Add 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda while mixing the dough for 'chappathi' to make it soft.

To make the 'poori' more tastier, add one tablespoon semoline for each 100g wheat flour.

Dal will cook well, if you add a little sesame oil while cooking.

Add a pinch of sugar while cooking spinach, it will retain its green colour.

If a curry turns out too salty, garnish it with some grated coconut mix with cumin powder.

Soak almonds in warm water for a minute, if you need to peel them quickly.

If you want to make crispy potatoes or banana chips, sprinkle salt water over them while frying

Add a little powdered lemon rind to puddings or deserts to avoid the smell of egg.

If you need only the egg white, for storing the remaining yolk, cover the yolk with water or milk and keep in a cool dark place. Just drain off the liquid before using the yolk.

If the bread is too soft to cut into pieces, hold the knife close to a flame and then slice the bread with it.

Boiled eggs will last longer, if you store the shelled eggs in a bowl of cold water in a refrigerator.

Cut boiled eggs with a knife dipped in hot water to avoid breaking.

Keep boiled eggs in cold water for 5 minutes, this will make removal of the shell easier.

While boiling eggs, put a hole with a pin on the rounded portion of the egg so that the shell won't break when boiling

You can make tasty chappathi by mixing equal proportion of wheat flour and barley .

Barley powder will increase the taste of meat and vegetable curries.

For thick cream, cover the milk vessel with a thin muslin cloth and refrigerate over night.

After extracting butter from milk cream, add a little milk or curd to the residue and boil. You will get soft 'Paneer'.

Apply some oil on the sides of the vessel in which you boil milk, in order to avoid it from overflowing.

If you don't have any cream to add in the soup or gravy, add a mixture of butter and milk.

Leafy vegetables will remain fresh longer, if wrapped in news papers when you are storing

Green peas will retain their original colour, if you add a pinch of sugar while boiling.

To peel garlic flakes easily, wash and soak them in cold water for about an hour.

A bay leaf added to the flour container will keep the flour free from moisture

While chopping raw bananas and potatoes, put the pieces in a bowl of water to avoid it from turning black.

Add a pinch of corn flour to the jar of salt to prevent it from getting damp.

For crispy dosas, add a teaspoon of tur dal gram) and some fenugreek seeds while soaking rice

Add some vinegar in the boiling water before steaming potato.

Keep rice flour and basin in a polythene cover in refrigerator when you want tem stored for a long time.

When you cook dal add some refined oil or garlic. It will reduce gas trouble.

If the curd is too sour, add 4 cups of water to it. After half an hour, remove the water collected on top.

To adjust salt in curries add roasted rice powder.

Put some neem and turmeric pieces or garlic flakes in the container where you store rice or grains, in order to keep away insects.

For soft Dosas, add some boiled rice to white gram and rice, while grinding.