Sweet Rosagolla

Happy New Year 2010 to all !
Lets start this new year with a sweet dish.

Ingredients:

Sugar - 2 cup
Milk - 4 cups
Water - 4 cup
Lemon juice - 2 tspn (dilute 2tspn of water)
Approximately 12 pieces can be prepared.

Method:

• Boil milk on medium-high.When it is well boiled,add lemon juice.
• Stir once in a while.When all the milk turn curdles remove from flame and after 5 mins, filter out the curdled paneer using a cotton cloth.Squeeze it well.
• Wash it is a cold water to remove the lemon flavor and keep aside.
• In a Pressure cooker add water and sugar, bring it close to boil.
• Now take the paneer again squeeze it well.Remove panner and place in a bowl,smash them completely using hand.
• On smashing with hand, all the air bubbles are removed and it becomes very soft dough.
• Make small(marble sized) balls and place one by one on the pressure cooker.Make sure the balls are not placed congestedly,as it becomes doubled after cooking. Cover and cook for upto 1 whistle.
• Once pressure is released,refrigrate and server chilled.

Chicken burrito- Indian style

This is my version of chicken Burrito sans cheese and beans.
For Chicken part:
Chicken breasts - 3pcs- Cut in to thin strips
Garlic Powder - 1 tbsp
tomato Sauce - 1/2 cup
Asian Chilli Sauce - a few drops(very spicy)
Salt and pepper

Add Oil in the skillet and let it heat up. Add the chicken and saute it with salt and pepper. Then add the garlic powder and saute it. Then add the tomato sauce and chilli sauce and give it a nice coat and cover it and cook it till the oil seperates.

For the vegetable part:

Onions - 1
Bell pepper - 1 - any color/mixed
cabbage - finely chopped
salt and pepper
tomato sauce - 3tbsp

Remove the chicken and use the same skillet in which the chicken is cooked so the bits and pieces that is stuck in the skillet will give a unique flavour to the vegetables.

Add some oil in the skillet and add the onions until golden brown. then add bell pepper,cabbage, salt and pepper and allow it to cook till it turns color. Then add the tomato sauce and give it a toss and cook for 2 mins till the raw flavour of the tomato sauce goes away.

For Mexican rice:

Rice - 1:11/2 water ratio
Tomato sauce/mexican taco sauce
asian chilli sauce
salt

Cook the rice until 3/4 th done. Then drain it. Add the tomato sauce/taco sauce, Asian chilli sauce, salt and allow it cook in simmer or very low flame covered. When it is fully cooked remove it from the stove.

For salsa:

Onions - 1
Tomato - 2
Green chilli - 1
Cilatro - 1/4 cup
Lemon juice - 2 tbsp
salt

Finely chop every ingredient that is mentioned above. mix it with Lemon juice and salt and set it for 15 to 20 min... Your salsa is ready.

P.S: When you chop the tomato for salsa, cut the tomato in half remove the seedy part inside the tomato and cut only the shell, so it wont be soggy.


Now arranging the burrito.....
Buy a store bought soft taco/burrito base in the 12 counts or 30 counts packet....

Take a taco base slightly warm up on both sides like you do chappati...
take it away from the stove.

For the Stuffing.....

Now put the taco in the plate,First add one scoop of chicken, one scoop of cooked vegetables, one scoop of rice, and finally some salsa.. Top it with ranch/ sour cream..

Rolling the burrito....
After the stuffing is done.. First roll the front of the burrito and then sides and roll it fully... so the sides are tightly sealed.

viola...the burrito is ready and enjoy it with some taco sauce....

Note: You can use any meat or egg instead of chicken... done with the same method...

ummmm..... yummy..... in my tummy.....

Shrimp/Prawn Briyani

Ingredients:
Shrimp/Prawns - 15 to 20 pieces
Basmati rice - 1 cup
Onion - 1/2
Tomato - 1/2
Cardamom - 1 or 2
Cloves - 2
Cinnamon -1/2 inch
Bay leaves - 2 or 3
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tspn
Chilli powder - 1 tspn
Coriander powder - 3 tspn
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tspn
Salt as required
Oil as required
Curry leaves
Cilantro/Coriander leaves
Ghee (Optional) - 2 tspn

Method:

• Heat oil in a pressure cooker. Add cardamom,cinnamon,cloves,bay leaves,curry leaves. Fry for a minute and add onion,ginger garlic paste and fry till onion is transparent.
• Add tomatoes,chilli powder,coriander powder,turmeric and shrimp. Fry till shrimp is cooked well. If it is very thick just sprinkle some water.Don't add too much of water.
• Now  add rice and water with 1:1 ratio.Here for 1 cup of rice, we need to add 1 cup of water.
• Pressure cook it upto 1 whistle. Remove from flame. After 10 minutes release the pressure.
• Add 2 tspn of ghee and Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve hot.

