Like You Cook It - Recipes to transform a beginner home cook into a pro home chef!

 TOMATO SAUCE Ingredients: 1. 8 deep red  2. hard tomatoes 3. Salt  4. Fine black pepper 5.Chilli powder METHOD: 1.Cut 4 slits in the tomatoes 2.Boil them till the skin is shriveled up 3.Peel the skin 4.Puree the tomatoes, but leave a few small chunks 5.Heat some oil 6.Fry the salt, pepper, and chilli powder till they smell strong 7.Add the previously made tomato puree and bring it to a boil, stir every once in a while. 8.Enjoy!!!! Follow us on Instagram @likeyoucookit and make sure to tag us when you post your dish! Also use our hashtag #likeyoucookit.  For any feedback mail us @likeyoucookit@gmail.com. 

 cashew cheese Ingredients: 1. 1 cup raw cashews (soaked for 1hr or more) 2. ¼ cup filtered water 3. 2 Tbs. lemon juice 4. 2 cloves garlic 5. 1 Tbs. raw apple cider vinegar 6. 1 Tbs. Dijon mustard 7. sea salt and pepper to taste Directions: add all ingredients into your blender and blend until thick and creamy. It will be the consistency of thawed or stirred cream cheese. This will further harden after it’s been chilled. it can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 5-7 days. Follow us on Instagram @likeyoucookit and make sure to tag us when you post your dish! Also use our hashtag #likeyoucookit.  For any feedback mail us @likeyoucookit@gmail.com. 

 Substitutes for vegans and pranic diets 1.  vinegar = lime/ lemon🍋 2. Egg = Curd 🍚 3. butter = Avacado🧈 4. cheese = Cashew cheese* 🧀 * Check the blog for cashew cheese  recipe Follow us on Instagram @likeyoucookit and make sure to tag us when you post your dish! Also use our hashtag #likeyoucookit.  For any feedback mail us @likeyoucookit@gmail.com. 

Vinaigrette Vinaigrette is rich in flavor.  It is used most commonly as a salad dressing, but can also be used as a marinade. it is super simple and can be done in less than 5 minutes.  INGREDIANTS: 3 tbsp olive oil 1 tbsp vinegar or lemon/lime(for pranic diet) 1 tsp Oregano  ½ tsp chilli flakes Salt as per taste METHOD: add all the ingredients in a mason jar and shake well till combined. Follow us on Instagram @likeyoucookit and make sure to tag us when you post your dish! Also use our hashtag #likeyoucookit.  For any feedback mail us @likeyoucookit@gmail.com. 

butter tips Tip 1: To Soften butter quickly,  you can grate it or chop cubes. Tip 2: Add butter when boiling pasta to make sure they don’t stick together Tip 3: Add cubes of butter  one by one in to gravies to make it thick and creamy Follow us on Instagram @likeyoucookit and make sure to tag us when you post ur dish! Also use our hastag #likeyoucookit.  For any feedback mail us @likeyoucookit@gmail.com. 

pizza dough This pizza dough is a flavourful, rich and super delicious and soft preparation. It takes time but trust us it is worth the wait!!! INGREDIENTS - 3 ½ cups all purpose flour - 1 ¼ cups water used to bloom 1 tsp active dry yeast - ½ tsp sugar - 3 tbsp olive oil (u can use butter too if u like) - 1 ¼ tsp salt PROCEDURE - Knead together, if needed add extra olive oil or flour. - make it into a big ball, brush with olive oil and let it rise in a warm place. - knead every 1 to 2 ours. It can rise up to 8 - 12 hours. The more it rises, the more flavorful it gets. - then add your pizza toppings and bake.

Tender Coconut Payasam/cool drink !!! Tender coconut payasam or cool drink is a very tasty south Indian dish. Some would even say it's the best dessert they've tasted. Tender coconut reduces body heat and cools down the body.  INGREDIENTS: Tender coconut - 2  Milk - 750 ml  Coconut milk -100 ml  Condensed milk - 100 ml  Tender coconut water - half cup  Sugar -1 spoon  Cashew - 10  Cardamom - ½ teaspoon METHOD :  1.Boil milk for 15 to 20 mins  2.Add sugar and keep it aside to cool down. 3.Take 3/4 of tender coconut & tender water and make into paste consistency. 4.cut the rest of tender coconut into small pieces to add in payasam at the end 5.When milk comes to room temp add the paste, condensed milk , coconut milk, cashews, cardamom and coconut pieces..  6. Refrigerate for 2 hours and serve it chilled.   Tip : keep it in the freezer to make it into a tasty ice cream  Follow us on Instagram at @likeyoucookit...

