Cooking Hacks Shared By A Pro (Tried & Tested )

0:02 [Music] hey rocky thank you so much for joining us today it's always so amazing to chat with you thank you thank you so much nancy how do you make sure that you're super efficient in the kitchen i know we are all blessed with a lot of help you know in our kitchens but it it's very nice if you can get organized so like i'm saying the black bean would be with you know when we make we don't want to

0:31 have bottles sausages preservatives obviously especially moms and kids and if you want to make those kind of things it's that you could start making those things from scratch with the black beans you know give that a little toss and these are all like a chaat all asian things you know they need they need oil to preserve don't add all those ingredients like vinegar or anything like that especially i would never use vinegar i never use the vinegar because

0:58 i think it's just that's the first thing that affects you i would avoid that kind of uh agent make it as neutral as possible season it less make your base oil acts as a preservative and that can be stored in your fridge so the minute you want to have these noodles you know these chili oil ones which are trending now and the kids love it then uh definitely these are things that can be made for your 15 day or one month

1:23 into the fridge and they'll be fine because so that's one thing for you to make some amazing meal plans uh paste and all can be done in advance also like even my thai curry we do everything from scratch we don't actually you know get a market one but in those kind of things if you want to preserve longer you just slightly saute it in a little oil and then that can go into a freezer now to

1:47 make it more efficient for the family which most of the people don't understand in indian homes is you can't have such a big dapper get it out throw it completely and the way indian houses would be like they'd be opening the whole thing and you know then even though the protein comes and straight goes in a bowl of water you never do that because you are actually removing all the flavor and the nutrients of the protein when you take

2:10 the protein and put it in the water what you're supposed to do is take that hole and put it in a bowl to throw it or use a system like a defrost on the microwave what i like to do for my houses i make different containers which are easy to get now plan how much your requirement is according to your family and so you just remove that whole one thing out throw it and use it so that way

2:36 that can go longer for you yeah no that's a brilliant suggestion and i just like to add here that you know what i typically do with sauces and chutneys and things i always freeze it in ice trays and then i'll just put those cubes separately i know exactly you know like if i need to remove two cubes of chutney that's all i remove the chutney stays uh fresh for much much longer a lot of people in london do only that because

3:02 they don't have help right they won't have our you know uh shamu ramu and our uh and you know all those kind of help who actually do all that stuff for you for us right but right see we're blessed now with the technology and the machines that we have we can do so much more yeah also you mentioned about a lot of trends that you know a lot of our kids want to try and explore and yeah and

3:27 about social and there's so much social influence in the way we're eating you know they take the big rep and they fold it into four and each section has a separate one tell me a few of the uh you know trends that you've really uh on social and you've tried it and you're like you know i'm gonna make i'm gonna add this rakhi chef rocky twist to it or this one works and some of you have really hated it and you're like

3:56 this doesn't work most of the trends and hacks which i've seen um i like i like the trending stuff i like how it looks nice but i always feel i have to add a little touch of my own i have to add i mean this is because you are a chef so it becomes easier for you but tell me four or five trends which you think are really doable workable and people must try the chili oil thing is

4:18 very doable you know all your other vietnamese spring rolls is very very doable and i feel you don't need to do exactly the same you can actually put in whatever filling you have so with the vietnamese rolls uh you know a lot of indian audience doesn't have a flavor palette for it right i mean you and i would like it but there would be a majority of indian audience would not like it because they would like that nice spring roll

4:44 patty which is fried or it's air fried they would like that better yeah so what else does is uh with the coating you're actually pan frying it like a gyoza so that's again very palatable to the indian audience it's it's basically you're supposed to just add in more greens and more vegetables and more color uh display the same thing with with the children since the mothers are there then you know how there's a nutella day coming in you know do it do

5:08 it with a banana and nutella instead right because rather than doing the fried bread wala thing do it in the rice paper rolls put in your bananas put in your cinnamon sugar put in like spread a little bit of nutella crisp it top yum right and then a dollop of ice cream and not the oil any you know another way of schools opening okay and the biggest nightmare is gonna be we're gonna get back to dubba routines after two long years

