Chilli chicken

SERVES 2

INGREDIENTS
For Marinade
250 grams chicken boneless , cut into pieces.
1 tsp vinegar
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup water

For batter
1/2 cup of white flour
1/4 cup of corn flour
1 tsp of ginger garlic paste
1/2 tsp of black pepper
A pinch of baking soda
Salt to taste

For sauce

1/2 medium sized onion diced
1 small bell pepper diced
2 tbsp of white part of spring onion
1 tbsp of spring onion to garnish
1 tbsp of soya sauce
1 tbsp of chilli garlic sauce
1 tbsp of oyster sauce (optional)
1 tsp of garlic finely chopped
1 tsp og ginger
2 tbsp of seseme oil

1/2 tsp of corn flour
1/2 cup of water

METHOD
Marinade chicken.pieces for 2 hours in the mixture of water , vinegar , salt and sugar in fridge.

Then mix all ingredients for batter keep it for 15 minutes .
And fry chicken.pieces on medium.low untill light coloured , say for minute . Take them out , this allows all juices to stay inside the chicken .

At the time of serving fry them again in medium high flame untill they get golden brown and crispy .
My kids love to eat this fried and crispy chicken its really yummy .

For sauce
Take oil in a pan make it very hot on medium high flame and fry all veggies for sauce let it get done. Pour mixture of corn flour and water . Followed by soya sauce , chilli garlic sauce , oyster sauce . Let it be medium thick . At the time of serving fry chicken pieces again and mix with warm sauce not hot . Else chicken will get soft .

Bangali rasogulla

Serves 12 rasogullas
INGREDIENTS
1/2 litre full cream milk
1 lemon juice or 2 tbsp of vinegar
1 cup water
1/2. Cup sugar
4-5 pistas to garnish

METHOD
Make chenna
1.Boil milk. As it boils put lemon juice to disintegrate milk . As it starts leaving water turn off heat and drain it in muslin cloth . Squeeze all water with your hands and tie the cloth . Put your tied cloth in running water to wash off any lemon or vinegar taste.
Let it get totally dry for 1 hour . This preparation is known as chenna .

2 . Now grind chenna with grinder.it will be soft non sticky preparation.

3. Divide it into 12 equal portions and roll them with your hands and make balls.

4. Now boil 1 cup of water in pressure cooker and as it boils put half cup of sugar to make sugar syrup. As the syrup start to boil ,
Put the gas heat to low and one by one put your rolled balls .

5. Close pressure cooker without vessel and cook for exactly 5 min. Turn off heat and let it get cold . Turn it into serving bowl and let it get cool in the fridge.

NOTE: if overcooked they may get hard .

6. Garnish with pieces of pista and serve chilled .

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 .

Tasty pasta salad

Serves 1
1 cup of cooked pasta
1 carrot diced
1 tomato diced
1/4 onion diced
Handful of lettuce
2 leaves of cabbage cut into thin strips
1/2 tsp of white pepper
2 Tbsp of vinegar
2 Tbsp of sugar or Honey
Salt as per taste
And mayonise garlic dip (1 Tbsp of mayonise + 1 clove of garlic )

Method
Mix all vegetables , vinegar, sugar, salt , white pepper. Now coat pasta with mayonise garlic dip . And top on vegetables and refrigerate for 1- 2 hours . This will allow marination of all veggies and pasta .

Easy rice fry

Serves 2
Ingredients
1 cup of rice (half boil it with salt and drain it to make grains separate )

A handful of ground nuts
1/2 tsp of mustard seeds
1/2 tsp of jeera seeds
1 medium size onion sliced
2 green chillied chopped
Coriander to garnish
1 tsp of tamarind soaked in half cup of water for 10 minutes.
Oil to temper about 3 Tbsp

Method
Take oil in pan and let it get hot .
Put mustard seeds let it splutter followed by jeera seeds , ground nuts .
Put onion ,Let onion get light brown . Thrown in green chillies and immedietly turn rice over the pot . Mix everything nicely and strain and pour tamarind water over rice , close the lid and let rice cook . If rice is not done sprinkle some more water. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve with your choice of pickle and fried papad .

Makhni dal

Serves 4
Ingredients
1 cup black lentill (whole udad covered)
1 slitted green chilli
2-3 juvenile ginger pieces
1 Tblsp of coriander powder
3 Tbsp of butter
2-3 whole red chillies cut into pieces
1/4 cup of fresh cream
1tsp of garam masala

Method
Soak lentill for about 2 -3 hours or overnight .Boil with salt and slitted green chilli and ginger.   if you soak for lesser hours boil lentill with 3 glasses of water for 1 hour else boil with 2 glasses of water for 30 minutes .

In another pan take 2 tbsp of butter let it melt . put whole red chilli and coriander powder . pour cooked daal and give one boil.  now mix cream and give another boil . 

note: traditionally makhni daal is boiled for longer hours in low flame to get actual flavour .

serve makhni daal hot with melted butter with butter naam or hot steamed rice .

soft spongy almond cocoa cake

Ingredients
1. half cup almond ....grind it to powder.
2 .half cup ghee or butter
3. two eggs
4. 1/2 tsp baking soda
5. 1/2 tsp baking powder
6.  1 tsp cocoa powder
7. 1/2 cup sugar

method
churn eggs in mixer for a minute or two . pour oil into the egg . mix all dry ingredients separately and mix with eggs and butter . churn for another minute . grease the baking tray and pour cake mix.  pre heat oven at 180 degrees  for 5 minutes .
bake cake for 30 minutes . you can chk wheather cake is done by inserting tooth pick at the middle , if it comes out clean means cake is done else cook for another 5 minutes and chk again .