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Recipe

Meaning in culinary arts & cooking, with examples

/ˈresəpi/nounCore term

In culinary arts & cooking, recipe means: A set of instructions for making a dish, with a list of ingredients, their quantities and the steps, times and temperatures needed.

In Turkish: tarif, reçete, standart reçete

How it is used

Kitchens keep standard recipes so that a dish tastes the same whoever cooks it. You follow, adapt, scale up or cost a recipe, and a new cook is told to "stick to the recipe".

Example sentences

  1. Follow the recipe exactly; the guests expect the same cheesecake every time.

  2. We need to scale this recipe up from ten portions to forty for the banquet.

Common collocations

  • follow a recipe
  • standard recipe
  • scale up a recipe
  • recipe card
  • adapt a recipe
  • ingredientOne of the foods or other items, such as flour, oil or salt, that are combined to make a particular dish.
  • yieldThe amount or number of portions a recipe produces; also the usable weight of an ingredient left after trimming, boning or peeling.
  • portionThe amount of a food served to one person. As a verb, to portion means to divide food into equal amounts for serving.
  • food costThe cost of the ingredients used to make a dish or menu, often shown as a percentage of the selling price.

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