Your best cooking tips

[Lebou]

I’ve just discovered that if you roast a chicken upside down you get loads more crispy skin than breast side up

Also for perfect fried eggs with fully cooked white but runny yolk, cook on a low heat with a lid on

What are yours?

[CutesyUserName]

A super quick and easy alternative to a roux sauce base is simply cornflour mixed with milk and whisked on the hob until thickened. Faster and fewer calories (works with skimmed milk/almond milk) than traditional roux.

[OverthinkingThis]

Asda do a frozen vegetable base mix which is finely chopped onion, carrot and celery. It's cheap and super convenient for slow cookers/casseroles/soups etc.

[billy1966]

Great tips.

When you cook your chicken breasts side down all the juices rest on the bottom of the pan, giving you the most moist chicken breasts ever. 15 minutes before finishing turn the chicken breast sides up.

Also cook it breast side down in a bag. Drain all juices into the gravy.

My tip is to roast the chicken first thing in the morning, strip it and add the chicken and juices to gravy. Cook and cream potatoes and put aside ready to go. Quickly steam a bit of veg and serving up a fast meal is easy peasy with most of the clean up done.

[ODFOx]

A poached egg, slice of naice ham and a blob of hollandaise sauce on a toasted muffin is the breakfast of gods.
yes, Eggs Benedict is a classic for a reason!

[Southmouth]

My roast potatoes are always a hit in this house. Parboil potatoes, drain, shake with a good coating of white flour, turmeric, salt, pepper and oil, tip in Pyrex dish and into the oven. Fluffy on the inside and lovely and crispy on the outside! Also do the same with carrots and parsnips if we’re having a roast and chuck them all in the same dish.

[Herocomplex]

Frozen chopped garlic. A couple of cookery people I follow on Twitter say a lot of the ‘fresh’ bulbs we get in the supermarkets here are so old they’re not worth using. (Obviously if you know what you’re looking for it’s fine)

[magratvonlipwig]

Not quite cooking but, if you have leftover limes or lemons from a recipe cut them into wedges and freeze them. Instant drink coolers

[midsomermurderess]

If,you add oil to pasta whipe it's cooking it makes it harder for the sauce to stick to it. And there's no need to do it. Do put a lot of salt in the water though.