Cooking Tips and Tricks

!!Cooking Tips and Tricks!!

General Tips For Cooking:

• To avoid browning of apples and brinjals after cutting, apply a little lemon juice on the cut surface. They will stay and look fresh for a longer time.

Cooking tips and tricks

• To prevent crying when chopping onions, soak for about 5 minutes in cold water and then cut.

• To make your dosa crisper, add a little sugar to the dosa batter.

• To make softer chapatis,  add boiled water and mix slowly until soft dough is formed. Keep it aside for 15 min before making the chapatis.

• To separate each noodle, after boiling the noodles put them in normal cold water immediately with few drops of oil in it.

• To separate each grain of rice, add a few drops of lemon and a tsp of oil to rice before boiling the rice.

• To make homemade pastes of garlic, ginger or green chili last longer and taste fresher, add a tsp of hot oil along with salt to it.

• While boiling milk to avoid it from sticking at the bottom, add a little water at the base of the vessel.

• Make desserts with full cream milk to get thick and  creamy texture.

• Add hot water to the gravy to enhance its taste.

• While using ginger and garlic paste in curries, always use garlic at 60% ratio and ginger at 40%. 

• When tomatoes are not in season, tomato ketchup or sauce can be used in the gravies

• To make crispier puris, add a little rava to the wheat flour while kneading.

• To make crispier bajjis add a little corn flour to the gram flour to make bajji batte

Healthy tips:

• Do not wash the vegetables after peeling or chopping. This will wash out all the water soluble vitamins.

• Whenever vegetables or dal is cooked in water, many nutrients are left back in the water. So do not throw it away. Instaed use it when making some gravies or soups.

• Potatoes have their nutrients in their skin. So try using potatoes without peeling it.

• Eat fruits like apples along with its skin.

• Tamarind can be substituted with raw mango powder.

Refrigeration tips:

• To prevent formation of ice, rub table salt to the insides of your freeze.

• Keep coriander leaves in a muslin (cheese) cloth bag or tight plastic container in the refrigerator. They will remain fresh for a longer time.

• Remove the stems of green chilies while storing them .This will help them to stay fresh for long.

• Wrap the fruits and vegetables in newspaper before refrigerating to keep them fresh for long.

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