Few cooking tips /techniques

Tip 1:

Excess salt in biryani:

 Suppose you find salt to be excess in biryani just add lemon juice to it and give a gentle mix. This mild sour taste will balance the excess salt.

Ratio approx 1.5tsp of lemon juice for 1 ½ cup of rice.

Tip 2:

Less salt in biryani:

Suppose you find salt to be less in biryani just mix required amount of salt in lemon juice and add it to the biryani and give a gentle mix. So that salt will evenly get added.  

Ratio approx 1.5tsp of lemon juice for 1 ½ cup of rice.

Tip 3:

Soak chickpeas in hot water if you forget to soak it ahead of time. In this way, only 3 hours of soaking is needed.

Tip 4:

Do not wash the mushrooms with water as it will absorb the water. Clean it with a damp cloth instead. This way the preparations will not be soggy.

Tip 5:

 Remove oil residue from nonstick dosa tawa:

Using a tissue clean the nonstick dosa tawa or paniyaram pan immediately after removing it from the stove this method helps us to remove the oil residue completely from the nonstick tawa or pan.

Below 2 tips will be mainly useful for the person staying in a cold climate.

Tip 6:

To ferment the dosa batter:

During winter (or) in the cold climate, the fermentation process takes more time. To make fermentation bit quick just preheat the microwave for 1 – 2 minutes and switch off the microwave (not the main switch) and keep the dosa batter container in the microwave for 6 – 7 hours.

Tip 7:

Without Re heating bring chutney to room temperature:

 In a vessel add drinking water and boil it very hot. Then switch off the stove and close the vessel with a plate. Now on top of it keep the chutney and leave it for 30 to 40 minutes.

Note: except coconut chutney, you can try to rest.