Thursday, February 12, 2009

Dry fruit roll

Ingredients

1 packet Bread
1/4 Kg Khoya
1/4 Kg Mixed Dried fruits of your choice
Oil for frying
For sugar syrup
1 cup sugar
2 cup water

Method

In a non-stick pan add khoya and cook till the colour turn golden brown.Add all the chopped dried fruit,cook for a while.When cools make it into small balls.
In a meantime mix sugar with water and make syrup.
Soak a piece of bread in water.Squeeze out excess water gently.Keep the dried fruit ball in the center of the bread and fold the bread round the khoya ball so that the slice covers the balls completely.Deep fry the balls to golden brown in colour.
Now soaked the fried balls in warm sugar syrup for 5-10 min.
Cool and cut into halve

Cantonese Chicken

Ingredients

1 medium Chicken
2 onion chopped
2-4 Garlic cloves mashed
2" Ginger piece chopped
15-20 green chillies cut into round shape
1 tbsp Cornflour
2 tbsp Soya sauce
2 tbsp Viniger
1/2 tsp Ajinomoto
1/2 tsp Pepper powder
1/2 tsp Turmeric powder
Salt to taste
Oil for frying

Method

Marinate Chicken with 1 tbsp of soya sauce,turmeric powder,garlic,vinegar and salt for 1 hr.Fry chicken pieces in oil and keep aside.
Heat 2-3 tbsp oil,add garlic,green chillies,onions and fry till golden brown in colour.Add 2 cups of water.When it boils add remainng soya sauce,pepper,ajinomoto,and salt.To thicken gravy,add cornflour(mixed with 2 tbsp of water).
Then add the fried chicken pieces and simmer for few min.
Serve hot with chinese fried rice.

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Cottage cheese and yoghurt mousse


Ingredients

100gms Yoghurt
75 gms Cottage cheese
30 ml Fresh orange juice
8 gm Low cal sweetener
8-10 gms Agar Agar
5-8 nos Fresh strawberries

Method

Soak agar agar in warm water.
Separately, mix hung yoghurt (this must be prepared earlier), cheese, orange juice and low cal sweetener to a creamy consistency.
Now add the diluted agar agar and mix well.
Pour in small dessert mould or glass bowl and allow to set in refrigerator.
Serve with fresh strawberry crush.

Dadima's Jhinga (Prawn) pickle

Ingredients

1 kg prawn
3/4 lt white viniger
15-20 garlic cloves
2 inch ginger piece
1 tsp turmeric powder
24 dry red chillies
4 tsp cumin seeds
7 tbsp oil
salt to taste

Method

Wash,shell and de-vein the prawns.Pat them dry,rub some salt and turmeric powder into the prawn and marinate for an hour.
Grind red chillies,ginger,garlic and cumin seed into thick paste by adding little vinegar.
Heat four tbsp of oil on medium flame and fry prawns till golden brown in colour.Drain and cool.
fry the spice paste with three tbsp of oil,tillthe oil begins to seperate from it.
Now add the remaining vinegar and cook on a medium flame for 15 min.
Place the prawn in a pickling jar and pour the cooled spice mix over them.
Mix well and allow to rest for a few days before eating.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Yummy Fish Fillet pickle





Ingredients



1 kg Fish fillet
1 kg Onion
15 Gren chillies
200 gm Garlic
100 gm Ginger
3 tbsp Chilli powder
6 tbsp Coriander powder
1 tsp Turmeric powder
2 tbsp Pepper powder
1 tsp Fenugreek powder
1 lt vinegar
Salt to taste
2 cup oil

Method

Cut fish into cube shape.Add tumeric,chilli powder and salt and marinate for 1 hr.
Heat oil .Fry chopped onion till brown and crisp.Transfer into dry vessel.Fry ginger,garlic and green chillies and then fry fish pieces and keep aside.
To the rest of the oil add coriander powder,pepper powder and fry till crisp.
Now add the fried onion ginger garlic,chillies and mix.Add vinegar and bring to boilon a slow flame.Add fish and stir.
When it thick add fenugreek powder and keep covered.
Store in dry jars.