Sunday 20 April 2014

Crusted Chicken in KFC style

Ingredients for Crusted Chicken
Leg pieces-10
Egg-1
salt-to taste
Red chilli powder-half spoon or to taste
Pepper powder-half spoon
Lemon juice-3 spoons
Flour-4 spoons
Cournflour-2 spoons
Cornflakes crushed-half packet
White oil for deep frying and one spoon for marination
Method
1)Slit the chicken pieces after cleaning them nicely.
2)Put pepper powder,red chilli powder,lemon juice,oil and keep in the fridge for 30 min.
3)After 30 min add one beaten egg,flour and cornflour to coat the chicken and keep in the fridge for 10 more min.
4)Now take the leg pieces out of the fridge mix it once again and add salt and now coat it with the crushed cornflakes and press it well with palm.
5)Deep fry in white oil in medium heat and take it out on a tissue paper and drain the excess oil.
Crusted chicken is ready and serve hot with hot and sweet sauce.
Note:You can also fry in Airfryer with just few drops of oil brushed on top

Thursday 10 April 2014

Fulkofi diye Macher Jhol(Fish cooked with cauliflower)

Fulkofi diye Macher Jhol(Fish cooked with cauliflower)
Ingredients
Onions sliced-2 big ones
Tomatoes chopped-1 big
Ginger,garlic and green chilli(3)paste-1 spoon
Turmeric-For marinating the fish and used in gravy(half spoon)
Red chilli powder-half spoon
Salt-as per taste
Coriander powder-2 spoons
Whole cumin-few
Cauliflower should be medium size.
1)Marinate the fish(1 kg) with turmeric powder(half spoon)salt and one spoon mustard oil/white oil.
2)Heat oil in a pan and add mustard oil enough for frying the fishes.Fry the fish till golden brownand keep aside.
3)In the same oil fry the cauliflowers with little salt and turmeric powder and keep aside.
1)In the same oil add cumin for tempering.
2)Now add chopped onions and fry till it turns golden.
3)Now add chopped tomatoes and fry till turns soft and then add ginger garlic and chilli paste
4)Once the fried masala starts to leave oil add turmeric powder,chilli powder,salt,coriander powder.Add little water to avoid the masala to burn.Fry it for some more time till the water is absorbed.Then add the cauliflower and saute it for few min with the masala and add luke warm water to cook the cauliflower.
5)Once the water starts to boil,add the fried fish and cook till gravy is semi thick.
6)Garnish with coriander leaves.

Tuesday 8 April 2014

Momos two ways


Ingredients for Momo
Maida(flour)-4 cups
salt-pinch
White oil-1 spoon
Water as per need
Knead the flour with salt ,water,Oil,and keep it covered with wet towel for 30 min.Knead it tight.
Ingredients for the filling
Chicken keema-1 cup
Finely chopped cabbage-half cup
Finely chopped garlic-2 spoons
Finely chopped green chillies-to taste
soya sauce-2 spoons
Lemon juice-1 spoon
Salt and sugar to taste
Any kind of fat will enhance the taste(optional)
Ajinamoto-pinch(optional)
Chopped coriander (optional)
White oil for frying
Mix all the ingredients together and keep aside.
Method
1)Make small balls with the dough.The size will be like a tennis ball.Roll them with the help of a rolling pin.
2)Fill the circle with one spoon mixture above and shape like a momo and keep.
3)Now boil water in a momo steamer and grease the above pan and place the momos one by one in the steamer and steam for 20 min.
4)Instead of steaming if you fry the momos it will be called fried momos.That is equally tasty.
 Serve hot with soup and sauce.

Note.If you omit the chicken it becomes a veg momo.In that case you can add shredded carrot,cabbage etc.