English Vocabulary Exercises - Food & Eating - Exercise 3

Matching exercise

Match the items on the right to the items on the left.
1. Make sure that you _______________ the hamburgers long enough so that they're not still red on the inside.
2. Instead of taking _______________ in pill form, it is better to simply eat a well-balanced diet.
3. Don't _______________ the rice too much while it is cooking or it will get all stuck together into a big blob.
4. Do you want caramel or chocolate _______________ on your ice cream?
5. The _______________ for my recipe are a family secret.
6. In my country, we don't usually eat _______________ vegetables; we steam or fry everything.
7. Have you ever eaten snake? Some people tell me that it _______________ a little like chicken.
8. We had a _______________ meal at a new East Indian restaurant on the weekend.
9. We put two _______________ of fresh cheese on every hamburger we make.
10. My mother always told me to finish all the food on my plate because there are so many _______________ people in the world.
11. Cooking experts say that steak must not be cut too thin before cooking, or all the juices will seep out, and the flavour will be _______________.
12. The human tongue tastes _______________ food 10,000 times more strongly than sweet tastes.
13. I think a lot of the raspberries are _______________ now, so we can start picking them this afternoon.
14. He took a couple of _______________ from his drink, and then set it down on the table.
15. Our beans are _______________ to perfection, resulting in a smooth, full-bodied coffee.
16. The classroom was filled with the noise of 30 kids _______________ gum.
17. I don't like to mix sweet and salty _______________ foods in the same meal.