Food preparation — IGCSE Food & Nutrition (0648) questions by topic
Preparing, cooking and serving skilful cold dishes for a packed meal, dishes each featuring a different main ingredient such as chicken or wholemeal flour, high-fibre savoury dishes, and dishes representing different named cultures make up this food-preparation page's 10 questions, drawn from 2025 papers and worth between 7 and 55 marks. State, prepare, make, complete and suggest test practical planning as much as cooking itself.
Because these are extended practical tasks marked at a wide range of marks, submit your written plan and justification for instant marking to see how precisely the scheme rewards ingredient choice and technique suited to the stated brief.
May–June 2025, Paper 02
Prepare, cook and serve a balanced main meal for two vegetarians. (For the purposes of the Practical Test, a balanced main meal must consist of TWO skilful dishes plus a minimum…
Answer this question and get it marked →Prepare, cook and serve five skilful dishes, each illustrating a different named culture.
Answer this question and get it marked →Prepare, cook and serve a balanced main meal for two teenage girls. (For the purposes of the Practical Test, a balanced main meal must consist of TWO skilful dishes plus a minimum…
Answer this question and get it marked →Prepare, cook and serve three skilful dishes for manual workers to take as a packed meal. The dishes must be suitable for eating cold.
Answer this question and get it marked →Prepare, cook and serve three skilful savoury dishes high in dietary fibre / non-starch polysaccharide (NSP).
Answer this question and get it marked →Prepare, cook and serve a balanced main meal for two 8-year-old friends. (For the purposes of the Practical Test, a balanced main meal must consist of TWO skilful dishes plus a…
Answer this question and get it marked →Prepare, cook and serve three skilful dishes, each showing the use of a different cooking method from the following list: baking, deep-fat frying, grilling, stewing.
Answer this question and get it marked →Prepare, cook and serve five skilful dishes, each showing the use of a different main ingredient from the following list: chicken, cocoa, fish, green leafy vegetable, milk,…
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 12
Deep frying is a popular method of cooking potatoes. Name two kinds of oils suitable to use for deep frying.
Answer this question and get it marked →May–June 2025, Paper 13
The following ingredients can be used to make a sponge cake by the whisking method. 4 eggs 100 g caster sugar 100 g plain flour Complete the table to give two different functions…
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