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
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Labels: dried fruit recipes, Sweets
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.
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Labels: Chicken Recipes
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Cottage cheese and yoghurt mousse
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.
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Labels: Sweets
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.
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Labels: Pickles, prawn recipes
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.
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Labels: Pickles
fettucini with broccoli and chicken
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Labels: chicken
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Paneer Ki Kheer
2 Lt. Milk,
200 gms Paneer crushed,
1/4 tin milkmaid,
1 cup broken dry fruit (Almond,Cashew and Raisins),
2 pinches kesar,
1/2cup sugar
Method:
Boil milk on medium flame and reduce to almost half.
Then add paneer into it. Add milkmaid than add half of the dry friut & kesar in it and cook for 2 min. Cool a bit .Put kheer into serving dish and add remaining dry fruit. Cool that mixture in fridge for an hour or two.
Serve for 5 persons.
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Labels: paneer recipes, Sweets
Jumbo prawn tikka kebab
INGREDIENTS:
16 oz. jumbo prawns
1 onion, coarsely chopped
½ cup oil
1 cup lemon juice
1 cup natural yogurt
½ cup Tikka paste or sauce
METHOD:
Combine onion, oil, lemon juice, yogurt and Tikkapaste or sauce. Add jumbo prawns and coat thoroughly. Cover and chill for 5 hours.
Preheat grill to hot. Using metal skewers, pierce centers of each piece until full.
Balance skewers on a grill pan and cook for atleast 5 minutes each side, or until juices run clean.
Serve hot with a spinach salad.
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Labels: Grilled recipes, prawn recipes
Skewered chicken with peanut sauce
Ingredients
8 boneless skinless chicken breast halves, cut into cubes
1/2 cup soy sauce
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
1/4 cup lime juice
2 tablespoons crunchy peanut butter
2 tsp curry powder
2 garlic cloves
1 tsp dried red chili pepper flakes
1 tsp cumin
24 bamboo skewers
For Peanut sauce:
3/4 cup coconut milk
1/2 cup crunchy peanut butter
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp brown sugar
2 garlic cloves
1 tsp grated ginger
1 tsp crushed red pepper
1/2 cup heavy cream
Method
Combine all ingredients in a shallow dish for marination.
Thread chicken through skewers and place in marinade;refrigerate for one hour or overnight for an intense flavour.
To Grill: Prepare a covered grill for direct grilling.Arrange chicken on the grill, turning several times and basting with marinade until crispy on the outside and cooked through inside.
Garnish with cilantro and serve with the peanut sauce.
For the peanut sauce: In a medium saucepan overmedium heat combine all the ingredients except for the heavy cream. Stir constantly until the sauce is as thick as the cream, about ten minutes. Transfer to a food processor and puree briefly. Add the cream and blend until smooth. Serve at room temperature or slightly warm.
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Labels: Chicken Recipes, Grilled recipes
Monday, January 12, 2009
Chicken and Lamb balls with pita
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Labels: Chicken Recipes, Mutton Recipes
Mixed Fruit Sizzle
Ingredients
1can canned pineapples
2 apples peeled
2 bananas peeled
1 muskmelon
Any other fruit of individual choice
1/2 cup lemon marinate (use syrup of pineapple insteadof water)
Method
Cut pineapple and peeled apple into square shape. Cut banana in 1" thick slices.Cut muskmelon into 10 inch sized cubes and cut other fruits also in desired size.
Drizzle the marinate on all fruit and toss lightly. Keep aside for 10-15 minutes.
Poke each fruit one by one into skewer.
Grill skewers over a barbeque fire or in an oven.
Serve sizzling hot.
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Labels: Baked foods, fruits
Lasan (Garlic) Ni Chutney
Ingredients
20 cloves Fresh Garlic
2 teaspoons of Chillie powder (or according to taste)
1/2 teaspoon of salt (or according to taste)
2 teaspoons of vegetable oil
Method
Peel and grind the garlic until it is a paste.
Add the chillie power, salt and oil to the garlic. Mix again thoroughly.
You should have a thick, but smooth paste Enjoy the chutney in a variety of ways.
chutney should be stored in an airtight containerin the fridge or a cool, dark place. If stored in thefridge, it will last as long as it is not eaten up!
Uses: Mix a little chutney with some yogurt and use as adip.
Add a little more oil to the chutney so it is more'loose' in consistency, to marinade paneer, potatoes,mushrooms and other vegetables for a barbecue.
The chutney tastes great when eaten with hot rotis,rotlas, parantha, puris, bhakharis, naan etc etc.
The chutney can also be used in cooking, wherechillie, garlic and salt are required (just rememberto omit the chillie, salt and garlic the recipe asksfor!)
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Labels: Chutney
Friday, January 9, 2009
Masoor dal Kabab
Ingredients
1 cup masoor dal(soaked overnight)
1 boiled potato medium size
1 onion(finely chopped,medium size)
1 inch ginger(grated)
1to2 green chillies finely chopped
1tsp garlic finely chopped
salt and red chillipowder to taste
1/2 tsp roasted cumin powder
1tbsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp garam masala
1/2 tsp chaat masala
Method:
coarsely grind masoor dal.
Add mashed potato,onion,ginger,garlic,green chillies and other ingrediants.
make kababs out of the dough and shallow fry.
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Labels: Veg recipes
No cooking yummy Kulfi
Ingredients
1 can condensed milk
1 can evaporated milk
1 pint heavy whipping cream
Method
Churn all the ingrediants in a food processor/ mixer for a couple minutes and fill into kulfi molds and set for a few hours.
Alternatives: Kesar Kulfi- add some kesar while churning. Mango Kulfi- Add a few tea spoons of mango pulp while churning
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Labels: Sweets
Pasta salad with Mayonaise dressing
Ingredients
200gms Pasta (any design)
2 heapful Mayonaise
1/2 cup shreded Cabbage
1/2 cup thinly sliced carrot
Method
Cook pasta with little salt till it well done.Drain and keep aside.
Mix all the ingredients well with cooled pasta.
Garnish with coriander.
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Labels: Salad
Fried Chicken with white sesame seed
Ingredients
150gms Chicken
150gms cornflour
4 tsp grounded red chilli paste
50gms white sesame seed
2 tsp grounded garlic paste
Method
Marinate all the ingredients with chicken for 2 hrs.
Deep fry it hot oil.
Serve hot.
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Labels: Chicken Recipes