Hey guys.. how are you doing today? I am going to share with you on how to make
some Indian foods. I will list out the ingredients and the preparations steps.
Hope it will be useful for all, that includes those bachelors who have taken
rooms to stay for work or for studies and who are forced to cook for themselves.
First time cooking uh? No worries. I assure you, you ll realize how easy is
cooking after reading this blog. You do
not have to know anything about cooking. Just follow my steps. Experiment it by
yourself and you ‘ll taste the most healthiest food of your life. I don’t know if you have made a note while
reading the last sentence wherein I have mentioned as healthy food and not
delicious or tasty foods because I keep a check on oil and sweets. As we know
“there is a limit for everything” and I won’t cross the limits of neither Oil
nor Sugar and still I guarantee you, your taste buds will enjoy my food. Hence
it is fit for all age groups especially to my granny and grandpa’s who are
reading my blog now and my friends who went diabetic in recent times or
suffering for longer time. Fundamentals
are very important. Here in my blog you’ll come to know the fundamentals of
cooking.
It all started like this when by chance when I was reading primary school book where it was mentioned “Cooking is nothing but heating any food items”. Yes, that’s it. Cooking is nothing but heating. If you know how to heat an object, you are half the way by now learnt cooking and If you have the device to cook like gas stove OR microwave oven OR any heating medium, why should you wait, start heating.. oops sorry.., Start Cooking and become a Chief Cook in few days starting today. Good luck.
I went to the supermarket the other day,( sometimes I go to the provisional shop) and asked for rice. It’s a raw rice. Bought for 1kg the raw rice to my room. Yeah., I was a bachelor too and I was in early 20s. I had the measuring cup with me where it had the marking like 100g, 200g etc vertically. Someday when I have misplaced the measuring cup, I have used the tumbler for measurement. . According to my appetite, I take rice. I took 150grams of rice for 2people. I took the rice on a vessel washed it with water. This washed water I do not throw it out. I pour it on the flower pot which is in my balcony where I grow some plants. This is the funda for organic farming. Let’s come back to our topic. It’s a trial and error method that worked for me. After washing the rice, I soaked the rice in water. Are you thinking for how much the water quantity should be?? If you are of that kind, I advice you not to think of perfection by this time. It is okay to mistakes. Just chill.. relax.. take a deep breath.. Don’t forget, “Affection is better than perfection”. Love what you do. Here, its cooking. Just enjoy doing it. Don’t be serious while learning. Laugh at your mistakes and never regret for anything or get serious on your silly mistakes.Back to our topic.. Now the quantity should be as much where all rice get soaked into it. Can say a little more than required. After sometime of soaking, I observed the quantity of rice has grown. Of course, it will as the grain, rice observes water and every morsel of rice grows in size. What I wanted to tell here is Be observant. Observe what you do. In cooking it is very very important. Not only in cooking but in everything what you do and others around you do. Observe. That’s another funda of life. That suits here as well. Lets come back to our topic. You know what, when I am in a hurry, I don’t even soak it in water. I skip this step and I proceed to next step which is boiling of rice. I had a LPG connection in room, a gas stove, a rice cookware. The ratio I have between rice and water is 1:3 respectively. I reside down the south of India. The rice grain that I get here requires 3times the quantity as that of rice for water. Might differ if you reside in Mediterranean climate or temperate climate where the way of cultivating rice differs. As I told you Trial and error method will efficiently work for you too. Now, coming to the point, I put the soaked rice in the cookware and three times the quantity of soaked rice for water. Closed the boiler, i.e., the cookware. Once I see the steam coming out of nipple where the safety valve is placed, I place the safety valve onto it. The reason for the wait until steam comes out is is to purge air from the boiler. Ensure the gasket for rice cookware is in. If it isn’t placed rightly, You’ll see water dribbling out if you have OBSERVED. . 3 whistles. And I switch off the gas stove.
Keep your senses open. Nostrils have to play to significant role to check for any abnormality. Wait for sometime until no steam coming out if lightly lifted. There shouldn’t be any noise too. Once you have observed no steam or noise coming out, you can open the cookware. Check for abnormality.
