Question

Some food material is given below. What are the diffrent possible ways of cooking them? Find out and write them.
Meat - Groundnuts - potatoes - Spinach

Answer 1

Meat-frying, boiling
Groundnuts-frying, roasting, baking
potatoes-same as meat
spinach-boiling,roasting,frying
PS-by frying i mean both deep frying and shallow frying

Answer 2

Meat:

Meat is cooked by pressure cooking. In this method of cooking, the meat is cooked under a lot of steam pressure and this allows the meat to be cooked in less time. In addition, pressure cooking kills all bacteria making food hygienic to eat.

Groundnuts:

Groundnuts are cooked used roasting or deep frying. In roasting, dry heat is used to roast the groundnuts enabling them to retain all their nutrition. In deep frying, the groundnuts are fried in oil making them absorb more fats.

Spinach:

Spinach has a lot of moisture content and can be cooked by boiling. Boiling may sometimes take more time and so pressure cooking can also be used sometimes to cook spinach.

Potatoes:

Potatoes can be boiled or pressure cooked. Potatoes when boiled need a lot of water to get properly cooked. When pressure cooked, potatoes take very less time to get cooked.