6 super tips for when you want to make an Indian dish
More cooking tips are always welcome, right? Because someone else might just know a handy trick that makes cooking in the kitchen even easier or more fun for you. For example, one of these tips & tricks, some of which you can make especially good use of when you want to cook Indian food for once…
It’s always useful to expand your arsenal of kitchen tricks. And if you do something often enough, you’ll eventually get the hang of it, so take advantage of these tips:
The softest flatbreads
Fancy trying your hand at making chapatis? Go for it, making Indian bread is great fun and delicious! A great tip from an Indian grandmother: add a small splash of milk to the dough and let it rest for fifteen minutes after kneading, before dividing it into portions that you’re going to roll out. That makes them extra soft.
The riper, the better
If you’re going to make a curry with tomatoes as the base, make sure they’re really super-ripe tomatoes. You don’t often find those in the supermarket, but they’re usually widely available at a Turkish or Moroccan shop or an Asian grocery store.
Green vegetables
When cooking leafy greens (spinach is widely used in Indian cuisine), you can add a pinch of sugar to preserve the beautiful green color. Blanching is, of course, also a good technique for that; read here how to blanch vegetables.
Soft cheese
Making a dish with paneer? (Paneer is an Indian cheese made with rennet that doesn’t melt when you use it in, for example, a hot curry.) Soak the paneer in lukewarm water for ten minutes before heating it in the curry (or spinach for saag paneer) and you’ll notice that the cheese is even softer. Delicious!
One at a time
Many dishes start with frying the key ingredients onion, garlic, ginger and spices. Exactly as written here, that is the order in which you should add them to the oil in the pan, depending on how long they need to sauté.
Fluffy and white
For white rice that doesn’t stick, you can add a few drops of lime juice and/or oil to the cooking water. This helps it separate especially well when you run a fork through it after the cooking and steaming time, and it also keeps it beautifully white.
Also read:
- The three basic sauces from Indian cuisine
- These are the exact addresses from Netflix Street Food India
- The Indian grilled sandwich: dahi toast
Source: Buzzfeed
