over-cooked rice

If you end up overcooking your rice, quickly transfer the rice into another vessel.
Fill another larger vessel with ice & cold water .Now submerge the rice vessel in the cold ice water .

This will not salvage the damage that is already done ,but will ensure that the rice doesn't cook further with the heat 

Quick Tomato Puree

If you don't have a food processor and need to make a tomato puree/ paste.
Try grating the tomato ! Yes it works and its really fast and saves time, 
specially if you want to use 1-2 tomatoes.

Chilly flavoured oil

Chilly oil

Take a jar of oil , add chilly flakes to it.
Let it rest.
The chilly flavoured oil can be used the next day .
This oil will have the aroma of the chillies without being pungent.
For people like me who want the aroma but not too much of chillies ,this is just the correct combination!

Emergency Coriander leaves!

Take cleaned coriander leaves,chop them finely and fill in the ice tray .
Now add water .
Freeze the ice tray .
You can use the ice cubes while cooking.The cubes will melt
leaving the coriander in the dish.

Freezing chicken mince

When you buy fresh chicken mince.
Take a old ice tray fill it with chicken mince instead of water & cover with cling film.

You can use as many mince cubes you need.