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Verb Cooked  /Kʊk   Yemek Pişirmek Cook Food Eating

Level A1 
Kind verb
Front cook 
IPA  /kʊk   / verb
Back (yemek) pişirmek
Back 2

cook (verb)

 /kʊk   / verb
 
 1 [intransitive, transitive]
to prepare food for eating by heating it
(yemek) pişirmek
 My mother taught me how to cook.
 The sauce should be cooked on low heat for twenty minutes.
 He cooked us a meal.
 2 [intransitive]
(used about food) to be prepared for eating by being heated
 (yemek) pişirilmek
 I could smell something delicious cooking in the kitchen.
 note at RECIPE
COOKING
Food can be cooked in various ways. You can boil or steam vegetables with water in a saucepan and you can fry meat, fish and vegetables in oil in a frying pan. You roast meat or bake bread and cakes in the oven. You can grill meat or fish under the grill, but toast  is usually made in a toaster. If you want an easy meal, you can microwave a ready meal in a special oven called a microwave. In the summer you can barbecue burgers, etc. on an outside grill, also called a barbecue.
PHRASAL VERB
cook sth up
(informal)
to invent sth that is not true
uydurmak
 She cooked up an excuse for not arriving on time.
 

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