Kitchen Management

Basic items for a functional kitchen
Utensils
Basic ingredients for cooking

Basic items for a functional kitchen [Top]

Hot plate/gas stove/electrical coil stove.

Pressure cooker/electrical rice cooker

Microwave with convection

Electrical hand blender

Mixer

Zero b water purifier/aqua guard.



Utensils [Top]

2-Milk utensils

1 tea set-tea pot, sugar pot, milk pot

2 sauce pans-small and medium/kadhai

1 tava

1 rolling pin and board

1 chopping board

6 utensil lids of 3 different sizes

2 serving bowls

2 caser roles

4 dinner plates

4 pudding bowls

6 table spoons

6 forks

6 tea spoons

2 knives

2 peelers

1 tea stainer

1 lemon sqeezer

6 glasses

2 coffee mugs

2 trays small and medium

Storage tins-6 large, 12 medium and 12 small

NOTE: these Storage Tins are essential for storing the below mentioned list of ingredients.

Basic ingredients for cooking [Top]

Rice, wheat flour, sooji/semolina, maida/all purpose flour, corn flour, gram flour, rice flour

Varieties of dals/ pulses- arhar/ toor, moong/yellow gram, chana/Bengal gram,masoor/mysore dal,urad/ black gram.

Varieties of whole grains-urad, moong,rajma/kidney beans,chana-is of three kinds-kabuli chana which is big in size and white in clour when compared to the desi variety which is small in size andanother kind is little green in colur and also small in sizes.

Spices-the basic ones-jeera/cumin, dhania/coriander, methi, mustard,fenugreek

Garam masala spices-black pepper corns, white pepper corns, dalchini/cinnamon, laung/cloves, small cardamom/green elaichi, big cardamom/black elaichi, shah jeera, nut meg/ jaiphal, javitri, phool chakri, tej patta/bay leaf.

English herbs and spices-thyme, celery, oregano, parsely, basil, allspice.

Dry fruits-kaju/cashewnuts, badam/almonds,akhrote/walnut,pishta/pistachios, kishmish/raisins,sultanas, khajur/dates,prunes,khurmani/apricots.

Varieties of cooking oils-ground nut oil,sesame oil, sunflower oil,mustard oil, olive oil.