Dosas made more crisper

     To make dosas into much crisper , just even  the surface of the dosai batter after ladling into the tawa with the dosai  karandi . This will make the dosai  like hotel dosai. 

Add Pepper To Adai Batter

Add one and a half tsp peppercorns while grinding adai batter to have a different taste.

Pudina In Samabar

Add pudina leaves while sauteeing onion for sambar for different flavor!

Add ginger to rasam!

Add 1/2 inch of crushed ginger while preparing rasam.It will taste different.This is my friend gayathri's tip!

Add Idli batter to have a soft dosas or bhajjis!

If you add one or two ladle full of idli batter to bhajji mix or rava dosa ,or
cornmeal dosas, you will get soft bhajjis,dosas.

To make papaya even more tastier..

To make papaya fruit even more tastier just sprinkle a pinch of pepper powder and toss. It will be delicious.

To make potato fry more tastier...

Grind pepper,jeera,garlic together and add it to the potato fry. This will taste different.

To dissolve the salt completely!

To avoid lumps of salt in any batter, pour a teaspoon of water on top of the salt in the batter. It will dissolve the salt completely.

Add pudina leaves in kurma for a new flavor and taste

This is a small tip which will enhance the taste of the dish in a better way. Just add some fresh pudina leaves in kurma,curries etc while sauteing onions to get a new flavor and taste. believe me you will be surprised at the taste.

Raw rice with Long Grained or Basmati Rice

Its been a long time since I posted some recipes or tips. I got this very nice tip which I am sure will help you in the most needed time.

You can add raw rice with basmati rice while preparing vegetable biriyani if you are short on Basmati rice. Trust me! whole biriyani will taste as if it has been prepared in Basmati rice.

To enhance the taste of Rasam!

To enhance the taste of Rasam, temper using ghee instead of oil. This gives you a taste which you will never forget!Try it out!

To make Idli Upma Tastier!!

Keep the left over Idlies in the fridge for some time and make upma from that. Upma will be crunchy. The taste will be enhanced If you use Idli Milagai podi Instead of redchillies. Try it Out!!!

While cutting Yam..

When you are cutting yam,rub the tamarind into your hands.So that hands wont get irritated.

For a Spicy Mozambi juice!!!!!

Add half spoon of jeera powder and salt along with sugar in mozambi juice.This will give you a new spicy taste!!!!!

If Urid dhall vadai batter is watery.....

If urid dhall vadai batter is too watery just keep it in fridge for 1 or 2 hours.
The batter will be ready to make vadas. Do not let it come to room temperature as it will become watery again.

For Idlies to be more soft !!!

If you cook Idlies in pressure cooker,close the lid without gasket.Idlies will be more soft!!

Potato Masala !

If you want to have potato masala (for poori) as a gravy just grind roasted gram with water into a paste and add it to the masala. Quantity wise you will have more masala too!

Use Chilli powder instead of Red chillies!

Use Chilli powder instead of red chillies in Adai batter. The taste will be different!

If Tomato chutney gets too hot!!

If your Tomato chutney gets too hot by the chillies then add a quarter tsp of sugar to it. The chutney will taste better.

Re Heat Idlies in microwave oven!

You have left over idlies??? dont want to make idli upma too? Then soak the idlies in water and put it in microwave idli plates.. then set the oven to high power (100%) and set the time to one minute or one and half minute. you will get idlies as soft as the freshly made idlies!!