Cooking tips - Part 7

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

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121) Add pinch of sugar while cooking palak to retain green colour.

122) Add little milk while cooking cauliflower and cabbage to retain white colour. 

123) Apply oil before roasting tomato and Brinjal. It helps to remove skin easily.

124) Adding peanut powder or ajwain or kasuri methi improves taste of cabbage.

125) Soak palak leaves in sugary water before making palak paneer.

126) Apply salt to methi bhajji before cooking and after 10 mins squeeze the extra water.It reduces bitterness.

127) Adding sugar or lime juices speeds up the cooking of potato. 

128) Stuffed Brinjal, bitter gourd and bhindi tastes great when peanut powder is added to stuffing.

129) To prevent bhindi from becoming black add aamchur powder while cooking.

130)  Add 1 tbls of fruit jam to a glass of cold milk, blend well and a quick delicious fruit shake is ready for your kids.

131) Add 2 tbls pickle masala, 2 tbls pickle oil and a pinch of salt to a cup of wheat flour to make delicious achari poori's for breakfast and as a travel food.

132) Add 1 tbls leftover pickle masala to regular subzi to make achari aloo, achari bhindi, achari brinjal or any dry curry of your choice.

133) Add kiwi fruit, green apple, oranges, berries or any sour or over-ripe fruit to make coriander chutney more nutritious.

134) While making coriander chutney, add a few nuts of your choice to make it more nutritious and to increase its shelf life.

135) If you have added too much chilli powder in a gravy, then add some curd, lemon juice or 2 t.s ghee to it for balance.

136) If your gulab jamuns turn out hard, don't worry; just put them in the pressure cooker with sugar-syrup and cook for 5 minutes on medium heat and then serve warm with a smile.

137) While making potato chips, mix some alum powder in the water and soak the chips in it before boiling.

138) While grinding red chili powder, add a little mustard oil to it to get a bright red colour.

139) It is much easier to grind small cardamom if you add some sugar to it while grinding.

140) Add 1 tbls gram flour in semolina to make your sooji halwa delicious.



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