Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Easy Way To Make Instant Spices



Instant spices, for peoples who always busy and culinary business are mostly required to save the times while cooking. If you buy an instant spices,

To prepare those instant spices, the only main equipment required is a blender / grinder. Bear in mind that you have to estimated that these instant spices to be consumed within one month only, because the smell and the taste of instant spices will be change and different.

Storage method also much affect to it's long lasting above spices. Sunlight, humidity and temperature are the most avoid required.

So you have to threat those spices as below:

1. Keep in fully sealed box, bottle, tube or small container.
2. Store in cool temperature
3. Keep it in dark space
4. Away from direct sunlight
5. Away from any hot plate / high temperature

Especial for ginger, turmeric, laos are better to burn it on fire for a few times, the smell will be stronger and better.

You can store above spices by separate depend of it's nature at many different storage media, but you can also mixed it according to desire foods.

For an example, if you have culinary business such as chicken barbeque, you can mixed them up many spices with percentage as you want, mix it well then stored it together.

And if you often make some special soup, for example, you can mixed required spices to make ready use instant spices for soup.

Remember, you don't have to add SALT or SUGAR, you can do it when cooking in progress later.

Well, have a nice cook!

Monday, July 14, 2014

Simple Tips How To Cook Shrimps

 

To Keep your shrimps still delicious and not hard while cooking, simply follow this steps below:

1. It must be cook with short period so the original taste it will remains and sweet.
2. Mostly they cooking for about three minutes in middle temperature.
3. As soon as the color changed into red, it means cooked enough and ready
4. Shrimps are very quickly ripe and if you cooking a little bit longer than required, it will be not good for consumption.

To get the best result, just try out these methods:

1. Prepare 1/2 Kg Shrimps in a pan filled up with boiled water about 1/3 of volume. Put 3 tea spoons of salt. Closed the pan, boiled again, until the skin seems red / ripe.

2. For Lobster, usually it takes around 7-8 minutes, for bigger shrimps it will takes around 5-7 minutes, middle size of shrimp estimated 3-4 minutes.

3. Soon after the shrimp ready / ripe / become red, you have to put it into cool water / normal water so the cooking process will stop immediately. Don't keep them in hot water / boiled water because the cooking process still continued and not stop, which may lead into shrimps become hard.

Well, Have a nice cook !

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