Ingredients are a very important part of the dishes. The quality and the freshness of ingredients can be influence the taste. Therefore before you cook ensure that you select good ingredients. It is not only enough to have good ingredients because you expect to have a yummy dish.
Each dish contains many different ingredients and the quantity is also not the same as other dishes, so you have to know the nature of each type of food. For example, there are many different kinds of curries but the main ingredients are similar. You have to learn which type of curry uses more garlic, shallots, green chilies or red dried chilies.
If you do know all those things you can adjust the quantity by yourself. There will be no doubt that your cooking will be tasty even though it’s the first time you do it...