Cooking Tips and Tricks

1. Add 1 tbls of fruit jam in a glass of cold milk,blend well and a quick delicious fruit shake is ready for kids
2. Add 2 tbls pickle masala, 2 tbls pickle oil and a pinch of salt in a cup of wheat flour to make delicious achari poori’s for breakfast and as a travel food.
3. Add 1 tbls left over pickle masala in regular subzi to make achari aloo,achari bhindi and achari brinjal or any dry curry of your choice..
4. Add kiwi fruit,green apple,oranges,berries or any sour or over ripe fruit to make coriander chutney more nutritious.
5. While making coriander chutney add few nuts of your choice to make it more nutritious and to increase its shelf life.
6. If you have added too much chilli powder in a gravy then add some curd ,lemon juice or 2 .t.s ghee in it to balance it.
7. 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 and then serve warm with a smile.
8. While making home made potato chips,mix some alum powder in the water and soak the chips in it,before boiling.
9. While grinding red chili powder add little mustard oil in it to get a bright red colour.
10. Its much easier to grind small cardamom if you add some sugar to it while grinding.
11. Add 1 tbls gram flour in semolina for making delicious sooji halwa .
12. While making gravy for a kofta or paneer dish ,use milk instead of water for smoother gravy
13. If asafoetida become too hard then keep a green chilli with it.
14. If you are short of tomatoes to make gravy, then add some tomato ketchup.
15. Add little bounvita in coffee for a delicious twist in the taste.
16. Grease the leftover dough with slight oil or ghee before covering and storing it in the refrigerator.
17. Add little glycerine in the cake batter to make it more soft and moist.
18. Add some routine spices and a bread in leftover rice ,mash the mixture well and make crispy fritters.
19. After making cottage cheese/paneer don’t throw the whey, use it the to make roti dough or use in any curry.
20. Add a pinch of dried mint powder in tomato soup to make it more flavourful.
21. Add a apple with potatoes ,they will stay fresh and will not sprout easily.
22. 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.
23. Try to add whole curry leaf spring in the dish,it will be easy to remove after cooking.
24. Use scissor to chop green chillies and coriander.
25. While boiling potatoes add some salt or vinegar in the water, to avoid cracking while boiling.
26. Use white tooth powder to clean your silvarware and silvar jewellary.
27. If you have added extra salt in the dish,don’t worry just add a peeled raw potato or a ball of wheta flour dough and boil for a minute,then discard the potato or flour ball.
28. If your rice are burned,don’t worry just put a slice of bread in the pan for 10 minute,bread will absorb the burned flavour.
29. Freeze left over coffee in ice try and next time when you make cold coffee ,use these cubes instead of plain ice cubes
30. To remove worms from cauliflower ,add some white vinegar or turmeric in the water and soak the florets in it for 10 minutes.
31. Add 1 t.s white vinegar in idli batter to make softer idlis.
32. Add some gram flour or semolina in wheat flour to make crisp poori’s.
33. To enhance the flavour of coffee ,add a pinch of salt into it.

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