Kitchen Tips you should see now
1. When peeling Banana or Plantain, apply oil in your hands so as to avoid the sticking effect.
2. You can store your moi-moi leaves in d freezer for months by putting dem in a big nylon bag. You only bring out d quantity u need to use per time.
3. Don’t cover ur Ogbonor & Okro soup wen cooking bcos it will make it not to draw well again and after cooking it allow it to cool down before covering.
4. If u don’t want to cry while cutting ur onion. Before slicing d onion, peel d back & put in the fridge for 10mins den bring it out & slice.
5. Preserve your dry fish and crayfish inside freezer with a tight closed container.
6. Add salt to your coco yam when it starts boiling to soften quickly.
7. Soak ur garlic in cold water for like a min, and use ur hand to remove d back, it will come off easily.
8. To cut pepper with ur hand apply vegetable oil on ur hand b4 cutting d pepper. U will not feel d effect or hotness.
9. To preserve your beans from weavils and likes, remove dirt’s from beans and store in a Jerrycan with cover or put the beans in a nylon and get a bucket with cover. The beans will last and remain cool till the last seed finishes.
10. If you’re boiling your rice and it’s too soft due to too much water just put a slice of bread on it and it will absorb the water and normalize the rice.
11. Tie the head of your plantain to avoid air then keep it in the fridge to avoid it from getting riped.
12. Wrap your unused fresh vegetables inside a paper. It could be newspaper then put in a nylon bag b4 keeping it in the fridge
13. If hot water or hot oil mistakingly pour on any part of your body, just pour flour on d affected area immediately …. And it makes your skin not to peel or swell up.
14. Soak ur beans for moi moi in hot water for about 10 mins and wash. It makes dem come off easily.
15. To store ur Ogiri, mix it with salt and put in a container. Ur Ogiri will stay for years without getting spoilt.
16. Prepare white soup. Cook the meat & keep it aside. Then boil d stock fish, dryfish, salt, pepper, red oil, crayfish, seasoning cubes etc. Put it in the freezer, if non, add little water and warm every morning. Prepared with desired qty of water then take the qty as you want whenever you wanna prepare any kind of soup even unripe plantain etc. For ede, buy powdered one. Prepare any soup that you can finish a day. Ofe okoro, egusi, ogbono, ede etc. Note, don’t put the meat in the white soup, it would be very very soft before the white soup will finish or you can cook it half done. Then as you warm it everyday, it gets soft .
17. Slice onions near fire to avoid watery eyes or Slice it under a running water.
18. Fry your washed bitterleaf when cooking egusi soup to get a sweet bitter taste.
19. For u to get a smooth garri, blend or grind it before adding the hot water.
20. Just few garlic in the oil used to fry chin chin or any other thing and the oil gets back fresh to be used for stew in case you don’t have another. Add small lemon juice to your over salted soup, or stew and it does magic.
21.After making ur eba cover it for 5mins before mixing, it makes it look smooth.
22. Use cold water to melt small of your Semo vita or Yam flour (Elubo) before adding your hot water this will make the semo free from lumps.
23. If bone enters ur throat when u re eating, cough and pull ur ear at d same time it will come out.
24. If your meat is small in shape, perboil for some seconds without out water this will help to rise the size of d meat then you can add water and seasonings b4 u steam d meat.
25. Fry your curry leaf together with tomatoes.. That stew will be the sweetest.
26. If you want to enjoy ice fish ,don’t boil it. Just wash and marinate, when you are ready to fry, slice onions in the oil and fry.
27. To reuse already used oil, grate few ginger and fry for some seconds it will remove the odour or flavour of what you fried initially and taste fresh.
28. To save gas, blend ur tomatoes and drain the water with a sieve before frying it. That way, it takes little time and gas to cook.
29. If u want ur beans to cook fast, after d first water drains, add a chopped onions into it and add water.
30. Use egg shell or grounded garlic and salt to get rid of wall geckos.
31. Use charcoal to resurrect a soured soup. (Drop it inside.)
32. If u want crunchy Irish potato , soak it in water ( not salty water)at least 30 minutes before frying. For yam n sweet potatoes, soak overnight.
33. Make crayfish the last ingredient u add to every meal. The taste of the meal is WOW
34. Wen frying tomatoes for stew…to prevent it from burning add dry pepper…
35. Do you know dat you can use raw beans to boil hard meat?
36. Always add slice tomatoes to your food it helps to reduce cholesterol
37. Use grater to wash ur beans for moi moi after soaking for about 3 minutes.