How To Create A Perfect Recipe

Everyone who loves to cook knows what it’s like to find a recipe or a meal they love and try to recreate it. The constant experimentation and note-taking involved in creating an amazing dish takes time to do, and you have to give yourself that time to create it. You’ll get to know the smells, tastes and the routines that create the recipe you’ve been envisioning but you have to give yourself the chance!

Whether you use a nutrition API to figure out data behind the recipe such as macros and calories, or you choose to try and make your own recipe from scratch, you’re going to be a success with it if you put your mind to it. There’s a little magic involved in creating a great-tasting recipe, and we’ve got some good tips for you below.

• Get some lab rats. By lab rats, we mean friends and family who are willing to taste test your recipe and give you feedback. You need people to tell you when things taste bad as much as you need people to tell you when things taste good. You need honest friends to help you with this one, too. It’s always a good idea to have a taster or three to get an honest opinion of the meal you’ve put out there. 
• Keep a log of the mistakes. Too much garlic? Not enough salt? These are issues that should mean that you can adjust and change the way you are doing things again. If you keep a list of the mistakes you make while trying to get the perfect dish, you’re going to learn from those mistakes.
• Keep an eye out for things to inspire you. There are plenty of recipe books, blogs and magazines out there that will give you room for inspiration – you just have to look for it. Read as much as you can when it comes to food; you won’t regret it because you could add something to your recipe you didn’t think about before.
• Stop using the ingredients you don’t like. If you’re not a fan of garlic, don’t use it! If you’re not a fan of olive oil or avocado, you don’t have to cook with it. There are plenty of ingredients out there that won’t give you any joy, and it’s okay if they don’t! Just make things out of the ingredients that you actually do like.
• Know your basics. There are some kitchen rules when it comes to creating recipes. Knowing how to roast garlic, mince ginger and fillet a fish is going to help you in the kitchen. If you know the basic cooking rules, you’re going to thrive in the kitchen and it’s going to be a great starter point for creating recipes that really matter. 

Cooking should be a pleasure. If you make sure that you have all of the data available to make your recipe, you’re going to find the best outcome and create something delicious.