Preparation Collection (#96)

Red chillies being chopped on a wooden chopping board, blurred motion

Crushed and ground Asafoetida in mortar with pestle and black bowl

Herb sauce in a bowl with teaspoon, close up

Chef using meat cleavers to spread minced meat on wooden chopping board on kitchen worktop

Mangetout boiling in a pan

Whipping Chantilly in mixing bowl using whisk, close-up

Four milk chocolate imitation rose leaves

Whole and halved purple potatoes

Hands coring cucumber with spoon, close-up

Finely shredding ginger, using a cleaver

Rolling out puff pastry with a wooden rolling pin, high angle view

Pouring butter over sweetcorn

Whole onion and sliced onion

A shrimp with its head removed, close up

Dried cloves, mace and corriander seeds

Bouquet garni, bundle of fresh herbs tied together with string, using bay leaves as outer wrapper

Brushing egg yolk on folded edge of samosa pastry

Preparing parsley and butter coating in bowl, using pestle, close-up

Close-up of orange peel

Cutting out cores from peppers

Capsicum sp. red Chillies, whole dried chillies, chilli threads, chilli flakes, powdered chillies, and a knife, on an oval platter

Melting chocolate in glass mixing bowl on top of saucepan containing boiling water, close-up

Hands filling cake tin with ceramic baking beans (blind-baking), close-up

Block of paneer cheese partly cut into cubes

Cutting away fillets from backbone of lamb

Cleaning a live blue crab, pulling and twisting off folded tail flap from underside

Man rolling blade of meat cleaver along back of raw prawn to make shallow cut

Raw prawns, squid, and filleted lemon sole on marble kitchen worktop

Using hands to knead sultanas and currants into dough

Using a knife to slit underside of a pike

Wrapping sliced vegetables in paper

Girls hands cutting muffins through the middle, using a bread knife, close-up

Tagliatelle pasta with sauce of finely chopped tomatoes, basil leaves, sprinkled with freshly grated parmesan cheese and black pepper

Flat fish being filleted with a knife on chopping board, high angle view

Using knife to level off yellow plastic scoop full of infant formula

Chefs hands chopping asparagus with cleaver, chopped fennel nearby, close-up

Four smoked mussels

Cheese dressing being poured over bresaola salad, high angle view

Using a lobster cracker to crack the claw of a crab, view from above

White stock in a bowl with small ladle, close up

Balls of shortcrust pastry dough on floured base of a tart tin

Boy holding hot handle of frying pan with tea towel and using spatula to move omeltte mixture

Girl rolling dough and flour with wooden rolling pin on kitchen worktop

Using kitchen knife to slice parsnip on chopping board

Girls hands holding open egg shells with egg yolk in one side, above mixing bowl, close-up

Mixing butter and flour in saucepan on gas hob using wooden spoon

Basting chicken in roasting pan

Pieces of fruit arranged on the trays of a dehydrator

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