Tidbits -1

This is first of the forthcoming series of useful tips, ideas for saving kitchen disasters which we face almost daily, shortcuts that doesn't spoil the taste, but saves much needed time and energy etc., etc., all in one!

Do you make poricha kootu or payatham paruppu kootu and run to the mixie every day to grind the ingredients needed for it? Not needed anymore! Buy some dessicated coconut powder or flakes, mix some jeera, dry red chillies, grind it and store it in an air-tight container. You can take 2 teaspoons of it everyday you make kootu and mix it with water and then use it! No difference in taste at all!!! This powder will last until 3 -4 weeks. If you grind approx 3 weeks worth, then this reduces your morning tension and for ppl in India, the power cut tensions too!!!