Simple Egg Roast

Ingredients:

4 eggs (hard boiled and shelled)
1 large onion (sliced)
1 tbsp of ginger garlic paste
1 tsp of red chilli powder
1 tbsp of coriander powder
1/4 tsp garam masala powder
A pinch of turmeric powder
1 cup of water

2 tbsp of oil
Salt to taste

In a pan, heat oil and add ginger garlic paste fry for a while then add sliced onion and fry until translucent. Now add in red chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and fry until fragrant, then add in garam masala and fry until oil separates. Next pour water and let the masala simmer and thickens. Finally add in salt and eggs, let the eggs absorb the masala. Now our dish is ready to be served.

Do try and let me know how was it, enjoy!

Fish Nugget

Hi friends how are you? Many bloggers have started Diwali special posts, this year we are not celebrating as my aunt passed away, so no Diwali posts will be up on my blog. Maybe, I will bake some cake and cookies, not sure of it yet. So now let's get to today's post, I made Fish Nugget few days back only now I get the time to post this here. 

During my childhood I don't prefer having fish whether fried, in curry or done anyway except for sharkfish, string ray or pomfret, not because of anything but I'm scared of the tiny bones in it, I was a very fussy eater and tortures mom so much.  I have been choked many times, how careful I eat also I end up choking and will vomit the whole day to remove the bones. 

When I went to study in university, I never ever eat fish as I feel its not prepared hygienically and the fishy smell kills me. So those days, I used to crave for mom's fish dishes and during every semester break I go back I will request mom to make fish dishes for me. All the dishes mom makes I used to crave for, mom will be so happily cook for me as I changed from a fussy eater to anything mom cooks I will eat.

Okay now coming back to our post today, I made Fish Nugget from the Dory fillet that I bought few days ago. I was thinking what to make and end up making nuggets but I cut into bigger chunks. You can cut into the size you prefer.

Ingredients:

500gm of fish fillet (cut into bite size pieces)

1 cup of multi purpose flour (KFC)

2 eggs beaten

2 tbsp of chilli flakes

1 tsp of black pepper

Mix multi purpose flour with black pepper and keep it aside, the flour contains salt so I didn't add any extra salt. Cut fish and dry it with paper towels and dip it into beaten egg, next dip it into flour, remove excess flour and fry it in hot oil until its golden brown. 

Remove fried fish from oil and drain it to remove excess oil, before serving sprinkle some chilli flakes to the fish nuggets. Now our Fish Nugget is ready to be served, you can serve Mayonnaise, Chilli Sauce, Ketchup or Tartar Sauce as dipping for the nuggets.

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

Tandoori Chicken Briyani

Hi friends, I'm glad to share another recipe with you all Tandoori Chicken Briyani, some of you may have tried this dish before but this is the very first time for me. I got this idea from sis Love's Grilled Chicken Briyani, I fell in love with the preparation the moment she post it on her blog, thanks sis. I have used her idea and made some changes in my briyani, I have used Tandoori Chicken that I have prepared earlier (purposely to use for this briyani). We loved the Tandoori Chicken Briyani, it was so delicious and healthy. Now let us see how to make this briyani:

Ingredients:

500 gm of Tandoori Chicken
2 cups of Basmathi rice or any kind
2 1/2 cups of water (ratio depending on the rice you use)
1 large onion (chopped)
1 tbsp of ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp of tandoori powder
A bunch of coriander leaves
2 large onions (deep fried until brown)
A  few drops of yellow coloring/saffron
1 tomato (chopped)
1 green chilli (slit)
1 pc of cinnamon stick
2 cardamom pods
2 star anise
2 cloves
Salt to taste
1 tbsp of ghee

You have to prepare the tandoori chicken before you cook the rice, you can prepare in advance or right before you cook the rice. Now let us prepare the ingredients for rice, make sure you wash the rice until the water runs clear, then drain and keep aside.

In a pan, pour ghee and add cinnamon stick, cardamom, star anise, cloves, green chilli, onion and ginger garlic paste, stir all these until it releases the wonderful aroma. Next add chopped tomato and tandoori powder and fry until tomato turns mushy, then add rice and mix well.

Transfer all the ingredients above to a rice cooker and add water and salt, let the rice cook until its fluffy and dry. Now add the yellow coloring, place the chicken pieces on the rice, add fried onions and coriander leaves, close the cooker's lid until you are ready to serve the rice.

