Cooking Tips #6

1. While preparing dosai, if the batter (doasai maavu) gets stuck to the tawa and doesn’t come off, take little tamarind and roll it in a clean cloth, dip it in oil, and then rub it in the tawa before pouring the batter. Now you should get tasty, crispy and easily removable dosais!

2. By mistake did you add more salt to your dish? Don’t worry, take a potato, cut it into cubes and add it to the dish. Potato can absorb salt and hence will reduce the extra salt!

3. To increase the shelf life of Green chilies, pluck off the stem softly from them and store it in a shadowy place.

4. Use the water used to rinse rice and vegetables for watering the plants. It helps the plants to grow well.

5. Add 5 cloves (krambu) to sugar to avoid ants. It also helps to keep the sugar fresh.

6. Thinking about preparing a yummy dish using cauliflower? First immerse cauliflower in warm already boiled salt water for few minutes. This will help to remove the small insects in the vegetable.

7. Immerse onion in cold water and then start removing its skin. You will not cry this time!

8. Never cook greens (keerai) with a closed lid.

9. Even if a single clove in a garlic is spoilt. It will slowly spoil the rest of the cloves. So after buying garlic always separate the cloves and keep them in an airy space. This way the garlic cloves will stay fresh for long time.