Cooking Tips...

• For soft dosas, add some boiled rice, while grinding.
• To adjust salt in curries add roasted rice powder.
• If the curd is too sour, add 4 cups of water to it. After half an hour, remove the water collected on top.
• For crispy dosas, add a teaspoon of tur dal gram and some fenugreek seeds while soaking rice.
• While chopping raw bananas and potatoes, put the pieces in a bowl of water to avoid it from turning black.
• Green peas will retain original colour, if a pinch of sugar is added while boiling.
• Leafy vegetables will remain fresh longer, if wrapped in news papers while storing.
• If you don't have any cream to add in the soup or gravy, add a mixture of butter and milk.
• Apply some oil on the sides of the vessel in which you boil milk, in order to avoid it from overflowing.
• You can make tasty chapati by mixing equal proportion of wheat flour and barley.
• If the bread is too soft to cut into pieces, hold the knife close to a flame and then slice the bread with it.
• Add a little powdered lemon rind to puddings or deserts to avoid the smell of egg.
• Add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda while mixing the dough for chapati to make it soft.
• If a curry turns out too salty, garnish it with some grated coconut.