Just think what happens if you have added less water to the rice? You’ll see burnt spots at the bottom of the cookware and the rice tastes abnormal. If the rice is wet, that means water added is more. If black spots, burnt marks on bottom, water isn’t adequate. If you see the morsels as churned much, you have to reduce the number of whistles.The Boiled rice is ready.
You have learnt to cook boiled rice today. Mext time we will learn something else. Comment your views with us if you have tried experimenting it. I hope it was a useful reading. Thanks for reading and I hope you have learnt more than the basics of cooking. Keep reading my blog. See you another time. Take care. Love you all !!!
It all started like this when by chance when I was reading primary school book where it was mentioned “Cooking is nothing but heating any food items”. Yes, that’s it. Cooking is nothing but heating. If you know how to heat an object, you are half the way by now learnt cooking and If you have the device to cook like gas stove OR microwave oven OR any heating medium, why should you wait, start heating.. oops sorry.., Start Cooking and become a Chief Cook in few days starting today. Good luck.
I went to the supermarket the other day,( sometimes I go to the provisional shop) and asked for rice. It’s a raw rice. Bought for 1kg the raw rice to my room. Yeah., I was a bachelor too and I was in early 20s. I had the measuring cup with me where it had the marking like 100g, 200g etc vertically. Someday when I have misplaced the measuring cup, I have used the tumbler for measurement. . According to my appetite, I take rice. I took 150grams of rice for 2people. I took the rice on a vessel washed it with water. This washed water I do not throw it out. I pour it on the flower pot which is in my balcony where I grow some plants. This is the funda for organic farming. Let’s come back to our topic. It’s a trial and error method that worked for me. After washing the rice, I soaked the rice in water. Are you thinking for how much the water quantity should be?? If you are of that kind, I advice you not to think of perfection by this time. It is okay to mistakes. Just chill.. relax.. take a deep breath.. Don’t forget, “Affection is better than perfection”. Love what you do. Here, its cooking. Just enjoy doing it. Don’t be serious while learning. Laugh at your mistakes and never regret for anything or get serious on your silly mistakes.Back to our topic.. Now the quantity should be as much where all rice get soaked into it. Can say a little more than required. After sometime of soaking, I observed the quantity of rice has grown. Of course, it will as the grain, rice observes water and every morsel of rice grows in size. What I wanted to tell here is Be observant. Observe what you do. In cooking it is very very important. Not only in cooking but in everything what you do and others around you do. Observe. That’s another funda of life. That suits here as well. Lets come back to our topic. You know what, when I am in a hurry, I don’t even soak it in water. I skip this step and I proceed to next step which is boiling of rice. I had a LPG connection in room, a gas stove, a rice cookware. The ratio I have between rice and water is 1:3 respectively. I reside down the south of India. The rice grain that I get here requires 3times the quantity as that of rice for water. Might differ if you reside in Mediterranean climate or temperate climate where the way of cultivating rice differs. As I told you Trial and error method will efficiently work for you too. Now, coming to the point, I put the soaked rice in the cookware and three times the quantity of soaked rice for water. Closed the boiler, i.e., the cookware. Once I see the steam coming out of nipple where the safety valve is placed, I place the safety valve onto it. The reason for the wait until steam comes out is is to purge air from the boiler. Ensure the gasket for rice cookware is in. If it isn’t placed rightly, You’ll see water dribbling out if you have OBSERVED. . 3 whistles. And I switch off the gas stove.
Keep your senses open. Nostrils have to play to significant role to check for any abnormality. Wait for sometime until no steam coming out if lightly lifted. There shouldn’t be any noise too. Once you have observed no steam or noise coming out, you can open the cookware. Check for abnormality.
Just think what happens if you have added less water to the rice? You’ll see burnt spots at the bottom of the cookware and the rice tastes abnormal. If the rice is wet, that means water added is more. If black spots, burnt marks on bottom, water isn’t adequate. If you see the morsels as churned much, you have to reduce the number of whistles.The Boiled rice is ready.
You have learnt to cook boiled rice today. Mext time we will learn something else. Comment your views with us if you have tried experimenting it. I hope it was a useful reading. Thanks for reading and I hope you have learnt more than the basics of cooking. Keep reading my blog. See you another time. Take care. Love you all !!!
