Paste (food)
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A food paste is a semi-liquid colloidal suspension, emulsion, or aggregation used in food preparation or eaten directly as a spread. Pastes are often highly spicy or aromatic, are often prepared well
Prepared shrimp paste with chilli, Thai lime leaves, sugar and water added.
Duxelles being cooked, which is eventually reduced into a paste
Shrimp paste from Thanh Hoa province, Vietnam
Erbswurst, a traditional instant pea soup from Germany, is a concentrated paste
Dough
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Dough is a malleable, sometimes elastic paste most commonly made from flour or meal. Dough is typically made by mixing flour with a small amount of water or other liquid, and sometimes includes yeast,
Paste (food)
…ingredients in sauces. Many food pastes are an intermediary stage in the preparation of food. Perhaps the most notable of such intermediary food pastes is dough. A paste made of fat and flour and often stock or milk is an important intermediary for the basis for a sauce or a binder for stuffing, whether called…
Freshly mixed dough in the bowl of a stand mixer
A statue of a servant kneading dough, from Egypt, Old Kingdom, 5th Dynasty, c. 2494–2345 BCE
A laminated dough prepared to make a flaky South Asian flatbread known as paratha
Yeast bread dough after kneading, before rising