Useful Kitchen tips

Useful kitchen tips- few important tried and tested kitchen tips to do your work easily and effectively

1. If asafoetida  become too hard then keep a green chili with it.
2. If you have added too much chili powder in a gravy then add some curd .lemon juice or 2 tsp ghee in it to balance it.
3. Add 1 tsp white vinegar in idli batter to make softer idli.
4. Add some gram flour or semolina with wheat flour to make crisp poori’s.
5. To enhance the flavor of coffee ,add a pinch of salt into it.
6. Add a pinch of dried mint powder in tomato soup to make it more flavorful.
7. If facing difficulty in rolling aloo parantha,,then add add some dry roasted gram flour or little bread crumbs in the filling, it will not come out while rolling.
8. If you are short of tomatoes to make gravy, then add some  tomato ketchup.
9. While making coriander chutney add few nuts of your choice to make it more nutritious and to increase its shelf life.
10. Add kiwi fruit, green  apple ,berries or any sour fruit to make  coriander chutney more nutritious.
11. Try to  add whole curry leaf spring  in the dish, it will be easy to remove after cooking. kitchen tips makes our work easy and smooth.
12. Use scissor to chop green chilies.
13. To grind red chilies , add 1/2 tsp salt and few drops of mustard oil to grind easily and to get bright red colour.
14. Add 2 tbls pickle masala and 2 tbls pickle oil  and pinch of salt in 1cup wheat  flour to make delicious poori’s for breakfast.
15. Add 1 tbls left over pickle masala in regular subji to make achari aloo , achari bhindi and achari brijal or any dry curry of your choice..
16. Freeze left over coffee in ice try and next time when you make cold coffee ,use these cubes instead of plain ice cubes
17. Add 1 tbls of fruit jam in a glass  of cold milk, blend well and a quick delicious fruit shake  is ready for kids.
18. If your  gulab jamuns turn out hard ,don’t worry, just put them  in the pressure cooker with sugar syrup  and cook for 5 minute on medium heat ,serve warm with a smile.
19. Add 1 tbls gram flour in semolina for making sooji halwa.
20. While making gravy for a kofta or paneer dish ,use milk instead of water  for smoother gravy