Honey Lemon Drink

Ingredients:

2 large lemon (squeeze the juice)
1/4 cup of honey
500 ml of ice cold water
Dash of salt

In a pitcher, mix lemon juice, honey, salt and water. Make sure the honey is completely dissolved. You can adjust the amount of honey to be added depending on your preference, you can also add some ice cubes if you want it to be cold as cold to give you brain freeze. I prefer to drink without ice cubes and chill before drinking. You can also have this as hot or warm drink, it tastes better than the chilled ones.

Pan-Seared Tandoori Chicken

Wow, it has been three months since I update my blog....it has been crying every day and night because I have abandoned it for so long. So many blogger friends also have been asking why I'm not updating my blog. Before I tell you the reason for my disappearance, let me apologize to all of you for not updating my space and also for not visiting your spaces, I'm very sorry dear friends. Okay, now let me tell why I went missing, I have been very very busy with packing and shifting to the new house. It took such a long time for me to pack, move out, unpack and settle down, by the time we settled down laziness have set in and I couldn't snap any pictures for blog. 

I have been cooking a lot lately but did not snap any pictures as you all know how time consuming setting the food and writing for the post. I think enough stories told, let us get to recipe. I have bought a box of tandoori powder a couple of days ago and have been planning to make Tandoori Chicken, I have used boneless chicken pieces to make this and it looks something like Chicken Tikka. Now let us see how to make this delicious, mouth-watering Tandoori Chicken my style;

Ingredients:

500gm of boneless chicken (cut into bite size chunks)
1 cup of plain yogurt
1 tbsp of lemon/lime juice
1 tbsp of Tandoori powder (store bought)
A few drops of red coloring
Salt to taste
Oil/ Ghee for Pan Searing

Mix chicken, yogurt, lemon/lime juice, tandoori powder, red coloring and salt, mix everything and marinate for minimum 4 hours or over night. I have marinated over night in the fridge.

So after marinating, heat a flat frying pan or griddle pour some ghee or oil and sear the marinated chicken pieces until it is cooked and has some char marks on it. Do not crowd the griddle, give enough room for the chicken to be moved, cook everything in batches and keep aside.

Now our Pan-Seared Tandoori Chicken is ready to be served with slices of lemon and onions.

Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Lemon Chicken

Ingredients:
300g of boneless chicken pieces (sliced)
1/2 cup of lemon juice (freshly squeezed)
1/2 tsp of white pepper powder
1/4 cup+ 1/2 tbsp of corn starch
2 tsp of rice wine vinegar
1/8 cup of sugar
1/4 cup of water
Salt to taste

Marinate chicken pieces with salt and vinegar, add corn starch just before frying (shake off excess starch), fry the chicken pieces until crispy and set aside.

Now prepare the lemon sauce, mix lemon juice, water, sugar and boil in a small saucepan until it bubbles. Add 1 tsp of rice wine vinegar and season with salt and white pepper. Finally add corn slurry (corn starch and little water) and let the sauce simmer and thicken. Now pour lemon sauce over the fried chicken and serve while its still hot.

Best eaten with hot plain rice, do try and let me know how it turned out for you!