Deadly mistakes when seasoning

Housewives have a habit of adding pepper to food before cooking to create a fragrant aroma for the dish. However, pepper cooked at high temperatures will quickly lose its characteristic aroma, and can especially produce carcinogens. Therefore, it is best to sprinkle pepper when the food is cooked.

Use mustard to marinate food

Mustard has the effect of removing the fishy smell of seafood and stimulating the taste buds. However, mustard should never be used to marinate food or make sauces for mixed dishes because the enzyme that creates the smell of mustard is easily decomposed at high temperatures, thereby producing carcinogens.

Marinate the ingredients for the stew with fish sauce.

Fish sauce has the sweetness of amino acids created during the decomposition of raw materials used to make fish sauce. If cooked or simmered too long, the amino acids can be lost, so only cook for an appropriate amount of time to ensure the food is fully cooked.

Add sugar to food at high temperature

Sugar both sweetens and colors food. But when the temperature is high, sugar will easily caramelize, making food brown-black and bitter, losing the sweet aroma and aesthetics of the dish.

So, for braised or fried dishes, just keep the heat at 170-200 degrees Celsius, the food will have a very attractive medium brown color.

Add cinnamon and star anise to boiling oil.

Adding cinnamon and star anise to boiling cooking oil will cause the dish to burn, giving it a pungent smell and bitter taste. Therefore, if you use cinnamon in the form of a stick, you should add it when marinating the ingredients and when cooking to take full advantage of the aroma. If you use it in powder form, you should mix it with a little water.

Add oil to the pasta water

You may have heard of adding oil to pasta water to keep it from sticking to each other and the bottom of the pot. While this is true, it does remove some of the nutrition from the pasta and adds unnecessary calories.

Instead, keep your water simmering constantly so the pasta is always moving around and stirring it frequently will help keep it from sticking.

Use olive oil when cooking

Butter and margarine are high in unhealthy fats, while olive oil is full of healthy unsaturated fats, but not the same amount of calories as butter. So to ensure the necessary amount of calories, you should not use olive oil when cooking.

According to Giadinh.net