5 simple Egg Hacks🥚 Hack 1: Add an extra egg yolk to batter to make it extra fudgy. Hack 2: When cooking sunny side up sprinkle water on the pan and put a cap, it steams it and cooks it evenly. Hack 3: Crack egg into cookie cutter on pan to get perfect shape omelet Hack 4: If you want an airy end product always separate the egg and whip the whites and yolk separately Hack 5: Always use your eggs at room temperature

A Short Cut to Sour Cream This super easy 2 ingredient sour cream literally takes 5 minutes to whip up. When you need a snack or when you suddenly have guests and you don't have sour cream this recipe will save your day! It tastes really good with tacos by the way. INGREDIENTS: Curd  Lemon  METHOD : 1. Add drops of lemon juice gradually to the curd while mixing, and taste it often till it is the sourness you desire.  2.Then let it set for minimum 10 mins (optional). If you let it set it tastes better, but don't let it sit too long or it may curdle. this sour cream was used in the taco above.    Follow us on Instagram at @likeyoucookit, tag us if you try the recipe and use #likeyoucookit in your post! For any queries or feedback contact us at likeyoucookit@gmail.com

Cajun potato Cajun potatoes are the perfect balance of flavour and texture.  They are boiled potatoes tossed in hot oil  and coated with herbs and sauce.  I'd say this is the ideal snack for anyone who can appreciate how comforting  a simple flavour can be. Ingredients: 20 baby potatoes 6 tbsp of wheat/AP cornflour mix Water to boil Salt ¼ tsp Pepper 1 tsp Mixed herbs 1 tsp Paprika 1 ½ tsp Mayonnaise ¾ cup Coriander for garnish Optional: chopped onion and garlic for topping Method after washing, boil all your baby potatoes in a pressure cooker until 4 whistles come. If you do not have a pressure cooker, you can just cook them till they are soft to touch all the way through. Make sure they are not too weak so they do not fall apart. While the potatoes are boiling, mix your mayo with your spices till they look somewhat like a lovely orange paste. If you do not have or do not want to put in any herbs, it is okay. You can change them or just skip them. But for best resul...

  Sugar-free- gluten-free- vanilla cake (ragi cake) Everyone wants to enjoy a pleasant and tasty treat, but we usually end up with a very unhealthy dish because of the style of food we eat. You can always make it a lot healthier by using natural and organic ingredients, but still... is it perfect for you? There are millions of health problems you can get from eating the most common junk foods. I'm not saying treating yourself to a cookie or a cake occasionally will kill you, but there are times where even you (secretly) have to admit you've come into the area of super unhealthy. So here's a recipe that can satisfy your sweet tooth without damaging your health............. Ingredients: 1 ½ cup ragi ½ cup khapli wheat/emmer  1 egg + yolk ¼ cup oil Optional: food coloring ½ cup milk 1 ½ tsp vinegar  1 tbsp baking powder 1 ½ baking soda 1 tbsp vanilla  1 cup jaggery Method: take a bowl and add your milk and vinegar to it, give it a quick stir and keep it aside Meanwhile,...

  fried ice-cream f ried ice cream was first seen in the US in around  1960. There are many conflicts on who and where particularly fried ice cream was invented. Some even say it was first made in a Japanese tempura restaurant. It is a delectable dish that is a perfect combination of steaming hot and freezing cold. There are many ways to make this dish, and here is an easy way the ingredients are easily accessible to all.  Ing redients: Ice cream Bread crumbs  (if you don't have bread crumbs, you can use cornflakes or any other flakes) Oil Corn flour water Take neat scoops of ice cream and freeze overnight. You can freeze it for only 4 hours, but you get the neatest end product if you let it sit longer. The next step is to  Dip ice cream in corn flour water, then in bread crumbs, repeat this process 2-5 times, and then freeze it again for 5 hours. Once it is done freezing, get your stove prepped, heat the oil and add the ice-cream balls one by one. Fry...

  Stuffed Cheese Mushrooms! 🍄🧀 perfect for spice lovers No measurements because it all depends on how much you want, and the rest of the ingredients are for taste. Stuffed cheese mushrooms are one of the easiest recipes, and you literally don't need to know too much about cooking to make this starter. There are no measurements because you can add as many as you want, and the rest of the ingredients you can add according to your taste! Ingredients: Big mushrooms Cheese ( best is mozzarella) Super spicy chillies  Oregano Italian seasoning water Method: 1. Take the stem of the mushrooms 2. Boil the mushrooms till you can smell that cooked mushroom smell 3. Grate or tear the cheese 4. Cut the chillies in fine or thick circles depending on the spice level you would like, then sprinkle the spices on the top 5. Either bake them at 200c for 5 minutes or fry them in butter for amazing flavour till the cheese is melted. EAT IT HOT!!! It tastes so much better when it's fresh😁 ...