chicken manchurian

Hi ppl, i have another great recipe today, you making it a unique way, and you will get a unique taste, i took some pics from my Camera, sadly i still didn't find the usb cable yet.. but anyway..

The recipe consists of 4 stages, i will go stage by stage mentioning the ingredients and the methods.

Stage 1:

1 Chicken cut into pieces.

5-6 garlic cloves finely chopped or even smashed

1 tsp black pepper

1 tsp salt

2 tbsp white flour (if its raw white flour, usually you will purify it by filtering it, i used the filter we use for tea =.=)

1 egg.

Add everything above (except the chicken) and mix well, after its liquid, pour into the chicken, and mix again to make sure every piece gets the gravy.

Now take out a large frying pan, pour oil and heat it, fry the chicken till the color becomes brownish/golden. and take out, put aside.

Stage 2

4-5 cloves garlic, cut in lenght

Fry it till it becomes brown/dark brown and put aside.

Stage 3

2 Capsicum (cut into medium square shapes)

2 Carrot (cut round slices)

Start by frying the carrot (since it take longer for the carrot to soften), after a while add the capsicum, fry for a while and then take them out and put aside.

Stage 4

7-8 tbsp tomato ketchup

4-5 tbsp hot sauce.

1/2 tsp black pepper

1/2 cup water

3 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

pour everything in one bowl, and mix. put aside

Stage 5

2tbsp Cornflour powder

2 tbsp green onion cut into piece (you can take this by taking one green onion, and start cutting it into small piece, you will get roughly 2 tbsp)

Mix the cornflour with water and put aside.

Now put the chicken back into the frying pan, give it enough heat, and now add the gravy of stage 4, fry for a while, now add the cornflour/water mix (stage 5) , fry for a while, add the capsicum, carrot (stage 3) , green onion and fried garlic (stage 2). keep frying for while.

Bingo, you have your dish :)

*Comments,

i won't lie to you, i only did this for quarter of chicken, i was doing some testing, and if this turned out great, then i will have to cook about 2 chickens for a party on this weekend, err never mind that..

Taste was Great.. it had a mix fried chicken, little bit of barbecue taste, little bit of sweetness, plus the cooked veggie really added some flavor.

Recommendations

* You should try this recipe :)

Mutton

I honestly don't know what is the recipe name, lol.. but its one of those indian recipes full of spices :)

1 kg mutton

1/2 tsp turmeric

2 tsp salt

1/4 cup oil (5 tbsp)

2 dry red chilli (big)

5 dry red chilli (small)

1 tsp mustard seed

3-4 cloves (the small rocket shape spice :D )

1/4 tsp red chilli

1/2 tsp zeera powder

1/4 tsp black seed

1 tbsp brown sugar (if you using whit, use 3/4 tbsp)

1/2 tsp somf

2 tbsp ginger garlic paste

4 tbsp lemon juice

250 gram curd/yogurt

Bois mutton with salt and with 1 cup of water in a pressure cooker, close the lid of the cooker, take one whistle and then turn off the fire. let it cool and let the steam escape for a while, now open the cooker, separate the mutton from its water/mutton soup

in another cooker, heat oil, now add mustard seed, small and big chilli, cloves, cook for a while now add the mutton, after that add the rest of the ingredients except the lemon juice and the water you got from mutton boiling.

Cook for a while and now add the lemon juice along the water. now cook on a medium/slow fire till the water starts to look more like a gravy.

Enjoy the Meal :)

*Notes

I used 1/2 kg mutton, so what i did was i just slashed every ingredient by half (except water) but apparently, the spice was too much, and it was a bit too spicy, which should be fine if you like spices. But the taste was gooood :)

*Suggestions:

If you don't like spices, then just reduce the red chille powder, and the dry red chilles, both big and small.

Masoor ke Daal

its been a while since i last posted, so here is something on the run.

As you know, there are many types of daal, this is for Masoor daal. this is one of the basics that almost every "indian" house will have 5 times a week at least.. this consists of 2 rounds.

Round 1

1 cup (170 ml) masoor ke daal

1 1/2 onion (medium sized)

2 cloves garlic

1/2 tsp turmeric

1/4 tsp red chilli powder

2-3 tomato (depends on size)

2-3 cup water

3/4 tbs salt

Cut onion and tomato into small pieces, smash garlic, now add all of the above in one pot and cook for a 12-15 min.

Let it cool, after that put what you cooked in a grinder, and mix it till everything becomes liquid. (or is it called a blender.. not sure =.=).

now put everything back in the pot, taste for salt, if you need more then add. keep on low fire.

Round 2

2 tbsp Oil

1/2 onion (slices)

1/2 tsp zeera seed

6-8 karya patta

while the daal is slow cooking, prepare a frying pan. heat oil, now add the onion, then zeera seed, then the karya patta, heat for a while, now put everything in the daal pot, and close the lid of the pot (this gives a nice aroma, and a unique taste, this is one of moms special tricks) and now turn off the heat from the daal pot. don't open the lid till 10 min later. and enjoy the glamorous taste of the daal :)

FYI: i am cooking lamb now, don't know what is the recipe name, but inshallah will put it up later after i have done cooking it and tasting it.