Easy everyday chicken

Sorry for being MIA for so long but what better way to come back with an easy chicken recipe. It's a very basic Indian masala cooked with chicken. So here it goes...

ALL YOU NEED:

1 Whole chicken cut into pieces (or you can use which ever you regularly use at home)

1 medium sized onion chopped
2 medium tomatoes chopped
1 tsp each Garlic and ginger paste (or u can use chopped as well)
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp red kashmiri mirch powder (it's just for the color)
Salt to taste
Cilantro chopped for garnish
2 Green chillies chopped for garnish
1 tbsp ghee
1 tsp cumin seeds

METHOD:
Start with heating oil in a pan with cumin seeds. Add onions once the seeds start popping. Cook onions until translucent.

Add ginger garlic paste (chopped), stir them a minute or two and in goes tomatoes. Cover it with a lid and let the tomatoes cook on medium flame for about 5-7 mins.

Now after 5-7 minutes when you open the lid you want to cook the masala a bit more. Refer this picture...

When done, you can add the chicken with salt, garam masala, kashmiri mirch.. give it a good stir so that the chicken is coated with the masala and cover it. Keep it covered until the chicken is fully cooked.

Masala coated chicken

Please make sure it's well cooked. It took me around 7-10 mins, cook yours depending on which part of the chicken is being used for this recipe.

Remove the lid and cook it for another 2-3 mins so that the extra water evaporates...

Garnish with cilantro and green chilies..

Ready to be served. 

Note: I don't add any chili while cooking the food as I serve it to my babies so with all means you are most welcome to add chilies during any part of the process.

Blue Cheese Salmon Salad

Happy New Year you'll!! So like every year we start with a resolution of loosing some pounds likewise this year... let's see how long we can follow it, have to loose some holiday weight...My inlaws family visited us for the holidays... it was so much fun and scrumptious food..:D 

Decided to make something light but delicious.. hope you'll will like it. It's a super easy recipe and ready in minutes..:D

ALL YOU NEED:

Salmon (I eyeballed it good enough for 2-4 ppl)
Black pepper
Salt to taste
1 tsp Garlic & Ginger paste each
Dried Oregano
Blue Cheese Dressing (I used low calorie greek yogurt based dressing, you can use the real one if you like)

Vegetables as many as you want and whatever kind you want
I used small portions of:
Onions
Bell pepper (Red, yellow & green)
Tomatoes
Cucumber
Green chili
Green onion/ spring onion
Cabbage
Celery
Cilantro
Parsley
Mint leaves

METHOD:

Start with Heating a grill Pan with few drops of olive oil and placing Salmon with Ginger garlic paste, black pepper, salt, dried oregano...

while it's cooking start breaking it into pieces...

Side by side chop all of the veggies and place them in a salad bowl/ container

Once the salmon is cooked and the veggies are chopped mix everything together add a bit more salt to the vegetables...

Add the Blue cheese dressing.. I added 2 tbsp because we are not much into dressings but you can use it to your desire...:D

This is the dressing I used...delicious without guilt ;)

 Mix it all well and wallah it's ready...:D

 I served it with the side of Rosemary potato fries and some sweet potato fries (Baked)

Make sure you guys try it..makes a yummy left over sandwich..:D

Blueberry Muffins

INGREDIENTS:

Dry Ingredients:

2 cups All purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 cup of Sugar

Pinch of salt

Wet Ingredients:

1 stick of butter

 2 eggs

1 tsp vanilla extract

2 tsp milk 

Fresh Blueberries

Cinnamon powder

1 tsp sugar

METHOD:

Pre heat the oven to 450 degrees 

Combine all the dry ingredients in a bowl...

and all the wet ingredients in another.. whisking 1 egg at a time...

Combine them together...

Add the blueberries and mix it...

I was out of muffin liners but was craving for these so I used wax paper cut them in quarters and placed them in the muffin dish...;)

Put the batter in using an ice cream scoop or a spoon...

Top each muffin with cinnamon powder and sugar (just a pinch of each)

Bake it at 450 degrees for 15 mins...
and walaahhh...!!

This recipe makes 12 muffins :D

Grilled Tandoori Fish

I named it Tandoori fish because of its ingredients...;) 

Ingredients:

4 Tilapia filets (You can use whatever kind of fish you want)

1 tbsp each Ginger/Garlic Paste 

2 tbsp Mustard oil (optional)

3 tbsp yogurt

1 chopped green chili

Salt to taste

1/2 tsp Garam Masala

2 tsp Kashmiri Mirch (for color)

Cilantro

Mint leaves

Method:

Thaw the fish and marinate in Vinegar and salt for 10 mins, this removes the fishy smell...

In a bowl add the ingredients... I started with Ginger/Garlic, green chili...

Kashmiri Mirch, Mustard oil...

Add the yogurt, cilantro and mint leaves and Mix well... Marinate for 1/2 an hour...

In a Grilling Pan, Spray some oil and place the Marinated fish...

Cook about 5-7 mins each side (or until fully cooked & golden brown)

Squeeze Half a lemon and enjoy it with a drink...;)

Cheers!!

Mix it up!! (Salad)

Ingredients:

2 strands of Romaine Lettuce

2 strands of Red top lettuce

Blanched Broccoli

Handful of tomatoes

1 carrot

Olives

Avocado

2 Celery sticks

2 Spring onion strands

1/2 cup Pomegranate 

Bread crumbs

Oregano to taste

Black Pepper to taste 

Method:

Wash all the veggies thoroughly and start chopping them...

Any shape and size you want...;)

Added the avocado, pom seeds, and I also added walnuts...

There you go, add oregano, salt (i didn't add any), and black pepper... Top it up with bread crumbs...

Enjoy!! :)

Sabudana aloo Tikki

I'm back with my delicious recipes and I promise I'll try to be regular...;)

Navratri Special Recipe

INGREDIENTS:

1 Cup Sabudana (Tapioca)

4 Medium size potatoes

Salt to taste

1 tbsp Aamchur (Mango powder)

1 Green chili chopped

1/4 cup roasted peanuts (grounded)

Cilantro

Oil to fry

METHOD:

Soak sabudana (tapioca) for 4-5 hours or more if required.

Boil the potatoes and mash them.

Add the crushed roasted peanuts...

Add the sabudana (Tapioca)...

Add cilantro, salt and Mango powder (Aamchur) and green chilies...

Mix it all together and start shaping them...

Tikki shape/round shape and flatten them a little with my palms....

I shallow fried them (although this is too much oil for me) but somehow I convinced myself... 

Cook them on medium low flame... (unlike me) but this way I get to make them crispier...:D

Take them out on a tissue paper to soak the extra oil... and they are good to be served with Green cilantro mint chutney..:D

If I haven't posted a recipe for that will do it soon..:D 

By the end of it, oil was wiped out... :P

 My end product... Made around 15-16 tikkis...

Amazing if served with Green Mint cilantro Chutney...