Thai Red Curry with chicken

I am a great fan of Thai food especially the curries, So here is one of my favourite curries "red curry" with chicken.
Ingredients:
1) Bone less chicken breast sliced 1 pound.
2) coconut milk 1 can
3) olive oil 2 tbsp
4) red curry paste 2 tbsp
5) banboo shoot 1 can
6) 1/2 cup sweet basil leaves.
7) 1 red bell pepper sliced.
8) salt and pepper as needed.
9) sliced green chilli (optional, use if you want it hot)

Preparation:
Heat olive oil in a pan, add chicken and fry for 5 min, add vegetables and saute them.
Then add coconut milk and bring it to boil, now add red curry paste, basil leaves, bamboo shoot and salt . cook for another 3 minutes.serve with jasmin rice.

chicken manchurian in hot sauce

A comination of indian and chinese recipe ..he he

I have heard many times people saying that i dont know cooking, i am bored of cooking etc etc..but let me tell you why i love cooking..it is because I love good food and the only way i can get tasty and healthy indian food here in US is by cooking myself.

The two things that i love the most is watching TV and eating eating eating...In every 2 minutes i think about one good dish and the pleasure of eating it..he he he...one food maddy!!!

lets begin with recipe

Ingredients:

(for chicken mnchurian balls)

1) 250 gms of minced chicken.

2) gigner paste 1 tsp

3) garlic paste 1 tsp

4) chilli finely chopped 1

5)corn flour 1/4 cup

6) all purpose flour 1/2 cup

7) salt

8)1/2 tsp garam masala pwdr

Mix all the ingredients above and make lemon sized balls and deep fry them in cooking oil.

For Gravy:

1) chicken stock 2 cup.

2) chilli sauce 1/2 tsp.

3)finely chopped garlic 1 tsp

4) finely chopped ginger 1 tsp

5)sugar 1tsp

6) aginamoto 1 pinch

7) soy sauce 1 tbsp

8)mix corn flour in water 3 tsp

9)2 tsp oil

10) half a oinion chopped.

11) tomato sauce 2 tsp

12) salt as per taste

Heat oil in a pan, add chopped onion, garlic , ginger (i added some veggies to optional). Fry over medium flame for 2 min. Add soy sauce, chilli sauce, tomato sauce, sugar, aginamoto, salt and chicken stock and bring to boil. Add fried chicken balls and cook for 2 min and add corn flour mixed in water (3 tsp) and stirr continuously and its done !!..serve with noodles

Butter Dosa with tomato & onion

Ingredients:

1) 3 cups of dosa rice

2) 1 cup of urad dal

3) 1 tsp baking soda

4) 1/2 cup of cooked rice

5) butter

6)chopped onion, tomato and cilantro

7)salt

Preparation:

Soak rice and dal for 4- 5 hrs and grind them to paste.

While grinding urad dal add the cooked rice to it.

add 1 tsp of salt and 1 tsp of baking soda to this paste and leave over night .

take a non stick tawa , put few drops of oil and spread it.Now place 2 scoops of the dosa mix on it and spread evenly. spread chopped onion, cilantro and tomato mix on it spread 1/2 tsp butter or ghee on it (i used ghee ).turn the sides and till the dosa gets a crisp golden colour.

chicken roll (without egg)

Yesterday i was too lazy to make rice , curry etc for dinner hence
thought of making chicken rolls instead.
so, here is the quick and easy chicken roll without egg.

Ingredients:
1) cooked chicken
(for this marinate chicken in salt, lemon juice, chilly powder,
coriander powder, turmeric,salt, garam masala . Fry onion
add chooped tomato and then add marinated chicken and cook till done)

2) Roti /chappatti
3) chopped onion , tomato, cilantro
4) tomato sauce
5) Mayonnaise

Preparation:







make a chappatti , you can make it from scratch or buy the ready made ones.












Spread mayonnaise on it











place the cooked chicken on it as shown in pic














put few drops of tomato sauce












Add chopped tomato , onion and cilatro
on it and roll.










Roll is ready !!!

Prawn Masala

Ingredients:

1) 1 pound prawns (cleaned and de-veined)

2) 2 big onion chopped.

3) 1 big onion chopped.

4) 2 tsp of ginger garlic paste.

5) 2 tbsp oil.

6) 2 tsp chilli powder.

7) 1 tbsp coriander powder

8) 1 tsp garam masala

9) cilantro leaves to garnish

10)1 tbsp of yogurt.

11) mustard seeds 1 tsp

Preparation:

marinate the prawns with yougurt, salt and turmeric powder for 30 min.

Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, when they splutter add chopped onion and salt.

Fry till the onion becomes golden coloured. Add gigner garlic paste, chilli power, coriander powder, garam masala pwdr and turn off the gas else masalas may burn. fry then for a minute and add chooped tomato and turn on the gas at low flame. When the tomato becomes soft and melts in the masala add marinated prawns to it. Add half a cup of water and cook on low flame.

Add salt and needed and cover it anc cook on low till all the water is evaporated.Garnish with cilantro leaves.

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Pumpkin curry (with coconut)

This is a great curry which goes well with rice.

Its is very simple to prepare. Try it..

Ingredients:

1) 1/2 pupmkin peeled and sliced into cubes.

2) 2 medium tomatos.

3) 2 green chilli

4)few Curry leaves

5) 1/4 th of onion chopped.

6) 2 pods of garlic

7) 1/4 tsp of cumin powder.

8) grated coconut 1/2 cup.

9) 1 tsp mustard seeds.

10)salt

11)2 tsp cooking oil

12) 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder

Preparation:

1.ace the sliced pumpkin and chopped tomatos in pressure cooker,add salt and cook well.

2. a mixer grate coconut, green chilli , turmeric pwder, cumin powder a fine paste by adding water.make sure the pumpkin pieces are cooked well, using a spoon crush pumpkin pieces(if any)Mix the coconut paste from step 2 into the cooked pumpkin.in a pan heat 2 tsp oil, when the oil heats add mustard seeds . when the mustard seeds splutter add chopped onion and curry leaves. When onion turn golden brown turn off the gas . Add this to the curry and salt as per requirement.