Tips on Kitchen and Cooking...

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1. If you are storing lentils/rice, add a bunch of curry leaves and 2-3 red chillies on top of the container. This will avoid insects

2. In the sugar bottle, if you add 1-2 cloves, ants wont hunt your sugar.

3. Pre-heating the tava and leaving for 3-5 mins, always helps while making dosas

4. Substitute lemon instead of tamarind wherever possible, while cooking.

5. Choose to saute the sambar/rasam in the end with Ghee. This will add to the taste.

6. Storing spices in the refrigerator, helps to save spices for a longer duration

7. If you are fighting dandruff, try mixing 1 cup of yoghurt with 2-3 tbsp of fenugreek powder. Apply it in your scalp, wait for 5 minutes and rinse. Repeating this step twice a week is a natural cure for dandruff.

8. When mixing idli dough from the grinder, use your hands. This will help in making the batter rise.

9.While grinding for idlies in the grinder, sprinkle water every now and then. This is actually the secret for soft idlies.

10.If the idli batter is 2-3 days old, adding 2-3 tbsp of gingelly oil in the dough, will help in getting soft idlies

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