Gently mix the cooked rice, and now our Tandoori Chicken Briyani is ready to be served. I have served this with Onion Raita.

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

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!

Onion Omelette

Ingredients:

2 large eggs (beaten with 2 tbsp of water and salt)
1 tbsp of coriander leaves (chopped)
2 tbsp of grated cheese
2 onions (diced)
3 cherry tomato (cut into half)
A pinch of salt
A pinch of pepper
1 tbsp of olive oil

In a pan, heat oil and fry onion until translucent and pour beaten eggs, top it with grated cheese and pepper. Let it cook and add chopped coriander leaves, then flip the omelette to cook on the other side. Now our Onion Omelette is ready to be served, garnish with cherry tomato. Best eaten while its hot.

Do try and enjoy!

Chicken and Mushroom in Oyster Sauce

Ingredients:

250g of chicken boneless (cut into big chunks)
5 dried shiitake mushroom (soaked and cut into half)
5 dried red chillies (cut into half)
2 inches of young ginger (sliced)
3 cloves of garlic (minced)
1 tbsp Shao Hsing cooking wine/ white vinegar
2 tbsp of spring onion
1 tbsp of corn starch
1 tbsp of chilli sauce
2 tbsp of oyster sauce
1 tsp of dark soy sauce
1 tsp of light soy sauce
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp of cooking oil
1 cup of water

In a pot, pour cooking oil add dried red chilies when its plumped up add in garlic and ginger fry for a minute then add chicken that have been mixed with corn starch, fry until the chicken releases water. Then add sesame oil, oyster sauce, chilli sauce, dark soy sauce and light soy mix well then add water and let chicken cooks well. Now add in Shao Hsing cooking wine or white vinegar (this give some tangry sharp taste), now add mushrooms and let it cook further until the gravy thickens. Now our Chicken and Mushroom in Oyster Sauce is ready, add in the spring onion and our dish is ready to be served.

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

Chicken Sambal Fried Rice (One Pot Meal)

Wow, I'm so excited because this is my first ever guest post and I'm glad that I'm doing it for sis Love. The moment she messaged me regarding the guest post I agreed immediately without even thinking whether I would be able to prepare a special dish for her. Sis Love is someone very dear and special to me, you know why? I got to know the blogging world after visiting her blog in 2010, before that I seriously didn't something called blog existed and hers was the first Indian blog I ever got to know. Thank you so much sis, you must be surprised to know this info because I think I have never told you this.

I always admire her photography skills from the day I got to know her not forgetting her wonderful recipes that she posts, all the clicks makes you crave for some. I was planning for so many days on what to cook for the guest post since she's someone special to, then I thought since both of us are chicken lovers, cooking a chicken dish would be apt for it. I have decided that I should make a one pot meal, so I made Chicken Sambal Fried Rice to celebrate our friendship/sisterhood. Do visit sis Love's Love2cook Malaysia for the recipe.

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

Coriander Pepper Chicken Guest Post for Priya's Versatile Recipes

Wow, blogging is an awesome experience getting to know many sisters all over the world, even without meeting face to face the chemistry is fantastic....hehehe, I got to know Priya Suresh ka of Priya's Versatile Recipes last year while blogging and she have even done a guest post for my blog. I was so happy when akka asked newbies to write a guest post for her blog to introduce us the newbies to blogging world. Thank you so much for the opportunity ka, want to know more on the recipe do visit Priya ka's blog Priya's Versatile Recipes for Rendezvous with a Foodie.

Do visit and let me know how is it!

Fried Meehoon (Rice Noodle)

Ingredients:

A pack of meehoon (rice noodle, boiled and drained)
2 pcs of chicken breast (cubed)
1/2 cup of shredded cabbage
5 pcs of dried red chilli
1 tsp of dark soy sauce
1 tbsp of light soy sauce
3 cloves of garlic
1 onion (chopped)
1/4 cup of dried shrimp
1/4 cup of water
2 bird eye chilli
2 eggs beaten
Oil

Blend dried red chilli, garlic, dried shrimp and water until smooth and keep it aside.

Heat oil in a pan and fry the chicken pieces until half cooked, drain and keep it aside, fry the beaten eggs and scramble it until you get small pieces.

