| I always precook any mushrooms before adding them to dishes like frittatas, eggs, stews, grits and savory hand pies. |
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| Another option is to precook your items until almost done, then simply mark them on the grill. |
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| In many cases the secret to a crisp pie base is to precook the pastry before adding the filling. |
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| It's less mushy if I precook the main ingredients separately, then combine them. |
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| If you don't precook the pasta and instead add it dry to the sauce for baking, it will take much longer to become tender in the oven, even as it absorbs all the liquid in the sauce. |
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| It's dead simple — one of the things that I love about it — and you can precook the cauliflower a day ahead or so if you'd like. |
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| You can even make the sauce a day or two ahead and precook the vegetables and pasta too. |
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| Nevertheless, all should heed Baldwin's exhortation to precook the apples for the filling. |
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| Park and Orchard doesn't precook its vegetables, so the broccoli here is green and firm and delicious. |
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| Likewise,the blanching of fruits and vegetables prior to canning or freezing may be cited, This is often done to ensure an even and uniform colour, partly to precook a food and to make the packing of certain products easier. |
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| If you have more ribs than you can fit on the grill at one time, you might precook them to shorten barbecue time. |
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| There's also no need to precook them as he does: as long as they're cut into equally sized pieces, they'll cook through in the oven, and the delicious, caramelised sweetness of his sauteed onions is wrong here. |
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| Precook the apples for ten minutes with some sugar, and it should give the resulting cake a caramel flavour. |
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