Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The Ultimate Roast Chicken
Try with Easy Potato Gratin!
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Dum ka kukkar
Ingredients
- Chicken 1 kg 12 pieces
- Ginger garlic paste 2 tbsp
- Onion brown ½ cup coarsely grinded
- Turmeric ½ tsp
- Chili powder 2 tsp
- Fennel powder ½ tsp heaped
- Yogurt ½ tsp
- Cumin roasted and crushed 1 tsp
- Clove s 6
- Oil ½ cup
- Salt 1 tsp heaped
- Marinate chicken with salt, chili powder, cumin, fennel powder, ginger garlic and yogurt for 1 hour heat oil add cloves, put chicken with marination, brown onion, cover and cook till done and thick gravy left, serve hot with rice or roti.
Monday, May 19, 2014
SANDRAS SPICY SWEET and SOUR SMOKED MINI FRANKS
I just love playing with my food, and these sweet and sour mini-franks allow you to do just that... |
(Appx. 4 doz. mini-franks)
Prep: 3 Mins. |
Slow Cook: 2 hrs. on LOW
Posted by Sandra
INGREDIENTS
2 (8 oz. pkgs.) smoked cocktail mini-franks
1/2 jarred chili sauce (or click here for: Homemade Chili Sauce)
½ cup apricot preserves
1/2 teaspoon sriracha sauce
--(Asian hot pepper sauce), or Tabasco
--Toasted french baguette slices
METHOD
Add mini-franks to a slow cooker set to LOW. Whisk all remaining ingredients in a small bowl, (taste for spiciness, adding more sriracha if desired) and add sauce to slow cooker; gently mixing to coat the mini-franks, cover, and cook for 2 hours.
Serve warm or at room temperature with cocktail picks, and baguette slices. – enjoy!
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Tip: These are a hoot to serve as mini hot dog sliders, with assorted condiments as well! At times, I also just cut up brats into thirds as an alternative = Yummo!
Sunday, May 18, 2014
Having a Hard Time Getting to the Big Easy
Saturday, May 17, 2014
Butternut Squash Feta Cheese and Roasted Pepper Quiche
In the end my recipe is a kind of combination of a couple of different recipes. Some of the butternut squash flans were made by pureeing or squishing the squash! A bit like pumpkin pie, no texture, yuk!
My shortcrust pastry comes, as usual, from the Avoca Cookbook I have blogged it before HERE
Friday, May 16, 2014
Ridge gourd peel tomato chutney Beerakaya Thokku Tomato Pachadi
- In a vessel on medium heat add 1 tsp of oil and add ridge gourd peel and fry for 4-5mins.
- Add green chillies, garlic, coriander leaves and sauté for a min and keep it aside.
- In the same vessel add another 1 tsp of oil and fry the chopped tomato and fry till the tomato becomes soft.
- Once cooled grind all the above sautéed ingredients along with tamarind, jeera and salt.
- For reasoning heat a tsp of oil in a vessel and add mustard seeds, urad dal and jeera.
- After they splutter add curry leaves, red chillies, hing and stir for 2-3seconds.
- Add the reasoning to the grounded paste and serve with rice or dosas.
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Kosamalli
Brinjal-4
Potato-1
Small onions nicely chopped-20(if not available big onion -1)
Tomato-1 (big)
Green chillies-6
Red chilies-(2)
Tamarind - a very small piece (half the quantity that we use for sambar)
Coriander leaves-2 table spoon
Procedure
Cut the brinjal and potato into 4 pieces each and pressure cook for 8 minutes.
After the pressure goes open the cooker and peel the skin of both brinjal and potato. smash them.
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
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Tuesday, May 13, 2014
Radish Fried Rice
You could use any kind of daikon or lo-bak radish for this. Mine were a large watermelon radish - this was the one that needed peeling - a Blauer Herbst radish, and a couple of China Rose. Yes, I went on a radish seed buying binge last spring. No, I didnt know what to do with all those radishes. But so far, so good. Ill be sure to plant lots next year too.
We ate it all, but it was all I made. And were pigs too, of course.
2 to 4 servings
30 minute prep time
5 to 6 cups grated radish
1 medium carrot, grated
2 stalks celery (OR 2 cups grated celeriac)
1 medium onion (OR 3 or 4 green onions)
12-16 shiitake mushrooms
1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
250 grams (1/2 pound) bacon
3 cups cold cooked rice
1 or 2 tablespoons soy sauce
Wash the radishes, and trim off the tough stringy parts of the roots, along with any damaged spots. Peel off any skin that seems really tough. (Only likely to be a problem with home-grown radishes I suspect.) Grate the radishes.