Now in the same pan pour oil and simmer chilli paste until it changes in color to deep red and oil separates. Then add chicken, cabbage, dark soy sauce and light soy sauce mix well until everything is well incorporated then add in boiled noodles, toss well so that the chili paste and noodles are mixed perfectly. Adjust seasoning depending on your preference and Fried Meehoon is ready to be served. Garnish with scrambled egg and bird eye chilli that have been sliced.

Fried Meehoon is ready to be served, do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Moist Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache

Ingredients:

Cake
300g of all purpose flour
100g of cocoa powder
400g of castor sugar (I have used 300g only)
1 tsp of baking powder
1 tsp of baking soda
1 tsp of vanilla extract
250ml of hot water
250ml of vegetable oil
250ml of low fat milk
3 large eggs

Sift flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda and keep aside for later use.

In a mixing bowl beat eggs with sugar and vanilla extract then add water, vegetable oil and milk. Now add in the sifted dry ingredients gradually without over mixing the batter.

Pour this batter on a baking pan which have been applied with butter and flour (I have used bundt pan), dust off excess flour and bake this cake for 30-45 minutes at 150 to 170 degrees depending on your oven requirement. The cake is done when you insert a skewer and it comes out clean, let the cake cool overnight or at least few hours before pouring the ganache.

Chocolate Ganache Frosting

50ml of cream

200g of dark chocolate

1 tbsp of butter

Melt all dark chocolate and cream over double boiling method, once chocolate is perfectly melted add in butter for a glossy look. Let the ganache cool before pouring over the cake and decorate upon your creativity.

See how glossy is the ganache 

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

Spicy Chicken Briyani

Ingredients:

(Serves 4)
4 pcs of chicken drumstick
4 hard boiled eggs
2 cups of Basmathi rice (70% cooked)
1 tbsp of coriander powder
1/4 tsp of cumin powder
1/4 tsp of fennel powder
1 tsp of red chilli powder
1/4 tsp of turmeric powder
1/4 tsp of garam masala
2 onions (chopped)
2 tomatoes (chopped)
2 green chillies (slit)
1 tbsp of ginger garlic paste
2 tbsp of cashew nuts
2 tbsp of raisins
A bunch of coriander leaves
1/2 cup of mints (chopped)
1 cinnamon stick
2 star anise
4 cloves
2 cardamom
3 tbsp of ghee
1 cup of water
Salt to taste

In a pan, heat ghee and add cinnamon stick, star anise, cloves, cardamom and stir for a minute then add  chopped onions fry until translucent. Now add in ginger garlic paste, mix well and add chopped tomatoes and cook until tomatoes turn mushy. Then add green chilli, chilli powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, fennel powder and cumin powder, mix everything together so that the spices incorporates well and add in chicken drumsticks, half a cup of water. Let all this cook on medium flame until the chicken is cooked and the liquid is evaporated.

Now add in boiled eggs, 70% cooked rice to the chicken mixture mix everything well and pour in the balance water, adjust seasoning and cover to cook until rice is fluffy. Mix in coriander and mint leaves to the rice and cover for a couple of minutes so that the flavor will be infused in the rice. Finally add in cashews and raisins that have been fried in ghee to garnish.

Now our Spicy Chicken Briyani is ready to be served. Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Grilled Chicken Sandwich

Ingredients:

2 slices of wholemeal bread
2 slices of tomato
2 slices of onion
1 chicken patty
1 slice of cheese
Chilli sauce/ Tomato Ketchup
Butter

Grill chicken patty until its cooked, top it with a slice of cheese and keep it aside. Toast both the bread slices applied with butter. Now time to assemble the sandwich, layer a slice of bread top it with the grilled chicken patty, tomato and onion, chilli sauce and finally another slice of bread. Now slice into half and now our Grilled Chicken Sandwich is ready to be served. 

How easy can that be? Do try and enjoy!

