“I wanted to make their job easier with my app AskChitVish Premium. The way each item is made has been explained stage by stage with photographs. One has to just fix the mobile at a convenient place in the kitchen and begin to cook,” says Chitra Viswanathan, a 78-year-old culinary expert.
The highly tech-savvy Viswanathan, with her love for Indian cuisine launched the app – AskChitVish Premium – six years ago. She has a steady stream of people asking her about the app, which surges during Deepavali. The app has over 3000 recipes in it.
Viswanathan uploads her recipes, after she tries them out personally, on her app almost daily. With nearly 16 categories of gastronomical delights, the app is hailed for being user-friendly. Traditional sweets such ladoo, katli, almond burfi, coconut burfi karangi, milk powder chocolate burfi, dry fruit burfi are neatly listed out. Plenty of payasam varieties can also be found, including unusual ones like mixed vegetable, carrot kheer, dates kheer, macaroni kheer, sweet potato kheer, orange kheer and mock badam kheer. When asked about the last, she quips, “It’s made using yellow pumpkin, no one can spot the difference.”
Originally written for DTNext, read more at https://www.dtnext.in/Lifestyle/Food/2016/10/19081157/1019596/Model-Citizen-Septugenarians-handy-kitchen-app.vpf