Peel and grate the carrot and celeriac, or if using celery, wash and chop it. Peel and chop the onion or green onions. Trim the stems from the shiitakes and cut them in quarters. Mince the ginger. Chop the bacon into bite-sized pieces.
Heat a large skillet or wok and cook the bacon until it is soft and has let off enough fat to coat the pan. (Add a little oil if your bacon is too lean to do that - ha ha! But it has happened.) Add the mushrooms and sauté them for a minute or two. Add the onion (but not the green onions, if using) and the celery and carrot. Cook, stirring for a minute or two. Add the radishes and ginger and continue cooking and stirring, until soft; just a few minutes.
Using wet hands, break up the rice as much as you can and add it to the pan. Rinse those fingers quickly then start stirring in the rice, breaking it up so no significant lumps remain. Add the green onions, if you are using those. Sprinkle over a little soy sauce. When the rice and vegetables are well mixed and the rice is beginning to brown in spots, serve it up; youre done.
Last year at this time I made Stir-Fried Cabbage & Carrots.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Please Nominate Chef John for a 2012 Tasty Award!
Sunday, May 11, 2014
White Balanced Brie with Ripe Pear and Black Pepper
This masterpiece of French engineering is finished with a few turns of freshly ground black pepper, and eaten in close proximity to a glass of red wine; truly one of lifes great culinary pleasures.
Saturday, May 10, 2014
Follow the Sourdough Day 6 And Then He Waited
Photo © RBerteig
Friday, May 9, 2014
Weekend breakfast blogging 3 Green omlette
Eggs, olive oil, herbs, onions, spinach, pepper, wonderful focassia bread, and not to forget, a ripe juicy papaya...Well, Im not penning the lyrics of These are a few of my favourite things-Part deux !
These were the ingredients of our Sunday morning breakfast today. I love fritattas- the way they look like a pizza when they come out of the oven- all topped with cheesy goodness. Also because one can eat them either hot or cold, and at any time of the day.
Since I have a small sized oven into which my regular saucepans cant fit, I can only make a stuffed omlette-kinda, non-baked version of the fritatta.
Update: We do get a super range of breads in Bombay nowadays-whole wheat, multigrain, focassia, ciabatta, stuffed with sun dried tomatoes and olives- you name it we get it.
There is this cafe thats opened in the new Juhu Shoppers Stop. Yes, Shoppers is coming up with an attached cafe at many of its branches. These cafes serve a wide range of Indian and world coffees, a variety of sumptous sandwiches, thin crust pizzas, pastas,crepes, tiramisus, biscottis, must mention their blueberry cheesecake. Ooooh ! I can already feel the calorie count zooming!!
Talking about the bread, they sell freshly baked bread in all the varieties that i mentioned earlier. I do have some beautiful pictures of Cafe Brio (courtesy my friend Manoj) which I shall upload in my next post.
Getting back to my Weekend Breakfast Blogging # 3, its Breakfast for 2- Green Omlette with Focassia bread and sliced papaya.
Ingredients for the Green Omlette:
3 eggs
1/3 cup-chopped spinach
1 medium sized onion-sliced
5-6 green pitted olives
1 jalapeno / green chilli - sliced(if you like the spicy kick)
1 tsp mixed dried herbs ( I used oregano and basil )
3-4 Fresh basil leaves-torn
3 cloves garlic-finely chopped (you can use fresh green garlic leaves instead)
freshly ground black pepper
2 T milk
salt to taste
1 T Olive oil
Method:
Heat the oil on a non-stick pan. Add the garlic, onions, spinach with a pinch of salt. Saute for 2 min, until spinach wilts and onions soften. Remove onto a plate and cool.
In a bowl, break 3 eggs. Add milk, salt, herbs, freshly ground black pepper, jalapeno, olives. Beat well. To this, add the sauted spinach-onions. Beat some more.
Keep a 9" non-stick pan on medium flame. Coat the pan with some olive oil. Pour the beaten egg mixture to the pan. Slightly move around the mixture, so that the liquidy part fills the gaps. Keep doing this until the omlette starts solidifying. Reduce the flame, and cover with a lid for 30 seconds. The omlette will fluff up considerably and the lower side would have turned golden.
Flip it over carefully and cook the other side until golden brown too. Once done, remove onto a plate immediately. Serve warm with toasted bread and fruit.
Note:
You can use any of the bell peppers, sun dried tomatoes, roasted pepper in this recipe. I would generally use only the whites but being a Sunday, i decided to give the health-freak in me, a holiday too!
Thursday, May 8, 2014
The Gluten Free Diet Cheat Sheet How to Go G Free
How to Begin a Gluten-Free Diet
Foods to avoid:
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
The Beauty Industry is Taking All Your Money
I mean, just look at it! You can see all the way down. *Shakes head* What I do for beauty.
