Friday, July 8, 2011

Butter Chicken

Chicken - 1 kg
Lime juice - 1
Chilli Powder - 1 Table spoon
Garlic - 6 Cloves
Pepper corns - 8-10
Cinnamon (Karuvapatta) - 1” Stick
Bay Leaves - 2
Almonds - 8-10
Yoghurt - 1 Curd
Cooking oil - 3 Table spoon
Cardamom (Elakaya) - 3-4 pod
Onion- 2 Chopped
Tomato - 2 Chopped
Garlic Paste - 2 Table spoon
Ginger Paste - 1 Tee Spoon
Cumin (Jeeraka) Powder - 1 Tee Spoon
Turmeric Powder - ¼ Tee Spoon
Butter - 3 Table Spoon
Water
Salt
Coriander Leaves - Garnish



First mix the chicken, lime juice, salt and red chilli powder in a large, non-metallic bowl. Cover and allow to marinate for 1 hour.  
Then heat a flat pan on a medium heat and gently roast (stirring frequently) the cloves, peppercorns, cinnamon, bay leaves and almonds till they darken slightly. Cool and add the cardamom seeds. Now grind into a coarse powder. Now mix the yoghurt, above whole spice powder, coriander, cumin and turmeric powders together and add them to the chicken. Allow to marinate for another hour. 

Heat the oil in a deep pan on medium heat. When hot, add the onions. Fry till a pale golden brown in color and then add the ginger and garlic pastes. Fry for a minute. Then add only the chicken from the chicken-spice mix and fry till chicken turns opaque and the flesh will go from pink to whitish in color. Now add the tomato paste, chicken stock, and remaining part of the yogurt-spice mix to the chicken.  Cook till the chicken is tender and the gravy is reduced to half its original volume.

Finally melt the butter in another small pan and then pour it over the chicken.

Monday, July 4, 2011

Lemon Tea


To make Lemon Tea the ingredient are:-




Lemon - ½
Sugar - as required
Water - 1glass
Tea dust - 1 ½ spoon


Heat the vessel and on to it pour 1 glass of water and heat it till it boils. On boiling add tea dust and mix it well with sugar. After the TEA has been made we add the Lemon to this. LEMON TEA is thus served

Ginger Lime juice



To make Ginger Lemon Juice the ingredient are:-
 


Lemon - 1
Sugar - 5 tablespoon
Water - 2 glass
Ginger - small piece




This is an easy preparation, wherein the lemon is cut into 2 pieces and the outer part of the lemon is removed lightly (Please note that Not all of the covering is removed). We place it in a mixer-grinder with a small piece of ginger and sugar and water. Now it is mixed well and filtered out.


The delicious GINGER LIME JUICE is ready to serve.

Rava Laddu


To make Rava Laddu the ingredient are:-


Rava - 1 ½ cup
Wheat - ¾ cup
Ghee - ¾ cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Milk - ½ glass
Water - ½ glass
Kismis - 10
Cashew nut - 10


The rava, wheat and sugar is taken separately in the mixer-grinder and mixed well to small pieces. The rava and wheat is fried separately.  The rava is then added to the frying pan in to which the ghee is added and mixed well. To this the wheat is also added. The whole mixture is mixed well. This kept to cool for a while.


The milk is added to the water and heated. This is taken in spoon and added to the above mixture. This then turned in to a round shape and kismis and cashew nut are used to garnish it.


Delicious Rava Laddu is prepared

Cream Of Chicken Soup






To make Cream Of Chicken Soup the ingredient are:-





                                                                                 





Butter - 1 Table Spoon
Flour(Maida) - 1.5 table spoon
Milk - 1.25 Cup
Salt - 1 Teaspoon
Pepper powder -0.25 teaspoon
Celery(Nicely chopped) -1 Tablespoon
Cream - 2 tablespoon
Chicken - 0.25Kg
Bay leaf - 1
 Water - 4.5 cup
               
The nicely chopped chicken, Bay leaf and Water is boiled together in a pressure cooker. After the pressure cooker blows 2 whistle, reduce the flame and keep boiling them for 15-20 minutes. This is done to separate the chicken from its bone. The water used for boiling is the first part of the soup which is filtered out. Now this soup is mixed with chicken piece and is mixed well in a mixer-grinder which is filtered out.
The butter is heated in a pan and when it is hot the flour is added and mixed for 1 min when the milk is added. The chicken soup that we had made is added to this and on boiling we add salt, pepper and celery.
The cream is added to garnish the above soup. Thus CREAM OF CHICKEN SOUP is ready.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Peppy Noodles


To make a delicious Peppy noodles (As I call it) the ingredient are:-





  


Noodles- 2 mini pack
Beans- 5-6
Onion- 2
Carrot- 2
Tomato Ketchup- 2-3 Table Spoons
Pepper- 3 spoons
Chili Powder- 2 table spoons
Turmeric powder- 1 table spoons
Oil- 3 table spoons





Break the Noodles pack and break them in to small pieces and pour 4 cups of water to it and boil them by putting 1 table spoon of chili powder and turmeric powder. Drain the above when the noodles have been boiled.
Place wok in which Oil is heated. Once the oil heated we put 2 table spoons of pepper, nicely grated onions, carrot and beans and then sauté. Now add 2-3 Table spoon of ketchup mix it well and then add 1 cup of water and drained noodles to this. Mix them well and add the Taste Maker too with 1 table spoon of chili powder and pepper powder. Dry the water out and the delicious food is ready to serve.
 Garnish with tomato and Serve…!!!

Garlic Manchurian

To make a delicious Garlic Manchurian the ingredient are:-
 



Garlic- 20 clove
Cauliflower- 250 gm
Chili Powder- 1 Table spoon
Tomato Ketchup- As required
Corn Flower- 1 Tee-spoon
Color (RED)- 1-2 Pinch
Onion- 1






         
                                              
Placing cauliflower in a vessel add a pinch of salt and boil it. Slice the garlic and onion to small pieces and sauté them till they are Brown in color. Add the Chilly powder and Boiled cauliflower to this. Mix the color (RED) with Corn flower in a half glass of water. Add this mixture to the above. Now mix the mixture well and add Tomato Ketchup and wit for 2 min.
Garnish the Above mixture with Coriander Leaves and the Delicious GARLIC MANCHURIAN is ready to serve..

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