Kitchen Essentials

If you someone who cooks once in blue moon and just want to rely on takeaways and eating out. There is nothing wrong with it, however there is no harm to set up a small amount kitchen essentials in your pantry. Following list of cooking items should always have in your kitchen

1. Oil: essential for baking, frying and general cooking

2. Salt: "Must Have" ingredient to add basic flavor in any recipe

3. Sugar: very important ingredient for cakes, sweets or even everyday cuppa

4. Butter: simply slather over any crispy warm bread or make your favorite garlic prawns

5. Soya sauce: add to water to make very basic soup base or create dipping sauce

6. Rice: this versatile ingredient is a backbone of many recipes such as curries, stir fry, risotto, one pot wonder recipes, possibities are endless

7. Flour: baking a bread, cake or cooking flat bread pizza base or even pasta

8. Garlic: always keep fresh or powder garlic in your kitchen, it can lift flavor of any meal

9. Canned tomatoes: if you can't keep fresh tomatoes all the time, this one is a must have in your kitchen. Great ingredients to create pasta sauces, curries, bake veggies, chicken or fish

10. Curry power: cook all types of meat with it, just a recipe or add it create a curry base, anything can be done from curried sausages to Dahl soup , anything is possible with this wonder ingredient

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