Colour to Curries
To give a rich red color to your gravies without adding too much chillies, soak 2 dry red chillies after removing their seeds in about half cup water for 30…[...]
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Kitchen tips
Bake a Good Cake
For a baked cake to look flat on top - After pouring the cake batter into greased cake tin for baking, level it or make a dent in the center…[...]
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Handy Cooking Hints
Prevent butter from burning - When shallow frying/ sauteeing ingredients in butter, add a tablespoon of oil to the pan to prevent butter from burning and browning too soon. To boil…[...]
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Cooking Parathas
Next time you make parathas - When making stuffed parathas, apply a little ghee or oil on the rolled out chapathi before keeping the stuffing. Then close over the filling and roll…[...]
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Tricky Tips
Prevent butter from burning - When shallow frying/ sauteeing ingredients in butter, add a tablespoon of oil to the pan to prevent butter from burning and browning too soon. To…[...]
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Cooking Potatoes
1) To boil potatoes faster. add a little turmeric powder and oil to the water.2) Always add chopped potatoes to water at room temperature and then keep this vessel over…[...]
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Sour idli batter
Fret not if your idli batter has turned a a tad sourish. Just add a little pepper powder and few drops hing (asafoetida) water to the batter. This improves the…[...]
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No Fuss & Instant Cake Toppings
Now a cake is something that can be devoured straight out of the oven or had topped with whipped cream or decorated with frosting. I love decorating cakes!! Not that…[...]
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Tips & Tricks – Crispy Pakoras
When mixing the batter for pakoras, add 1-2 tbsp or even upto 4-5 tbsp rice flour along with the regular besan/ chickpea flour.This will make -* the pakoras crispier and…[...]
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Mung – Bean or Gram?
......And benefits of Mung (Here is the post that got deleted last week :) For a long time I had been confused with the different names given to this mineral…[...]
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