Kitchen Tidbits

For the past so many days, I am sharing the दादीमा के नुस्खे type cooking tips with some of my friends and acquaintances who are extremely generous in sharing appreciation for my posts . Few of them wanted me to share some general tips for 'day-to-day' cooking :-) So here i am with some useful cooking tips :

• To make crispier Puris ,add some rawa while kneading the dough.
• Vegetable lying in the fridge for quite some time?? Fill a bowl with cold water , add few drops of lime and soak them for 15-20 mins and Ta Da!!! your veggies are bright and fresh to make a salad !
• Want to add a subtle garlic flavour to salad? Rub a garlic pod inside the salad bowl before tossing it !
• Too much salt in Curry ?? Add raw potato chunks to the curry and cook it for few minutes. The potato will take in the extra salt easily. 
• If the shell sticks to hard cooked eggs, put them in cold water for 5-10 minutes and the peel would come off quickly.
• To keep fruits and vegetable fresh for long , wrap them in newspaper before refrigerating !
• To make thick and yummy curries , always add hot water
• After boiling pasta or noodles, put  them under running cold water to make them non-sticky.
• If you want to keep home made ginger-garlic or chilli paste fresh for a longer time , add some hot oil and a pinch of salt to it.
• To make dosa or uttapam crispier, add some sugar  to the batter.
• Want to make clean slices of cake or bread? Soak the knife in warm water for few minutes and wipe it with a clean cloth. Now use it for slicing the cake.
• Never put a lid while cooking methi as it will make the veggie bitter.
• Always add salt only when the vegetable is almost cooked.

I am sure each of you must be having hundreds of such tips in you kitty. Do share with us to help others do a smart work in the kitchen. 

HAPPY COOKING !

Chandana Mungre Kashid

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