The most important kitchen tips

Essential kitchen tips and tricks that will make your life easy

Cooking tips

1. If you are using mustard oil as a cooking medium then allow oil to heat at the smoke level.

2. Use mustard oil and pure ghee¹ as a cooking medium because these two oils are there in our kitchen for ages and doesn’t contain harmful elements.

3. Roast semolina² before storing in container. Semolina will remain fresh and it will save time also when you want to cook something

 4. While preparing fritters, add 1 tbsp of rice flour, the fritters will come out crispy.

5. Add 2-3 cloves and 1 tsp of oil, your rice will be fragrant and each grain will be separate.

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6. Add few grains of rice in table salt, salt will not become moist.

7. While making besan³ cheela⁴ add 1 tbsp of rice flour, cheela’s will come out crispy

8. For instant rava⁵ idli, put 1/2 tsp of ENO⁶ for quick fermentation

9. While preparing noodles, after boiling noodles, place them in running cold tap water and place it on the vegetable cutting board and drizzle some oil on it, they will not stick.

10. While preparing tea, put tea leaves the in last and just give one boil and strain immediately, the tea will taste good and also the tea leaves will not get over boil.

11. Soak potatoes in water after cutting to remove all the starch. It is beneficial to some extent in diabetes.

12. While cooking biryani, soak rice for 30 minutes, each grain of rice in biryani will be separated.

13. While storing paneer⁷ in refrigerator keep it in bowl of water, paneer will be fresh plus it will not turn yellow.

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1. Use leftover idlis⁸ to make fry idli or idli manchurian.

2. Use leftover toor dal⁹/ arhar dal to make sambhar¹⁰.

3. Use leftover toor dal/ arhar dal to make dal¹¹ paratha¹².

4. Remove stems of green chilies to keep it fresh for long.

5. Put half lemon in bowl of water and keep it in refrigerator, your refrigerator will smell fresh.

6. While storing lemons in refrigerator cover each lemon in newspaper, it will remain fresh for long.

7. While cooking dal in cooker put few drops of oil in the dal and few drops on the lid’s whistle nozzle, dal will not leak from sides.

8. Keep coriander leaves in the muslin cloth before storing in refrigerator, it will remain fresh for long time.

9. Wash lady finger¹³ before cutting not after cutting otherwise it will become very sticky.

10. Always use perforated bags to store vegetables in refrigerator to avoid moisture and maintain humidity level.

1. Pure ghee = clarified butter 2. Semolina= Sooji 3. Besan = gram flour 4. Cheela = savoury pan cake 5. Rava = Semolina/sooji 6. ENO = antacid 7. Paneer = cottage cheese 8. Idli = savoury rice cake 9. Toor dal/arhar dal = pigeon pea 10. Sambhar = a liquid dish prepared with pigeon pea and vegetables 11. Dal = pulses 12. Paratha = round/triangle wheat bread cooked on girdle in oil/ghee 13. Lady finger = bhindi