If the vegetable that you have stored looks dull and does not have its freshness, soak it for an hour in water mixed with lime juice and then cook, it will be much fresher looking and tastes good. While washing mint leaves add baking soda in the washing water this will help to keep its freshness for a long period of time.
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Purva Bhandari
In order to make the sauce of the ravioli, cut the tomatoes into big pieces and add teacup of water and cook it. When cooked, take out a thick soup by passing through a sieve. Boil the soup and add the sugar in it, as well as some chili powder, salt and tomato ketchup. After all this is done, just add the cream after a while.
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Purva Bhandari
Vegetables with almond sounds like a healthy dish and it is one. Crunchy fried almonds make all the difference. You can prepare vegetables with walnuts, the same way using walnuts instead of almonds. But while making this dish, make sure to add the sugar, almonds and salt and cook it for 3 minutes in the end and serve it hot with chili sauce and chilies in vinegar.
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Purva Bhandari
While making noodles with vegetables make sure that you heat the oil thoroughly in a vessel and add all the ingredients to it. While serving it, make sure the noodles are served hot in a plate or bowl with chilies in vinegar and chili sauce. You can even sprinkle some fried noodles on the top just before serving if you like.
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Purva Bhandari
After grating the vegetables or preparing any type of juices, they should be consumed within an hour or so. If the vegetables are required to be kept for a longer period, then the juice of the lime should be squeezed in to slow down the process of oxidization and then preserved in the refrigerator.
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Purva Bhandari
Add salt only before eating, so that the vegetables remain crispy and don’t start losing their water. This is one of the important tips which should be kept in mind by all the individuals who are involved with cooking food items.
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Purva Bhandari
The Chinese leaves which are extremely versatile vegetable and can be lightly braised, steamed or served raw in salads. You should always look for Chinese leaves under the name of Cabbage or Chinese celery cabbage. It usually has long white stems and should not be confused with a similar looking vegetable called ‘Bok Choy’, which has dark green stems.
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Purva Bhandari
While washing your vegetables, special care should be taken to wash them in a solution of baking soda. Leave the vegetables in this solution for not more than five minutes. Remove all the vegetables and finally rinse the vegetables thoroughly in running water.
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Health Benefits of Salads
Leafy Green vegetables offer lot of vitamins, proteins and nutrients. Eating raw vegetables helps to fight cancer. Select organic fresh green leaf vegetables and make salads. You can add red leaf, green leaf, kale, carrots, fruits, spinach and romaine to your salad. -
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Hard and soft portions of vegetables can be recycled to make clear soup. Recycle vegetable peels, soft centre portions such as those of gourds or pumpkins, and hard portions such as those near the root of cauliflower, cabbge and carrots. Simmer them in water, and you have a stock ready with you.
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For maintaining the bright color of any vegetable don’t forget to put it in ice cold water as soon as you blanch/chop them.
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Priyanka
You must have often found that the green vegetables, especially the spinach that you use in your salad, tangle up and become so messy when mixed. One way to get rid of this problem is to refrigerate the greens loosely packed in plastic bag. When it’s good to serve, put the dressing and toss in the bag itself before you put them on the serving plate.
