Our kitchen must not lack all kinds of seasonings. Seasoning brings us all kinds of colorful food and the ultimate enjoyment of all kinds of flavors. If you can fully understand and skillfully use all kinds of seasonings, you will definitely bring endless delicious food and enjoyment to your life. Next, I will introduce you to the encyclopedia of cooking and seasoning, hoping it will be useful to you.

a comprehensive guide to cooking and seasoning

(1) sauces according to the shape of seasoning products: sand tea sauce, black bean pepper sauce, sour plum sauce and XO sauce

(2) sauces: soy sauce, fresh shrimp oil, black bean oil emperor and straw mushroom sauce

(3) juices: barbecue juice, brine juice, emergency juice and soy sauce. Solid: sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate and fermented soybean

2. Taste according to seasoning

(1) Salty seasoning: salt, soy sauce and fermented soybean

(2) Sweet seasoning: common sugar, honey and maltose

(3) Bitter seasoning: tangerine peel and tea juice. Sour condiments: vinegar, tomato juice and hawthorn sauce

(6) umami condiments: monosodium glutamate, shrimp oil, fish sauce and oyster sauce

(7) aromatic condiments: pepper, star anise, cooking wine, onion and garlic

(8) compound condiments: oil curry, sweet noodle sauce and fermented milk. Detailed description of pepper and salt

Common seasonings in the kitchen

Salt

Salty taste is the most basic taste among the seven flavors and eight flavors. Salt is known as the "king of all flavors" and gives people a kind of masculinity. Adding salt to dishes not only has the effects of enhancing flavor and relieving boredom, but also has the functions of sterilization and antisepsis. Detailed

Sugar

Sugar can not only enhance the flavor in cooking, but also has the functions of removing fishy smell, relieving boredom and refreshing. The sweetness in dish seasoning is a mysterious role. If it is properly mixed and properly placed, it will enrich the flavor. Detailed

Chicken essence

Chicken essence is a kind of seasoning which is based on fresh chicken, chicken bones and fresh eggs, and is compounded by many substances. Its taste is comprehensive and harmonious, and it has a realistic chicken flavor, which can add fresh and fragrant flavor to dishes. Detailed

Soy sauce

Soy sauce is a nutritious seasoning with good color, aroma and taste. When frying, frying, steaming, boiling or cold salad, adding appropriate amount of soy sauce as needed will make dishes attractive in color, fragrant and delicious. Detailed

The biggest feature of vinegar

sourness is that it can blend and combine with various flavors. Vinegar is sour and mellow, fragrant and soft, and it is an indispensable condiment in cooking. Detailed

Cooking wine

Cooking wine is made from yellow rice wine as raw material, and various spices such as pepper, aniseed, cinnamon, clove, Amomum villosum and ginger are added. Cooking wine can increase the flavor of food, remove fishy smell and relieve boredom, and also contains 8 kinds of amino acids necessary for human body. Detailed

Tofu milk

Tofu milk is a kind of pickled soybean product with rich nutrition and delicious taste. The first-class tofu milk is carefully made with dozens of spices, which can not only be used as a side dish with meals, but also be used to cook dishes. Detailed

Oil consumption

Oyster oil is made from oysters, which are boiled, concentrated and refined with auxiliary materials. The oil consumption is reddish brown to brown, bright and shiny, and has a unique fragrance. Detailed

1 major cuisines, make good use of seasonings

1. Understand Shandong cuisine and make good use of seasonings

Features: Shandong cuisine consists of local dishes such as Jinan Jiaodong and Jining. Pay more attention to the comprehensive application of salty, fresh, mellow and sour, spicy and so on.

Focus on seasonings: onion, ginger, garlic, pepper oil, rice vinegar, pepper, sugar, etc.

2. Understand Cantonese cuisine and make good use of seasonings

Features: Cantonese cuisine consists of three flavors: Guangzhou, Chaozhou and Dongjiang. In terms of seasoning, it advocates fresh, smooth and crisp flavor characteristics.

Seasonings used mainly: oyster sauce, fish sauce, pillar sauce, sand tea sauce, black bean juice, curry powder, lemon juice, etc.

3. Understand Jiangsu cuisine and make good use of seasonings

Features: Jiangsu cuisine is developed from Yangzhou, Suzhou and Wuxi. In the aspect of seasoning, it advocates moderate taste and distinct seasons, and the dishes strive to keep the original juice and pay attention to the original taste.