Pepper Chicken

Ingredients:
Chicken - 250 gm
Coconut milk - 1 cup
Fried cashew nuts - 7 (optional)
Curry leaves
Cilantro
Oil as required
Salt to taste

To paste:

Pepper - 1 tspn

Cumin seeds - 3 tspn

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tspn

Method:

• In a skillet add 2 tspn of oil and fry the chicken,curry leaves.
• Once chicken is half cooked, add the pepper paste. 
• At low flame cook the chicken completely.
• When chicken is cooked add coconut milk. Stir for a minute and garnish with cashew nuts and cilantro.

Serve hot - the very simple pepper chicken.

Egg Curry (Muttai Kulambu)

Ingredients:

Boiled egg - 3
Oil as required
Onion - 1 (Semi grind)
Tomato - 1
Chilli powder - 1 tspn
Coriander powder - 2 tspn
Chicken Masala powder - 1 tspn (Optional)
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tspn
Ginger garlic paste - 1 tspn
Mustard seeds - 1/4 tspn
Urad dal - 1/4 tspn
Cilantro
Curry leaves
Salt to taste

Method:

• Heat few spoons of oil in a skillet. Once oil is heated add mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves.
• When the mustard seeds splutter, add onion , ginger garlic paste and fry for a minute.
• Then add tomatoes and fry till it is soft.
• Add chilli powder,coriander powder,turmeric,chicken powder and saute till the raw smell goes out.
• Now add water and salt to required consistency and cook for few minutes.
• Finally add boiled eggs and cook for 4 to 5 minutes.
• Garnish with cilantro.Server hot.

Goes well with: Rice,Idly,Dosa

Gobi Paratha....

Ingredients:

For the Gobi Stuffing:

1. Cauliflower - grated
2. Onion(1)- Finely chopped
3. Green Chillies - Finely chopped(according to your spice level)
4. Mustard - 1//2 tsp
5. Jeera - 1/2 tsp
6. Curry Leaves - 2 finely chopped
7. Cilantro - finely chopped.
8. Chilli Powder - 1/2 tsp
9. oil
10. chat masala - 1 tsp

Method:

       Make the chapatti dough and keep it aside.

       Now In the stove put the frying pan and allow some oil in to it.

       Next put Mustard, jeera, curryleaves and let it fry.  

       Then add the green chillies and  onion and saute it till golden brown. 

       Then add  the cauliflower and saute it and then add the chilli powder and salt and let it cook.

        Then Finally add 1 tsp of Chat Masala and cilantro to get that sour and tangy chatpata taste and let it cool.

Then make few balls out of the dough and  With the rolling pin roll it once and then put the stuffing inside the dough, fold and roll it to make a normal size. Use some oil and dry flour to it so the stuffing will contain in the dough.. hope.. and put it in the tava with little oil and cook it as chappatti.... 

Tasty paratha with less fat/calories. Enjoy it with raitha....

The similar way is for aloo paratha too.... try it and enjoy the taste.

Beans Masala curry

Ingredients:

1. Beans - 200g
2. Onion - 1 big
3. Garlic/ginger-2(chopped)
4. curryleaves/mustard/urid dal for seasoning
5. cilantro for garnish

     To grind:

1. Cashews - 3
2. ginger- a small piece
3. garlic - 5
4. cloves/cinnamon/elachi- 2 each
5. cus cus - a couple of pinches
6. coconut ground - 3 tsp
7. red chillies - depends upon your spice level
8. Mustard - 1/4 tsp

 Method:

    First grind all the ingredients mentioned above on the "To Grind" section with little water and make a fine paste.

     In a pan, add oil and then mustard, urid dal, curry leaves and let the mustard pop. Then add the onions and saute it till it turns color and then add the beans and saute it too. Then add the ground paste and a little water and salt and let it cook till the oil separtes.  Goes well with chappati. 

Can substitute chicken for beans too.... Nice yummy dish.... Try it and let me know....