Helpful Tips

While frying, add a little salt to the pan to get onion fast brown.
To make clean slices of cold deserts, soak knife in warm water for a few minutes, wipe it dry & make a clean slices.
To increase the taste of batata vadas, add crushed garlic in gram flour (Besan) batter.
When cooking vegetables please add salt at the end.
To make vermicelli more delightful, add 1 tea spoon of custard powder.
To avoid darkness on cut apples/pear, squeeze a little lime juice or sprinkle a little bit of crushed mustard.
To prevents the dough from getting dry in refrigerator coat it with light layer of oil.
Always use room temperature while baking butter & eggs. Using them directly from refrigerator will make it harder to blend & mix it and that will affect the product.
To prepare fluffier omellete, beat egg's white & egg's yolk separately.
To release more juice of lemon, roll it hard on kitchen platform or counter using palm.
After peeling the onion, cut them in half & soak in the water for 10-15 minutes before you cut it, to avoid crying.
Do not throw water of boil vegetables, use it in making gravies & soups.
Before refrigerating the fruits & vegetables, wrap them in the news papers to make them fresh for long time.
Before cutting the dry fruits, first put them into refrigerator for an hour & then dip the knife into hot water before cutting the dry fruits.
Sanitize your sponges in the microwave for 2 minutes. It will kill 99% of germs.
While preparing the batter of Pakoras, add a little Corn flour to the Gram flour (Besan) to make it crispier.
Rub a walnut on damaged wooden furniture to cover up dings.
To preserve the minerals & vitamins peel the vegetables as thinly as possible.
Use toothpaste to clears up hazy car headlights.
Rub the inside of a banana peel on your leather shoes or handbag and polish with a dry cloth for a quick shine.
Wash utensils with gram flour & hot water or scrub with lemon rind to avoid the unpleasant smell of eggs.
To keep fresh coriander leaves for long time placed in a polythene bag & store in a refrigerator.
Put rolled puris in the refrigerator for 10 minutes before frying them, Puris will consume less oil & will be crisper.
Add fenugreek seeds to lentil & rice mixture while soaking. It make dosa more crispier.
To avoid stickiness of ladyfinger while cooking add few drops of lemon or spoon fulL of yogurt.
While cooking cauliflower or cabbage to maintain its white color add one tea spoon of milk.
While frying koftas & pakoras add a pinch of salt to the oil it will consume less oil.
While frying onion to get brown color fast add half tea spoon of salt.
If the dough sticks to rolling pin , put the dough in the refrigerator for few minutes.
While preparing makke ki rotis add some wheat flour to makka flour then knead the dough it will not break the rotis.
To avoid discolored of aamras & mango desserts keep them in a non metal container.
While making rotis or paranthas from wheat flour add a little rice flour to the dough.
Soak pulses for one hour before cooking.
Always use garlic at 60% ratio & ginger at 40% while using ginger- garlic paste.
Soaked poppy seeds in hot water for 10- 15 min before grinding.
Add a little water at the base of the utensil while boiling milk to avoid it from sticking at the bottom.
To avoid lumps formation whisk curd properly then add masala to it.
To bake potatoes fastly soaked it in salt water for 20 minutes.
To separate each vermicelli & noodles while boiling add few drop of oil or after boiling put them in normal cold water immediately.
Add a few drops of lemon & a tea spoon of oil to rice before boiling the rice to separate each grain of rice.
Add a tea spoon of hot oil along with salt to make homemade pastes of garlic, ginger or green chili for last longer & taste fresher.
Add cardamom peels to the tea container to get a nice flavor of cardamom to every cup of tea.
To refresh old laddoos heat them in a microwave for 30 second.
Add some salts to onion to get brown colour quickly while cooking.
To get curd in winter place the container or utensils in a warm place.
Wrap paneer in a blotting paper while storing fresh for several days in the fridge.
When noodles or vermicelli are boiled drain all the hot water & add cold water they will avoid stickiness and keep them separated.
To avoid crying cut onion into 2 parts & place them in water for 15 minutes then chopped it.
Put some boric powder in kitchen & other corners of room to keep the cockroaches away from home.
You can use dried coriander, mint & curry leaves in coarse powder form in vegitable & chutneys. when fresh leaves are not available.
To keep coriander & mint leaves fresh wrap them in a muslin cloth & keep in a fridge.
Keep a small piece of hing in the same container will store chilli powder for long time.
Use some lemon juice on the cut surfaces of the apple to avoid darkness.
Apply mashed banana/ potato/ toothpaste over a burn on your body for cooling effects.
To prevent the dishcoloured of chopped brinjal keep them in salted water till it required.
Add a table spoon of venegar to hot soapy water to avoid grease & odour on dishes.
To get vegetables fresh for long time, please wrap them in the news paper before putting them in the fridge.
Don't waste the water in which you have soaked or cooked the vegetables. Use it in making soup or gravy.
To prepare whiter rice, please add a few drops of lemon juice in the water before boiling the rice.
If lemon is hard, put it in warm water for 5-10 minutes to make it soft for squeeze.
To remove the skin of garlic easily, garlic cloves are slightly warmed before peeling.
To keep the chillies fresh remove the stem before storing.
To Make soft idlis soak a handful of poha or cooked plain rice grind them well to make smooth thick paste.
Immerse the eggs in a bowl of cool salted water. If it sinks it is fresh, if it is rises to the surfaces it is quite old.
Putting 3-4 cloves(laung) in sugar container will keep the ants away.
To remove the skin of almonds(badam) easily soak them in a hot water for 15 to 20 minutes.
Put rolled puris in the refrigerator for 10 minutes before frying them, Puris will consume less oil & will be crisper.
To keep fresh coriander leaves for long time placed in a polythene bag & store in a refrigerator.