Does anyone else do this? What are you supposed to do to make it smooth and flat in the container? How many wears are you able to get from the stuff you scoop out???
Monday, May 5, 2014
Gateau St Honore
Ingredients
- Ingredients for choux pastry
- Butter 200g
- Water 400g
- Flour 200g
- Salt a pinch
- Eggs 4 to 5
- Vanilla custard 1cup
- Fresh cream whipped 1 cup
- Ingredients for caramel
- Sugar 1 cup
- Preheats oven at 200C, On a floured board, spread the prepared choux pastry into a thin sheet. With the help of a pizza cutter cut into a 10 inch circle. Transfer the circle to a greased baking tray ,Fill the remaining choux pastry into a pastry bag and pipe a line of choux around the edge of the sheet.
- Next, on a separate greased baking tray, pipe about small puffs.. Bake both sheets for 10 minutes until golden brown in color. Remove from the oven and allow to cool.
- Whip cream and fold in the vanilla custard. Place bowl in freezer for 20 minutes
- Melt the sugar in a saucepan. Heat the sugar until dissolved into a syrup then bring to the boil without stirring and cook until the mixture caramelises, turning a light golden colour.Fill the piping bag with the prepared filling and fill the profiteroles.
- Now drizzle the liquid caramel on the first layer of profiteroles on the base layer.Pl ace a second round of choux over the first, like build a wall, securing with more caramel Continue in this fashion until all the filled pastries are used. Fill the center of the "wall" with whipped cream and garnish with chocolate curls.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Perfect French Baguette at Home – Only Impossible If You Don’t Try It
I’d explain about the water, the flour, the centuries old starters, and the steam-injected ovens. I told them what I’d been told; that it was simply impossible, or as the French say, "impossible!"
(Note: if you want to use a traditional bread technique, add the whole package of yeast (2 1/4 tsp) and proceed as usual)
Saturday, May 3, 2014
PUMPKIN SPICE CUPCAKES
In a large bowl, mix together with a whisk:
(1) 15 ounce can of pumpkin (not pie filling)
1 2/3 cup of granulated sugar
1 cup vegetable oil
4 eggs
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
(scant) 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
(scant) 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Whisk together until very well mixed, then add:
2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
Mix well, then stir in 1/2 cup of raisins (optional).
Fill cupcake papers 3/4 full. Bake in a 350 oven for 23-25 minutes (my electric oven takes 23 minutes) or until toothpick tests clean. Remove and cool.
After the cupcakes have cooled, dust the tops with powdered sugar or frost with your favorite frosting.
Melt 3 tablespoons butter; add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract and 1/2 teaspoon maple extract.
Add 1 to 1½ cups of powdered sugar and a couple tablespoons of cream. Whisk till smooth. If it seems a little to dry, add another tablespoon of cream. If it seems a little too wet, had another spoon of powdered sugar.
Friday, May 2, 2014
Ambada Gosht
INGREDIENTS Ambada 1big bunch Mutton with bones 1/4th kilo Onions 1big Ginger-Garlic paste 2Tbpns loung 2 Dalchi 1 Tomatoes 4 Kasuri methi 2 handfuls Red chilli pwdr 2Tspns Turmeric pwdr 1/4th Tspn Green Chillies 6 METHOD
- Heat 5Tbspns of oil in a cooker and add loung,patta,later add sliced onions and fry to golden brown in colour.
- Add ginger-garlic paste and fry till it turns little brown
- Add tomatoes and cook till they get mashed
- Add mutton,salt,red chilli pwdr,turmeric pwdr,green chillies and kasuri methi with 1 and 1/2 cups of water and pressure cook for 15mins on low flame.
- In a different vessel add the ambada leaves and puit salt and 2 green chilles together with 1 glass of water and condense till all the water evaporates.
- Hand grind ambada with dal-ghotni(or put in grinder)
- Add this ambada paste to gosh and cook on low flame till the consistency is a bit thick.
COMBINATIONS
Papads,Shami kabab,tuna cutlets.
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Marzipan Cookies
Ingredients
- Almond ground 200 gm
- Icing sugar 100 gm
- Egg yolk 2
- Vanilla essence few drops
- Baking powder ½ tsp
- Butter 2 tbsp
- Flour 2 tbsp
- Milk 4 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Boil 200 gm almonds and remove their skin.Now grind finely and remove in a bowl, add in 100 gm icing sugar, 2 egg yolks, few drops of vanilla essence, ½ tsp baking powder, 2 tbsp butter, 2 tbsp flour, 4 tbsp milk and salt to taste. Knead to dough and keep aside.
- Now make small balls, make cookies and put in a greased oven proof dish.Bake in a preheated oven on 200 degrees for 8 – 10 minutes.Then remove from oven and serve.
