What does that mean, and how do I do it?
Look at the seasonings your recipe calls for — salt, pepper, basil, garlic, chili powder, and more — used in savory foods. Sometimes your recipe will call for specific amounts of seasoning. Sometimes it will simply say season to taste, and sometimes both. Are you familiar with the spices being used in the recipe? Have you ever made a similar dish or cooked with these seasonings? Have you ever eaten a similar dish and enjoyed the flavor and the seasonings? The answers to these questions will guide you.
After you have cooked any meat, fish, or chicken ingredients in the dish so that no parts are raw (raw chicken carries salmonella, raw beef carries e.coli, and other raw meat and fish have various bacteria, all of which can make you extremely sick) https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/eating-raw-meat#risks
take a little taste. Add a quarter or a half teaspoon of the seasoning and taste again. Can you taste the difference? If you are trying a new recipe, keep adding the seasoning a little at a time until you are almost to the taste you are looking for. Remember that you will achieve the full flavor of the seasoning as the dish finishes cooking.
If the recipe is going to be a keeper, note down the total seasoning used. You are all set when you come back to it another time!
