Cooking in 15 minutes

How to save time in the kitchen?

1. Walk in step with the times - get a kitchen equipment: blender, electric meat grinder, food processor. The gain in time will more than cover all costs.


2. Pre-plan the menu - make a list of the most popular dishes on duty in your family and make sure that their ingredients are always at hand.


3. delegate tasks - do not try to do everythingitself. Believe me, your second half also knows how to peel potatoes and cook macaroni. The child is quite able to independently buy bread, milk, eggs and other necessary products.

Let's please our relatives

To be a wonderful mistress and to please herneighbors useful and delicious breakfasts-dinners and dinner parties, it is not at all necessary to hold an 8-hour working day behind the stove. In fact, you do not need more than 10-20 minutes to cook.

Emergency help

1. Wilted grass: you need to pour a little cold water in a deep bowl and put the wilted grass or salad down there. After 5-10 minutes, the greens will be as fresh.


2. The cake does not separate from the form: you need to drench copiously with cold water 2 kitchen towels. On one towel put the very form, the other wrap its edges. After a few minutes, repeat the attempt to separate the cake and the shape.


3. The cake collapsed: cut it into slices, mix with sour cream, milk, cream, put into a fireproof form and bake in the oven. Ready casserole garnish with whipped egg whites.

Helpful Tips

• Do not neglect the soups of sachets and vermicellifast cooking. no one forces you to strictly follow the advice on cooking prepared on the package. This is only a recommendation, and you have the right to add something to your recipe and, for example, to weld soup for the whole family from one sachet of noodles. And for the preparation of dessert, use ready-made cakes, choose the filling to taste.


• Meat and canned fish can be used forcooking various soups, stews and baked dishes. Vegetables can be consumed either in a cold form or as an integral part, for example, for stew or preparing soups instead of the corresponding fresh vegetables.


• you can prepare semi-finished products yourself. and here your first and irreplaceable assistant will be a refrigerator and a freezer. Did you buy meat? Divide it into separate portions (for soup, for roast meat, for minced meat) and put in a freezer. Similarly, do with the fish: some part will go to the ear, the other to the cold. In advance it is possible to prepare cutlets, to make dumplings and vareniki.


• Boil vegetables in such quantity that they could be used also on the next day.


• To ensure that the products do not lose their flavor, do not peel them.


• Quickly prepare a dish or you can withusing a microwave oven. The possibilities of this modern technology are enormous: in fact, it not only defrosts, but also boils, fries, soars, and warms up. Meat and fish dishes cooked in this oven are very fragrant, soft and juicy.

Culinary tricks

• Peeled potatoes will be cooked faster and will become crumbly if it is held under a stream of very cold water.


• The bird will cook faster, if before cooking itrub it outside and inside with a lemon. The same result will be obtained if before cooking it is allowed to stand for 2-3 hours in a mixture consisting of equal parts of water and vinegar.


• To quickly cook meat soup, cut the meat across the fibers in the form of large noodles or cook a meatball out of it.


• To the dish that you cook for a couple, cooked more quickly, salt the water in which there is a pan: so you raise the temperature of its boiling.


• If you want to quickly cool any dessert or food, put them in vessels with cold salt water.


• Raw cleaned potatoes, cut into small pieces, when frying in a frying pan under the lid will be ready much faster than in the open.


• To make the vegetables cook faster, you need to put 1 teaspoon of vegetable oil into the water.


• To cook beets faster, wash it,peel off the skin, cut into cubes, put in a saucepan and pour with hot water so that it only covers the vegetable. Cook under the lid, occasionally stirring and gradually pouring water. By the time it is ready, the water should boil almost completely. Then add 1 teaspoon of vinegar to the pan to restore the color of the beets and mix.