Gobi Manchurian

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                       Gobi Manchurian is inspired from Chinese cuisine. Serves as a great appetizer as well as side dish. Here is my recipe for Gobi Manchurian.

Ingredients:

1. Cauliflower  floretes- 1 cup

2. Rice flour - 1cup

3. Corn Starch - 2 or 3 tsp

4. Paprika(optional)

5. Milk - 2 tsp

6. Turmeric powder

7. Garlic/ginger paste

8. Ginger/ garlic pods

9. Green chilies - 3

10. Green capsicum - 2

11. Onion - 1

12. Soyasauce - 1 tspn

13. Chili sauce - 1to 2 tspn

14. Tomato sauce

15. Pepper powder

16. Garlic paste

17. Spring onion for garnishing

18. Salt to taste

Procedure:

                 Wash and cut the cauliflower into medium size florets. Take a vessel and put the cauliflower into it and add  some warm water with 2tspn of milk and a pinch of turmeric powder.  Let it soak  for sometime, this is done to clean off any remaining dirt inside the florets. Now take another bowl add the flour, corn starch, salt, soysauce, garlic/garlic paste, chilli sauce, water and make a batter. The batter shouldn't be too runny. Now add the cauliflower florets into this batter. Normally the batter coated florets are deep fried but I tried shallow frying and it came out good. So take a pan, pour little oil and slowly add one by one gobi coated with the batter. Shallow fry it properly on both the sides. Once it done frying in batches transfer the fried gobi's to some tissue paper so that the oil is absorbed.

            Next cut the onions and capsicums into small square pieces. Chop the green chilli, ginger and garlic into small pieces. Chop the spring onions also. Take a skillet, pour little oil. First add the ginger, garlic and the green chillies, saute it for few seconds. Next add the onions and saute it till it starts becoming  transparent. Then add the capsicum and paprika powder(optional). Now add soy sauce, tomato sauce and the chili sauce and mix all the ingredients properly. Allow all this to cook slightly for few seconds and then add the fried  cauliflower and pepper powder into it. Pour some the remaining batter we made to dip the florets into the skillet or you can even take little corn starch add water  and pour it. Let everything cook for few minutes. Add the salt as required. Stir occassionally otherwise it will get stick to the skillet bottom. Keep it on low flame till all the water vapour evaporates and the Gobi manchurian becomes dry. Serve the Gobi manchurian in a bowl and put the chopped spring onions on top of it as garnish. Gobi manchurian is ready to be served. 

Chicken nuggets

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Another easy to prepare  snack which is very much liked by kids. Chicken Nuggets are molded pieces of chicken with some kind of batter/breaded then fried or baked. Here goes my recipe for Chicken nuggets.

Ingredients:

1. Chicken breasts - 300grm

2. Ginger/Garlic paste.

3. Plain flour - 1 cup

4. Egg white -1

5. Breadcrums(optional)

6. Parmesan grated cheese

7. Lemon juice

8. Oil

9. Salt to taste

Procedure:

 

             Take the chicken breast and cut it into small cube pieces. Put it in a bowl and add the ginger/garlic paste, salt, Lemon juice. Mix all the ingredients  and leave it aside for an hour to marinate. Take the flour in a bowl and the egg white is different bowl. Take oil in a pan for deep frying the chicken. Take the chicken cubes one by one and dip it first in the flour, pat away the excess flour on it and then dip in the egg white and drop it into the hot oil and deep fry it. Turn on both sides. Allow it to fry for 2-3 minutes. Gradually when the color changes take out the nuggets. Once all the chicken nuggets are fried , put some parmesan cheese on top and its ready to be served.  Ketch up can be served too with the nuggets.

Mirchi Bajji

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              The most amazing evening snack especially on rainy days. It can be made with Bananna peppers, Serrano peppers etc.

Ingredients:

1. Peppers - 8

2. Chat masala

3. Chili powder - 1tsp

4. Besan powder - 1 small cup

5. Water

6. Oil

7. Salt to taste

Procedure.

