Gits gulab jamun

After so many failures i finally discovered  a way of making "gits gulab jamun" just right .
Important points to prepare jamun

1.Take warm water in a cup .
2.Take damp cloth.
3.Take a flat dish and take little water just enough to make one round gulab jamun . 4.Making one gulab jamun with little water at a time makes sure that jamun is  moist and not cracked and dried .
5. Cover it with damp cloth to keep it moist untill you fry them .

Important points to fry
1. In a deep frying pan let oil be hot enough to let jamun come from bottom to up slowly .
2. Oil should not be too hot , else jamun will get burn from outside and will not cooked from outside.
3. The heat should be between medium low and high in intervals.
4. Watch for jamun getting bigger in size .
5. If they dont rise it means water is not enough and they will.turn hard .

Prepare sugar syrup
1. Grind 1 cup sugar with four small cardomoms.
2. Take 2 cups of water and one cup of sugar . Boil for a 2 minutes .
3. In a warm sugar syrup soak your jamuns .
4. Refrigerate and enjoy .

Cucumber and feta cheese salad for summers

Serve about 2 

Ingredients 
Spinach 250 grams 
2 Tbsp of olive oil 
1/4 onion medium size 
2 Tbsp Feta cheese 
1 sweet cucumber cut diced 
2 deseeded tomato cut diced  medium size
1/4 yellow and green bell pepper diced 
Shreaded chicken 
1 whole juicy lemon 
Parsley 
Freshly grounded pepper 

Take about 250 grams of spinach . Boil water and add spinach in boiling water boil it for 30 sec . Drain and put it in ice water for 2 minute .  Drain and its ready to use.

1 Tbsp of olive oil make it very hot in pan . 

Fry about 1/4 onion cut thin and long untill they get light brown. 

Put 1Tbsp of Feta cheese and fry untill it melts . 

Add spinach and mix it . 
it tastes yum . If you like you could use black pepper. 

In a separate bowl take feta cheese scrumbled ,cucumber , tomato , parsley , yellow bell pepper green bell pepper, shredded chicken pieces ,Squeez one lemon , pepper and salt  and olive oil . 

Mix spinach ,above mix and top with bread crumbs of 1 or 2 slice roasted buttered breads .

I usually make sure that i add minimal quantity of each carbohydrate(bread)  protein(chicken)and fibers in one plate to make the meal complete. 

Turkish poached eggs with yogurt

Today i bumbed into this blog almostturkish and i found so many fresh recipes to try on . Please refer the blog for more exciting recipes .

I did few changes in the actual recipe on blog  . I never knew semi cooked egg will taste that good with yogurt . Hell ! yes . It took me to another dimension i would say .

Serves 1
Ingredients
1 big egg (i used 1 instead of 2)
3 tsp of yogurt with hint of salt and 1 clove of garlic nicely minced or grinded   .
Pinch of whole red chilli flakes
Fresh mint leaves chopped fine
A pinch of freshly grounded black pepper
1 tsp of butter
2 tbsp of vinegar
1 tsp of salt
3 cups of water

Method
1.Boil 3 cups of water with  1 tsp salt , vinegar.

2. Lower the heat and let water be calm .

3. Break egg in one bowl .

4. Turn egg into the water and cook for 3 minutes for semi cooked egg .

5.Take flat spatulla and get egg off the pot and into the plate very gently .

6. Heat 1 tsp of salted butter in pan , turn off heat and glide your chilli flakes into it .  

7. Now on top of your egg turn yogurt mix, followed by butter and chilli flakes . Garnish with mint leaves . Sprinkle some black pepper on top .

8. Serve hot .

Chettinand chicken

Preparation time 10 minutes
Cooking time 30 minutes
Marination 30 minutes to 2 hours

Ingredients
For about 500 gms of chicken

For frying
1 medium size onion chopped fine
1 tsp tomato paste
1 tsp of ginger garlic paste
1 bay leaf
1 tsp of ginger garlic paste
Few curry leaves

To marinade
Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
1 lemon
1/2 tsp freshly grounded black pepper
Red chilli powder 1 tsp
1 tsp if ginger garlic paste

For thickening
1 tbsp of poppy seeds soaked for 20 minute and grinded

For chettinand masala
1 tsp of fennel seeds
1/4 cup of grinded dried coconut
1 inch cinnamon stick
3 cloves
3 green cardomom
3 black pepper
1/2 tsp jeera
1tsp of corinader seeds
3 red whole chiĺlies

Method
1. Marinade chicken with the ingredients for marinade .
2. Roast and grind masala .
3. Grind poppy seeds and make paste.
4. Fry bay leaf followed by onion untill golden brown .
5. Fry 1 tsp of ginger garlic paste and tomato paste .
6.Put 3/4 chettinad masala.
7.Thrown in chicken and cook it on high heat for 7-8 minutes .
8. Since there is enough salt in the chicken , there is no need to add salt later .
9. Pour 1 and 1/2cup of water and poppy seeds paste .
10. Cook for another 20 minutes on medium low flame .
11. Check when done .
12. Garnish with curry leaves .
13. Serve with steamed rice or chapati.

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 .

Bhurji pao Mumbai style

Preparation time : 15 minutes
Cooking time : 10 minutes
Serves 2 adults
Difficuly level : very easy

Ingredients
1 finely chopped onion
2 finely chopped green chillies
1 finely chopped green bell pepper
1 finely chopped tomato
1 tsp of ginger garlic paste
1/2 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp of pao bhaji masala
6 bread pieces or pao in hindi
Salt to taste
2 tbsp Oil to cook 
Butter 20 gm

Method
1.Heat oil in a pan .
2.Fry onion untill soft and light brown .
3.Fry bell pepper and green chilli   untill.soft .
4.Fry tomato untill soft and squashy.
5.Fry ginger garlic paste for minute .
6. Put spices like red chilli powder, salt , pao bhaji masala .
7. Whisk 4 eggs in separate bowl .
8. Thrown in eggs and stir continously in low flame slowly and gently .
10. Untill eggs are fully mixed with veggies .
11. Your egg burji is ready .
12. Serve with buttered and hot pao .

note : check consistency of eggs it should not be cooked on high flame for long time . Cooking on low flame help it to give soft consistency . 

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 .