fish strips

Fish Fingers

5:55 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredient:
  • Fish with thick flesh - 250 gm
  • Ginger-garlic paste- 1/2 tsp
  • Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Soya sauce - 1/2 tsp
  • Tomato sauce - 1/2 tsp
  • Chilli sauce - 1/2 tsp
  • Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Salt as required ( add carefully, soy sauce also contains salt)
  • Oil for frying
  • Bread slices - 6
  • Egg - 1 (nicely beaten)
Method:
  • I bought king fish and got it sliced into strips from the shop itself. If you have bought whole fish slices then chop it into thin strips. Clean the fish strips nicely.
  • Marinate the fish strips with ginger-garlic paste, tomato sauce, soya sauce, chilli sauce, chilli powder, pepper powder, and salt. Keep this in refrigerator for an hour.

Marinated fish
  • Remove the edges of the bread slices, crumble and grind it in the mixer, the breadcrumbs should be coarse.

bread crumbs
  • Before frying, add the beaten egg to the marinated fish and mix everything nicely.

beaten egg added before frying
  • Heat oil in a pan, when it is hot, reduce the flame to low. Coat each strips in the breadcrumbs and fry it golden brown.

fish is fried
  • Serve hot.

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Mutton

Rogan Josh - Kashmiri Mutton Recipe

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Rogan josh gravy is very thin with unbeatable taste. There are several version, i tried the simpler one.
Ingredients:
  • Lamb meat - 500 gm
  • Yogurt/Curd - 1/4 cup
  • Asafoetida/hing - pinch
  • Bay leaf - 1
  • Cinnamon  - 1
  • Cloves - 2
  • Cardamom (black and green) - 2 each
  • Kashmiri chilli powder - 1 tsp
  • Coriander powder - 1tsp
  • Cumin powder - 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
  • Garam masala - 1 tsp
  • Ginger-garlic paste - 1 tbsp
  • Onion - 1
  • Ghee - 2 tbsp
  • Coriander leaves for garnish
  • Salt to taste
Method:
  • Heat oil in a thick bottom pan, Add asafoetida, cinnamon, cardamom, bay leaf, and cloves, saute for few seconds. Then add lamb pieces, saute till the water from the meat is gone and it turns slightly brown. Keep this fried pieces aside.

Fried mutton
  • In the same pan, add chopped onion, fry till it turns transparent, add ginger-garlic paste and saute till raw smell disappear. Finally add turmeric powder, chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, and salt. Saute everything nicely, take care not to burn.

Masala
  • Now stir fried meat and 1 tsp of yogurt in the pan, blend it nicely, stir continuously. Slowly, add yogurt little-by-little and blend it well.

mutton pieces and yogurt blended
  • Add 2 cups of water and cook it in low flame. It took 30 minutes for mutton to cook. Sprinkle garam masala and give a final stir.

after adding 2 cups of water
  • Garnish with corainder leaves and serve hot with rice, dosa, idli and so on.

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broken wheat

Lapsi - Gujarati Sweet

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Lapsi is somewhat similar to rava kesari in making. Taste is wonderful and it contains goodness of broken wheat.


Ingredients:
  • Broken wheat/ dhalia - 1/2 cup
  • Sugar  1/2 cup
  • Water - 2 cups
  • Cardamom powder - pinch (i used whole cardamom)
  • Raisin - 10
  • Cashew - 10
  • Chopped almond - little for garnishing
  • Ghee - 2 tbsp
Method:
  • Add a tsp of ghee in a pan and slightly roast raisin and cashew, keep this aside.
  • Heat ghee in the same pan, slightly roast broken wheat for 3 to 4 minutes. 
  • Add water and let wheat cook nicely. This takes about 15 minutes, then add cardamom, sugar, raisin and cashew, cook in low flame for 5 minutes till the ghee separates.
  • Garnish it with almonds and serve hot or cold. 
  • If the lapsi becomes thick, add little milk and reheat for a minute before serving.

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Milk,

Rose Milk with Homemade Rose Syrup(with rose petals) - Summer special

9:44 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
For Rose syrup:
  • Rose petals - 1 cup
  • Sugar - 2 cups
  • Water - 2 cups
  • Cloves - 1
  • Lemon juice - 1 tsp
For Rose milk (for one glass)
  • Boiled Milk - 3/4 tumbler
  • Rose syrup - 2 tsp
  • Rose water - 2 drops
  • Ice cubes
Method:
Rose syrup:
Rose syrup

  • Wash rose petals and let it dry for 20 minutes. In a pan, take rose petals and mix with one tsp sugar, mix it well, refrigerate overnight.

Dried rose petals
rose petals mixed with a tsp of sugar

  • Now add water, cloves, and sugar, let it boil on medium flame till it becomes thick. Add lemon juice when the syrup starts thickening. Syrup gets nice color from petals.
  • Filter the syrup and store it in the sterilized, clean jar. 
  • This syrup can be used in milkshakes, ice creams and so on.
Rose milk:
  • In a glass, add rose syrup, rose water, and milk. Mix it well.
  • Add ice cubes and serve cold.
  • This is the wonderful, easy summer drink.

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boneless chicken,

Dragon Chicken - Kids special

11:07 PM Chandra Karthikeyan 0 Comments

Ingredients:
  • Boneless Chicken strips - 500 gm
  • Oil for frying
Marination
  • Soya sauce - 1 tsp
  • Chilli powder or Red chilli paste - 1 1/2 tsp
  • Ginger-garlic paste - 1 tbsp
  • Egg -1
  • Corn flour - 2 tsp
  • All purpose flour - 1/4 cup
  • Salt to taste
  • Pepper - 1tsp
Gravy:
  • Onion -1
  • Capsicum - 1
  • Ginger-garlic paste - 1 tbsp
  • Cashews - 10
  • Chilli powder - 1 tsp
  • Soya sauce - 1 tsp
  • Tomato ketchup - 1 tbsp
  • Sugar - 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Red chillies - 3
  • Oil - 2 tsp
Method:
  • Clean and marinate chicken with the ingredients under marination. Keep this aside for half an hour. 
  • Fry marinated chicken in hot oil over medium flame. Keep this aside.

Chicken fried in hot oil
  •  Heat oil in a pan, add red chillies and cashews. when the cashews turn light brown, add onion, capsicum and ginger-garlic paste. Saute this for a minute.
  • Add in red chilli powder, soya sauce, ketchup. sugar and salt. Let the gravy thickens.

Gravy is ready

  • Finally toss the fried chicken pieces and let it coat well with the gravy.
  • Finally, add chopped spring onion or coriander leaves.
  • Serve hot.

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