The expression I am looking for is something like this:
Rather than putting the whole mixture of spices at one while cooking something, put a part of it in various steps/rounds separated by a regular interval.
Is using rounds correct, or should I use something else?
Basically, what I want to know is what word I am supposed to use to mean I am doing something in distributed steps rather than all at once.
Best Answer
Your original sentence is unclear to this extent: Do you mean that each spice should be put in separately (one spice at a time) or that they should all be mixed together into something like a curry powder and then added in equal fractional parts?
I'll assume the former (it's more rational for cooking for a couple of reasons).
You can say it this way:
You can also say:
There's no need to clutter the sentence with unnecessary terms like "rounds" and "steps".