Sunday, September 5, 2010

Chicken Chili

  Ingredients
For Chicken Marination
• Boneless Chicken: 1 cup (Cubes)
• Salt: ½ Teaspoon
• Black Pepper: ½ Teaspoon
• Soya Sauce: 1 Teaspoon

For Batter
• Egg: 1
• Corn flour: 2 Tablespoon
• Flour: 2 Tablespoon
• Salt: ½ Teaspoon
• Baking Powder: ½ Teaspoon
• Soya Sauce: 1 Tablespoon

For Curry
• Onion: 1 (Cut in Squares)
• Green Chilies: 2-3
• Oil: 2 Tablespoons
• Chicken Stock: 1 Cup
• Tomato Ketchup: ½ Cup
• Soya Sauce: 2 Teaspoons
• Chili Sauce: 2 Teaspoons
• White Vinegar: 2 Teaspoons
• Sugar 3 Tablespoons
• Corn flour: 1Tablespoon

Method

• Combine all the ingredients for chicken marination and leave for 30 minutes.
• Now in a bowl combine all the ingredients for batter.
• Dip marinated chicken pieces in the batter and deep fry on low flame.
• In a sauce pan add oil and sauté onions. Add green chilies and sauté it too.
• Put in chicken stock, ketchup and all the spices for curry into the pan and make the mixture boiled.
• While serving slowly add corn flour (dissolved in water) into the curry. This will thicken the curry. You can add more corn flour to achieve your desired consistency.
• Place fried chicken into the serving dish and pour the curry over it.
• Sizzling chicken chili is ready to eat. Serve it with fried rice.

Friday, September 3, 2010

Pancakes

Ingredients
• Milk: 1¼ Cups
• Flour: 1 Cup
• Eggs; 2 (Separated)
• A pinch of salth and black pepper or 2 table spoons of icing sugar  

Method

• Mix milk, flour, egg yolks with a beater until smooth. Then allow it to stand for atleast 30 minutes.
• Add salt and pepper if you want to make salty pancakes or add sugar for sweet pancakes.
• Beat the egg whites until soft peaks form.
• Gently fold egg whites into the batter.
• Heat a frying pan with 3-4 drops of oil.
• Stir the batter gently, and then pour one serving spoon on the pan. Roll the pan to spread it evenly.
• Cook until just brown underneath, then turn and brown the other side. Stack the pancakes and keep warm.
• Serve with honey or chocolate syrup or salth garlic mayo sauce.

Walnut Pie

Ingredients

For Dough
• Flour: 2 cups
• Baking Powder: 1 teaspoon
• Oil: ¼ Cup
• Milk: ¼ Cup
• Sugar: 2 Tablespoons
• Salt: A Pinch
• Egg: 1 Slightly beaten ( Save some for glazing)

For Filling
• Cream: 1 Packet
• Sugar: 2 Tablespoons
• Honey: 2 Tablespoons
• Cocoa Powder: Tablespoon (Optional)
• Walnut: 1 Cup

Method
• Combine all the ingredients of dough and mix well. Add some water if necessary. Refrigerate it for 30 minutes.
• Preheat Oven at 200 Celsius.
• Now in a saucepan mix all ingredients for filling. When the mixture thickens, remove it from flame.
• Cover the pie dish by rolling out some dough.
• Put the filling inside the pastry and cover the top by the remaining dough. Carefully attach the sides of the pastry with the top. You can press the sides using a fork as well.
• You can also make some designs with the dough over the top.
• Make some wholes thorough the pie for steam escape with the help of a fork.
• Bake it until it turns golden brown or about 30-40 minutes.
• Serve at room temperature.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Potato Crispies

Ingredients
• Potato: 2 Big Sized
• Flour: 3 Tablespoons
• Corn Flour: 1 Tablespoon
• Salt: To Taste
• Black Pepper: To Taste
• Soya Sauce: 1 Tablespoon
• Chili Sauce: 1/2 Teaspoon
• Oregano: A Pinch
• Water: For Mixing
• Oil: For Frying

Method

• Peel off potatoes and grate them.
• Put grated potatoes in a bowl and add all the ingredients.
• Add some water and mix well. The mixture should be very hard and not like a batter.
• Deep fry the mixture in the form of tablespoon size serving on a medium heat.
• Dish out when turn golden brown.
• Server with ketchup.

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Chocolate Microwave Cake (Easiest Cake Ever)

Ingredients

• Yogurt: 1 Cup
• Flour: 1 Cup
• Baking Soda: 1 Teaspoon
• Egg: 1
• Sugar: ¾ Cup
• Oil: ½ Cup
• Cocoa Powder: 4-5 Tablespoons

Method

• Add all the ingredients in a blender in the sequence followed in ingredients listing.
• Mix well.
• Take a Pyrex utensil of almost double the size of cake better. Put paper on the base of the dish and Grease the dish.
• Put the better in utensil and Microwave it for 10 minutes.
• After 10 minutes cooking, leave the dish for more 10 minutes in microwave without cooking.
• After the cake cooled down, put it out in a serving plate.

Chocolate Sauce

I often use it for cake dressing.

Ingredients
• Chocolate: 1 Cadbury Dairy Milk/Velvet/
  Any  plane sugared ready to eat chocolate
• Cream: 3 Tablespoon


Method

• Melt Chocolate on a water bath.
• Add cream to it and mix well.
• If you feel that the mixture’s consistency is thin, add some cocoa powder and mix.
• Sauce is ready for dressing