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Tips and tricks to help you with Indian cooking

This Cooking Tips series is all about making cooking easier- right from buying and storing groceries / produce to kitchen hacks, time saving shortcuts and tips to make your life easier in the kitchen. This post rounds up some of the useful tricks to have up your sleeve for Indian cooking! [This list will be updated regularly, so do bookmark it for easy reference.] If you liked this post, also check out:

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We all have that one chore that we hate to get started with. Cleaning up the kitchen shelves is one such chore for me. If you love to cook, experiment and entertain, chances are your cabinets are full and bursting at their seams. I go through these phases too and then have to resort to some emer

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  • #CONTEST My Dear Mums, here’s an exciting contest for you from @hafele_india - All you need to do is to create an innovative / interesting dish using one or more of the of these ingredients: Potatoes, Coriander, Paneer, Almonds and Maida and you may stand a chance to win a Hafele Kitchen Machine and a preloaded voucher for Rs.8888. The winners will also get to meet and cook with some of the best chefs from India. Visit www.nagoldappliances.com for the link to the contest page. Submit your recipe on the link. I’m eager to see what you come up with! Contest closes on 20th September so let’s get cooking - it’s a list of simple ingredients but I’m sure you can do something unique with it😊😊 🌸 Here is what I came up with this combination of ingredients: Aloo Paneer Chaat 🌸 Chaat can be healthy too! Check out this Aloo Paneer chaat that makes for a mouthwateringly good tea time snack. 🌸 Get the full recipe in the comment below! #ad
  • Another one of my favorite ‘Desserts In The Dark’, clicked with #GalaxyA8Star. Its #DualIntelliCam has a mind of its own and I’m just amazed with its decision-making ability in every light condition. @samsungindia
  • It’s time to #RateThe8 with ‘Desserts In The Dark’. Here’s a tempting shot of this sinful Textures of Chocolate cake, clicked with the all-new #GalaxyA8Star. The #Duallntellicam is definitely the smartest thing to have happened to phone cameras. @samsungindia
  • I like to call this the Good Wife breakfast. . It's difficult being a weekend wife. I eat cereal or dinner leftovers for breakfast because I hate to make anything elaborate for myself. And then its difficult again to find the mojo to launch into cooking a breakfast first thing in the morning when the husband is around. He fends for himself by boiling some eggs and cutting up fruit or a peanut butter sandwich. Some days, I pick up my cooking enthusiasm and make an Instagram worthy breakfast for him. To be honest, it took less than 10 minutes to get this together. . Components of The Good Wife breakfast- 🌿Split bun, toasted both halves 🌿A bunch of spinach from garden, washed and quickly sauteed in olive oil 🌿Half ripe avocado, sliced and fanned out 🌿1 fried egg (no runny yolks for husband) 🌿Finely chopped herbs 🌿Grape tomatoes for color and prettiness . . . . . . #toasttuesday #tomatorecipes #tomatoes🍅 #thehappygardeninglife #tomatoes #breakfasteggs #avocadotoast #avotoastagram #avotoast #thefeedfeed #feedfeed #spinach #stcooks #saffrontrail
  • 🎤 🎶 Thoroughly enjoyed singing for my amazing neighbours and friends in yesterday’s cultural evening. Grateful for the acoustic guitar support from friend Puneet Joshi of @dwitheband . You can watch the entire song on my IGTV - here it’s clipped to one minute. Kindly excuse the background sounds - just a bunch of hyper kids :)
  • Made this salad with homegrown kale for my neighbours today. The baby Mandarin and evoo dressing made every ingredient shine with flavour. Rough recipe to make 6 servings of 250 grams each . 2 cups cooked white beans (cooked with salt) 2 cups cooked foxtail millet (cooked with salt) 3-4 cups shredded kale 1 medium onion, thinly sliced, segments separated 2 tsp olive oil 3 tsp lemon or Mandarin juice 3 medium beets, cooked, peeled, sliced . DRESSING 6 TBSP extra virgin olive oil 4 tbsp Mandarin juice or lemon juice Pinch of lemon zest 1 tbsp honey 1/2 tsp salt Pepper . Blend in a mixer jar till creamy. . Massage the shredded kale with 1 tsp each olive oil and lemon juice. Keep aside for one hour. This partly breaks down the fibers in Kale softening it and making it easier to digest. It even tastes better after this massage and marinating treatment. Massage onion segments with 1 tsp each olive oil and lemon juice. Keep aside for one hour. This takes off the bite and makes onions taste way better in a salad. In a large bowl, combine millet, beans, beets, kale and onion. Toss gently in the dressing. This salad stays well for a day in the fridge. . I'll show you the mandarins I got- in the stories. . Tag a friend who loves salads!
  • Crop tops make the best saree blouses. Right? . For one, you can mix and match like crazy. Buy and wear instantly -- no hanging around at the mercy of the tailors. They make a saree look so much cooler and casual. . This blouse is from Westside. I love the flounce sleeves and it has a lovely back (swipe) ! I do need the extra confidence to carry this off, hence the test drive on Instagram. . Have reccos for great crop tops? share in comments for good karma 🌿
  • The best thing about a plant based lunch is that you can make it as colorful as you want 🌈 . On my plate: Grated carrot salad Red Amaranth stir fry Simple green beans with coconut Rasam Millets .

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