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Monday, October 18, 2010

Coleslaw

Mayonnaise 1 cup
Cream – 1/2cup
Salt & pepper to taste.
Sugar – 1 tablespoon
Cabbage – sliced – 1 cup
Carrots – shredded – 1/2cup
Milk (optional) 1oz


Mix mayonnaise and cream. Add cabbage & carrots. Add salt, pepper, & sugar according to taste.

  • This is the basic coleslaw recipe. Show your creative abilities and experiment with different ingredients.
  • You can add pineapple, apple, chickpeas, pomegranate, sliced potatoes, corn, even pasta!
  • Sprinkle coriander or parsley for an oriental touch!

Potato Salad

Following are easy and simple salad recipes. Make to compliment your main course.

Potatoes
Salt & pepper to tatse
Chopped parsley
Sour cream and double cream
Chopped Green onion


  • Wrap big washed potato in silver foil, put in oven, a gas mark 6, for ½ an hr.

When cooked, quart it. Sprinkle with pepper + salt + chopped parslay + sour cream

  • Mix peeled baked potatoes, add chopped green onion. Add sliced olives. Sprinkle black pepper and salt. Dab with double cream .

Homemade Chocolate Sauce

Butter – 6 tablespoon
Ground sugar – 6 tablespoon
Milk – 6 tablespoonn
Cocoa powder – 2 tablespoon
Cornflour – 3 tablespoon



Mix all the ingredients and than cook on medium heat to a smooth custardy consistency.
Stir all the time.
Remove from heat and cool by keeping over cold water (stir consistently)


  • You can adjust the quantity of ingredients according to your taste. This sauce has a delicious taste. Of course not like the superstore branded sauce which contains many additives and taste modifiers as well. 
  • But than as I say for a healthy, organic lifestyle, some adjustments will have to made!


Homemade Cheese

Farm fresh milk – ½ a litre (2 glasses)
Yougurt- 250ml
Muslin cloth




Bring milk to boil. Add yogurt. Milk will quickly cuddle. Stir for 5-10 min.
Remove from flame until all the milk has precipitated.
Drain & squeeze in a muslin cloth. Leave it in a hanging position, to drain all the liquid.
Leave for 7—8 hrs or until well formed. Now remove from the muslin cloth. A shapely cheese block is ready!

  • This homemade cheese gives a tangy, course taste, different from the superstore cheese.
  • It is course in texture. Doesn’t melt like manufactured cheese, so can be used in stuffed chicken breasts (wont leak)

Monday, October 11, 2010

Plain Cake

DThis is the basic cake recipe that my mother taught and I have been using since the age of 10.
You can be creative, add chocolate, vanilla essence etc. Power into layers of chocolate and vanilla.
Plain flour – 1 cup
Sugar – 1 cup
Butter -1cup
Eggs -3
Baking powder – 1 ½ Tea Spoon



Mix butter & sugar. Give it a good mix with a beater.
Mix flour and baking powder. Use sieve for better mix. Add eggs, beat lightly. Now add the butter & sugar mixture to it. Fold the mixture using a spoon.
Bake in pre-heated oven. Check whether cooked, by inserting knife.

Butterfly Prawns

Prawns – 12
Egg -1
 Plain flour - 2tablespoon
Corn flour - 2 tablespoon
Sujji - 2 tablespoon
Rice flour - 2-table spoon (optional)
Baking powder - 1/4th teaspoon

FOR MARINATE:
Garlic – 2 cloves, chopped
Salt & white pepper according to taste.
Lemon juice -2 tablespoons
Soya sauce - 2 tablespoons



Marinate Prawns with garlic, salt, pepper, lemon juice, soya sauce. Leave for an hour.
Now mix all flours (corn flour, plain flour, sujji, rice flour).Add baking powder. Add egg to it. Mix to form a batter.
Now dip marinated prawns to the above batter & deep fry until golden brown.
TIP: You can also mix the marinating ingredients to the batter above. Add prawns. Leave for an hour and than deep fry.
Crispy, restaurant tasty prawns are ready.

