Cooking Tips

Tips on Cooking:

To make 1 cup of dal, add at least 2-3 cups of water, depending on the type of dal.

Soak whole pulses overnight and other daals for one hour before cooking.

Always add hot water to the gravy to enhance the taste.

Add 1 Tbsp. of hot oil to the dough for making Paratha or Kulchas.

Always use heavy bottomed vessels to make desserts, in order to avoid burning.

Make desserts with full cream milk, to get thick creamy texture.

Tips for Gravies:

Always use ghee instead of oil, which gives a good flavour to the gravy.

Fry the ground masala in reduced flame, so that it retains its colour and taste.

Little plain sugar added to the gravy makes it tasty.

When tomatoes are not in season, tomato ketchup or sauce can be successfully used in the gravies.

Good variety chillies and chilli powder also gives colour to the gravy. Always homemade coarse chilli powder gives good taste in gravies and pickles.

Tips on Leftover Foods:

Keep some boil potato in fridge, to make quick sandwich or pakoda.

If you are making rice cook some extra and store in refrigerator for the next meal use your imagination and make something new recipe.

Use leftover sukhi dal to make stuffed Partha and tikkis.

Use leftover noodles to  make frankies.