Lessons > Steaming | Basics

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Lesson Overview

While steaming is an ancient form of quick and healthy cooking, it is often a neglected cooking technique in the home and professional kitchen. Steaming tends to be associated with bland, institutional food, but it need not be. As long as the ingredients used are fresh, tasty and satisfying food …

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Lesson Objectives

At the end of this lesson you'll be able to:
  • define steaming
  • identify a variety of equipment for steaming
  • list the advantages of steaming
  • properly prepare ingredients for steaming
  • infuse food with hints of flavor
  • prepare, season and flavor cooking liquid for steaming
  • prepare the steaming basket with food
  • steam food and control the temperature during cooking
  • safely remove steamed foods from the steaming basket
  • reheat and finish foods using steam

Course Syllabus

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1. Introduction: Steaming Basics
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2. Complete Your Self Assessment
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3. What is Steaming?
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4. Steaming Equipment
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5. Preparing Ingredients for Steaming
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6. The Steaming Liquid
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7. Preparing to Cook Using Steam
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8. Steaming Food
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9. Image Select Activity
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10. Removing Steamed Food
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11. Practice Steaming Activity
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12. Reheating Foods with Steam
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13. Practice Activities & Recipes
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14. Lesson Quiz
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Practice Recipes

A few of the practice recipes you'll learn in this lesson.

Prerequisites & Related Lessons

Please consider these additional lessons to support your learning and discovery. Some of these lessons are prerequisites that may help contextualize what you are learning and form a baseline of knowledge and skill. Other lessons are related and may help you explore next steps or dive deeper on a learning topic.

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12 Videos | 14 Tasks
Task 1: Introduction: Steaming Basics
Task 2: Complete Your Self Assessment
Task 3: What is Steaming?
Task 4: Steaming Equipment
Task 5: Preparing Ingredients for Steaming
Task 6: The Steaming Liquid
Task 7: Preparing to Cook Using Steam
Task 8: Steaming Food

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