Prawn Toast

Garlic - 2 cloves, chopped
Prawns - 5-6, cleaned and mashed
Water -2-3 tablespoon
Salt & black pepper to taste
Green onion – 1/2oz
Sandwich Bread


Mix prawns, garlic, salt, pepper &green onion.
Add 2-3 tablespoon water. Apply it over bread slice. Press a little to embed prawns.
Grill it or fry until light golden brown.
Cut transversely into 4 triangles & serve.

Friday, October 8, 2010

Chicken Pie

This is a pie recipe with oriental touch. You can experiment with different meats and vegetables.

Puff Pastry -1
Chicken - 1/2 kg. Sliced into cubes (Can use beef/Lamb slices)
Oil for cooking
Onion – 1, chopped
Turmeric powder -1 Tablespoon
Black pepper – 1 Tablespoon
Salt & Red chili according to taste
BISTO gravy sauce – Cook according to instructions -1 and a 1/2 cup



Cook chicken cubes in 3 glasses of water. (Use this chicken broth to make BISTO gravy)
In another pan, fry onion until golden brown.
Add cooked chicken cubes to it.
Add salt, pepper, red chili, turmeric powder.
Add BISTO sauce.
Cook to a thick, saucy consistency.
Pour mixture into an oven dish, Cover it with Puff Pastry.
Place in heated oven. Cook until puff pastry golden brown. Serve with Potato wedges

French Open Sandwich

Boiled and shredded chicken – ½ cup
1 boiled egg
Salt & pepper to taste
Sandwich bread -  cut into circles (insert a glass over bread slices & cut into round shapes)
Mustard – ½ tsp
Tomato ketchup
Fresh cream – 1tsp


Mix shredded chicken, boiled egg, mustard, cream, ketchup, salt and pepper.
Apply the paste over sandwich bread.
Garnish. Serve cold


TIPS: you can be as creative as you want with sandwiches.
For garnish, u can add cheese, prawns, olives, tomato slices, mint leave, and smoked chicken etc
          

Homemade White Sauce

HOMEMADE WHITE SAUCE
Plain Flour – 2 tablespoons
Butter- 2 tablespoons
Milk – 2cups
Nutmeg (crushed) (optional)
Oregano (optional)


Mix butter and plain flour in a pan and cook for 5 minutes on low flame. It gives out a nice smell.
Now add ½ cup milk to it. Mix it. Than add rest of the milk. Cook on high flame, until it is saucy in consistency.
The starch granules in flour bursts and releases starch, which gives it a thickened consistency.
Use warm milk for smooth consistency.


NOTE: This is the basic white sauce recipe. To augment taste, you can add nutmeg, oregano to it.
             It is used in various pasta recipes, sandwiches, Lasagnia etc.


Thursday, October 7, 2010

Peach-Condensed Milk Drink

Peach 1, sliced
Lemon juice - 3-4 tsp
Water-  1/2 cup,
Condensed milk- 4-5 tsp
Sugar (optional)
Ice cubes or ice cream



Blend all ingredients in a blender. 
Pour into glasses and serve.
delicious!

Spicy Crispy Fries

4 Potatoes sliced into fries.
Salt & Red chili according to taste
Chat Massala – 1 Table Spoon
Corn Flour –  2 Table Spoons.
Ajwain – 1 pinch  


Mix all the ingredients. Cover potato chips with the spice mixture.
Deep fry until cooked.

Garlic Bread

French loaf- 1
Cheddar cheese- 2oz
Butter-2oz
Garlic- 2-3 cloves
Salt & pepper to taste
Oregano - 1 pinch


Mix all the ingredients. Slice French bread loaf into 1-inch slices.
Rub the mixture over the bread with a knife.
Grill for 10 min or until light golden brown
Tips: This is the Basic Garlic bread recipe. You can experiment by adding red chili flakes to make it spicy, mayonnaise or spring onion.