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The Must-Know Recipes For All Home Chefs

If you want to make sure that you can cook as well as possible, one way that you might want to approach this is by knowing as many of the essential recipes as you can. There are some recipes which are very much classic and revered for a reason, and having these under your belt will ensure that you have a lot more competence as a home cook. In this post, we’ll look into some of the must-know recipes that all home chefs should have, so that you can start working on these and improve your cooking generally.

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Simple Tomato Sauce

There are so many dishes that tomato sauce goes in, which is why having a version of this at your disposal is definitely something that you are going to want to think about. It is one of those recipes where the beauty of it really does lie in its simplicity, and very often you make it a success by not doing that much to it at all. To make an authentic Italian tomato sauce from scratch, you should keep to a few bare ingredients, and be prepared to spend a lot of time on it. But you will then have a base sauce for all kinds of delicious meals.

Pad Thai

In order to keep your palate wide, you should always make sure that you are cooking as many dishes as you can from a range of other cultures. Many people enjoy Asian food, and in particular Thai is one of the best that you might want to consider getting into. Of all the Thai dishes out there, one that you might think of as a real classic is Pad Thai, which is a simple noodle dish that is served up as street food in Thailand. As with much great food, it’s simple and delicious at once.

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Roast Chicken

Most people have roasted a chicken at some point in their life, but do you really know how to make the perfect roast chicken? That’s something else altogether, and it can very often be tricky to know how you are doing on that front if you have not done it many times. Having a really good roast chicken is going to mean that you can keep so many more people happy when you cook for them in your home, and you’ll find that there is great joy in it for yourself too. Learn a good roast chicken dish, and it will stick with you forever.

Pancakes

You might be wondering why pancakes are on this list, but the main reason is that they are incredibly versatile. They can be used in a wide range of sweet and savoury dishes, and the better you are at making the actual pancakes themselves, the more likely it is that those dishes are going to turn out delicious. So get down a decent pancake recipe, and you will find that you can suddenly create so many more amazing meals that you are going to love sharing.

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