Each housewife has its own tricks of cooking, allowing from a minimum of products to create a real culinary masterpiece. Here are a few such secrets.
- If cooked meat is prepared in advance, then it should be stored in a refrigerator in a glass or enamel bowl in a small amount of broth under a tightly fitting lid, but no more than three days. You should also keep homemade boiled ham and cooked for the holiday such a delicacy as beef tongue.
- Even the oldest meat or chicken will cook faster and achieve softness if you add a tablespoon of wine or berry vinegar when cooking it.
- To make the black radish unnecessary bitterness and it became sweeter, it is necessary, after it has been peeled off, placed in a basin with ordinary cold water for ten minutes.
- In order for the cooked rice to be crumbly, it is necessary to cook it not in cold water, but with boiling water. Pre-put in a saucepan, where it will cook rice, a slice of sweet cream butter.
- If a slightly unpleasant odor appears in the store or on the market when it was brought home, it should be rinsed well, salted and peppered, and so dropped for thirty minutes into ice water.
- If before frying a product with a lot of fat, at the bottom of the frying pan on which the frying will take place, pour ten grams of grinding salt, then in this case the fat will not be splashed during the frying process.
- Fried lamb will turn out to be unusually tasty, if prepared for cooking pieces of marinated in mustard, plentifully spread it on each piece. Leave for three hours. Then rinse and fry, as usual, in spices.
- To cook meat dishes and pancakes when served on the table quickly did not cool down, they should be served in warmed dishes.
- Boiled potatoes will be very fragrant and unusual spicy taste, if during cooking, except salt, add a peeled small onion of an acute variety, three peeled garlic cloves and three laurel leaves.
- Before frying cleaned and washed potatoes, it should be well dried in a paper towel. If this is not done, then the moisture remaining on the surface of the potato will not give rise to a delicious crispy crust.
- If it is decided to cook rice on a festive table as a garnish for meat, poultry or fish, then it must be boiled in ready-made chicken or meat broth, and not in plain or mineral water without gas.
Rules and Tricks of Cooking