5:39 and of course we've we've all become very um you know uh food delivery savvy right so we want to order things faster than we want to make how can the mom whip up something or what are the what are the changes that have happened in the snacking space which are still healthy but are still delicious and and will take very little time to whip up same just like that or the wraps and all are very very easy to

6:07 do definitely weather's amazing so again the sweet and savory both can be done which is really easy and faster a lot of people moms are now doing a lot of puffing you know and roasting at home again they are easily available in the market but i would not suggest because then they are very high on sodium so i know moms have this knack of doing everything on their own yeah you know so that's something this they they can

6:34 easily do puff up like we yesterday did like a lovely class for california walnuts and we ended up uh doing like uh you know millet salad very colorful and we took millets in all form and you know uh regional regional stuff and all so these kind of things you know just make the food very colorful the difference see when that when we are eating first we first we'd eat with our eyes yeah and that's what the children

7:02 want they need your something which is exciting so always have a story you know tell them that you know i'm going to be doing this for you today what would you like you know the same things how we have been taught on social media ask your audience what you want ask them what they would like and i would say the same thing for the monks that ask them what they want and then i think you can create those things and

7:30 just have to use more healthier options yeah in general yeah right also you mentioned different cooking techniques right in between mentioned about the airfryer and whatever tell me some of the cool gadgets that or techniques whatever they fall under which every household should have i feel for me i feel uh it's a must to see in mumbai spaces are an issue right but other apt who have

8:01 and if we can afford it and we have the resources i feel we should have those uh i love the airfryer because since you brought it up you know people are not aware that you can do just about anything in that you can even do your tikkas and that even though it's a marinated thing yeah you can put it in oil container you can even do it because nowadays the new ones are with the drip trays yeah so

8:25 even if it's a combination just put a little spray down put your tick card directly also and you can do wonders only thing is what people don't understand how to use it so what is the technology behind an airfryer so it's it's a high heat like an oven would do and a gush of fast uh air so this air frying makes it work faster which means if you were to do even your nuggets like children love chicken nuggets right now

8:54 a healthier version of doing the chicken nuggets would be is add a little oats add a little nuts to your crumbling you know so you're actually working a healthier version eggs are absolutely okay season them it's okay to give them like a nice cheese sauce with that but you could air fry them and they give they come out wonderfully only thing you need to keep in mind is because it has a fast uh technology appetite technology

9:20 you can't overcook it otherwise then it gets rubbery and chewy so you need to just work out a time right so rocky the biggest struggle for a lot of moms is one is the dubba which we've kind of addressed the second is a 4 p.m snack because that's the time for all of us in fact we always reach out for something like yummy something nice and that's the time

9:55 for me or for the child or the child because for me it would be different yeah i know but for us i think it is a 6 p.m that we really crave right and 7 pm yeah that 4 p.m is really tough because you need to get them most of these children are going into workouts they're going in for tennis me i would say since my child has also been in two spots at that time actually

10:25 you need to give them something which is little bit of carbs so that they can burn that out faster it's a perfect time to give you you know if you notice our nutritionist would always tell us that you know here when you're going to your gym have what you want before because then you're definitely your metabolic rate is faster or if you've done it and then so i would stay with children at that point of time give them the cops that

10:49 they need if they are those kinds only uh keep in mind the preparations the ingredients that you're using you know that really makes a lot of a difference so yeah quick quick bites like a quick wrap you know like a quick nuggets uh to be done yeah they you know all moms want to give a fruit at that time i would definitely give my uh child of fruit um then again if your child is into swimming and these

11:14 kind of athletic things and you're giving a smoothie and we all wanted our children to have anjeed or dates which they never wanted to have i you definitely want to put it inside because they're not going to eat it otherwise if you tell them to build up the iron but uh yeah right snacks like these idlis you know uh like a nice um you know cheesy idli to done do your idli and put like a nice grate of your

