The phrase "assembling ingredients" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the process of gathering and preparing the necessary components for a recipe or a project.
Example: "Before we start cooking, let's begin by assembling the ingredients needed for the pasta dish."
Alternatives: "gathering ingredients" or "collecting ingredients".
For me, "from scratch" just means assembling ingredients together myself instead of using pre-assembled ingredients, which are often loaded with sodium and unnatural ingredients.
This involves assembling ingredients, often from different countries, processing them in a chemical plant into a batch of drug substance, then turning that substance into pills, liquids or creams in another factory, which might be in yet another country.
On the first day of my visit, Adrià and I watched while, in the late afternoon, two sous chefs began assembling ingredients in the small, workmanlike prep kitchen off the main, showy kitchen.
Laraine Herring, in her essay "Writing is not like Making a Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich," from her book The Writing Warrior, reminds us that writing is not a matter of assembling ingredients.
There she stands as I assemble ingredients on her kitchen counter, asking me what she can do to help -- this after she has just told me how painful it is to be on her feet.
Encouraged by relatives, goes the Kohr Brothers story, Archie and his brothers hauled their apparatus by train to Coney Island in 1919, assembled ingredients from local merchants, backed the machine into an alley and started selling.
The meal-prep company — which assembles ingredients for a dish, and then delivers them with a recipe to your door — has picked up $7.5 million led by Phenomen Ventures, a Russian VC that focuses mainly on e-commerce investments (other fundings include rounds in Fab.com and Uber competitor Hailo).
Remove your plant pigment extraction from the stove top and let it cool in the open air while you assemble ingredients for the next stage.
As always, remember when you look at a long list of ingredients required for a stir-fry that all of the time here goes into assembling the ingredients.
Assembling the ingredients was so effortless, the host barely noticed what was going on.
And thus far she hadn't had much luck in assembling the ingredients.
