FOOD & DRINK: S-Z

Salad

A salad is a mixture of vegetables that you eat raw or cold.

Salt

Salt is a white powder that people often add to food for its flavour.

Sandwich

A sandwich is two slices of bread and butter with a layer of a different food in between them.

Satay

An Southeast Asian dish consisting of small pieces of meat grilled on a skewer and served with a spiced sauce that typically contains peanuts.

Smoothie

A smoothie is a thick, smooth drink with fruit and milk, yogurt or ice cream.

Soda water

Plain water containing air bubbles.

Soup

A liquid dish, typically made by boiling meat, fish, or vegetables, etc., in stock or water.

Soybean

A bean of the soya plant; a soya bean.

Spaghetti

Spaghetti is pasta made in long, thin pieces.

Spinach

Spinach is a vegetable with dark green leaves.

Sprinkles

very small pieces of coloured sugar or chocolate used as a decoration on the top of cakes.

Starfruit

A yellow tropical fruit with smooth skin and five pointed, curved parts, making a star shape when you cut through it.

Steak

A steak is a thick slice of meat or fish.

Strawberry

A strawberry is a small, red, juicy fruit.

Sugar

Sugar is a sweet powder that is added to drinks and other foods to make them taste sweet.

Sushi

A Japanese dish consisting of small balls or rolls of vinegar-flavored cold cooked rice served with a garnish of raw fish, vegetables, or egg.

Sweet pepper

A vegetable that is usually green, red, or yellow, has a rounded shape, and is hallow with seeds in the middle.

Sweet potato

A pink vegetable that looks like a potato and has yellow or white flesh and a sweet taste.

Syrup

A syrup is a very sweet, sticky, liquid.

Takoyaki

A Japanese snack of savory ball-shaped cakes containing chopped octopus, made from wheat batter cooked on a specially shaped griddle.

Tea

A hot drink that you make by pouring boiling water over the dried leaves of the tea plant.

Tempeh

An Indonesian dish made by deep-frying fermented soybeans.

Toast

Toast is a slice of bread that has been cooked until it is crisp and brown.

Tofu

A soft, pale food that has very little flavour but is high in protein, made from seed of the soya plant.

Tomato

A tomato is a soft, round, red fruit that you can eat raw in a salad or cook as a vegetable.

Tortilla

A type of thin, round Mexican bread from maize or wheat flour.

Tuna

A tuna is a large sea fish that you can eat. The flesh of this fish eaten as food: a can of tuna.

Turnip

A round root with white or cream flesh which is eaten as a vegetable.

Umeboshi

(In Japanese ciusine) a pickled ume fruit, having a distinctive sour and salty flavour.

Vanilla

Vanilla is something that is added to ice cream and other sweet food to make it taste nice.

Vinegar

Vinegar is a sour liquid which you use in cooking to give a sharp, sour taste to food.

Waffle

A type of bread or cake made from batter (a thin mixture of milk, flour, and egg) cooked in a special pan whose surface forms a pattern of raised squares.

Walnut

A nut with a slightly bitter taste, a series of folds in it, and a hard shell.

Watermelon

A large, round or oval-shaped fruit with dark green skin, sweet pink flesh, and a lot of black seeds.

Wrap

A thin flat piece of bread that is rolled around a filling (as of meat, fish, or vegetables).

Xacutti

Xacutti is a curry prepared in Goa, India, with complex spicing.

Yoguht

A slightly sour, thick liquid made from milk with bacteria added to it, sometimes eaten plain and sometimes with sugar, fruit, etc added.

Zucchini

A long, thin vegetable with a dark green skin. Zucchini and cucumber may look similar. By touch, zucchini are more rough and dry, while cucumbers are more cold, waxy, and bumpy.

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