Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Dhal Makhani

One more famous dish from the Northern part of India "Dhal Makhani"

Ingredients
Whole Black Gram 1/2 cup soaked and cleaned
While Green Gram 1/4 cup soaked and cleaned
few Red kidney beans soaked and cleaned
Onion -1  big size
Tomato - 1 medium size
2 garlic cloves
pinch of ginger
Dhal makhani masala - 1 tea spoon
Green chillies
Cumin seeds
Cream cheese
Water
Salt
Turmeric
oil
Cumin seeds

Preparation:
1. First take all three dals pressure cook for one whistle on low medium flame.
2. Take a kadai pour butter or oil add cumin seeds, garlic and curry leaves.
3. Now add onion slices and Chilli to it fry it well.
4.Add tomato and pinch of gingerfry it well.
5.Switch off the flame and mash the ingrdients.
6. Take the same kadai pour the mashed masala and fry it again.
7. Add Pressure cooked dhals to it add Dhal makhani masala to it.
8. Chilli powder, turmeric, salt, coriander powder mix it well and if required add the water.
9. Let cook it under low flame for few minutes and at last garnish with coriander leaves..

Serve hot with Roti or Parota

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Indian style Veg Sandwiches with Western style Chicken Sausages

Serving Size 3 people

Ingredients
6 Whole Grain Sandwich Bread slices
2 potatoes
1 Small red onion cut into long thin slcies
pinch ginger
cumin seeds
curry leaves few
mustard seeds few
green chilli -1 cut into thin circles
1 small toamto (optional)
Coriander leaves  few
oil - 1/4 tea spoon
salt
Turmeric
pinch of Garam Masala (for flavour)
pepper powder (According to their spice level)
Sandwich Press for making the Sandwiches
3 Chicken Sausages
Ketchup for dipping

Preparation:
1. Make a veg Curry for stuffing the sandwiches
a. Boil the potatoes and mash it well.
b. Take a vessel pour oil once oil getting hot add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, ginger, onion slices, chilli slices fry it well.
c. Once onion get fried add mashed potato and tomato salt, turmeric, pepper mix well and at last garnish with coriander leaves .
2.Take a Sandwich presser keep the one slice of bread and spread the potato stuff and cover with the other bread slice and close the sandwich presser and once it get ready take it out from the press.
3. Coming to Chicken Sausages u will get these sausages in the super markets once it come to room temperature either grill on the Grilling or else take a tawa keep the flame on lower medium and once it get heat tawa the sausages and serve hot with the sandwich and sausages with ketchup or Ranch..

Healthy and Tasty food to small kids... and very Quick dinner to Adults..

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Chicken Kebabs

This is for the Non-Veg people...

Ingredients
1 kg Breast meat of Chicken
BBQ satay marinade Sauce
Garlic
white pepper
salt
lime juice
2 table spoons of curd
lime leaves
Mint flakes
Italian Mixed Herbs
olive oil
Bamboo Sticks
1 Red Onion
Bell Peppers

Preparation:
1. Soak the Bamboo sticks in Warm water for 20 minutes.
2. Cut the meat into long thin slices to arrange on Bamboo sticks.
3. Marinate the Meat with all the ingredients except onion and bell peppers.
4. Keep inside the fridge fro 20 to 30 minutes.
5. Sort color wise.


Preheat the grill and grill it on hot plate grill atleast 15 minutes both sides...