Chicken Meatball Pizza for HBC

I'm so much delayed in posting my Pizza for our HBC, I think I'm the last one to post even though I made it long ago. I was so tied up with work and family matters, I hope that you guys will pardon me for the delay, better late than never right? Now let me share the Chicken Meatball Pizza that I made for our challenge. This is a very simple to make pizza and anyone can make it it in jiffy;

                                          

Ingredients:

Base

2 cups of bread flour

1 tsp of yeast

1 tsp of sugar

3/4 cup of warm water

A pinch of salt

1 tbsp of olive oil

Topping

1 cup of green  capsicum (diced)

1 cup of grated mozarella cheese

1 can of Prego tomato sauce

200 g of minced chicken

1 tsp of corn flour

A dash of pepper

A pinch of salt

For the topping take bowl add minced chicken, corn flour, salt and pepper and mix well. Make small balls and keep it aside. Take a pan, add the tomato sauce let it simmer for a couple of minutes then add in the chicken meatballs and cover to cook, then add in the diced capsicum let it cook until the chicken meatballs are cooked, adjust the seasoning. Let this cool until its ready to be applied to the pizza base.

For the base, mix yeast warm water and sugar and let it foam it takes about 10 to 15 minutes. Pour this mixture to bread flour, olive oil and salt mix , knead until everything is well incorporated and set to rise for an hour. Once the dough rise punch it down to release the air and separate the dough to 2 part. Then roll the dough to your preference for thin crust or thick and apply the topping, cheese and bake at 170 degrees for 20-25 minutes or until the base is cooked. I have used 8'' cake pan and applied some olive oil to the pan before laying in the base.

The pizza is ready to be baked, do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

I'm sending this post to our beloved sisters blogs Priya's Versatile Recipe and Divya's Culinary Journey

Walnut Chocolate Chunks Brownies

Every-time I go shopping for pantry items, I have always wanted to try Pillsbury's ready made brownies mix. Its super easy to make and awesome, fudgy delicious brownies. I have added some chopped walnuts to give perfect brownies, finally my dream came true....hehehe...

Ingredients:

1 pack of brownies mix
1 cup of chopped walnut
75 ml of water
30 ml of oil
1 egg

In a bowl, mix everything together, pour into a 9x9 greased square tin and baked for 20 minutes on a preheated oven at 150 degrees. Once baked let it cool before cutting and serving the brownies. Now our Hazelnut Chocolate Chunks Brownies is ready to be served!

Yummy yummy brownies

My 200th Post:Tom Yum Soup

Ingredients:
100 g of boneless chicken (sliced thinly)
1 cup of oyster mushroom
1/4 cup of shrimp (cleaned)
1/4 cup of carrot (sliced)
2 stalk of lemongrass
3 bird eye chilli (slit)
1 tomato (cut into wedges)
1 onion (cut into wedges)
2 tomyam soup cubes/ paste
A bunch of coriander leaves
2 liters of water
Fish sauce to taste

In a pan boil water and add in the tom yum flavored cubes, once boiled add carrot, lemongrass, bird eye chilli, onion, tomato, oyster mushroom, chicken and shrimp. Let these ingredients cook, add fish sauce if needed and garnish with coriander leaves. Now our Tom Yum soup is ready to be served.

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

Egg and Sausage Stir Fry

Ingredient:

3 sausages (cut thinly)
2 eggs (beaten)
2 large onion (chopped)
2 garlic pods (chopped)
2 bird eye chilli (chopped)
1 tsp of meat curry powder
2 tbsp of coriander leaves
A pinch of salt
1 tbsp of oil

In a pan heat oil, add in chopped onions, garlic and chilli stir for a minute then add in the sausages and fry the sausages until its slightly browned, now add in meat curry powder and salt stir for a couple of minutes. Finally add in the beaten egg and fry like making scrambled eggs but to smaller pieces just like the above picture. Add in coriander leaves and mix well, now our Egg and Sausage Stir Fry is ready to be served. Best eaten with white rice, bread and roti.

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

Simple Clear Chicken Soup

Hi, everyone, I'm glad to meet all of you after a long break. Some of you might be thinking what have happened to Arthy,she is missing in action. Anyway to be frank, I have been extremely busy with work, work and work only, I have cooked many dishes all these days but never had enough time to take pictures. Now let us take a look at what I have to share with you today, Simple Clear Chicken Soup.

Ingredients:

100g of boneless chicken (sliced thinly)

1 pc of chicken carcass/ bones (optional

10 pcs of white fish balls

1/2 a carrot (sliced)

A handful of cabbage (cut coarsely)

A handful of cilantro leaves

A handful of spring onion (sliced)

1 chicken stock cube (store bought)

1.5 liter of water

In a pan, boil water, stock cube, chicken carcass until the stock reduces to 2/3. Now add in chicken slices, carrot, cabbage and fish balls, let it simmer until chicken is completely cooked. Finally before serving add in cilantro and spring onion. Adjust seasoning if needed and now our Simple Clear Chicken Soup is now ready to be served.

