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Monday, April 29, 2019

April 29, 2019

How to make Butter from milk | Butter at home using Milk Cream | Homemade butter




     Butter is generally prepared from milk cream. Any brand of store-bought heavy cream or whipping cream can be used for making butter at home. A food processor or a blender can do the job in few minutes. To prepare butter from milk, you have to use pure full-fat milk. It's a very quick process and you can also prepare fresh homemade ghee using this butter. This butter can also be used for baking!

     Cream layer on top of the boiled milk should be collected for days to prepare fresh homemade butter from milk and this procedure is actually followed in lots of Indian households to prepare fresh homemade butter.







How to make Butter from milk | Butter at home using Milk Cream | Homemade butter
How to make Butter from milk | Butter at home using Milk Cream | Homemade butter
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Homemade butter from fresh cream collected at home using full-fat milk.

Ingredients
  • 2 cups Fresh cream / Heavy cream / Whipping cream
  • 1 cup Cold water

Recipe video here!



How to make Butter from milk - Step by step pictures

Collect the cream layer on top of the boiled milk. Collect it for 4 - 5 weeks and store it in an airtight container in the freezer. You can also collect the cream on top of the homemade curd.


To separate butter from cream, take collected cream in a blender jar and add in some cold water.


Add cold water gradually till the butter separates out.


Butter is separated.


Strain out the butter. Press and squeeze out the buttermilk with hands.


Store the butter in refrigerator and use it whenever you want.
















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Tuesday, March 26, 2019

March 26, 2019

How to boil pasta in microwave | Cook pasta in microwave in less than 10 minutes | Microwave Pasta




  Cook pasta in microwave in less than 10 minutes, when you're in a hurry!!! 
 
  It's a simple alternative to cook pasta when you don’t have any other options. However cooking time varies depending on the type of pasta you use. Once the pasta is ready you can immediately serve it with any sauce of choice.









How to boil pasta in microwave | Cook pasta in microwave in less than 10 minutes | Microwave Pasta
How to boil pasta in microwave | Cook pasta in microwave in less than 10 minutes | Microwave Pasta
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Learn how to boil pasta in microwave.

Ingredients
  • 1/2 cup Pasta
  • 1 cup Water
  • Salt as required

Instructions
  • Take pasta in a microwave-safe bowl.
  • Pour in the water and sprinkle some salt if required. Mix well.
  • Microwave the mixture on high power 3 - 4 minutes.
  • Take the bowl out and mix well.
  • Microwave again on high power 3 - 4 minutes. Give a good stir in between.
  • Add your favourite sauce and enjoy!

    • Recipe video here!






    How to boil pasta in microwave - Step by step pictures

    Take pasta in a microwave-safe bowl.


    Pour in the water and sprinkle some salt if required. Mix well.


    Microwave the mixture on high power 3 - 4 minutes.


    Take the bowl out and mix well.


    Microwave again on high power 3 - 4 minutes.


    Give a good stir in between.


    Check if it's cooked well.


    Add your favourite sauce and enjoy!
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    Monday, August 20, 2018

    August 20, 2018

    Is it really important to preheat your oven before baking?


    Have you ever baked without preheating your oven?

    Every baking recipe has this very first step called PREHEATING. Have you ever wondered why we have to do it? Is that really important? Before getting into that thing in detail, let me first tell you what preheating is?


     What is Preheating of an Oven?

         Preheating literally means heating of the oven to a desired temperature (the temperature which is mentioned on your recipe), before actual cooking. we are actually getting the oven ready for baking! Remember to preheat your empty oven without placing anything inside.

        Seriously most of the people have this question hitting their heads. PREHEATING!!!! Does it really make any sense??? And also because of some sort of laziness people skip preheating their ovens before baking. Now I am gonna list out few of the reasons that are really worth preheating your ovens.


    If the food is placed in a cold oven without preheating, it won't bake evenly. You'll end up with food uncooked on some portions and well cooked on other portion
    For cakes, cookies and other pastries, if they are baked in a cold oven, they'll miss out their texture. For example, if it's a cookie it won't get it's crispy and flaky texture instead they'll become hard and they might get browned on top.

    If it's a cake, initial temperature is the one which makes the leavening agents to do their job. It'll rise up in the beginning and then it'll settle down. If the oven is cold before starting, it'll take it's own time to rise up and reach the desired temperature. Then think of your cake?

    If the oven is not preheated, you'll notice a change in the baking time since it'll take some time to reach the desired temperature as I said.

