Some housewives still have one question: How to improve the quality of meals while ensuring time and work? Here are useful cooking tips to help you solve this difficult problem.
It is no coincidence that many people do not like to go to the kitchen, kitchen work takes up a lot of people’s time and energy. Some of your suggestions Xuli (a teacher at Phu Ngoc High School, Dong Nai) will help you reduce your cooking time so you can spend more time handling other jobs or taking care of your family. 1. Freeze and cool food Freezing food scientifically will preserve the nutrition of the dish Storing food in the refrigerator is something that housewives should do. As long as you just grasp a few principles, the food is always fresh and retains its nutrients. So, ladies and gentlemen, if you can afford it, go to the market every day, or collect many days to go to the market once, it will be much less difficult. 2. Prepare some common sauces Some types of ready-to-cook sauces for the refrigerator, including: grilled marinade, chili garlic fish sauce, satay. Some types of sauce commonly used daily by Vietnamese people such as garlic and chili fish sauce, satay, grilled marinade, chao sauce, tomato sauce… housewives should cook a large amount and then store it in the refrigerator to use it gradually in 7-10 days. 3. Cook more than 1 serving and freeze Some dishes take a long time, such as stews and stews, so cook more than 1 serving, and freeze the rest. The next meal just needs to be defrosted and reheated (microwave or steamer…). 4. Prepare some types of dishes Spring rolls are always rolled up and stored in the freezer compartment of the refrigerator. At meal time, just take it out and put it in an oil-free fryer, add a thin layer of oil to make it crispy and delicious. Pre-processed products help you reduce your time in the kitchen significantly because this process is the process that takes up the most time in your cooking. For vegetables before storing in the refrigerator, pick them up as soon as possible after you buy them. Some dishes such as spring rolls, fish cakes, and bay leaf rolls… you can either pre-roll them, pack them or fry them briefly… Grilled leaves or spring rolls can be fried quickly and neatly in an oil-free fryer. Grilled fish, fried spring rolls, tomato sauce or second fire frying all become simpler. 5. Exploiting the functions of kitchen support machines Machines will do a lot of kitchen work with women. Depending on the conditions of each house, how many machines to buy with great machine skill. But the machine supports the most effective kitchen work such as: an oil-free fryer for fried and grilled dishes; pressure cooker for stews and blender for grinding crab, pounding shrimp, chopping onion/garlic/pepper/chili/lemongrass/ginger… In addition, you can “buy” for your family a versatile food processor to be your assistant.The machine can cut, slice, grind, grind, juice in just a short time to help. You save a lot of time in the kitchen. 6. Plan your cooking The first secret to help you reduce kitchen time is to have a specific and reasonable cooking menu before entering the kitchen. There are many people who have to spend too much time shopping and thinking “what to buy for today’s menu?”, then when you start cooking, you think about what to cook, and finally when you make it. found that there was a shortage of food ingredients, which was a time-consuming process. So take some time over the weekend to plan out a menu for your family for a week and then list the ingredients and food you need to buy for the week. You see, instead of having to worry about going to the market every day, you just need to go to the market for a week. In addition, you will not need to think about what to eat today, just start cooking every time you go to the kitchen. 7. Choose simple dishes but full of nutrients Full nutritious 1-course meal, steamed fish with vermicelli + onions, vegetable rolls dipped in fish sauce. A meal needs 4 groups of substances: starch, protein, fiber – vitamins and fat. With “lazy” meals, I just need to choose which dish has all the above 4 groups of substances to be assured of both standard and leisure time, for example: steamed fish with vermicelli and onions; fish and fruit soup, stewed fruit and vegetables… 8. Save fancy dishes for special occasions If your ability is limited, time does not allow, or you know for sure that you will bury your head in the kitchen and be too tired to be angry with your husband and children, don’t hurry. Some sophisticated and complicated dishes I use for family gatherings, fathers take care of children, mothers cook and clean. It will be fun for the whole family.
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