Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Ingredients :-
Peanuts : 1 Electric rice cooker cup
Dry red chillies : 12
Cumin seeds : 1/2 tspn
Coriander seeds : 1/2 tspn
Garlic pod : 1 big pod
Salt : 1 tspn
Dry descinated coconut : 1 Tbspn
Preparation :-
- Heat a pan and add peanuts and dry red chillies and fry them nicely till done .
- Then add cumin seeds and coriander seeds and fry for 2 mins and switch off stove.
- Immediately add chopped garlic and descinated coconut and mix nicely. With the little heat available after switching off the stove coconut and garlic gets litely fried .
- After 5 mins transfer this to a plate and let it cool.
- Once it is cooled grind them along with salt and adjust the taste accordingly.
- Store in a dry air tight container and store in a dry place .
- serve this spicy peanut powder with hot rice and a drop of ghee. This will be good for 6 months.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Ingredients :-
Chicken : 1 lb ( boneless)
Coriander seeds : 2 Tbspn
Cloves : 8
Cinnamon : 2" piece
Cardamom : 3
Poppy seeds ( dry fried) : 1 tspn
Garlic : 10 pods
Ginger : equal quantity of garlic
Water : 1 small glass
Turmeric : 1/4 tspn
Salt : 1/4 tspn
Oil : 100ml
Salt : 5 tspn
Paprika : 12 tspn
Mustard Powder : 2 tspn
Fenugreek powder : 1/2 tspn
Lemon : 5
Ingredients for tadka :-
Oil : 100 ml
Dry red chillies : 4
Cumin seeds : 1 tspn
Mustard or vaminta seeds : 1/2 tspn
Curry leaves : 1 sprig
Asafoetida : 1/8 tspn
Preparation :-
- Clean and cut chicken into small pieces.
- Heat a glass of water and bring it to boil . When it comes to boiling point add 1/4 tspn salt and 1/4 tspn turmeric . Add chicken pieces slowly and cook it till done and strain it.
- Dry the chicken pieces on a paper towel for 15 mins.
- In mean time grind coriander seeds , cloves , cardamom , cinnamon and dry fried poppy seeds to a fine powder.
- In second round add ginger and garlic pieces and grind again.
- Now heat a pan add 100 ml of oil and fry boiled chicken pieces till golden brown.
- Now to the fried chicken add grinded paste and fry for 3 mins and switch off stove.
- Take a dry bowl and add salt , paprika , mustard powder and fenugreek powder and mix nicely. Pour these spices on top of chicken and mix nicely.
- Take a bowl and squeeze juice of 5 lemon .
- Once the chicken is cooled add this lemon juice and mix nicely.
- Now heat a sauce pan add 100ml of oil and make tadka by adding dry red chillies , cumin , mustard and asafoetida. Switch off stove and carefully add curry leaves . let this tadka cool completely.
- Add this tadka to chicken and mix nicely.
- Transfer it to a dry storage container. You can sere after a day .
- Serve it with hot rice.
Friday, February 5, 2010
Ingredients :-
Chicken : 1 lb (boneless)
Salt : 1 tspn
Chilly powder : 1/2 tspn
Turmeric : 1/8 tspn
Garam masala powder : 1/4 tspn
Coriander powder : 1/4 tspn
Tandoori chicken masala : 1/2 tspn
Ginger garlic paste : 1/2 tspn
Curd : 1 tbspn
Lemon juice : 2 tspn
Red food color : pinch
Besan flour : 3 tspns
Corn flour : 3 tspns
Preparation :-
- Clean and cut 1 lb of boneless chicken breast in to small pieces ( appx 1 " size).
- To this add salt , chilly powder , turmeric , garam masala powder , coriander powder, tandoori masala , ginger garlic paste , curd , lemon juice and red food color. Mix all and add besan flour and corn flour in equal proportions . The final consistency should be a thick paste that coats chicken nicely.
- Deep fry them in oil till done and take out on a kitchen towel.