         Most importantly you have to keep one thing in your mind that oven temperature reduces when the oven door is opened, as beginners have a habit of opening up the door now and then out of curiosity. Happy Baking!!!





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    Friday, June 29, 2018

    June 29, 2018

    What is a microwave oven? What you can do with it ? Microwave Life saving hacks

    MICROWAVE OVEN


      Microwave oven is an electric oven used for all sort of general cooking purposes and people call them as microwave hacks since they are really life saving. Initially microwave ovens are used for reheating the cooked food and later on they've started cooking several recipes which are really time saving and easy to make. 

    HOW IT WORKS 

             
    You might be wondering how a microwave oven works?

    In the microwave oven heat which is required for cooking your food is generated through radio waves. Water molecules in your food gets vibrated and that generates the required amount of heat to cook your food. Because of it's working principle, microwave oven is considered to be more efficient in certain cases than a convection oven. It heats up quickly and it takes very less time to cook your food.
          For example, if you are baking a cake in a convection oven, it'll take  around 30 - 40 minutes of your time whereas in a microwave oven you can be able to do it within 10 minutes. But if you expect your cake to be like the one which is baked in a convection oven, you'll be disappointed since they both have different working principles. Microwave cake won't have burnt dark edges since they don't caramelize your food like the convection ovens.


    MICROWAVE SAFE UTENSILS


        Undoubtedly you have to use microwave safe utensils to cook your food in microwave mode. There are loads of microwave safe dishes available in market with difference in brands and materials like glass, ceramic and plastic. Before using any one of them check whether it's microwave safe or not. If you want to know more about microwave safe dishes and how to find whether your dish is microwave safe or not, check out my another post where I have written everything about it in detail. 

    WHAT IS MICROWAVE POWER LEVEL?

          In all brands of microwave oven, you can find the microwave power level option in your control panel and that's basically used for the adjusting power level of your microwave oven as per your recipe. For example, if you want to cook your food in high power press the microwave power level option once and you'll see higher value or H1 on screen (if you are using an IFB microwave). H1 means high power and then you can set the timer and start the cooking process.
         The highest power level differs from different brands of the microwave oven and that basically affects the cooking time of your food. They have different power levels and you have to adjust the cooking time accordingly. But from my opinion it's not a very big issue, you'll get to know your microwave once you start using it.

    MICROWAVE LIFE SAVING HACKS

    What are called life saving hacks? Things that makes one's life much more easier. 
       Microwave oven is definitely a life saver since it saves most of your time in kitchen. Microwave oven has the flexibility of using a serving dish as a cooking dish to cook your food and it saves lots of time and energy.

    COOKING RICE & DAL
        In Microwave mode you can cook your rice perfectly as you cook it in pressure cookers or rice cookers and trust me guys, it won't take much time to do it. Not only the plain rice, you can make variety of rice recipes like pulao, biryani etc. 
    Same as rice you can cook your dal in microwave mode. It'll  definitely help you if you have to cook a small amount of rice and dal and you don't want to use pressure cookers for that. Take the required amount of rice and water in a microwave safe bowl, cover it with a cling film, prick some holes on the cling film with a fork and cook it in microwave mode. You can also use a microwave rice cooker which is available for cooking rice in microwave mode.

    MAKING ROTIS OR PHULKAS
       You might be thinking, Making roti in microwave oven? Are you serious!
    Looks hilarious right? But seriously you can make your rotis in microwave oven, in the same way as you cook papads. For both papads and rotis, try to brush some oil on both the sides and if you do it, you don't find any difference between the stove top cooked ones and the microwave cooked ones.

    MAKING CHAI & COFFEE
       It's so easy to grab a microwave safe mug and make your own drink by yourself without messing around. Either a tea or a coffee, you can make it within few minutes. You can even make your jeera water, if you have a habit of dinking it every morning in an empty stomach.

    CHIPS, PAPADS AND POPCORN
       For making chips, place thinly sliced potatoes on a microwave safe dish with a drizzle of olive oil and cook it until it becomes crisp and for papads you can place it directly on your turn table and cook it.
    It will be cooked within seconds with zero oil consumption and you'll find no difference in it's taste. Can you believe that?
      To make popcorn, you can either use a brown paper bag or a microwave safe dish with lid closed. It's so simple to make a big bowl of popcorn by yourself and enjoy your movie time.


     BOILING POTATOES & TOMATOES

       You can quickly boil your potatoes for making aloo sabzi or any potato dishes. Prick some holes all over the potatoes with a knife or a fork and place them in a microwave safe closed dish. Cook them for 3 - 5 minutes on high power. This is how I cook my potatoes in my 20L IFB Microwave oven.
      And for making rich gravies like paneer butter masala, matar paneer and butter chicken, some people want to boil and remove the peel of the tomatoes to make the gravy much more smoother and tastier. Microwave oven in very much useful for that. 

