Kugan's Kitchen Part 7

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Dear Dev, thanks for your nice answer.
I was having a wrong idea about substitutes.
Well I would like to try out the stevia, can you buy in any medical shops.
How do you use it in coffee or tea. Also how to use in cooking.?
I am very much interested in this. Thanks Dev, take care, Kugan

K, I'm not sure if U'll get in medical shops... maybe U should try in health food stores... I bought mine from an organics store... Stevia usually comes in 3 forms- just the leaves dried and powdered, stevia drops and stevia tablets. I bought the tablets as I was not sure how we'll like it and the others were in larger quantites n expensive... but next time I'll try the leaves...

As for the tabs, I use it in tea and juices...the sweetness from stevia is diff from normal sugar and needs some getting used to... I use 1 tab of stevia and 1 tsp of sugar for a big cup of tea...I add it once we take the tea off the stove...for juices I use the same 50:50 ratio...1 stevia tab equals 1 tsp of sugar... Gradually we can reduce sugar and increase stevia if we start liking the taste...

See if u can get any useful infor from these links...
http://www.stevia.com.my/
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp...736&sec=nation
They say we can prepare sweets using stevia but I din't try it yet... maybe we can use in kesari,payasam kind of stuffs but for those that need sugar syrups, I doubt if it'll be good as stevia doesn't thicken like sugar...I mean it will not become pisu pisu kind of...I'll let u know if I try sweets with it...