Making Pizza in Spanish A2
Learn Spanish reading a pizza recipe. A2 level with cooking vocabulary.
Preparando una pizza
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What you'll learn
Cooking terms, ingredients, sequential actions, cooking verbs, family activity
Step-by-step article about making pizza in Spanish. A2 level with cooking terminology.
After reading
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Phrases for training
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Primero fuimos al supermercado
newFirst we went to the supermarket
Primero means first. It introduces the first step in a sequence.
Essential for describing sequential actions in the past.
Necesitábamos harina especial para pizza
newWe needed special flour for pizza
Necesitábamos is the imperfect form, expressing ongoing need in the past.
Key verb for expressing needs and requirements.
Mi madre preparó la masa
newMy mother prepared the dough
Preparó is the preterite form, showing a completed past action.
Essential verb for describing completed preparation actions.
Dejamos reposar la masa durante una hora
newWe let the dough rest for an hour
Dejar + infinitive means to let someone do something or leave something in a state.
Useful for cooking and waiting contexts.
La masa duplicó su tamaño original
newThe dough doubled its original size
Duplicó is preterite, showing a completed result of the yeast action.
Great example of how yeast transforms dough.
Es importante que esté muy caliente
newIt is important that it is very hot
Es importante que requires the subjunctive (esté) because it expresses importance/wish.
Critical grammar point: expressions of importance trigger subjunctive.
Key words
Vocabulary that carries the school-day topic.
dough
la masa
dough
La masa is the dough - the foundation of pizza. Feminine noun.
Core cooking vocabulary word.
yeast
la levadura
yeast
La levadura is yeast - the microorganism that makes dough rise.
Essential baking ingredient.
oregano
el orégano
oregano
El orégano is oregano - the Italian herb used on pizza.
Common herb in Italian cuisine.
mozzarella
el queso mozzarella
mozzarella
El queso mozzarella is the Italian cheese that melts well on pizza.
The most important cheese for pizza.
mushrooms
los champiñones
mushrooms
Los champiñones are mushrooms - a common pizza topping.
Common vegetable topping.
rolling pin
el rodillo
rolling pin
El rodillo is the rolling pin - used to flatten dough.
Kitchen tool for baking.
Grammar in context
Patterns from the text worth noticing after reading.
Preterite: completed action
Mi madre preparó la masa
Preterite: completed action
Preparó is preterite - shows a completed action in the past.
Mother prepared the dough - one completed action.
Reflexive pronoun se
La masa se volvió pegajosa
Reflexive pronoun se
Se + verb creates a reflexive construction. The dough became sticky.
Se volvió means became/turned into.
Imperfect: past description
Necesitábamos harina especial
Imperfect: past description
Necesitábamos is imperfect - describes ongoing needs or habitual past states.
Use imperfect when describing what was needed or habitual.
Subjunctive after importance
Es importante que esté muy caliente
Subjunctive after importance
Es importante que requires subjunctive because it expresses importance/wish.
After es importante que, always use subjunctive.
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