Recipes, tips, and interesting facts about life in general and quick and green gourmet cooking. Because life is short, and time is precious.
On the day you feel creative – Give a shot to this advice.
You can change the flavour of a regular recipe, caramelize ingredients by adding 1/2 teaspoon sugar to warm oil in the pan, once sugar melts and the drops becomes brown put in vegetables or other ingredients to cook.
To get a chargrill/barbecue flavour from stove top cooking, try caramelizing the ingredients by putting 1/2 teaspoon sugar in oil as the first step and let the sugar turn to dark brown liquid. Or, add some Thai/Indian sweet and sour sauce when ingredients are getting cooked. Put the heat on high for the sauce to burn and give a barbecue/burnt flavour. This will save fuel energy used by the barbecue and some of your precious time.
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