Cooking Tips and Tricks

1. Potato cutlets

2. Brown onions faster

3. Avoid sticky rice

4. Crisp pakodas

5. Easy garlic skin removal

6. Safe cooking with oil

7. Removing fat from soups

8. Crisp onions

9. Perfect rice

10. Salty soup fix

11. Prevent egg smell in cakes

12. Fluffier idlis

13. Fluffier idlis (another way)

14. Crisp dosas

15. Crispy lady finger (okra)

16. Perfect taste in recipes using yogurt/curd

Potato cutlets: For better salt absorption, add it to the water in which the potato are boiling.

Onions faster: Onions will brown faster if 1/2 teaspoon of salt is added to the onions while frying.

Avoid sticky rice: Add a few drops of lemon juice & a pinch of sugar to the rice while cooking.

Crispy Pakodas: Add a little cornflour to the gramflour while mixing the dough.

Easy garlic skin removal: Garlic skin comes off easily if the garlic flakes are warmed a little before peeling

Safe cooking with oil: Sometimes hot oil starts foaming and starts rising in the pan. Dissipate the foam to avoid this situation by adding a marble sized ball of tamarind to the oil.

Removing fat from soups: Fat can be easily removed from hot soup by floating a large lettuce leaf on the surface.

Crisp onions better: Onions will turn out crispier if soaked in milk for a little while before frying.

Perfect rice: Add a few drops of lemon juice and 1/2 tsp. ghee while cooking rice to make the it whiter and keep the grain unbroken.

Salty soup fix: Place a raw potato in the bowl & it will absorb the extra salt.

Prevent egg smell in cakes: To get rid of the smell of eggs in the cakes, add one tablespoon honey to the cake batter while beating it.

Fluffier idlies: Never beat idli batter too much because the air which has already incorporated during fermentation is lost.

Fluffier idlies (another way): While grinding rice for idlis, add 1/5 quantity of soaked flaked rice (poha)..

Crisp dosas- To make dosas more crisp, add half a teaspoon of fenugreek seeds to the lentil and rice mixture while soaking.

Crispy lady finger (okra): While cooking add a few drops of lemon juice OR a spoonful of curd to the ladyfingers for a crispy taste.

Perfect taste in recipes using yogurt/curd: Some recipes use yogurt/curd which may curdle while cooking. To prevent curdling, don't add salt until yogurt/curd is cooked.