a cooker  Scramble the eggs in a frying  Whisk all of the eggs together
little bubbles form. which radiates heat downwards. pan. with the milk.
 Boil the potatoes until they are KNEAD: To press and stretch dough with SIFT: to put a fine substance through a
cooked. your hands. Usually used when making sieve so as to remove lumps or large
BREAK: To separate into smaller parts by bread. particles.
force.  Knead the dough for the pizza  Sift the flour into a large bowl.
 Break the eggs into a glass bowl. base. SLICE: To cut into thin or wide portions that
BROIL: To cook meat or vegetables on a MEASURE: To obtain an exact quantity or are of similar size.
rack with an extremely high temperature. amount of an ingredient.  Slice the tomatoes and add them
CARVE: To cut meat into slices.  Measure exactly half a teaspoon to the salad.
 Who is going to carve the of curry. SPRINKLE: to cover an object or surface
Thanksgiving turkey? with small drops or particles of a substance.
Example: Sarah was Meaning: Cut something
busy chopping up  onions. from a larger piece
Cut off Example: She  sliced
Meaning: Remove part of off  a piece of  sausage.
something by cutting it with a knife Whip up
Cooking Phrasal Example:  You Meaning: Quickly make a
should  cut  the tops off  the meal or something to eat
Verbs with Meaning carrots first. Example: She  whippe
Cut out
and Examples Meaning: Shape or form
d up  a delicious lunch for us in
15 minutes.
List of phrasal verbs about by cutting
cooking and food. Example: She cut seve
 Bake off ral pieces of pastry  out.
Meaning: Finish baking Cut up
partly baked food Meaning: Cut something
Example: She  baked into small pieces
off  the cakes in the oven. Example: He cut the
 Boil away pie up  into little pieces.
Meaning: Evaporate Eat out
completely during boiling Meaning: Eat in a
Example: The soup’s restaurant instead of at home
almost  boiled away. Example: Do you feel
 Boil down like eating out tonight?
Meaning: If a food or liquid Eat up
boils down, its volume is reduced Meaning: Eat all of
as it boils something
Example: Spinach tends Example: Eat up!
to boil down a lot. We’ve got to go out soon.
Boil over Fry up
Meaning: Rise and flow Meaning: Cook
over the side of the container while something by frying
boiling Example:  Let’s  fry so
Example: The milk me eggs  up for dinner.
was  boiling over  on the stove Pick at
behind her. Meaning: Eat only small
Bolt down amounts of a meal
Meaning: Eat a large Example: Most of the
amount of food very quickly time he just picks at his food.
Example: She  bolted Pig out
down  her lunch and rushed Meaning: Eat an
back to work. extremely large amount of food
Chop up Example: Kids  pigging
Meaning: Cut into pieces, out  on junk food and soda.
usually with several sharp blows Slice off