Glossary Of Indian Spices And Translation To Various Indian Languages

Indian Spices are aromatic and they enhance the taste of the food. Now a day, these flavoring substances are included in almost all recipes. You find different blends of spice mixture. Each tastes different and gives you different flavor when added to the recipe. India is being one of the favorite spot to wide range of spices, it is one of the major exporter of spices whole over the globe. Here you can obtain Glossary of Indian spices

Kitchen Tips – 2

Every home maker should know Kitchen Tips and Tricks as to complete her work fast and be efficient. There are number of tips for cooking and storing foods. This is my second set of cooking tips and tricks.

• Don’t waste water like liquid obtained above the curd, put it in chapathi dough, taste of chapathi comes out delicious
• While preparing pulihora, if you put one spoon of ghee or butter then you can get free flow rice.
• When storing Wheat flour or maida (white flour), if you pack four spoons of salt in a clean cloth and store, you can get rid of insects
• When you don’t use hot flask then pour 1 spoon of sugar, you will get rid of bad odour
• While preparing gulab jamoon, if you are left over with sugar juice then instead of throwing it out if you put some wheat flour and heat, you can prepare delicious halwa
• If you are having lot of ants then put some turmeric powder or even you can use karpuram
• When rice gets spoiled with rice insect, apply 2 spoon boric acid for every 1 kg of rice. Note: you need to wash thoroughly when consuming the rice
• If you put fresh neem leafs below the stored container of any pulses, you can get rid of insects
• If you want to prevent insects inside the rice, then put some neem leaves below region of the container.
• While cooking rice, if you don’t want the rice to boil outside the vessel then apply some butter to the edges of the vessel
• If you put some mint leaves in milk, milk doesn’t break
• Cut beetroot into small pieces, dry and powder. This powder can be used as colour agent instead of chemicals
• If you want to break coconut exactly in middle then put it in water and then break
• In winter season, butter gets freezed by which the taste of ghee prepared out of it may be decreased, so to overcome this problem put some sugar in the butter vessel
• If you want tasty rasam, the put some ladies finger or brinjal into it.
• If you want sambar to be tasty, then put few drops of lemon juice while boiling the sambar
• While boiling milk, if you want the surface to be filled with thick layer then put the vessel containing holes.
• If you don’t want your dosa to stick to the pan, rub the pan with onion slice
• If you don’t want bad odour out of your wash basin holes then put some baking soda on it and pour hot water above it
• If you store sugar with karpuram then you can get rid of ants
• Before slicing onions, if you put them in refrigerator before 30 minutes (packed in polythene cover)then you can overcome tears in your eyes
• If you want to fry eggs in the vessel without adding any oil then try putting some salt in the vessel
• If you want to store coriander seeds for long period, then fry the seeds and store it air tight container

Kitchen Tips – 1

Best place to learn cooking tips and tricks. Every home maker wants to know Kitchen Tips and Tricks. There are number of Tips for Cooking and storing foods.

• If you doesn’t like your green vegetables and leafy vegetables to lose their colour while boiling, add pinch of salt and few drops of lemon juice
• While cooking cabbage, if you add small piece of ginger then you can eliminate bad odour
• If you put the dried beans for 8 hours then it acquires 8 times more nutrients
• When trying to mix moong dal, if you pour some chilled water then it will come like bulge and come out like sponge.
• When grinding red Chilli powder, if you pour few drops of oil then it gets good texture.
• When storing Mango pickle if you sprinkle some Jaggery powder above it, you can overcome sponge like bacteria
• If you want idly like sponge then while mixing put some rice(cooked) and cook idly after 5-6 hours
• To remove fish odour, before cleaning the fish, put it in salt water for a while and then clean it with fresh water.
• If you put your new sweeper edges in a container containing boiled water mixed with some salt then your sweeper last for long time
• If you want brighter light out of your candle when power off, put your candle in a small vessel and pour water in it and place the vessel before the mirror.
• You can store raw coconut for a week but applying little lemon juice
• When preparing ghee out of butter, if you put small piece of raw and fresh potato and curry leaves in the then you will get superb smell
• After having your meals if you eat one carrot then it will remove bad odours from your mouth also you can get rid of swelling of gums
• If you put some mint leaves on dining table then you can avoid mosquitoes and other flies
• If you want variety and delicious taste out of bread, apply some milk on the surface of the bread and put it in oven under low temperature for 15 minutes.
• If you don’t want to get smell out of coconut oil which is stored for many days then put some stone salt in it
• If your biscuits or papad lose its crispiness, then put them in refrigerator for 3-4 hours then you will find them crispy
• If you wash and put ladies finger dried for half an hour before cooking,  you can rid of stickiness
• If you want to store hot water for long time in hot flask then add little salt to the water
• If you want onion pieces to be cooked fast then apply some sugar to them
• If you want ladies finger curry to be crispy then cut the ladies finger previous night and cook it next day
• If you put boiled and peeled potatoes in black salt water then you can restore its colour from getting it black