La Lois Lounge

Ingredients:

Mushroom (chopped) - 1 box
Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Soy sauce - 1/2 tsp
Onion powder - 1/2 tsp
garlic powder 1/4 tsp
Olive oil - 1 tbsp
Salt as required

Method:

• Heat oil in a pan add the mushrooms and saute until the water from the mushroom evaporates.
• Add the pepper powder, onion powder and garlic powder and saute foe 2 minutes
• Sprinkle in the soy sauce and salt

Ingredients:

Broad beans - 1 lb
Chili powder - 1tsp
Coriander powder - 1tsp
Salt to taste
Minced Garlic - 3 cloves
Onion - 1
Oil
Method:

• Chop the beans into small pieces and boil it with chili powder, coriander powder and salt until tender
• Heat oil in a pan add the minced garlic, onion and fry until the onions are translucent
  
• Add the boiled beans and fry well.

Ingredients:

Asparagus - 1 bunch
Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Salt as needed
Cayenne pepper - 1/2 tsp
Olive oil - 1tbsp

• Preheat the oven to 400 F.
• Cut the tough ends off the Asparagus and discard it.
• Line the asparagus in a baking sheet
  
• Sprinkle some salt, pepper, Cayenne pepper and olive oil
• Bake the asparagus for 15-20 minutes.
  

Ingredients:

Oil - 2tbsp
Mustard - 1/4 tsp
Curry leaves - 5
Tomatoes Chopped - 2

Cooked Rice - 1 Cup

Onion Chopped - 1

Ginger garlic paste - 1tsp

Salt  To Taste

Chili Powder- 1 tsp

Coriander Powder -2 tsp

Cumin  Powder - 1 tsp

Method:

• Heat the Oil in the Pan & add mustard seeds, curry leaves.
• Add onion when it becomes translucent add the ginger garlic paste, tomatoes & keep stirring.
• Dump in all the dry masala powders.
• Cook well while stirring frequently.
• When the tomatoes are cooked add the Rice & combine.

Avocado

• To ripen the avocado, place the avocado in a brown bag with a ripened banana for 1-2 days.

Too Salty

• If the food you are cooking comes out salty, add some boiled / raw potatoes (remove the raw potatoes while serving)
  

Onion

• In order to Prevent tears while cutting onion, Place the onion in the freezer for 15 minutes.
• While cooking onions , add 1/2 tsp salt to it . adding salt makes the onions to sweat and it reduces your cooking time.
• Peeling pearl onions is not an easy task, to reduce your time place the onions in hot water for 5-7 minutes.
• To remove the odor of the onions from your hands, wash your hands with cooking salt or lime juice.

Green Chillies

• Remove the stem of the green chillies while storing, this keeps the chillies fresh for days.

Prevent Discoloration in fruits and veggies

• To avoid discoloration of apples , apply some lime juice in the cutting surface and on the cut apple pieces
  
• To avoid discoloration of eggplant, plantains after cutting, dump these veggies in salt water

Peeling Almonds

• To remove the outer skin of the of the almonds, add water to the almonds and cook in the microwave, once it comes to a boil drain the hot water and add very cold water, the skin will peel off easily.