All Tips
- If your curry dominates with mirchi just add some lemon juice to taste the curry normal.
- When storing potatoes, placing an apple with them will help prevent the potatoes from sprouting. The apple helps to extract the moisture from the air, which directly affects sprouting.
- If your rose garden is being attacked by aphids, an excellent home remedy to get rid of them is to spritz the leaves and blooms with a mixture of crushed garlic and water.
- Eating Raw Garlic twice a week can nearly halve the risk of developing lung cancer
- After working with garlic, rub your hands on your stainless steel sink for 30 seconds before washing them. It will help to remove the odor.
- If there is excess salt in the curries just add little malaai(clotted Cream to your curry.
- Stay warm and rested. Staying warm and resting when you first come down with a cold or the flu helps your body direct its energy toward the immune battle. This battle taxes the body. So give it a little help by lying down under a blanket to stay warm if necessary.
- Drink plenty of fluids to help break up your congestion. Drinking water or juice will prevent dehydration and keep your throat moist. You should drink at least 8 to 10 eight-ounce glasses of water daily. Include fluids such as water, sports drinks, herbal teas, fruit drinks, or ginger ale. Your mother's chicken soup might help too! (Limit cola, coffee, and other drinks with caffeine because it acts like a diuretic and may dehydrate you.)
- When cooking dried beans, cereal grains, lentils, split peas, rice or other foods that absorb liquid and expand, do not fill the cooker more than half full to avoid the potential of clogging the vent during the cooking process. The normal fill line is two-thirds.
- Pressure cooker tips : If you end up with too much liquid, simply cook in the uncovered pot until the liquids are reduced to your satisfaction.
- Apply vanaspati(Dalda) or ghee to get pink lips.
- Add more lemon juice in mixture of biriyani. it gives taste and can save time in boiling the chicken.
- Avoid using face creams during your leisure time it avoids black/white heads on your face.
- To stop or reduce iching on skin apply cocnut oil.
- To reduce Black/white heads. Scrub your face with sugar for 5 to 10 mins for every alternate day. And also it gives you perfect shine on face.
- To avoid dishes from burning when being cooked in a handi, place a tawa (griddle) underneath.
- Avoid cooking sour dishes (like tamarind based dishes) in a non-stick pan as the sourness will remove coating faster.
- Icecreams set faster and better in aluminium containers. Also, place a thick plastic sheet or spread some salt under the container to keep it from sticking to the floor of the freezer.
- Add a few drops of salt water to banana chips while frying them as this will make the chips crisper.
- Crust removed from bread for making sandwiches etc. can be sundried or ovendried and powdered in a mixer to form fine breadcrumbs. Refrigerate and use as required.
- When adding flour to any liquid to thicken it, first mix the flour in a little liquid to make a smooth paste and then add it to the rest of the liquid and stir well. This will prevent lumps from forming.
- Crush chikkis coarsely and use as nougat over cakes and ice creams.
- A handful of salt added to the rinsing water for glass and crockery will not only make them cleaner but sparkling clear.
- To smoothen the icing on a cake use a knife dipped in hot water and gently rub it over the top and the sides.
- It will be easier to chop raisins if you sprinkle some flour over them so that they do not stick. Then cut with a small kitchen scissors.
- A handful of well-soaked moong dal added to any salad will increase the proteins and make it extra nutritious.
- If karanjis get a bit stale, warm them for half to one minute in a microwave oven before serving. They will taste like freshly fried.
- Wipe the blades of greasy knives with a peeled lemon. Then wash under running water. The greasiness will disappear.
- To get the full flavour out of saffron, warm it slightly before crushing (you may do so in a microwave oven for ten seconds on HIGH), add one teaspoon of warm milk and stir well.
- When mixing cake batter, icings or whipping any liquid, keep a folded cloth under the vessel. This will help you get a better grip of the vessel since it will not slip over the work surface.
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