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…
Read Full RecipeCategory: Kitchen Tips
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…
Read Full Recipe
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…
Read Full Recipe
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…
Read Full Recipe
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…
Read Full Recipe
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…
Read Full Recipe
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…
Read Full Recipe
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…
Read Full Recipe
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…
Read Full Recipe
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…
Read Full Recipe