My Recipes

Monday, April 25, 2005

Chicken Fry

Chicken Fry
Chicken - 2 lbs
Onion - 2 cut
Red chilli whole - 10 to 15 according to taste. If you want to spicy it up, add few more.
Pepper- little
cinnamon – little
Cumin - 1tbsp
Fennel - 1 tbsp


Method
1. Heat oil, put onions, cinnamon, red chilli whole, chicken, cumin, fennel, salt to taste and fry little while.
2. Add water and cook the chicken well.
3. Once cooked, take the chicken pieces out, mash the onions, red chilli with a ladle.
4. Now add the chicken and fry well. Add pepper while frying.If you need it very dry fry well.

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken
chicken - 1 lbs
Cashew- 50 gms- Grind cashew into fine paste.
Onion- medium size - 1
Tomato- 1-1/2
Cumin- 1tbsp
garam masala-1/4 tbsp
fennel-1 tbsp
ginger, garlic paste- 1-1/2tbsp
tandoori powder- 1 tbsp
buttermilk/lime juice for marinating
chilli powder- 1 tbsp
coriander -1/2 tbsp

Method
1. Marinate the chicken with cumin,garam masala, tandoori powder and lime juice for 1/2 hr.
2. In a kadai, pour little oil and fry the chicken, cook with the marinade juice for 10 to 15 min in slow heat.
3. In another kadai,pour oil, saute onions well.
4. Add ginger, garlic paste, fry well.
5. Add tomato, chilli powder, corainder and fry well. Oil should separate.
6. Now add cashew psate and fry well, till oil separates.
7. Add a small piece of butter.
8. Now add the chicken and pour water and cook well. Keep in low heat and cook well.

Friday, April 15, 2005

Rasmalai

Ricotto Cheese 250 gms
SugarAlmonds 50 gm- soak almonds and grind to a thick paste. Can be coarse
half aand half-200 ml
milk-200ml

Directions
1. Drain out the water from the ricotta cheese in a cloth or paper towel weel. Leave it for 1/2 hour in the cloth it will drain and then squeeze out.
2. Mix Sugar 1/2 cup and ricotta cheese and mix well. In a baking pan, make sure it is a dish with 1/2 inch side. Put the mix in it and flatten it out evenly with a ladle.
3. Heat baking oven to 350 deg, place the baking dish and cook well for 30 min. Close the baking dish with aluminum foil. It should become like brown at the sides or if it is cooked well ok.
4. In a heavy vessel, pour milk and half and half and bring to boil. Then put sugar, 1/2 cup. If you want more sweet then add more.Bring to a nice boil.
5. Now add the almond paste and bring to boil. Boil till milk thickens.
6. Cool the milk and then cut the ricotto chese into square bits and put in the milk.Cool in fridge and it would be great.