To fry the onions fast...

There is one way to cook the onions faster. If you add some salt along with the onions, it will turn brown fast.

Add more taste to your fish fry...

Fish fry is a very tempting dish of non vegetarians. If you add some lemon juice or vinegar to the gravy in which we use to fry, it will taste more. Just try it!!!
Tip: To avoid the smell from hands after cleaning fish, use lemon peel, lemon juice, lemon leaf or vinegar to clean hands first. Then use soap. Your hands will not smell further.

Want to get rid of odour from your refrigerator?

Fridge odour is caused due to many reasons. Uncovered foods, mainly non veg items stored in the freezer cause this.The skin of lemon after squeezing the juice is a very good remedy for it. It can be kept anywhere inside the fridge and it makes the air fresh.

To make the curry thick...

While making curries, sometimes the gravy becomes so thin in consistency due to lack of coconut paste or excess water. There is an easy way to make the gravy thick. Take a spoon full of maida or wheat flour and make a paste by adding little water. Add this paste to the curry and you can easily make the gravy thick without any taste difference. It is applicable in kadala curry, chicken curry, potato curry and in all coconut paste added curries.

For softer idlies and dosas...

Usually we add some choru (rice) to the Rice & Black gram dal mixture to get smooth and soft idlies. If you add a handful of aval (rice flakes) to this mixture instead of choru, you will get smoother and softer idlies and dosas.

How to avoid pests in the pulses container?

When we keep pulses in our containers for a long time, it becomes spoiled by pests. There is an easy way to avoid this. Just put one garlic clove in each containers. Pests will not spoil the pulses.

How to peel off garlic skin easily?

When there is a need of bulk quantity of garlic to be peeled off, (while making pickles) you can try these tips to make it easy.

• Soak the garlic in water for 6-8 hours or you can soak it in the previous night. It will be very easy to peel it off. 
• Apply some oil on the garlic and keep it in sunlight for 1-2 hours. This also is an easy method.

Tip: For more easy, first cut the root end of the garlic. Then do rest.