Want 'homely taste' in lunch? Pack your tiffin like this (Image Source: AI-Generated)
Lifestyle Desk, New Delhi. Does this happen to you too? In the morning you prepare tiffin with great love, but when the lunch box is opened in the afternoon, the rotis are hard like 'papad' and the vegetables are tasteless. We often think that perhaps there might have been something wrong in kneading the dough, but the truth is that the problem is not in the cooking but in the packing. Yes, if you want your or your children's tiffin to remain fresh till noon, then stop making these 5 common mistakes today itself.
Rush to pack hot food
This is the biggest mistake we all make. We think that if we pack hot rotis, they will remain warm till noon, but the opposite happens. When you keep very hot rotis or vegetables in a container, steam is formed inside. This steam turns into water and first moistens the rotis and then after some time they start stretching like rubber or become hard.
Wrapping loaves directly in foil paper
Use of aluminum foil is common, but it absorbs the moisture from the rotis. When you wrap hot roti directly in foil, it becomes soggy from 'sweat'.
Do not use milk while kneading the dough.
If you are making rotis for tiffin, kneading the dough with plain water is not enough. The water dries up and the rotis become hard.
Packing vegetables without 'tempering'
Often dry vegetables (like potato, cabbage or lady's finger) become completely dry and lifeless by noon. This happens because the oil settles down when it cools.
keeping the loaves separate
If you pack the rotis separately, they will dry quickly after coming in contact with air.
Food is not just for filling the stomach, but for comfort. Just make these small changes in the way of packing and see how your lunch box will smell the same in the afternoon as it did when you took it out of the pan in the morning.
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