Ingredients your kitchen NEEDS in 2021

 hi everyone my name is chef Fernando

Mojica with us coffee on line thank you

for joining us today we're going to talk

about the top ten ingredients to have on

hand to cook a quick recipe some of the

ingredients that I think personally are

most important to have always available

so that you can cook a quick meal

whether you're at home or at the

restaurant

they're always important to have around

so what are those ingredients so okay

what we have is we have dry pasta we

have two different types of parts that's

here but really can have as long as you

have dry pasta that's that's efficient

we have X we have butter flour we have

garlic fresh garlic we have a variety of

vegetables and and this is a an

ingredient I consider vegetables to be

one set of ingredients so we also have

rice we have chicken here but really we

want to have it you want to have at

least two or three different types of

proteins also have another again I

consider this to be an ingredient so

seasonings right we have salt and we

have pepper and I'll go into a little

bit more detail in a little bit but salt

and pepper you always want to make sure

you have I think those are number one

and number two or number one because you

always want to make sure that your food

you see some property and then you also

want to have a set of a spices we have

McCormick brown here I like to have a

set of a spices always available to be

able to incorporate into my dishes so

let's go into a little bit more detail

as to why these ingredients are

important you have okay so let's start

with the seasoning salt and pepper so

again it's always very important that

you cook your food and you season it

properly so you always want to make sure

they have pepper whether it's a whole

peppercorns like I have here

salt is an ingredient in and of itself

that's we can go into a lot of detail

about these but there's at least 200

types of different salts out there and

it all depends on the salt what you

using and what you want accompanies by

using salt but again for the all intents

and purposes in seasoning your food I

like to personally use kosher salt when

I'm cooking like use that exclusively

almost exclusively and then when I'm

getting ready to finish up a plate and I

need to sprinkle a little bit or salt

just to brighten up the flavors

Remora like to go with sea-salt proteins

can have a really a meal without having

some sort of protein there so I have

chicken chicken is super versatile we

have chicken breads you have you can

saute these roast them grill on pan sear

and pan fry or you can even brace them

you can store them rice you want to have

some sort of starch I have rice rice is

my go-to and think of a rice pilaf think

of your Mexican rice think of rester

fries really having these will actually

get you to do a lot of will give you the

ability to do a lot of different

cuisines a lot of different meals and

once we started to incorporate all of

these you really think about it you have

a whole meal in and of itself the next

one's gonna be vegetables again

vegetables are healthy for you

they provide color they provide a lot of

nutrients for you so you want to always

make sure that you include vegetables on

your dish and you can need them raw you

can eat them you can grill some of these

vegetables you can roast them you can

even braise some of these garlic I love

garlic I always like to have garlic on

hand fresh garlic and I use it on

everything all my stocks on my soups all

my sauces or my the majority of my

dishes 99% my dishes and it's always fun

to have because it always adds that

added element and yeah it makes the

flavor a little bit more brighter on the

dishes flour is always important for a

couple different reasons flour you can

use both on the savory side and on the

pastry side of course so we eat with

flour is you can do a lot of different

things you can obviously begin to make

cake or you can you can use it for your

Birmingham or your Roux to make your

sauce a little thicker so flour is

always important to have so a dry pasta

I have two different types of pastas

here and these are dry you can keep them

handy all the time and again if you're

in a restaurant setting and you need to

quick cook something really fast

something really quick and if you don't

have the time to do a fresh pasta if you

have these available you have a meal in

and of itself just by throwing some

tomato sauce and some pasta takes about

ten minutes to cook but another

- five ten minutes to cook the tomato

sauce and in 15 minutes you got a whole

meal so again you start thinking about

if you have the tomatoes that you use

for your tomato sauce you have your

pasta you add a little bit of butter you

had some chicken some garlic some

vegetables you have a chicken and

vegetable tomatoes pasta so you have a

meal in and of itself just by using one

two three four different ingredients so

the butter is also always good to have

again very versatile you wanna I like to

personally use butter when I'm cooking

instead of oil for a lot of my soups a

lot of my sauces just gives it a little

bit more of a round more pronounced

flavor if you will and again eggs again

you can start making some pastels you

can start making omelets you can start

making scrambled eggs for breakfast in

the morning and then the spices the

spices are there's millions of spices

out there but really I like to keep a

set of spices that I can always use and

you can use it for a lot different

flavors and a lot of different

techniques and that's why I like to have

to use them like to have them on hand

all the time

by using this dry spices you're able to

incorporate a lot of flavors without

having to use fresh product so I have a

oregano halftime I have a paprika

crushed red peppers garlic powder onion

powder I have seen the moon I'm gonna

have some peppercorns so as long as you

have a set of spices that you can always

go to and use em in some of these

ingredients really in about a matter of

about ten or ten to fifteen minutes you

have a whole meal in and of itself and

so that this is why I consider all these

ingredients to be some of the top ten

ingredients to always have in hand when

you're cooking so again I hope you

learned a lot today thanks for joining

us my name is chef Fernando with us

coffee online.com and I hope to see you

again next time