Seasonings used mainly: brine, spiced powder, pepper salt, red yeast, etc.

4. Understand Sichuan cuisine and make good use of seasonings

Features: Sichuan cuisine is represented by Chengdu and Chongqing in Sichuan. The flavors of Sichuan cuisine are mainly salty, spicy, fishy, spicy, spiced, mashed garlic, and strange.

Seasonings that are mainly used: Chili and Chili products, lobster sauce, Pixian watercress, pepper, etc.

5. Understand Zhejiang cuisine and make good use of seasonings

Features: Zhejiang cuisine comes from Hangzhou, Ningbo and Shaoxing. Its seasoning feature is to highlight the main ingredients, pay attention to fresh and crisp taste, and be good at innocence.

Focus on seasonings: skillfully use seasonings such as wine, sugar, vinegar and salt.

6. Understand Fujian cuisine and make good use of seasonings

Features: Fujian cuisine is a blend of Fuzhou, Quanzhou and Xiamen. Fujian cuisine is good at cooking seafood. Its elegant, fresh and tender flavor characteristics are not greasy. Seasoning tends to be sweet, sour and light.

Focus on the use of seasonings: Fujian cuisine is mostly soup, so we pay great attention to the use of soup.

7. Understand Huizhou cuisine and make good use of seasonings

Features: Huizhou cuisine originated in Huizhou and other places, and it is good to use ham as a seasoning, and the crystal sugar is fresh. The dishes are thick and oily.

Focus on seasonings: onion, ginger, star anise, clove, cinnamon, fennel, sesame oil, etc.

8. Understand Hunan cuisine and make good use of seasonings

Features: Coriander comes from Xiangjiang River Basin, Dongting Lake and Xiangxi Mountain Area. Because of the humid climate, the local people prefer sour and spicy tastes.

Focus on the use of seasonings: locally produced lobster sauce, soy sauce, peppers, etc.

9. Understand Beijing cuisine and make good use of seasonings

Features: Beijing cuisine is a combination of Beijing, Shandong, Muslim and court dishes, and the seasoning advocates paying attention to seasonality and accompanying meals.

Focus on the use of seasonings: sesame sauce, Chili oil, soy bean curd, leek flower, sweet noodle sauce, etc.

1. Understand Shanghai cuisine and make good use of seasonings

Features: Shanghai cuisine includes not only traditional dishes with local flavor in this state, but also various flavor dishes that have been collected and changed, with plain taste and rich texture, strict selection of materials and fine processing.

Focus on the use of seasonings: chicken broth, fermented grains, fragrant grains, bittern, sugar, etc. Detailed

Choice of common condiments

1. Choice of monosodium glutamate

The choice of monosodium glutamate should first meet the requirements of the trademark and manufacturer, and it should not be bought if the packaging and printing are rough and the sealing is not standardized. No.1 is delicious without cold feeling. If it is insoluble, it may be adulterated with monosodium glutamate with fishy smell, salty taste, sweet taste and bitter taste. Details

2. Choosing salt

When identifying the color of salt by senses, the sample should be sprinkled with a thin layer of white paper and its color should be carefully observed. Good salt is white in color, free of impurities, odorless and pure in salty taste. Details

3. Soy sauce selection

Good soy sauce is brown or reddish brown (except white soy sauce), with bright color, luster, clarity, no mold floating film, no visible suspended matter, no precipitation, moderate concentration, delicious, palatable and mellow taste. Details

4. Purchasing vinegar

When purchasing vinegar, you should choose vinegar with unique aroma and ester fragrance and luster. Good vinegar has clear body, proper concentration, no suspended matter, soft sour taste and long aftertaste. Details

5. Choose chicken essence seasoning

Note: After opening the packaging of chicken essence seasoning, observe whether the product is caked or foreign, smell whether it has pure chicken flavor, and taste whether it has delicious chicken taste. Details

6. Soup shopping

When shopping for soup, carefully check the ingredients list. To identify the purpose of the soup, the soup should have the inherent aroma of the product name, mellow flavor, no burnt, no? Hello? Wait for the smell. Details

7. Buy sesame paste

Choose products with little oil slick, which have strong sesame paste aroma and no other peculiar smell, and the appearance is brown or brown, which is sticky when dipped with chopsticks, and the paste body is not easy to break when poured out of the bottle.