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Cooking Vocabulary--How to Make Scrambled Eggs

Date: May 24 2007

Lesson

It's time to learn some basic cooking vocabulary. It's very important to know the correct words in order to read and follow a simple recipe. Today, we are going to learn how to cook scrambled eggs. Scrambled eggs are a simple dish that people eat in most parts of the world.

Ingredients

3 eggs

Olive Oil

Sea Salt

Put a non-stick pan on the stove over medium heat. Cover the bottom of the pan with olive oil.

Crack open three eggs into a mixing bowl. Using a fork, quickly beat the eggs in a circular motion until the yolks and the egg whites are mixed together.

When the pan is hot, pour the eggs into the pan and move them gently every ten seconds with a spatula.

When the bottom side of the eggs is cooked, flip them over and continue to move the eggs every ten seconds until all of the liquid is cooked.

Sprinkle the desired amount of sea salt onto the eggs. Turn off the stove and put the eggs onto a plate. Enjoy!

Vocabulary

Non-stick pan: a pan with a special surface that prevents food from sticking to it.

Crack: To open an egg. This is a collocation.

Beat: To quickly stir.

Yolk: The yellow part of the egg.

Egg White: The white part of the egg.

Spatula: A flat cooking tool.

Flip: To rotate.

Sprinkle: To distribute.

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killa11

Peru

yo cocino sopa de camarones

killa11

Peru

cocina

irinaKr

Russian Federation

it is easy

mithilesh ojha

India

it's realy good lesson….........

nice dude…......

tomhunks007

Morocco

I'm hungry-

Barbosage

Brazil

GOOD!!!

lovely hero

Palestinian Territory, Occupied

thank you very much

haitham.mohammad

Egypt

delicious

Luciana.silva

Brazil

it’s very good!!

tien22

Viet Nam

I often eat scrambled eggs and it's quite easy to cook.

this lesson is good..thank you

angelteer

China

a friend of mine ask :"what do you spend in your spare time ,i simle say:l like doing cooking ,yeah,try to cook is a challengn,i am very thanksful my english teacher.she take a course,about how to make a cowboy coffee,tell you which steps to go on,it is very intersting ,let us learn english is sipmle and intersting

mohgadal

Sudan

thanks…

kobenoni

Cote D'Ivoire

thanks i ll try it but right now i note the vocab so important.

VANDA

Bosnia and Herzegovina

It is very nice lesson.In my country we usually eat scrambled eggs for breakfast. I like them too. Mostly we do not use olive oil, just sunflower oil and we beat eggs with a cup of milk and a little bit salt. Some people put in onions, it is very old dish, and called "cimbur".