- Serve them as snacks with onion and lemon wedges.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Serves : 2 -3 adults
Ingredients :-
For making dough:-
Maida / All purpose flour : 2 cups
Yeast : 1/2 tbspn
Sugar : 1/2 tspn
Salt : 1 tspn
Warm water : 1 cup
Olive oil : 2 tbspn
For dusting :-
Maida : 1 cup
Pizza Sauce :-
1/4 tin of pizza sauce
Toppings :-
Onion : 1 small
Capsicum : 1/2
Pineapple : few chunks
Jalapeno : 1
Mushrooms : 5
Broccoli : 1/4 crown
Preparation :-
- Take 2 cups of all purpose flour also called as maida in a big bowl. To this add salt and mix nicely.
- Take a bowl and add yeast , to this add 1 cup of warm water and sugar(Dont add hot water yeast will die) . Mix nicely and put aside for 10 mins .
- When yeast proofs then add 1tbspn olive oil to the flour and add yeast mixture . Mix nicely and finally add 1tbspn olive oil to the dough and give a good mix. The dough will be sticky so dont worry about it and it should be like that only. Cover the dough with a lid or wet damp cloth and put in a warm place for 1 hr.
- After that if u see the dough it will increase its size atleast double. Punch down the dough and mix nicely . cover it and put again in warm place for 45 mins. After the time elapse punch down the dough .
- Take 1/4 cup of flour on a flour board and take the dough on to the board and make a nice dough and roll it with rolling pin or you can directly spread the dough on the pizza pan. Before spreading pizza dough on the pan sprinkle little corn meal or dry flour s that it prevents the pizza base from sticking to the pan . Once done apply olive oil all over the base and edges. Take a fork and prick it allover.
- Preheat oven to 450 degree F and after it is preheated put this pizza pan in oven and bake for 5 mins and take out.
- Now apply pizza sauce all over the base . I used Trader giotto's pizza sauce . You can use any brand or you can use fresh home made pizza sauce.
- Distribute toppings evenly all over the base.
- Sprinkle mozzarella grated cheese all over the vegetables.
- Drizzle olive oil all over the pizza and put the pan back in the oven.
- When cheese melts and turns light brownish color then switch off oven and pull out the pan carefully .
- Transfer pizza on to a chopping board and cut with a pizza cutter.
- Thought of showing the bottom side of the pizza that browned evenly.
- Serve delicious hot vegetable pizza .
Monday, January 11, 2010
Serves : 2
Basmathi rice : 1&1/2 electric rice cooker cups
Cauliflower : 1/4 of a small cauliflower
Capsicum : 1 small
Carrot : 1
Potato : 1 small
Green peas : 1/2 cup frozen
Tomato : 1 plum
Onion : 1
Green chillies : 2
Garlic : 3 pods
Ginger garlic paste : 1/4 tspn
Cumin : 1/2 tspn
Bay leaf : 2
Pav bhaji masala : 2 tspn
Kitchen king masala : 1 tspn
Garam masala : 1/4 tspn
Salt : 1&1/2 tspn + 1/4 tspn
Water : 1/4 cup
Spring onions : 1 bunch
Red chilly paste : 1 tbspn
Lemon : 1/2
Preparations :-
- Clean rice and add enough water as directed , add 1&1/2 tspn salt and cook till fluffy and cool it.
- Chop onion , slit green chillies , chop cauliflower , capsicum , carrot , potato, spring onions , garlic and tomato .
- Heat a wok add 1 inch cube butter and 2 tbspn oil and when hot add cumin seeds , bay leaves, finely chopped garlic and green chillies.
- Then add onions and fry till half done and add ginger garlic paste.
- Add all veggies except tomato ,mix them and add 1/4 tspn salt and fry them till they are cooked. Check whether veggies are cooked by piercing laddle into a potato piece .
- Once they are cooked add tomato and add pav bhaji masala , kitchen king masala and garam masala and fry for a minute, add red chilly paste and add water . Adding little water helps in producing enough moist , helps in better mixing of masalas to veggies and helps in not getting burnt to the bottom. Add spring onions and dont mix it.
- Immediately add rice and give a good mix. Squeeze lemon juice and mix gently. When Rice turns hot switch off stove and serve hot.
- If u like u can serve it with raitha but i like it as it is.
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