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Tips and TricksHave you faced any difficulties in saving time while cooking ?

How do you ensure the nutritional value of your foods ?

Are your kitchen wares are safe for healthy cooking ?

HERE WE GO….

Smart CookingONION CHOPPING TIPS:

To avoid crying, cut the onions into two parts and place them in water for 15 minutes before chopping them.

Wrap the onions individually in a newspaper and store in a cool and dark place to keep them fresh for long time.

Smart CookingKeep Tomatoes Fresh

Dip overripe tomatoes in cold water, add some salt and leave overnight.

They will be fresh and firm to the touch the next day....

Smart CookingMushroom Buying Tips

Buy mushrooms before they "open." When stems and caps are attached snugly, mushrooms are truly fresh.

Smart CookingKeep Paneer Fresh

To keep paneer fresh for several days, wrap it in blotting paper while storing in the refrigerator.

Do not fry paneer, immerse it in boiling water to make it soft and spongy.

Smart CookingReduce Cooking Time

Do not add salt to ‘rajma’ and ‘urad dal’ while boiling.

It will take half the time to boil when salt is subtracted.

Smart CookingSmart Storing

Never store onions and potatoes together. They both produce gases that when in close proximity to each other, cause both of them to spoil much faster.

Healthy Cooking

Always store raw and cooked food separately; keep raw or uncooked food at the bottom of refrigerator in a covered bowls to avoid unnecessary contamination.

Avoid Contamination

Healthy CookingPut Vegetables in Daily Diet

To keep the vegetables fresh for a longer time, wrap them in newspaper before putting them in freeze.

Chop the vegetables only when you are ready to use them. Don't cut them in too advance. It would spoil their food value.

Healthy CookingQuick Baking

If you are blessed with a microwave you don't have to go through the chore of baking/boiling potatoes.

Simply prick the potatoes well with a fork. Wrap a kitchen paper towel over them and microwave them in full power for 15mins.

Green RecipesMexican Bean Salad Recipe

In a large bowl, combine beans, bell peppers, frozen corn, and red onion. In a small bowl, whisk together olive oil, red wine vinegar, lime juice, lemon juice, sugar, salt, garlic, cilantro, cumin, and black pepper. Season to taste with hot sauce and chili powder.Pour olive oil dressing over vegetables; mix well.

Chill thoroughly and serve cold.

Green RecipesIndian Pasta Salad Recipe

Place the water, half of nuts, and the lemon juice in a blender; process until smooth. Heat the ghee and add the mustard seeds. When they crackle add asafoetida (hing). Then add tomatoes, chili powder and cashew puree; remove from heat. Bring a large pot of salted water to boil; add the green beans.

When the beans are just shy of cooked, stir in the vermicelli. Cook until the pasta is tender but firm. Drain well and add the pasta to the ingredients in the saucepan. Season with salt and pepper. Stir in the remaining cilantro and garnish with the remaining cashews.

Green RecipesPalak Paneer Recipe

You need 4 cups spinach, 1 cup paneer, 2 onions, 1/2" piece ginger, 2 green chillies, 1 tomato, 1 tsp garam masala, 2 tbsp cream, 2 tbsp oil, salt to taste.Now, place the chopped spinach in a 1.5 litre Borosil Round casserole with lid and microwave on HIGH for 2 minutes. Drain out the liquid, remove and keep aside. Combine the oil, chopped onion, ginger and green chillies in the Borosil Round casserole and microwave on HIGH for 2 minutes. Blend half this mixture, the spinach and tomato in a mixer to a fine puree and keep aside. Add the spinach puree, paneer, garam masala, cream and salt into the casserole again and mix well. Microwave on HIGH for 3 minutes.

Green RecipesGolden Vegetable Rice Recipe

Wash the vegetables -green pepper, red pepper and green beans. Don’t’ forget to remove the seeds from inside the peepers. Cut the stalk end off. Peel the carrots carefully. Cut all the vegetable- green and red pepper, carrot, mushrooms and green beans into small squares Peel the onion and cut it into small pieces. Take a saucepan and heat some oil in it, till it is ho...t. Add green and red pepper, carrot, mushrooms, green beans, peas and onion into the saucepan. Fry for 3-4 minutes. Add rice and fry foe a minute.

Take a stock cube, crumble it and boil in about 500 ml of boiling water. Keep stirring until the cube is completely dissolved. The vegetable stock is ready. Add stock and the turmeric to the rice mixture - and bring to the boil. Put a lid on the saucepan and simmer on a low heat for 10 minutes. Take the lid off and simmer for a further 5 minutes - until all the water is absorbed. Serve the delicious golden vegetable rice hot.

Western MixOatmeal Cookies

Mix cocoa powder, butter, sugar and milk in a pan. Bring it to a boil. Remove it from flame and add oats and coconut powder.

Mix well. With the help of a spoon pour the mixture one spoonful on a waxed paper. Bake the cookies at 350° till they become brown.

Western MixStrawberry Pie Recipe

Cook sugar, cornstarch, jell-o and water until thick. Place whole berries into the baked pie shells. Pour sauce over berries and refrigerate until thoroughly chilled.

Serve with lightly sweetened whipped cream or whipped topping.

Western Mix

You need 1 burger bun, 1 1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise, 2 leaves of lettuce, 2 slices tomato and 1/3 cup prepared potato salad to make potato salad sandwich.

Open the bun and spread each side with mayonnaise. Place lettuce leaves and tomato slices on bottom half of the bun. Scoop potato salad onto tomato, and gently spread toward edges of the bun. Cover with top of the bun.

Potato Salad Sandwich Recipe

Western MixSweet Corn Soup Recipe

Pressure cook the corn kernels till tender, Keep about 1/4 cup cooked corn kernels aside for later use; Grind rest of the corn kernels and cook it in a pan on medium heat; Mix cornflour in 4 tbsp water and add; After adding cornflour bring the soup to boil and then cook on low heat;

Slowly the soup starts getting thick; Continuously stir it so that it doesn't stick to the bottom of the pan; Add sugar, salt, soya sauce, chilli sauce, vinegar; Serve hot with corn kernels.

Healthy Food Facts

Mangoes are bursting with protective nutrients. The vitamin content depends upon the variety and maturity of the fruit, when the mango is green the amount of vitamin C is higher, as it ripens the amount of beta carotene (vitamin A) increases.

Magic Mango

Healthy Food Facts

Grape skin provides alteration of molecular mechanisms in blood vessels, reducing susceptibility to vascular damage.

Grapes- cure

Healthy Food Facts

Green bell peppers have twice as much vitamin C as citrus fruit, red peppers have three times as much. Hot peppers contain 357% more vitamin C than an orange.

Bell! your Vitamin Level

Healthy Food Facts

Peaches, the third most popular fruit in America, are a member of the rose family and a good source of Vitamin C.

Pretty Peachy!!

Healthy Food Facts

Drinking bitter gourd juice regularly can improve stamina and boost energy levels.

Gourdy Stamina

Healthy Food Facts

Potato juice is very cleansing, benefiting the liver muscles, and providing energy.

Go Potato!!

Healthy Kitchen

Once every 7-10 days, remove all the food from your refrigerator, wipe down the inside with warm soapy water, clean all the shelves and trays and then replace the food.

Place an open box of baking soda in the back of the fridge.

Heart –Healthy Refrigerator

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To clean your microwave oven, mix two Tbsp. of lemon juice or vinegar with two cups of water in a four cup glass microwave safe bowl. Keep the microwave on HIGH for two to three minutes. Carefully remove the bowl and wipe the microwave with paper towels.

Repeat as necessary.

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