Culinary Tips

We tend to waste the sugar syrup that remains after all the gulab jamuns are eaten. We are A Journalist Reveals think it can be made to good use, so we share some tips on how to reuse the syrup as follows: Take 3 parts of maida, 1 part rice ...

1. While using packed pickles bought from the store, always pickup the vegetable pieces by fork. If you remove them with spoon, the oil comes with the vegetable pieces. Thus the oil does not last long and there are chances of the pickle getting spoilt with fungus. 2. While making ...

1. Cut or entire lemon can stay fresh if kept in common salt. 2. After grinding masala for any dish, if you grind some Tuar Dal in the grinder without cleaning it, you not only get additional masala for your dishes, but also whatever remains of the masala that was ...

1. During summer, while making curd at home, instead of making it at night, if milk is left to curdle on the inverter of your refrigerator in the morning, it would be set by lunch time and it does not even get sour. 2. Drinking lukewarm water after meals not ...

1. We should keep trying tricks by which cooking gas consumption is reduced. While boiling Tuar Dal, if you add 1 teaspoon sugar, it will be done sooner than when sugar is not used. 2. Cleaning dishes is a task to reckon with. What about an herbal alternative to chemical ...

1. Take 1 cup each of tuar dal, chana dal and rice, 1 ½ table spoons each of udad and moong dal and 6 red chillies. Roast for 1 minute in an already very hot kadai. Remove the mixture onto a plate till it cools down. Dry grind the contents ...

1. When we boil carrots and green peas, their colour changes. To keep their colour intact, just add some sugar while boiling. 2. Vitamin E preserves youth in us. Thus we should include vitamin E-rich foods like peanuts and olive oil in our diet. 3. Vitamin C reduces wrinkles. We ...

1. Instead of using tomato slices in rasam, sabzi or any other such preparations, if the fruits are used after boiling in water, peeling and made into pulp, then it gives a better taste. 2. If you want to preserve ginger-garlic paste for later use, if ¼ teaspoon salt and ...