Some Cooking tips at your kitchen
I have listed out some kitchen tips which might be very useful for us while cooking.- For long life of cooker wallet, Place the wallet in a freezer or soak it in a water, when it is not in use.
- Add coconut water,while preparing rasam, which gives additional taste to rasam.
- Instead of placing small onion in a basket, place it on a floor, small onions won't get spoiled quickly.
- Before making dosa's, apply 2 tsp of oil on tawa, then rub brinjal or onion on it, to prevent it from sticking to tawa.
- While grinding dosa,add 1 cup of cooked rice, to dosa ingredients to get crispy dosa's.
- When u prepare poori, knead the flour,by adding some sugar to it, Poori will maintain it's crispness for longer time.
- To get seperate rice, Soak rice in water for half an hour before you cook rice.
- To avoid worms in rice, add neem leaves to rice container.
- Add a piece of coconut to curd, curd won't become sour.
- To peel onions and garlic quickly, soak it in cold water, for half an hour.
- Before cooking Soak green chillies in warm water for few minutes to prevent ulser.
- While cooking methi leaves add little sugar to it, to prevent its bitterness.
- if paneer is hard, place the paneer cubes in hot water for 10 minutes. paneer becomes soft.
- Refrigerate coriander and mint leaves in ziplog cover after removing its moisture.[leaves should be dry completely] , for its longer life.[10 - 12 days].
- Take a tamarind in bowl, pour hot water into it, to prepare quick tamarind extract, or place the tamarind bowl on hot cooker top to prepare quick tamarind extract.
- Remove the stems from green chillies before refrigerating, for its long life.
- To get fluffy omelettes beat the egg and stir briskly with the spoon or fork for 2 min .
- To fry the onions quickly add some salt to it, while sauteing.
- When cabbage or cauliflower was boiling, add some tsp of lemon juice to it, to avoid its smell.
- To get puffed poori, add 1 tbsp of cornflour and 1 tbsp of white rava to the wheat flour.
- When you prepare carrot or beetroot halwa, add some milk maid to it, which gives delicious taste to halwa.
- To get crispy murukku,thattai or seedai, Saute rice flour in a dry kadai, till it turns for few seconds, till you get aroma of the flour
- Before chopping the coconut finely,place the coconut in freezer for one hour, coconut will be chopped easily.
- if dosa batter is soar, add a ladle of milk to it, which reduces the sourness.
- When noodles was boiling in hot water, add 1 tsp of cooking oil to it, noodles comes seperate.
- To remove excess salt or karam from korma or sambar or rasam, add tomato puree to boiling korma or sambar.
- To prepare yogurt pour traces of curd to lukewarm milk.it should be undisturbed for 2 to 3 hrs then you get thick curd.
- While cooking ladies finger, chop the ladies finger into pieces, spread it in a plate for one to 2 hrs to avoid it, becoming sticky.