Cooking Tips & Tricks

1. How to chop an onion without tears :
   • Soak peel the onion and cut them half and soak them in normal water for 15-20 minutes and then cut the onion as desired.
   • Or deep freeze the peeled onion for 10-15 minutes and then after washing cut them as desired.
2. After working with garlic rub your hands vigorously on your stainless steel sink for 30 seconds before washing with soap. It will remove the odor.
3. If you are cooking cauliflower, add a bit of milk to the water with salt to keep the cauliflower bright white.
4. To make softer chapattis, take flour in a bowl, add salt and little oil. Then add boiled water and mix slowly until soft dough is formed. Keep it aside for 15 minutes before making chapattis.
5. To make your Dosa crisper, add a little sugar to the Dosa batter.
6. To remove the sweetness from potatoes, add them to the salt water for half an hour.
7. To separate each grain of rice add a few drops of lemon and a tsp of oil to rice before boiling the rice.
8. To make homemade pastes of garlic, ginger or green chilly last longer and taste fresher add a tsp of hot oil along with salt to it.
9. While boiling milk to avoid it from sticking at the bottom, add a little water at the base of the vessel.
10. When cooking vegetable don’t add salt until the very end. Adding salt early can dehydrate vegetables and reduce their nutritional value.