Cooking TipsAlternate Recipe Ingredients
For Sugar Use 1 cup of honey for half cup of sugar. You can use golden syrup, or corn syrup and reduce the liquid in your recipe by 1/2 cup. For Egg You might have spare yolks in the regrigerator (after having used the whites for a sorbet or meringue, for example), use 2 yolks mixed with 1 tablespoon water to substitute for a whole egg. If you have egg whites in the fridge left over, you can mix 2 whites with 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
For Sugar
Use 1 cup of honey for half cup of sugar. You can use golden syrup, or corn syrup and reduce the liquid in your recipe by 1/2 cup.
For Egg
You might have spare yolks in the regrigerator (after having used the whites for a sorbet or meringue, for example), use 2 yolks mixed with 1 tablespoon water to substitute for a whole egg. If you have egg whites in the fridge left over, you can mix 2 whites with 4 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
Cooking Tips
When you soak rice and urad dal for idlis and dosas, wash everything thoroughly before soaking. Later use the soaked water while grinding. If you wash rice and dal after soaking you will lose most of the vitamins.
Excess salt in any dish can be brought down by adding diced potatoes, tomatoes or a teaspoon of sugar.
When you are making vadas, if the batter is watery - you will have the problem of oil splattering when you fry it. Add a tablespoon of ghee to the batter and your problem will be solved.