Cooking tips - Part 8

There are several such tips which i myself was surprised to see when i started writing it down.

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141) While making gravy for a kofta or paneer dish, use milk instead of water for smoother gravy.

142) If asafoetida becomes too hard, then keep a green chilli with it.

143) If you are short of tomatoes to make gravy, then add some tomato ketchup.

144) Add a little Bounvita to coffee for a delicious twist in the taste.

145) Grease leftover dough with some oil or ghee before covering and storing it in the refrigerator.

146) Add a little glycerine to the cake batter to make it more soft and moist.

147) Add some routine spices and bread to leftover rice, mash the mixture well and make crispy fritters.

148) After making cottage cheese/paneer, don't throw the whey. Use it to make roti dough or use in any curry.

149) Add a pinch of dried mint powder in tomato soup to make it more flavourful.

150) Keep an apple by potatoes. They will stay fresh and will not sprout easily.

151) If facing difficulty in rolling aloo parantha, add some dry roasted gram flour or some bread crumbs to the filling; it will not come out while rolling.

152) Try to add whole curry leaf spring in the dish. It will be easy to remove after cooking.

153) Use scissors to chop green chillies and coriander for better n fine chopping.

154) While boiling potatoes, add some salt or vinegar in the water, to avoid cracking while boiling.

155) Use white tooth powder or paste to clean your silverware and silver jewellery.

156) If you have added extra salt to a dish, don't worry; just add a peeled raw potato or a ball of wheat flour dough and boil for a minute, then discard the potato or flour ball.

157) If your rice gets burnt, don't worry; just put a slice of bread in the pan for 10 minutes. The bread will absorb the burnt flavour.

158) Freeze leftover coffee in an ice tray; and the next time you make cold coffee, use these cubes instead of plain ice cubes.

159) To remove worms from cauliflower, add some white vinegar or turmeric in the water and soak the flowerets in it for 10 minutes.

160) Add 1 t.s white vinegar to idli batter to make softer idlis.


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