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Irish mutton cutlets
Ingredients
- Mince ½ kg
- Onion 1 chopped
- Ginger garlic 1 tsp
- Water 1 cup
- Bread 2 slices
- Green chilies 2 chopped
- Salt 1 tsp
- Black pepper 1 tsp
- Mustard powder ½ tsp
- Crushed red pepper 1 tsp
- Egg 1
- Dry bread crumbs as required
- Wooster sauce 2 tbsp
- Coriander leaves 2 tbsp
- Oil for frying
- In a pan cook mince with chopped onion, ginger garlic paste, chopped onion, salt and water till tender and dry, mix in the mince, bread slices, green chilies, Wooster sauce, coriander leaves mix well, make oval shape cutlets, dip into beaten eggs coat with dry bread crumbs, fry golden brown.
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Dahi baray
Ingredients
- Mash ki daal 1 cup
- Moong ki daal ½ cup soaked for 6 hours
- Ginger 1 inch piece
- Crushed red pepper 1 tsp
- White cumin ½ tsp
- Baking soda ½ tsp
- Yogurt 1 kg
- Sugar 2 tbsp
- Salt ½ tsp
- Crushed cumin ½ tsp
- Crushed red pepper 1 tsp
- Blend the soaked daal with ginger, crushed red pepper, cumin and salt, just before frying add soda, beat well, heat oil and fry into small balls till light golden, remove and cool completely then soaked in warm water for 30 minutes, beat yogurt with salt, crushed cumin, crushed red pepper, take 1 cup yogurt, mix with ½ cup milk, wheat add your soaked well pressed dahi baras into the yogurt with milk, put this into a paltter, pour remaining thick yogurt on top, drizzle with khatti methi chatni, garnish with chat masala, crushed red pepper and coriander leaves.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Stuffed Peppers with Bulgur Bulgurlu Biber Dolması
This dolma recipe is definitely for those who love bulgur. If you dont like bulgur, then your recipe for stuffed peppers is this one. On the other hand, if you like bulgur, this is a great recipe with fresh herbs and refreshing lemon zest.
5-6 small bell peppers (do not use those huge American bell peppers; they have really thick skin, are too big for stuffing, and most important of all are not flavorsome)
1/2 cup coarse bulgur
1 big onion, finely chopped
1/2 bunch green onions, chopped
1/2 bunch dill chopped
1-2 tsp mint flakes
2 long green chilies like anaheims, chopped
4 medium tomatoes, petite diced
approximately 1 tsp lemon zest
1/3 cup olive oil
1 tsp crushed peppers
salt
water
-Take the tops of bell peppers. Take the seeds out, wash and rinse.
-Saute onion, green onion, and chilies with 1/4 olive oil for 5-6 minutes.
-Add bulgur, tomato, dill, lemon zest, salt, and crushed peppers. Stir for a minutes. Add 1/3 cup hot water. Cover and cook until bulgur soaks all the water.
-Stuff bell peppers with bulgur mix. Place in a pot facing up.
-Pour hot water half way through peppers. Scatter rest of the olive oil. First bring to a boil and then cover and simmer on low for half an hour.
-Serve warm with yogurt.
This dolma recipe is for Weekend Herb Blogging for the enriching contribution of fresh dill. WHB is founded by Kalyn and is hosted by Ulrike of Kuchenlatein.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Chettinad Mutton Chukka chettinad mutton dry
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Easy Honey Cake
Ingredients:
8 eggs
1 cup sugar
6 oz honey
1 teaspoon baking soda pour vinegar on top
2.5 cups flour
Frosting
1 stick butter
1 cup powered sugar
24 oz sour cream
16 oz cool whip
Chocolate
1 stick butter
8 tablespoons milk
8 tablespoons sugar
6 tablespoons baking cocoa powder
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Whip eggs with sugar for 10 min until fluffy.
Add honey and baking soda. Mix on slow.
Mix in flour by hand. This is the key for fluffy cake.
It will look bubbly. Use 10 in baking pan. It makes 3 layers large cake. Or make 2 small ones.
Bake on 300F until brown.The way to check if its ready is touch the top of cake with finger and if the dough comes up, its ready.
To make cream mix butter until soft.
Add powdered sugar, mix and add 2 tbls sour cream mix well.
Then add all the sour cream, mix.
Add cool whip. Mix well. Now cream is ready.
Start spreading cream on the cake.
Put thick layer of cream.
To make chocolate melt butter add milk.
In a bowl mix sugar with cocoa powder.
Add to butter milk mix, until starts to boil. Use a sifter when putting cocoa powder with sugar.
Mix well and turn off the stove.
Then pour it on the cake.
You can spread cream a different way.
Enjoy!!!
Entered my cake at Will cook for smiles