If you like spending hours in the kitchen preparing great dishes, you will find this page useful. This vocabulary lesson will presen to you the Italian words to describe ingredients, kitchenware, recipes and instruction for preparing dishes. Enjoy it!
LEARNING TIP: if you try to combine vocabulary learning with practical activities, you’ll probably succeed in memorizing more words. So, for example, you can learn the Italian words for cooking while you’re actually cooking something. Repeat (better aloud) the Italian nouns of the foods and objects you are using. By doing so, your memory associates new words to images and phisical objects, making it easier for you to remember them.
l’ingrediente [ingredient]
il bianco d’uovo/ l’albume [egg white]
il rosso d’uovo/ tuorlo [egg yolk]
la farina [flour]
lo zucchero [sugar]
il lievito [yeast]
l’impasto [dough]
la ciotola [bowl]
il coperchio [cover]
la pentola [pot]
la padella [pan]
il forno [oven]
la temperatura [temperature]
spesso [thick]
sottile [thin]
liquido [liquid]
denso [dense]
solido [solid]
squisito [delicious]
aggiungere [to add]
cuocere in forno [to bake]
impastare [to knead]
mescolare [to mix]
mischiare [to mix]
montare la neve [to whip egg white]
tenere in frigo [to keep in the fridge]
frutti di bosco: [fruits of the forest]:
il mirtillo [blueberry]
la fragola [strawberry]
il lampone [raspberry]
il ribes nero/ bianco/ rosso [black/ white/ red currant]
la fragolina di bosco [wild strawberry]
la mora [blackberry]
frutta secca: [dried fruit]:
la mandorla [almond]
il pistacchio [pistachio]
la noce [walnut]
la nocciola [hazelnut]
l’arachide [peanut]