            This snack is very easy to make. First wash the peppers and slit it into two pieces, whole pepper can be also used but I usually slit the peppers. After sliting take out the pepper seeds.  Take a bowl and add the Besan powder, salt, chili powder and water into it. Make a batter which is not very runny. Now take a pan with oil for deep frying. Heat the oil on medium flame, then dip the peppers one by one into the batter and put it into the hot oil. Deep fry the peppers till color slightly changes. It doesnot take much time, roughly may be just few seconds to get fried. So deep fry all the peppers by dipping in the batter. Once its done sprinkle chat masala on the Bajjis and mirchi bajji is ready to be served. Hope you all will like it.

Pork with bamboo shoots

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               Very healthy recipe with no oil and masalas.

Ingredients:

1. Pork 

2. Bamboo shoots - 1/2 cup

3. Green chili - 3(If you have traditional raja mirchi at home then go ahead use it)

4. Dry red chili flakes

5. Cherry Tomatoes - 3

6. Ginger

7. Garlic

8. Onions

9. Spring onions(optional)

10. Water - 1ltr

10. Salt

Procedure:

                 If you could get your hands on some pork meat with fat then its perfect. First clean the pork and keep it in a bowl. Add some salt to it and leave it aside. Next cut the Onions into thin slices. Crush the ginger and garlic. Slit the green chilies . Actually, if this dish is made in a deep vessel/stock pan and cooked slowly then it will taste amazing. But since I don't have the same so I'm using cooker to cook. Take the cooker, add the pork meat, crushed ginger/garlic, green chillies, dry chilli flakes and Onions. Also goes in the the spring onions, bamboo shoot, salt and the cherry tomatoes.  Then give a good mix so that all the ingredients coats on the meat. Finally add good amount of water  for the pork to cook nice and tender.

                     If you are using a stock pan  then also same procedure  but cook it on medium flame for some 45-50 mnts. There is no need to give more stirs in between, just once or twice will be enough and leave it untouched to cook.  As I'm using cooker, so I cook it 7-8 whistles. Either ways make sure pork is cooked well. We don't have to add any extra oil, because the pork already have enough fat contents in it. Once the dish is ready serve it with hot rice. I hope you all will try this dish. 

Fish Manchurian

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              Manchurians is a type of Chinese Indian dish. Manchurians are made of Chicken, Fish, Cauliflower, Prawns etc. In this dish we don't use any masalas or spices. Lets check my Fish manchurian recipe.

Ingredients:

1. Fish fillets - 6 to 7 pieces(I used Salmon)

2. Capsicum - 2

3. Chopped ginger

4. Finely chopped garlic

5. Egg - 1

6. Greenchili

7. Soya sauce

8. Chili sauce

9. Onion - 1

10. Tomato sauce( very  much optional)

11. Oil

12. Corn starch - 4 to 5 tsp

13. Salt to taste

Procedure:

               First take the Fish fillets in a bowl, add salt, but I didn't add salt here because Salmon itsself is bit salty. So excluding salt I added the Egg, 1 tsp of soya sauce and 1-2 tsp of the corn starch. Mix everything together so that the Fish is completely coated with the paste. Now keep this marination in the fridge for atleast 30-45 minutes.

               By the time marination is going on, we'll prepare the gravy. Dice the onions into small square pieces and the capsicums also the same way. Giner, Garlic and greenchili should be finely chopped. When the marination is done we have to fry the fish and keep aside to cool down before preparing the gravy or sauce. I don't deep fry  the marinated fish, just shallow fries it. But usually in restaurants they deep fry the fish, I guess. Anyways it depends whether to deep fry or shallow fry, no much difference it taste though. I prefer shallow fry.  So take a frying pan and shallow fry the marinated fish till both the sides becomes golden brown. Keep  the fried fish aside to cool down.

              Next will make the gravy. Take a skillet, pour little oil. First put the chopped ginger and garlic . Let it cook for few seconds and then add the Onions. Saute it till it becomes partially transparent. Now add the capsicum . Next to the remaining corn starch add little water and make it a liquid. So now add half of this to the skillet and mix nicely, so that the corn starch finely coates all the ingredients. Next add  1tsp of soy sauce and 1 tsp of the chili sauce. If we are using tomato sauce then it can be added at this point. Cook all this for some 2 minutes on medium flame. Now add the fried Fish into the gravy and also pour the remaining corn starch liquid into the skillet. We can also add little pepper powder to it. Mix everything and let it cook for 2-3 minutes. Keep on stiring at intervals. In between check for the salt, if its less we can add some more. Finally add the chopped greenchili. Don't add any extra water into the preparation, as manchurian's taste good if its dry. Now after 3 minutes of cooking our Fish manchurian is ready to be served. It goes good with Fried rice, Rice, Roti, Naans etc. Hope all of you will like it.