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

Karuvadu Varuval/ Salted Fish Fry

Ingredients:
200g of salted fish (soaked in hot water for 30 minutes if salty)
2 tbsp of chilli paste
3 onions (sliced)
1 tsp of chilli sauce
2 cups of water
Oil to fry

Drain the salted fish and shallow fry until golden and keep aside. Blend chili paste and 2 sliced onions with 1 cup of water. Heat oil and fry balance of the sliced onions until translucent then pour the blended paste and balance 1 cup of water until, boil this until the raw smell is gone and sambal thickens, now add in the chilli sauce and mix well. Add the fried salted fish and pour slightly more oil so that the paste will be really cooked and color turns darker just like in the picture above. You can remove the excess oil after cooking, the sambal should completely cover the salted fish until then you have to let the gravy thicken. Now our Karuvadu Varuval is ready to be served.

I have used salted shark fish/sura

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

Not so Trifle

This is a dessert invented in the event of not to waste food, I have used the Salted Brownies that I made before, I spared some brownies crumbled to try making black forest trifle but I was too busy to go and purchase ingredients for it. So, I whipped up  chocolate butter-cream for this dish and used the balance strawberries I had in my pantry. Let's check how to make this;

Ingredients:

Trifle

2 cups of crumbled brownies

1 cup of chocolate butter-cream

2 whole strawberries 

1 tbsp of cocoa syrup

For Chocolate Butter-Cream

1 cup of unsalted butter (softened)

3 1/2 cups of icing sugar

1/2 cup of cocoa powder

4 tbsp of heavy cream

1 tsp of vanilla extract

1/2 tsp of salt

First of all prepare the butter-cream and set aside, whip the softened butter, gradually sift in icing sugar and cocoa powder and mix for a couple of minutes then add vanilla extract, salt and heavy cream, do not over beat or it will be curdled.

Now for the setting of the trifle, get a few glasses first add crumbled brownies, then spoon the butter -cream and alternate with brownies and butter-cream again. Finally pour some cocoa syrup and garnish with sliced strawberry.

Now our Not So Trifle is ready to be served, do try and let me know how it turned out for you!

Hyderabad Chicken Briyani

Recipe Source : VahChef
Recommended by: My Beloved Friend Priya Ranjit

I have made some alteration to the ingredients, I have used chicken instead f
Ingredients:
2 cups of Basmathi rice
500 g of chicken (I used whole leg)
3 large onion (sliced thinly and fried)
2 tsp red chilli powder
2 tbsp of coriander powder
1/4 tsp of turmeric powder
1 tsp of cumin powder
1 tsp of black pepper powder
1 tsp of garam masala powder
1 tsp of cumin seed
1 pc cinnamon stick
1 bay leaf
2 cardamom
2 star anise
2 cloves
1 tbsp of lemon juice
1/2 cup of curd
5 pcs green chilli (chopped)
A bunch of coriander (chopped)
A bunch of mint leaves (chopped)
A few drops of yellow coloring/saffron milk
Salt to taste
3 tbsp of oil

Rice part 

Basmathi rice (washed & soaked for 30 minutes)

Cook rice with whole garam masala, oil and salt. We need to take out rice in two parts (40% and 60% cooked and separated)

Chicken masala

Marinate chicken with ginger garlic paste, green chilli, turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, cumin seeds, half of fried onion, salt, whole garam masala, lemon juice, curd, coriander leaves, mint leaves, bay leaf and oil for 30 minutes.

Now put the marinated chicken in a heavy bottomed pan or pressure cooker, layer with 40% cooked rice, coriander leaves, mint leaves, fried onion, then another layer of 60% cooked rice, coriander leaves, mint leaves, fried onion, garam masala powder and yellow coloring.

Let this cooked over medium flame for 30-45 minutes until the rice and chicken are completely cooked. As the chef said the whole house will have a wonderful aroma and you know your briyani is completely cooked.

Now our Hyderabad Chicken Briyani is ready to be served, I served this briyani with Tomato and Onion Raita. Do try and let me know how it turned out for you!