Enjoy

Paneer Satays

These kebabs came very yummy..
Ingredients
1 whole paneer cut into big square size cubes
lime leaves
Crushed Garlic
white pepper
salt
lime juice
Oregano herbs
Kasoori methi
1 red onion
bell peppers
olive oil
Barbecue Satay Sauce - 1 1/2 Tea spoon
Bamboo Sticks

Prepartion:
1. Take a bowl 1 tea spoon olive oil, add garlic, lall ingredients except onion and bell peppers marinate the Paneer for 20 minutes inside the fridge with closed lid.
2. Soak the Bamboo Sticks in warm water for 20 minutes.
3. Take onion and bell peppers nice cut into long big slices to arrange on Bamboo Sticks.
4. Now Arrange the Satay like this...(See below picture)


5. If u don't have these herbs add other combination like Lemon grass, mint flakes..
6. Pre heat the Grill now and arrange the stays for 10 min each side.
Serve with BBQ sauce... or Ranch


Saturday, September 10, 2011

Gulab Jamoon

First of all i have to say thanks to one my friend "Mythili". She made this one on Vinayaka Chaturdhi awesome i tried it and got the recipe form her with bit changes.

Ingredients
1 whole bowl of Milk Powder
1/3 bowl of Self raising Flour
pinch of Baking soda
saffron - pinch
Cardamon -4
1 bowl of sugar
1 1/2 bowl of Water
Light Thickened Milk
Rose Water
Oil


Note: u can substitute Bowl in terms of Cups also.. I use Bowl that perfect to my family size..


Preparation:
1. Take a wide Non -stick Vessel and pour water, cardamon, saffron (2 cloves make a powder and 2 put as it is), water make a syrup until u get white bubbles (that is perfect ration of syrup). Turn off the flame.
2. Take a steel vessel pout the powder, baking soda, flour and mix with the help of Milk and ferment for 5 -10 minutes on closed lid.
3. Take a Kadai pour oil and make a sall size of balls and fry it on oil under low flame until it turns golden brown and shift into syrup.

Enjoy Gulab Jamoon

Indonesian Baked Whole Red Snapper Fish

Finally i tried Indonesian Fish recipe it tastes yummy

Ingredients

Fresh chives few
garlic crushed 4 cloves
ginger crushed 2 inches
salt (required)
Pepper (required)
olive oil
Chilli powder - 1 tea spoon
Coriander powder
Cumin powder
soya Sauce 2 tea spoons
Fish sauce -1 table spoon
2 red Dried Chillies remove the seeds
1 1/2 Kg Whole Red Snapper Fish
1 banana leaf
Foil Sheet
Braking Tray

Preparation:
1. Clean the red Snapper like removing all scalps, trim the tail, and head.
2. Take a boil add 1 tea spoon olive oil add all the ingredients. (just leave few fish sauce, red chillies, Few drops of soya sauce, and 1/2 potion of ginger and garlic ..for last touch up garnishing)
3. Marinate the fish masala and cover with Bana leaf and again cover with foil sheet and put inside the fridege for 1 hour.
4. Pre heat the oven 200 degrees for 10 minutes and take the baking tray sprinkle olive oil and put the fish and bake it for 20 minutes with the Banana leaf.
5. Now the Remove the banana leaf and bake again 20 - 30 minutes on 150 degree oven heat..
6. Garnishing Take a kadai put the ginger garlic, red chilli, fish sauce , soy sauce few drops water, boil it few seconds and garnish on top of the baked fish serve with the nice bread rolls .

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Shell Sweet or Gavallu

I missing my mom made food during the time of festivals...

Ingredients
1/2 kg All purpose flour
1 1/2 table spoon ghee or butter
1 liter oil
salt
jaggery
elachi

Preparation:
1. Take all purpose flour and add pinch of salt to the flour and add ghee mash it well.
2. Add litttle by little water to make dough chapthi dough.
3. Now take a Fork or new comb and use small size of dough  press on it to make a shell shape  and keep in the plate. If ou are using Fork use other side of the fork.
4. Fry all the shell shape dough in oil until it turn Golden color under medium to low flame.
5. Some people make Sugar syrup but i use jaggery syrup bcoz my mom used that.
6. Making syrup add 1/2 glass of water to the kadai with elachi and once the water starts boil add crushed jaggery to it and make thick syrup.
7. Once syrup is done shift the kadai the syrup should be warm not hot or cold, pour all the shells and mix well until all shells coat well.

The shell sweet is ready