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19 Dec 10 Tips for Cooking Aspirants

Are you a cooking aspirant individual who has no idea about culinary methods but wish to evolve as a good cook? Good cooking just requires immense interest and passion for cooking and thirst for learning new recipes, patience, and love for food. If you don’t know exactly where to start from, here are some helpful guidelines for you to start with and slowly gain mastery over culinary skills.

An elementary cooking book

If you are thinking of specializing in an area of culinary like – Chinese, Mexican, Japanese recipes; start from the beginning. Buy a cooking book of the same. Don’t buy too advanced book, it will confuse you and you will not be able to follow many instructions. Buy an elementary book, meant for the beginners. It will be detailed and will also help you to learn cooking easily. Do research about cooking books before buying them, you may also ask a chef. Slowly once you master an area, choose another area of specialization.

Get inspired from someone in person

Quite often it’s seen that cooking aspirants are inspired and motivated by renowned chefs. But such chefs are mostly out of your reach, try to find someone in your surrounding whom you are close to and have access to his or her personal life. You will learn more this way. Find someone whose culinary skill you just die for. Make sure you turn friends and visit him or her often and take some culinary tips and secret recipes. Seeing with own eyes will make you learn faster.

Follow cookery shows on television

Always reading may not help you, seeing live demo will help you to learn faster. Why not learn from the masters of cooking? Watch cookery shows coming on television. Follow them regularly, you will learn really fast. Follow their methodology blindly in the beginning; slowly you may customize the recipes.

Trial and error method

Self-help is the best help. Don’t worry about the outcome, cook whatever you wish to. Mix and match ingredients, put spices and ingredients which you think will go well together. It may excel or turn out to be a disaster. But this is how you will learn and also come up with own recipes. Make in small quantities whenever you are experimenting.

What are you waiting for? Step into kitchen and get going.

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23 Oct 10 How to make Chocolate Chip Muffin?

Who doesn’t like a chocolate chip muffin? It’s that irresistible sweet delight, on which not only the kids in the house drool upon, but adults also can’t get their hands off. It’s perfect evening snack or a delight for the guests. It can be in your party menu too. Best thing is you can also store them for long. Aroma of chocolate flavor coupled with fine baking is too alluring to resist. Surprise your family and friends this evening, with a homemade irresistible chocolate chip muffin.

Ingredients you will need

  • Chocolate chips – 100 gm
  • Dark chocolate – 100gm
  • Salt less butter – 2 tablespoon
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cup milk
  • Vegetable oil – 100ml
  • Flour – 2 cups
  • White sugar – 1 cup
  • Cocoa powder – 2 tablespoon
  • Baking powder – 1 tablespoon
  • Baking soda – 1 tablespoon
  • Salt – ½ tablespoon
  • Vanilla extract – 1 teaspoon

Methodology

Now gear up for the most exciting session of muffin preparation. This is how we go.

First of all, pre-heat the oven at 200 degrees Celsius temperature for 10 minutes. Line up 12 muffin cups with paper.

Take all dry ingredients in a bowl and make a hole in the centre.

Now, take a small pan. Take dark chocolate and butter. Melt them together over boiling water. Let it cool and settle down, for about 10 minutes time.

Beat an egg along with vegetable oil. Mix it well.

Take another bowl. Mix chocolate and butter mixture along with egg-vegetable oil mixture and milk. Blend all.

Pour the mixture in the centre hole of dry ingredients. Stir until all ingredients are mixed together properly and become smooth. Add some chocolate chips. Save some for later use.

Now fill 3/4th portion of each muffin cups with the mixture. For the rest 1/4th portion sprinkle chocolate chips on top. It will add on to the taste.

Now, bake it for about 20 minutes. Bake until the muffins turn dark in color and plump up.

Your mouthwatering chocolate chip muffin is ready to fascinate the guests with your culinary skill. Enjoy showering compliments.

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21 Oct 10 How to make Beef Noodle Soup?

I am sure you have always drooled upon the beef noodle soup, which you end up having every time in restaurant. Did you know that you could also grab its recipe and prepare the same at home? Create a restaurant ambience at home and treat your guests with this exotic soup. Don’t complaint if everyone doubt about you making it at home. It’s not only delicious, but also quite simple to make. You need not stick to it strictly. You can experiment with the recipe by adding ingredients to it as per your choice of taste. Follow the cooking instructions as given below –

Ingredients you will need

  • Noodles, preferably rice noodles
  • Rump steak
  • Ginger (finely chopped)
  • Spring onions (finely chopped)
  • Soy sauce
  • Vegetable oil
  • Spinach or any green leaf
  • Chili (optional)
  • Rice wine (optional)
  • Vegetable stock
  • Salt
  • Black pepper

Here, you are ready to go.

Method of preparation

Take rump steak, cut into thin 1 inch wide slices. Now it’s time to marinade the beef. Mix soy sauce, vegetable oil, rice wine, ginger pieces, chili, salt and immerse beef into the mixture for hours. The longer you marinade, softer and tastier it will be. Take two saucepans. Boil water in them. In the first pan pour vegetable stock and start stirring. Then add beef and cook for two minutes. While beef is getting ready put noodles in the second pan of boiling water. After two minutes, add vegetables to the beef and stir. It shouldn’t take more than a minute to cook the vegetables. When the noodle is boiled, drain water and serve in the serving bowls. Add chopped spring onions to the beef soup and stir. Now pour it on the noodles layered in bowls. You can serve with chili oil if you want it to be spicy. Sprinkle some pepper on it.

And your beef noodle soup is ready to woo your guests with its taste bud tantalizing taste and intoxicating aroma. Don’t be surprised if you are showered with compliments at your culinary skill.

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