1) Assure the quality of the main ingredient.
Look at following recipe from Givoli.com.
Boneless Chilli Chicken
Ingredients:
- Boneless Chicken 400 g
- Eggs -slightly beaten 2 nos.
- Corn Flour ½ cup
- Onion -chopped coarsely 1 cup
- Ginger-Garlic Paste 1 tbsp
- Green Chillies 4 nos.
- Soya Sauce 1 tbsp
- Vinegar 1 tbsp
- Oil for deep frying 2 cup
- Water ½ cup
- Salt to taste 1 tsp
Description:
- Mix the egg,corn flour,ginger-garlic paste and salt by using enough water.
- Coat the chicken pieces with the batter and leave it for 1/2 an hour.
- Heat the oil and fry the chicken pieces.
- Drain the fried chicken pieces on an absorbent paper.
- Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a frying pan, and stir-fry the onions and green chillies.
- Add the salt, soya sauce, vinegar into it and stir it.
- Finally add the fried chicken pieces and mix it well.
- Serve it hot.
If you look at the ingredients you can see that Chicken is the
main ingredient and it is going to constitute 80% of the dish. The
taste of the dish can vary widely based on the quaility of Chicken
we use.If we use meat of a old bird it tends to be harder.This
single point can spoil your entire dish even if we follow all the
steps religiously.Another typical example is the use of Fresh meat
instead of frozen meat. Fresh meat dish will always taste
better.
2) Customize the recipe to suit our
guests.
Most of the recipes will have the ingredients, as per their authors
taste buds.Depending on our audience we may need to modify
them.
Specifically the quantity of Chilli,Salt and Sauces may have to be
revisited.
3) Decorate Food Before serving.
The appearance of our dish should be visually pleasing.Appearance
and smell of the food plays a vital role in improving the taste of
the food.There are cooks who judge the food purely with the
aroma.
