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Vegetable Tips:
  • Mix some Salt or dried Mint leaves or dried Curry leaves or garlic flakes to grains(Rice,Pulses,and Lentils) to avoid pest or insects in containers. You can use Turmeric for lentils.
  • Don’t store Onions with Potatoes, as potatoes will rot.
  • Mix a tomato or Potato or a spoon of sugar in a dish. They will absorb extra salt in recipe.
  • Remove stems of green chilli to keep fresh for longer usage.
  •  To avoid black color and bitter taste in brinjals while chopping, keep chopped brinjals in salt water.
  •  Add turmeric, few drops of sesame oil to Lentils for fastening boiling process.
  •  To retain color of veggies while cooking add a pinch of sugar.
  •  To enhance the taste of Potato fry. Soak the potato pieces in buttermilk before frying.
  •  To get coconut out of shell easily break it and refrigerate overnight. Coconut comes out of shell easily.
  •  To fry onions fast add salt or sugar while frying in oil.
  •  Roll the lemon in your palm before squeeze to maximum juice.
  •  Avoid Onion cry, Cut the onion into half and place in water.
  • To avoid sticking, always dip knife while cutting boiled potatoes.
  • While cutting raw banana, add 2-3 drops of milk to the water to avoid stickiness.
     
Dosa Batter Tips:
  • Add tea spoon of fenugreek seeds, yellow pigeon peas while making batter for South Indian breakfast 'Dosa' to get it crispy. 
  • Add 2-3 tea spoons of Semolina(Ravva) to batter .dosa will not stick to pan.
  • For good color and taste, add red chilly to the dosa batter. 
Chapati tips:
  • To get soft chapathi add warm water while preparing dough. You also add little milk or yogurt and oil.
  • Mix equal parts of Wheat flour with Barley flour to get tasty chapathi.

 Kitchen Tips:
  • Always chop veggies on wooden board to avoid knife blunt.
  • If you want fried items to be more crispy,Add little corn flour before frying.

Curd Tips:
  • Use hot box for curdling milk to get quick curd in cold seasons.
  •  To avoid sourness in curd, use mud vessels. Mud vessels will preserve sweet taste of curd for few more days.
Spices tips:
  • Keep some Cloves in sweet items (Sugar, Jaggery, Sweets) they protect items from ants.
  • Keep a tiny piece of Asafoetida (Hing) in chilli powder for long usage.

Rice tips:
  • Add Lemon Juice in water while cooking rice, It will make rice whiter.
  • Add some oil or ghee to get rice separated with each other.

Pickle Tips:
  • Fungus in pickle - before putting pickle,  burn tiny piece of Asafoetida(Hing) on coal and invert empty jar to fill with that smoke or vapors for some time. 
  • Try to add turmeric to pickle while preparing.

Insect Tips:
  • Cockroaches in kitchen, use boric powder at the edges they will ran away.
  • Lizards in Kitchen, Place Peacock feather they will not enter.
  • Mosquitoes and houseflies, in a vessel dip some camphor in water they will go away.
 
Washing Tips:
  • Wet Tamarind + Salt are good to polish Silver or Brass Vessels.
  • Burnt or Grease vessel - place an onion and fill water and keep for some time. Clean the vessel with hot water with few drops of vinegar.

Mixer grinder tips:

  • Grind some salt in grinder to sharpen blades

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