Meet our featured beauty with brains Gagan Preet, an IT professional and YouTuber based in Sydney, Australia. This immensely talented lady has her own YouTube channel ‘Gagan’s Kitchen’.
https://m.youtube.com/user/gaganpreet0705
Here is an interview with her:
- Tell us more about yourself – your hobbies, dreams etc.
Well, currently I am working with an RTO called BSI Learning, as an Education Resource Officer where I organise resources and process despatch for our Corrective Services NSW. I am an Electronics Engineer and have worked for many IT distributors, companies like HCL and L&T.
Cooking and gardening are my passions and sometimes I like to read books and go for shopping to find new cooking appliances, crockery to serve etc. I have recently started my YouTube channel ‘Gagan’s Kitchen’ and want to fly high with my cooking passion.
- You run a cooking channel on YouTube. Who or what inspired you to start the channel?
As I said above, I am passionate about cooking and wanted to do something in this area. My family and friends encouraged me to start this channel and share my skill there.
- Can you share some simple healthy cooking tips for busy women?
Planning ahead is the most important tip for working women.
a. Plan what you are going to cook and pack from Monday to Friday for breakfast, snacks, fruits, Lunch and dinner.
b. Make a list of grocery that you planned for the week, shop them and stick to it.
c. Cut corners with convenience e.g. chop fresh vegetables on weekend and freeze them rather than using super market’s frozen meals or vegetables.
d. For Indian cooking, if you plan to cook beans like kidney beans, black eye beans, Chic peas etc. soak them in reasonable water and freeze them all. In Indian families these are usually cooked every 2nd week or in some houses every week.
e. Do not be afraid to make enough gravy masalas (this way you use less oil as well) and put that in fridge. So, when you have gravy masala ready and soaked beans in the fridge, you just need to put in pressure cooker and done.
f. If you are a non vegetarian, then marinate meats or chicken in different flavours and use for working days. Just put them in oven or air fryer and by the time you will change and come back to kitchen food is ready, chop some fresh salad and serve dinner.
g. You can also cook rice, put them in containers and freeze them/ buy instant pots cookers etc. many options and technologies are available in the market. You can put them on timer or some appliances are wi-fi connected just use them.
There are so many other options and I am starting to share these tips on my YouTube channel Gagan’s Kitchen soon.
- Where do you see yourself ten years from now?
I would love to start my own business in the food industry.
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