How to buy vegetables 3

Ingredients:

• For Snack gourd, slightly twist and see. You can also press and check. If it is new one you can feel soft. Otherwise it will break. When you press your nail on it, your nail must go inside of the veg. You can smell the veg. If it is very fresh you will get a good smell.

Method:

• Lemon: Press it , should be hard. Just scratch the skin with u nail and smell the fragrance...A good and fresh lemon should have strong fragrance.
• Potato: It should be clean and light cream in colour. You can use this type of potatoes for making parota. If it is some what black and the skin is somewhat peeling type means, you can use them for curry. (cut and fry) They will not good for making parota. Peel the skin and it should be hard again, and if you could see some moisture it is a fresh potato.

Notes:

• Yam: Generally people cut and get this. (I use to get them full) If you see yellow colour, you can use that to make macyal. This type is called as cooking varity ( வேகும் கிழங்கு). If it is red or pink in colour, you can buy that to deep fry like fried curry or chips purpose. That is called as frying type (வறுபடும் கிழங்கு) OK?