How To Cook Amazing Food | A Beginner’s Guide To Cooking

Baidawi reveals his number one tip/trick to ensure that every single dish achieves maximum flavor. Watch this video to learn one simple step in the cooking process that will take your cooking to the next level.

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Mhm now this is not a humble brag I’m Not tooting my own horn I’m not patting myself on the back here but a lot of times when I cook for people I get compliments on how good the food do taste but I also get questions as to how

Come you just get yours to taste so good and I mean it have different answers to that question right one of the answers is experience um you cook some something for long enough you tweak the process you keep doing it you keep doing it um it becomes a little more intuitive and

Cooking becomes a little more I want to say natural to you um the way that you cook by feel and not by measurement um know how long it takes for something to cook um the amount of heat to apply and that kind of thing all that do come from

Experience so one way to improve your cooking is to just keep cooking right so if you’re watching this and you’re new to cooking please don’t feel intimidated by cooking um if your dishes don’t come out the most flavorful or the way that your mother used to make it and that

Kind of thing don’t fret about it because trust me when I started to cook my cooking didn’t you know taste the way it is taste now so is a process so just allow yourself to go on that Journey but one thing that you can do and that you

Should do when you’re cooking one very integral step to the cooking process is sautéing your veggies and your aromatics I can’t stress how important this is it doesn’t matter what you’re cooking once it involves incorporating veggies and aromatics into the dish you want to start that dish by sauteing your veggies

So one of the mistakes that people make is it tend to think that um one pot dishes is something where you can approach it like just cut up everything and throw it into the pot and it’ll magically come together that is not the case it doesn’t matter if you’re making

Rice if you’re making a stew tuna if you’re making stew peas it doesn’t matter once you had to incorporate you know onion and garlic and that kind of into that dish which you should um to build flavor you definitely want to saut them to bring out the most flavor to

Extract the most flavor out of these great ingredients and saut in the veggies doesn’t only enhance the flavor but it also removes the raw taste from the veggie so I mean yes in some applications you want that raw taste you know um and it could be intentional but if you’re cooking a dish

And the intention is to incorporate the flavor of the aromatic into the dish and make it meld you know and marry with whatever the main ingredient is whether there’s another veg or protein or that kind of thing you want to again sauté the veg saut the aromatic to extract the most flavor from

It so I feel like most people could identify with this and that is your mom’s cooking in the kitchen when you’re small and it’s smelling real good so you know you going the kitchen and they ask him mother you know Mommy where is that you cooking why it

Smelling real good and then when you do check it it’s just onion and garlic so she have any pot that you know sauté and that alone that onion and that garlic in that pot saut in smelling so good so that great Aroma that you’re getting you know from the kitchen and

It’s just onion and garlic that is just the basis of the flavor profile in the dish that is building the fundamentals the building blocks of flavor in that dish saut in onion saut in garlic something as simple as that you start off your dish like that and you’re on your way to Great

Flavor and I feel like that is something we could all identify with right the sense of smell plays a significant role or in erra roll in taste so just imagine how good the aroma of sauté and onion and garlic the smell then you have a good idea as to

What it doing in terms of flavor and taste in your dish so it really doesn’t matter if you’re making again like Calo soup stew chicken curry chicken stew beef stew peas red beans blackee Peas I mean I could go on and on calling dishes it does not matter the dish once you’re

Incorporating aromatics and veggies into the dish you want to go through this process of sauté in them and yes the French have their miraa of onion celery and carrots but here in chinada and Tobago we have our own version and it includes pimento peppers pimento peppers they don’t have heat but

They have a lot of flavor and this sauted with your onion your garlic your Ginger and as well as the celery and your carrot that is you know that great triny flavor that we know our dishes to have you know some of our favorites the payow the corn

Soup you know Curry and that kind of thing trust me what pimento does in there is very unique to our cooking prepping the ingredients is just as important as cooking it because the prep is what would affect the cooking time for each ingredient if you take the time do this step of

Prepping the ingredients properly cutting it into uniform sizes um and just being intentional about your prep that would help a lot in the final outcome of your dishes also do sleep on Ginger Ginger brings great flavor to many a dish whether is soup stew chicken peow a rice pill

Off don’t sleep on Ginger at all and in addition to it being a very flavorful very pungent ingredient it also is very good for you and the p on what you’re cooking your inclination might be to just start with liquid and then throw ingredients in so for example you’re making soup and

Because again it’s soup and this this one pot dish you think that just boiling the ingredients is going to give you the best outcome but no definitely if you’re making a soup whether is a soup whether it’s Calo whether it’s oil down stew chicken you know PE that kind of thing

Again CU I stress enough that sauté and the veggies saut and the aromatics is the way you want to begin the process and you want to start with onions because onions take longer to cook so just like you know making caramelized onions you cook them low and

Slow and they turn very sweet without adding any kind of sugar to it that is literally just the natural sugars in the onions coming out is the same thing is the same process where you want to cook these and depending on how much you want it to break down how much sweetness you

Want to add to the dish is how long you would so to your onions for and you would always hear people say in cooking videos to cook the onion until it’s translucent and it usually takes like you know 2 to 3 minutes and that is because you know at the point

Where it is becoming translucent is where you know it would have broken down and we would have cooked out the rawness in that onion so now we could start to add Ginger we could add Pento chopped celery and our carrots so what’s happening when we saute these veggies and the aromatics is

Again it breaks down the natural sugars in each ingredient but the oil using the oil also acts as a vehicle so the flavor from each ingredient is being infused into the oil and then that oil in turn acts as a vehicle as I say and carries the flavor of the aromatics throughout the

Dish and that is why we want to sort the veg before we start you know cooking the rest of the things that we might be adding to this dish that is why we want to start with this as a foundation because this is literally laying the foundation for great flavor another

Thing that you want to do when you’re sorting your veg is to season with salt and the salt is not only for flavor what the salt does is it helps extract the water content from the veg and from the aromatics and in extracting that water content it will further uh

Intensify and caramelize the natural sugars in each ingredient and of course we save garlic for last not only because garlic is the best ingredient and we save the best for last but also because garlic takes the least amount of time to cook if youve ever had to saute garlic you would know

How quickly garlic could go from cooked well and sauteed well to Burnt so we add the garlic glass and of course during this whole process you’re not taking your eye away from the pot you want to keep stirring because you don’t want the ingredients to burn so

You want to keep moving them around in the pot making sure everything is cooked evenly and that’s it right there you know it’s in rocket science is not a big secret just this basic simple straightforward step of prepping the ingredients and then sauteing them as

The starter to any dish this is how I get great flavor into my dish this is how I get my dishes to be you know the most flavorful the most delicious that you know I could make it just start with sauté M sauté aromatics and then going

From there this is the foundation of it all and I sharing it with you so if you’re you know so inclined try it and let me know if it makes a difference in your dishes if you like this video please give it a thumbs up and give it a

Share and you know comment below and let me know you know if it’s something you try if it makes a difference if you have any questions feel free to ask and you know let we continue you know having nice tasty discussions about food thanks for watching and I’ll see you in the

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