• Freeze a box of fresh spinach. After it freezes just take a handful, crush it and sprinkle it over your food. Sprinkle it on a pizza, in enchiladas, in sandwiches, pasta, curry or anything else you can think of. The kids won’t even know!
• Make a ginger garlic paste and pour in ice trays. Put these trays in a gallon Ziploc bag and freeze. If your trays are medium sized then each cube of ginger garlic paste is about two Tsp. You will have fresh homemade ginger –garlic paste at your fingertips. You can do the same for green chili, cilantro or mint paste.
• If you plan to use lettuce in your meals, make sure you wash, clean, dry them and refrigerate it for 30 minutes. Remove from the refrigerator just before serving. Lettuce will be fresh, cold and crunchy. It will make your salads even better!
• Grind one box of salted roasted peanuts to a coarse powder. Store it in an air tight jar. Crushed peanuts are widely used for garnishing. Very handy protein rich garnish for stir fry’s, salads and a lot more.
• If you are using basmati long grain white rice, soak the rice in cold water for 30 minutes before cooking. Add a Tbsp. of olive or vegetable oil for well cooked, non-sticky rice. To add aroma to the rice add very small quantities of any one or all of these spices: fennel seeds, whole black pepper, cloves, cumin, cinnamon stick, cardamom and/or bay leaf.
Enjoy
Sheetal
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