In this busy world, it is very difficult to find time for cooking. For working Individuals, time spent in the kitchen is less. Homemakers also need to be fast in packing lunch and making breakfast. So an individual must learn how to reduce cooking time in the kitchen, especially how to cook fast in the morning to catch up with their busy schedule. Home food can be taken by everyone if cooking is made easy and thus we can lead a healthy lifestyle.
Here I want to share some time-saving practices which I learned in cooking every day. In years to come, I learned to save time and energy while cooking.
For Cooking made Easy let us see some tips. Cooking very quickly saves a lot of time and makes us an efficient cook.
Plan your meal well in advance.
Planning is essential in the kitchen too as you can keep all the ingredients handy and start off your day in a smooth way. You need not panic. Buy the ingredients the previous day itself and keep them ready.
Keep your kitchen organised.
Always keep the knives, ladles, utensils, cutting board in place. This will prevent wasting time unnecessarily searching. An organised kitchen will always ensure fast cooking.
Use time-saving cooking appliances.
- Use pressure cookers for cooking dals and rice that is for anything which takes a long time to cook.
- Vegetable cutters can be used instead of manually cutting the vegetables. It saves energy and time.
Practice multitasking as much as possible.
As you cut the vegetables you can boil water and milk. Heat the pan simultaneously. Use many appliances like rice cookers, induction stoves and ovens. Use gas stoves preferably with 3 or more burners. Note: Multitasking can be done by cooks with experience in the kitchen and not by novice cooks.
Cut into smaller sizes.
Vegetables cook faster when they are cut into smaller pieces. If the pieces are bigger it takes a lot of time. It is not only vegetables even meat /chicken when cut into smaller pieces cook faster. Minced meat /chicken or grated vegetables cook faster.
Always keep hot water ready.
At the beginning itself, that is as soon as you enter the kitchen and before starting any other work heat the water so that you can add the hot water in preparation for curry or for cooking vegetables. This saves a lot of time.
Use a big bowl for removing vegetables from the fridge.
Instead of walking several times to the fridge, save time by removing all the required vegetables for the day at once in a big bowl. Imagine walking to the fridge several times for each ingredient…oof what a waste of time!
Thaw the meat beforehand.
Never remove the meat from the freezer at the time of cooking. Remove it earlier and thaw it until it reaches room temperature and so cooks faster. Frozen meat takes a long time to cook. Always cook with meat at normal temperatures.
Keep a garbage bowl handy.
Instead of walking several times to the dustbin to dispose of waste little by little, have a small garbage bowl next to you. As you proceed with the cutting keep filling the garbage bowl with the waste. After cutting everything you can once dispose of the collected garbage waste from the bowl to the dustbin at one time.
Use sharp knives.
Sharp knives cut the vegetables faster than blunt knives. You need not put a lot of pressure to cut if you use sharp knives. Cutting is made easy with sharper knives and you tend to cut faster. In the case of blunt knives, the vegetables tend to slip away.
Use smaller vessels or vessels appropriate for cooking.
Always use smaller vessels instead of bigger vessels for cooking. The bigger vessels take a lot of time to get heated and so cooking takes a longer time.
Use a lid to cover the food while cooking.
When the food is covered with a lid while cooking it tends to cook faster as the steam trapped inside enhances cooking.
Keep the ingredients handy and ready.
In case you want ginger garlic paste, keep it ready instead of preparing it at the time of cooking. Keep the pudhina and spinach leaves handy and ready to use. This really saves time a lot of time in cooking. Even tomato puree can be used for cooking faster.
Do practice these tips while cooking and see how you can save a lot of time in the kitchen. A healthy home meal can always be taken every day. Happy cooking!!!
