Spanish Food and Cooking Vocabulary Exercise 1

Practise Spanish food and cooking vocabulary. Use the word bank to complete each sentence about food preparation and ingredients. Elementary level.

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Kitchen and cooking essentials — el tazón (bowl), el quemador (burner/hob), la sartén (frying pan — feminine!), la verdura (vegetable), la receta (recipe), el plato (plate/dish), la carne (meat), el postre (dessert). La sartén is one of the few feminine kitchen words — worth noting.

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Cooking verbs: freír and hervir — Freír (to fry) is irregular: yo frío, tú fríes, él fríe. Hervir (to boil) is a stem-changing verb: yo hiervo, tú hierves, él hierve — but nosotros hervimos (stem stays). Freír la carne en la sartén (Fry the meat in the pan). Hervir las verduras (Boil the vegetables).

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Recipe and meal language — Sigue la receta (Follow the recipe). Pon la carne en la sartén caliente (Put the meat in the hot pan). ¿Qué hay de postre? (What's for dessert?). Cocina a fuego lento (Cook on a low heat). El plato del día es pollo con verduras (Today's dish is chicken with vegetables).

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Complete the following translations, using one of the following words: tazón, quemador, freír, postre, sartén, verduras, receta, plato, carne, hervir.

1. I don't eat meat. = No como .✓

2. Roberto eats a lot of vegetables. = Roberto come muchas .✓

3. Can you pass me that frying pan? = ¿Me pasas esa ?✓

4. That bowl is too small. = Ese es demasiado chico.✓

5. You have to boil the water. = Tiene que el agua.✓

6. You have to fry the onions. = Tiene que las cebollas.✓

7. My grandmother gave me this recipe. = Mi abuela me dio esta .✓

8. That burner doesn't work. = Ese no sirve.✓

9. What are we having for dessert? = ¿Qué vamos a comer de ?✓

10. Pedro loves this dish. = A Pedro le encanta este .✓