hello everyone i'm nemo and welcome to my youtube channel in this video i'm going to
teach you guys the cooking method saute a lot of people have heard the term saute before or
sauteing but they don't actually know what it refers to they don't know what it is
so if you want to gain information about it keep watching this video
what is saute so saute is a dry heat cooking method which means there is no water involved in
it and this method uses a small amount of oil with high heat and the word saute the actual word saute
is french and it means to jump this is for two reasons one when you add your cooking items to
the pan they sh they sometimes jump a little bit this is because you have a small amount of
oil in the pan and the pan is very hot which is good and two whenever you're sauteing something
you should always like toss the pan and when you're tossing the pan your cooking items your
vegetables are jumping in the pan and whenever you saute something you expect your cooking items
to be browned a little bit which leads to a richness in flavor which is very very good
all right so now that we know what saute is how can we saute something well first of all you have
to make sure your pan is hot enough before you add the oil how do we know our pan is hot enough
simply just add a little bit of water to the pan and it should sizzle it starts to bubble and
evaporates very quickly that's when you know your pan is hot enough and it's ready to add the oil
then add the oil a small amount of oil not too much not too little and i can't give you an exact
measurement of oil like i can't tell you one add one tablespoon of oil because the amount of oil
you add depends on the size of your saute pan it basically has to be enough to coat the bottom of
your pan then you should wait a little bit for the oil to get hot and how do we know your oil is hot
enough to add your cooking items to it well there are two ways that you can check and one of them it
should like shimmer and when you like move the pan the oil moves like very uh how would i say it it
moves like water you know it it's like so slow and you know it's hot enough and two just add a little
bit of what you're gonna saute just add a little bit of to it and see how it reacts to the oil
it should sizzle and you should hear something what can we saute well we basically can saute
anything we can saute vegetables chicken meat seafood anything we want but whenever we saute
something we have to make sure that all of our cooking items are the same size so they all cook
evenly let's say you're cooking let's say you're sauteing two chicken breasts they both have to
be the same thickness and if sauteing is the only cooking method you're using to cook like chicken
it shouldn't be like too large like the cuts has to be like pretty
small because your chicken would not fully cook and this is not just for chicken don't
saute large items because it won't cook and it's going to be like raw in the middle what to keep
in mind when you saute something well first of all oil oil is the most important thing your oil
must have a high smoking point because let's say your oil doesn't have a high smoking point and it
has a low smoking point what happens well your pan is not hot enough your saute pan is not hot enough
and you add your oil your oil starts to smoke and you think wow our pan is like super hot but when
you add your cooking items to it instead of saute your cooking items will steam and that's not what
you were looking for and let's say you're sauteing vegetables don't add too much vegetables at once
because when you add too much of something to your saute pan your saute pan will lose heat and that's
not good at all you want your saute pan to be hot all the time when you add the cooking item to the
saute pan you have to keep the food moving because in sauteing the heat is very high and if you want
an even cooking keep the food moving and if you toss your cooking items in the pan don't lift
the pan too high because your pan will lose heat and that's not what you're looking for alright
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