cooking ingredient

What recipes require

A cooking ingredient is any food item, seasoning, or substance used in preparing a dish.

The term typically appears in recipes listing what you'll need: Gather all your cooking ingredients before you start.

Ingredients range from staples like flour and salt to specialty items like saffron or fish sauce.

Related
  • spicePlant-derived food flavoring
  • flourMilled grain powder
  • butterSolid fat from cream
  • sea saltOcean-sourced sodium chloride
  • saltSodium chloride compound

brown sugar · sugar · garlic · onion · fresh herbs · herb · olive oil · oil · egg · milk · vanilla · pepper · bay leaf · yeast · baking · from scratch · pantry · mise en place

Opposites
culinary process stage

cooking ingredientfinished product

Completed manufactured good

final product · entrée · main course · dessert · leftovers

culinary function

cooking ingredientcooking utensil

Tool for food preparation

kitchen tool · cookware · kitchen appliance · pot · pan

edibility/consumability

cooking ingredientcompost

Decayed organic fertilizer

peelings · garbage · food waste · kitchen scraps · food scraps

Family

cooked, cooker, cookery, cookbook, uncooked, ingredient, ingredients

Familiarity
Top 100,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G