11:40 parmesan and some nice masala spice people love maggie's maggie a lot right so we've made a video of how you can make that masala at home so just sprinkling that with your idli little bit of butter or ghee if you want clarified ghee toss that put a little bit of the masala and then a little bit of greedy cheese that little cheese is fine for the child to have so those kind of carbs so that they know that they're

12:05 going to burn that out possibly important at that point of time you want a portion if you're gonna give your child carrots and a yogurt dip at that time i don't think they're gonna love us so much yeah that's true okay now we enter the rapid fire round so you need to answer in just a word let's see how do you fare which meal is the biggest trouble for you for me uh the dinner three ingredient swaps that work and can

12:30 replace expensive ingredients butter chicken chili i would always use lavender or hung curd i wouldn't put the cream for sure three products and brands you would recommend for someone who's starting off in the kitchen very good pots and pans very important for just starting off then that's very important uh ingredients like i said you need a very good mixer grinder or blender because you're doing all your work into that uh probably a nutribullet would be great because you can do all in one

12:57 because you don't want to have too many things i definitely love an airfryer and i can't do without an oven on the street an ingredient that is always in your pantry for days when you have unexpected guests i never do frozen food so it's definitely something that i would stir up for sure myself i mean you know my fridge would be loaded with fresh ingredients and i would just quickly make something out of whatever's there never frozen food

13:22 doesn't work for me ideas that a mom can make ahead of time and save rice so you have a lot of leftover rice and stuff for me that's what i would do i would just do a quick you know fried rice with everything that's possible even if you have leftover things add in all your proteins add in some egg whatever toss masala that you like and then that can just become a meal by itself your favorite

13:44 one pot meal no it's not maggie it's a biryani it's anything it's it's like a fuking rice you know where you have your stewed vegetables and uh you know the stock flavoring and all going into that's the one pot meal weather is perfect you've got your vegetables you got your protein you got your carbs if someone loves noodles then yeah and the same thing can be done with any curry on top you know so that one not perfectly

14:11 okay one go to meal as a family asian okay one meal you wish you didn't have to eat but your kids love the eggs okay uh one meal your kids do test but they ensure and and and you ensure that they eat so no i would i don't eat karela and i don't post them also but yeah like i said i love dalia and that's how what i did with my family is i would make a dalia upma

14:42 fried rice i never told them to eat i would sit on the table everything was cooked normally and i would start eating mine so it was the reverse psychology that worked okay if you got a broccoli could you tell us three things that you would make with them and the kids would love so we just did a winter nice warm and uh walnut and broccoli soup in fact if you want we can share the recipe uh we did it with a lovely walnut foam

15:10 we did a walnut and herb bremolata we did a charred broccoli that's one recipe we do one like a cafe style soup again for moms who want to incorporate so the starch in that came in from sweet potato the second thing i would do is the lovely uh broccoli and mushroom dip and then i would do a broccoli and cheese paratha for the little ones they would love it lovely we're gonna we're definitely incorporating that one one productivity

15:37 hat in the kitchen you would like to share everyone loves the crispy fried onions right too so again do that in your oven or your airfryer and automatically you're just eliminating a lot of hours of work as well as a lot of calories there also the three vegetables which have been sparingly used in parathas but they taste amazing a broccoli is one i even do a garja and paratha surprisingly tastes very very nice um the third thing would be

16:08 so i do i do a javarka you know uh think but again java because it's you feel it's very hard what i do and this is i had my gudi kajal gobi so that it lends to the moisture so you'll end up having a nice and masali masala so you'll end up having a very nice uh paratha thank you this has been an incredible chat um i am i'm as always excited to cook and so inspired

16:38 you know to to now suddenly pack things in um after a conversation it's i don't know why every time i speak to you i just feel like okay if she can you know of course i know you are like a champion but you give such easy actionable things to do that i think anybody will be inspired to to kind of cook and create um but really thank you so much for doing this and uh lovely chatting with

17:00 you as always thank you so much [Music]