            

Chicken with bamboo shoots curry

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              This dish is mostly made in North-Eastern India(particularly Nagaland). This curry is so healthy. It doesnot require any type of  spices or masalas. Pork with bamboo shoots is also very tasty and popular dish. Lets check out the recipe.

Ingredients:

1. Chicken

2. Bamboo shoots - 1/2 cup

3. Green chilli - 3

4. Dry red chili flakes

5. Cherry Tomatoes - 3

6. Ginger

7. Garlic

8. Onions(optional)

9. Spring oinions

10. Salt

Procedure:

          First clean the Chicken and keep aside. Add some salt to it. Next cut the Onions into thin slices. Crush the ginger and garlic. Slit the greenchilies. Now cooking part, it will be good if we cook it in a skillet or something instead of using cooker. But to save time I actually cooked in cooker. First pour 1/2 tsp of oil into the cooker, then add the greenchilis, chili flakes, crushed ginger and garlic. Stir it for few seconds then add the onions. Saute it till transparent then add the tomatoes, Spring oinions. Next bamboo shoots will go in. Stir it well, then add the Chicken . we can add little water if more gravy is required. Close the cooker lid, cook it till 3-4 whistles goes and the curry is perfectly ready to be served. This curry goes good with hot rice.

Chicken Samosa

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           Samosa is a  very popular snack item. There are varieties of samosas like vegetable samosas, Chicken or Beef samosa etc. Here is my recipe for Chicken samosa.

Ingredients:

1. All purpose Flour - 2 cups

2. Boneless Chicken - 2cups

3. Carrots - 1

4. Potatoes - 2

5. Coriander leaves

6. Capsicum - 2

7. Ginger

8. Garlic

9. Frozen Peas

10. Chilli powder - 1tsp

11. Pepper powder  -1/2 tsp

12. Garam masala - 1 tsp

13. Chat masala - 1/2 tsp

14. Cumin whole

15. Oil

16. Water

17. Salt to taste

Procedure:

             Readymade samosa sheets are sold in supermarkets nowadays. I made the samosa sheets at home. Its very easy to make and moreover we can use it fresh. First take the flour in a bowl, add salt, whole cumin and 2- 3 tsp of oil. Now knead the flour and keep the dough aside for atleast 1 hour to set. Lets make ready the fillings by the time the dough gets set. Cut the boneless Chicken into small pieces, add little chili powder, pepper powder, salt and cook it. It will be good if the chicken is kept for marination before cooking. Now chop the Ginger, Garlic into  small pieces. Take the carrots, Capsicum and Potatoes, then cut it into small cubes. 

             Take a pan and heat the oil. First add the finely chopped ginger and garlic. Then goes in the  potatoes and Carrots and cook it for few minutes. Then add the chopped Capsicum and the Peas. Now add the masalas Garam masala, chat masala, Chilli powder, little pepper powder and a pinch of turmeric powder. Mix well and cook with lid closed.  Next goes in the  chicken. Mix slowly so all the masalas coats properly on the vegetables and Chicken. If you want to mash the potatoes in the filling you can do it here or just let it be like cubes. Switch off the stove and finally add chopped Coriander leaves.

                 Lets make the samosa sheet now. Take the dough that we have kept to set. Kneed the dough again with hands and divide it into 10-11 balls. Keep all balls covered while you work on one at a time. Roll each ball out into a 7 inch (18 cm) round.Cut it in half with a knife. Take one half and make a cone of it. Use water to seal the side and edges of the cone. Once the cone is made, fill it with 2 tsp of the chicken mixture. Seal the open edges with water. Repeat this process for all the remaining balls.

                   Now we can start the frying process. Pour oil in a wok/skillet for deep frying. Drop the samosas one by one into the oil and deep fry it. Turn both sides and cook till the samosas starts get golden in colour. Try to fry the samosas in batches. Chicken samosa is ready to be served with Tamarind chutney or Mint Chutney or even ketchup.  Enjoy Chicken samosas.