It is both troublesome and can add flavor. Experts reveal 4 kinds of ready-made ingredients and professional chefs also like it.

Although many chefs love to make delicious food from the beginning, many well-known cooking experts have shown that their kitchens have certain ready-made ingredients purchased from stores at any time. According to the Mashed website of the food scholar, the following are four types of ingredients that are both trouble-free and flavor-added in the eyes of professional chefs:

1. Pumpkin jar

Although there is only one ingredient for pumpkin puree, it is still difficult to start making it from the head. The pumpkin is solid and the skin is easily damaged. It requires patience and force to peel and slice it, not to mention taking out the flesh, cooking, and crushing it into a paste; all the processes require an hour or more. If the paste is just one of the ingredients in the complex food recipe, it is even more of a task. Olivia Roszkowski, a professional chef who teaches at California cuisine school, said she likes to buy pumpkin jars for making squash, spicy beans, cinnamon rolls and bread.

2. It makes sense that dry fruits and vegetables and spices

Dry goods are more popular than fresh foods, as Lozkowski explained: dry mushrooms, dried tomatoes, dried mangoes, dried chili peppers, rosemary, thyme, berry and other dry spice plants are usually harvested during the peak season and dried by machine. Because the process is rapid, it can retain more easily flavoured fragrances; and after packaging in time, it is less likely to absorb the moisture in the environment and can maintain freshness for a long time.

3. Fruit sauce or sesame sauce

Homemade Fruit sauce or sesame sauce may not seem difficult at first glance, just a good mixer, less salt and fruit or sesame seeds. But Lozkowski pointed out that self-made fruit sauces are rarely as delicious or as good as shop-buying; she said it is a smart decision to buy fruits and sesame seeds that are easily oxidized and deteriorated, unless you plan to bake, process, and store them in a short and refrigerated manner. The factory produces the machine, because the machine is more powerful, it can grind the fruit and sesame seeds more finely without causing too much heat.

4. Tomato Can

Lozkowski said that tomato Can is one of the ingredients she loves to buy. She said that unless you are familiar with the correct production method and do this during peak season, buying a tomato can is a better choice.

Responsible editor: Gu Zihuan