Mackerel fried fish

Preparation time : 15 minutes 

Marination time : 20 minutes
Cooking time : 10 minutes
Serves 1

Ingredients
For marinade
1 small size mackeral fish
1 lemon
1 tsp freshly grounded black pepper
1 tsp of ginger garlic paste
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp of salt

For shallow fry
1 tbsp of white all pupose flour dab out extra.
Salt to taste in flour .
Water about 1/2 cup
Oil to shallow fry about 1 tbsp

Method
1. Cut fish into 4 pcs .

2. Wash nicely .

3. Mix salt , black pepper, lemon juice , ginger garlic paste and oil toghether .

4. Apply mix gently on fish covering it throughly with marinade . Leave it for 20 minutes.

5. Mix white flour and salt with water.

6. Dip fish pcs in the flour for 10 minutes .

7. Shallow fry them on low heat for 8 minutes each side.

8. Your fish fries are ready . They are crisp frim outside and soft from inside.

Serve them with pasta or toasted bread for dinner.

Important : its imporatnt to cook fish on low heat for long .

Always marinade fish to get rid of smell .

Kacchi chicken Biryani

Preparation time 4 hours
Cooking time 45 minutes
Serves 4 adults

Ingredients to marinade
1 small whole chicken cut into 8 pieces about 800 gms
4 large onions chopped fine
1 cup of mint leaves chopped
1 cup of coriander leaves chopped
3 tbsp of ginger garlic paste
1 cup of yogurt
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp of red chill powder
3 tbsp of Biryani masala
2 tsp of garam masala
Salt to taste
1/2 lemon
1 tsp of nutmeg powder
1 tsp of black pepper
1 tsp of shahi jeera
4 green chillies chopped fine

Ingredients for cooking rice
3 cups (250ml  cup) soaked for 1 hour
3 green cardomom
4 cloves
3 small bay leaves
1 inch cinnamom stick
Salt to tatse
Water about 4 cups

Ingredients to garnish
1 large onion cut long and thin and fried golden brown and crisp
2. Handful of mint leaves
3. Kesar strands soaked in 1/2 cup of warm milk .
4. Food colour orange or yellow .

Method to marinade
1. Just mix all the ingredients with chicken and keep it in the fridge 3 hours .

Method to half cook rice
1. Boil water with salt .
2. Pack remaining ingredients in one small cloth tie it and leave it in water to boil for 5 minutes .
3. Thrown in rice and let it be just 50% done .
4. Drain rice .

Method to cook biryani
In a large pot .
1. 4 tbsp of oil make it hot .
2. Put chicken pieces and all stuff .
3. Spread in rice .
4. 2 tbsp of ghee .
5. Sprinkle some fried onions .
6. Sprinkle some mint leaves .
7. Cover the pot and seal it tight with the dough from all over .
8. Cook on a high flame for 10 minutes .
9. Cook on medium high flame for 25 minutes .
10. Cook on medium low flame for 10 minutes .
11. Turn off gas and leave it for 15 minutes .
12 . Your biryani is ready serve it with red pepper chutney and raita .

Zunka or Jhunka

Serves 2
This jhunka version is semi dry one

ingredients

1/2 tsp mustard seeds
8 tbsp of yellow flour , besan or chickpeas flour
1 medium size onion chopped
1 tomato chopped
1 tsp ginger garlic paste
1 capsicum or green pepper
red chilli powder and salt
medium size cut
5-7 big curry leaves
coriander leaves to garnish
oil to fry about 8 tbsp(more oil in this preparation is the key for tasty jhunka)

method
In a hot oil put mustard seeds untill splutter ,chopped curry leaves, fry onion untill translucent . followed by ginger garlic paste. fry for a min . thrown in tomato and fry it untill.it gets fully cooked .  put capsicum and let it cook .

at this stage put red chilli powder and salt as per taste .

put besan and fry untill it leaves oil . you need to keep turning it constantly . sprinkle 1/2 cup of water from all sides mix and close the lid . let it sit for two minutes and turn off the gas . garnish with coriander leaves .

serve hot with bhakar or hot chapati .

Wheat butter dinner rolls

For these tasty and healthy rolls credit goes to my lovely sis Neha . She is having some wonderful recipes and some great art ideas on her site  colourandsome....http://coloursandsome.blogspot.com/.

 Love you sis . 

They are soft , fluffy, healthy ,fresh and easy to make.Serves 10 rolls of small size

Ingredients
3/4 cup of wheat flour
1/4 cup of all purpose flour
1tsp salt
1 Tbsp of sugar
1tsp of dry active yeast
1 1/2 cup of water
Butter about 10 Tbsp

METHOD

Activate yeast in warm water . Mix all dry ingredients and water and make dough . Let the dough be sticky .

Let it sit for 45-60 minutes .

After which Divide them into 10 portions of small size .

Dust the surface and roll them into long oval shaped disc about size if your palm.

Apply butter on surface  and fold it into half , then again apply butter on upper side all over . Now start rolling them from one side till the end . Repeat for all 10 portions .

Keep them for another 30 minutes in the mean time pre heat oven at 180 degrees.

Bake them in oven for 20 minutes . I usually broil in the end for 2 minutes to give nice golden brown colour on top of rolls .

Stuffed chicken wheat bread

Serves 2
Ingredients
1/2 cup wheat flour
1/2 cup white all purpose flour
1 tsp salt
1Tbsp sugar
1 tsp dry active instant yeast
Warm water about 1 cup

For stuffing
1 medium size onion
Large pinch of kasuri methi
300-400 gms of minced chicken
1tsp of garam masala
1tsp of chicken tandoori masala
Salt
Red chilli powder

Method
Fry onion till golden brown and put a pinch of kasoori methi and other spices with salt and pepper . Cook minced chicken for 10 minutes or untill done . Usually it does ny take much time . Let it get cold for stuffing.

For dough
1.Take warm water activate yeast .
2.mix wheat and white flour with salt and sugar
3.knead dough
4 . Leave it for 45 minutes to 1 hour
When it gets double in size .
5. Take dough and divide them into 8 parts .
6. Roll each part to a round or square shape disc about size of your palm , stuff about 1 Tbsp of chicken in the middle of rolled dough .Spread it evenly and close
It using little water. Arrange them onto the greased baking tray with space in between.
repeat same step for all 8 parts .

Let them sit for another 20-30 minutes, in the mean time pre heat oven upto 180degrees . You would see that stuffed dough has risen in size . Bake it for 30 minutes and thy are ready to go .