Some useful tips for ladies:
- 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.
- 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.
- Add 1 tbls leftover pickle masala to regular subzi to make achari aloo, achari bhindi, achari brinjal or any dry curry of your choice.
- Add kiwi fruit, green apple, oranges, berries or any sour or over-ripe fruit to make coriander chutney more nutritious.
- While making coriander chutney, add a few nuts of your choice to make it more nutritious and to increase its shelf life.
- 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.
- 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.
- While making potato chips, mix some alum powder in the water and soak the chips in it before boiling.
- While grinding red chili powder, add a little mustard oil to it to get a bright red colour.
- It is much easier to grind small cardamom if you add some sugar to it while grinding.
- Add 1 tbls gram flour in semolina to make your sooji halwa delicious.
- While making gravy for a kofta or paneer dish, use milk instead of water for smoother gravy.
- If asafoetida becomes too hard, then keep a green chilli with it.
- If you are short of tomatoes to make gravy, then add some tomato ketchup.
- Add a little Bounvita to coffee for a delicious twist in the taste.
- Grease leftover dough with some oil or ghee before covering and storing it in the refrigerator.
- Add a little glycerine to the cake batter to make it more soft and moist.
- Add some routine spices and bread to leftover rice, mash the mixture well and make crispy fritters.
- After making cottage cheese/paneer, don't throw the whey. Use it to make roti dough or use in any curry.
- Add a pinch of dried mint powder in tomato soup to make it more flavourful.
- Keep an apple by potatoes. They will stay fresh and will not sprout easily.
- If facing difficulty in rolling aloo parantha, add some dry roasted gram flour or some bread crumbs to the filling; it will not come out while rolling.