    Off Couse you can boil your potatoes and tomatoes in pressure cookers. But if you have to do it in smaller quantities and that's about one or two tomatoes we don't prefer using pressure cookers right?
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     BOILING CORN

    This is again a life saver! Place your corn  on the turn table of your microwave and cook it for 3 - 4 minutes on high power. Don't remove the husk of the corn, remove it after cooking since it traps moisture inside to boil your corn evenly all around.

    MICROWAVE MUG MEALS
        You might have heard of  this term MICROWAVE MUG MEALS. It's becoming tread now. You can make your quick meal in a mug for breakfast, dinner or whenever you feel like eating something good.
    What can you cook in a mug? You'll be amazed with the answer for this question. You can make recipes like scrambled eggs, mac & cheese, French toast, different varieties of microwave mug cake recipes, noodles, oatmeal, pancakes, risotto (rice cooked in broth or stock with veggies, meat or seafood), fried rice, lasagna and the list goes on.
    For more microwave mug meal recipes, visit www.biggerbolderbaking.com by Chef Gemma Stafford. She's a chef/ baker from Ireland and she makes a wide variety of microwave mug meal recipes.

    MICROWAVE CAKE
        As I mentioned earlier, you can make cake in microwave oven. It'll take very less time compared to the cake which is baked in convection oven and the microwave cake is absolutely delicious. But the point is, the cake baked in convection oven has brown edges, since the cooking principle is entirely different. In the convection oven your cake is baked whereas in microwave it's getting cooked in it's own principle. That means, you'll find some sort of differences in both the cakes. 

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    Wednesday, June 20, 2018

    June 20, 2018

    What is a Convection microwave oven? In what way a convection microwave oven is useful?



    CONVECTION MICROWAVE OVEN

    I Know that most of the people really struggles a lot with their microwave oven! They don't basically know how to use a convection microwave oven and what are all the foods or recipes which they can cook in a convection microwave oven?  The only thing that pops up in all of our minds is baking a cake. That's really true!!! You can bake a cake in a convection microwave oven. But other than cake making a convection microwave oven has several other functions and uses.

    A convection microwave oven is the one which has several modes in it and it can be used for cooking variety of food recipes. You can cook your rice, you can bake your cake and you can even make grilling recipes like grilled chicken, that means your convection microwave oven is loaded with lots of functionalities. You have to choose a perfect mode for each recipe you are making and that's the most important thing which you have to keep in your mind when you are working in a convection microwave oven.


    MODES OF A CONVECTION MICROWAVE OVEN

    Are you really confused with different modes of a convection microwave oven?
        Basically  a convection microwave oven has three different single modes and they have their combination modes as well. All of them have their own functions and they can be used according to the recipe needs. They have combination of modes like micro + grill and micro + convection. But now I'm gonna focus only on those single modes which are listed below.

    Microwave mode 

    Grill mode 

    Convection mode 



     

    MICROWAVE MODE

        Let's talk about the first mode, which is the microwave mode. Microwave mode is used for all sort of general cooking purposes. People call it as microwave hacks since they are really life saving and they save most of your time in kitchen. 

    You can cook rice, dal, making roti's or  pulkas, curries and gravies. 
    You can boil your potatoes and tomatoes in microwave mode within minutes.
    You can toast your nuts, cook your papads and popcorn.
    You can even make cake in microwave mode and that's called microwave cake.

        There are several other microwave hacks, and I have posted one more post exclusively for it. Do check that out if you want more of them in detail. But here I have listed a very few of them for your reference.


    GRILL MODE

       Grill mode is the second mode which is used for all sort of grilling recipes that you make in barbeque and that actually gives you the charred flavor in your recipes. You can use the grill which is provided along with the oven, both lower and higher racks according to the recipe.

    In this mode you can make grilled chicken, paneer tikka,  chicken tikka, tandoori for that charred flavor and you can even make grilled sandwiches.


    CONVECTION MODE

         Convection mode is widely used for baking. This is the only mode which is used for all sort of baking recipes and you have to choose the appropriate temperature according to the recipe. And before baking you have to preheat your microwave oven to a desired temperature.

     You can bake cakes, puffs, macrons, biscuits & cookies in this mode.
     You can make Indian recipes like Naan, Chicken tandoori etc.
     And most importantly you can bake your pizza.


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