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Fish Fry

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This recipe is the best way to consume fish in Ramadan when you need protein to re boost your energy. Its healthy even if you are on diet, fish is rich in omega 3 and good fats…….

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Ingredients:

  • 1 kg snapper with skin/ rohu (fillets)
  • ½ cup lemon juice
  • Salt to taste
  • ½ tspn black pepper
  • 1 tspn red chilli powder
  • 1 tbspn ginger garlic paste
  • 1 tbspn soy sauce
  • 1 tbspn vinegar
  • 1 tbson mint – coriander chutney
  • 1 tbspn green chilli paste
  • 1 cup besan (gram flour)
  • Oil for deep frying
  • Some water

Procedure:

-Wash and pat dry the fish fillets and add everything given in the ingredients list except oil. Add a little bit of water if the mixture is too dry.

-Mix well and refrigerate for 12 hours.

-Heat oil to 180 degrees Celsius or medium temperature and fry them until they are brown and crisp.

-Serve hot with tomato ketchup or tartar sauce.

Chicken Pakora

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Chicken pakora is my mum’s delicacy, she is a wonderful cook and this is a wonderful recipe invented by her for the Month of Ramadan. In our family, all women have some specialties for Ramadan, like my Aunt makes the best Vegetable Pakoras, My grandma makes the best Fruit chaat, I am best at everything and my mum is Chicken pakora guru……. so here is one of the delicacies of my family…… its easy and quick and you can impress your friends and family in just 45 minutes with this wonderful and new recipe…….. but plzzzz dont tell anyone that I am leaking out my family secrets……… LOL………..enjoy!

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 1 chicken breast boiled
  • Salt to taste
  • ½ tspn paprika
  • 1 tspn black pepper
  • 2 tbspns corn flour
  • 1 ½ cup flour
  • 1 tspn baking powder
  • Salt to taste
  • ¼ cup chopped scallions
  • ¼ cup chopped green chilllies
  • Some water to make the batter
  • Oil for deep frying

Procedure:

-Mash the chicken breast with a fork.

-Mix all the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl and add mashed chicken.

-Now gradually add water to make a lump free normal consistency batter. Add spring onion/scallion and green chilllies.

-Mix well.

-Keep it aside for 20 – 30 minutes.

-You can add grated cottage cheese/ grated ricotta cheese or mushrooms to it if you want to.

-Heat oil to 180 degrees Celsius.

-Add spoon full of batter and fry. Make sure you leave some distance between the pakoras.

-When they are crispy brown, take them out on an absorbent paper and serve hot with cheese sauce or chilli garlic sauce.

Beef Lasagna

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Simple Beef Lasagne is a lovely recipe, do try this if you are Italian food lover …

Ingredients:

BEEF SAUCE/BOLOGNA SAUCE:

  • 2 cans of diced tomatoes
  • ½ tspn oregano, thyme, rosemary and crushed black pepper
  • Some salt
  • 1 tspn paprika
  • 4 tbspns olive oil
  • 2 tbspns chopped onions
  • 4 tbspns chopped capsicum
  • 1 tbspn chopped zucchini
  • 250 gms beef mince

BECHAMEL SAUCE:

  • 1 ½ cup whole milk
  • 1 scoop of butter
  • 1 tbspn plain flour
  • Some salt and pepper

FOR LASAGNE

  • 10 lasagne sheets
  • 1 cup parmesan cheese
  • 1 cup mozzarella cheese
  • 2 Tomato Slices

Procedure:

-Heat oil and add mincemeat. Stir fry for 15 minutes on low heat.

-Meanwhile in a  sauce add diced tomatoes and all other ingredients and let it cook on low heat for 10 minutes or until its like a chunky tomato sauce.

-Add the sauce in fried mincemeat and mix. Remove from heat.

-Boil milk and Heat some butter in a saucepan. Add flour and mix well. Now add boiling hot milk with constant whisking. Stir until it become thick. Remove from heat.

-Boil lasagne sheets and drain access water.

-Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

-In a Pyrex baking tray scoop some béchamel sauce on its base and spread.

-Now spread a layer of boiled lasagne pasta and then some béchamel and mincemeat sauce. Sprinkle some parmesan cheese and mozzarella cheese and then cover it with the other boiled pasta and repeat the process again until the ingredients are finished.

-At the end top it with some cheese and tomatoes and bake on 180 degrees Celsius for 10 minutes.

-Serve.

Outcome:

Tasty and easy beef lasagne is ready to serve.

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Tips:

-Add boiling hot milk in butter and flour when making béchamel sauce.

-Boil lasagne sheets 2 at a time so that they don’t stick to each other.

Servings:

This will serve 3 – 4 persons easily.

Mixed Vegetable Pakoras

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Mixed vegetable pakora is my own recipe. Its a very easy and less time consuming recipe…..

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Ingredients:

  • 1 ½ cup besan (gram flour)
  • 1 tspn baking powder
  • ½ cup sliced aubergine/ eggplant
  • 1 green chilli sliced
  • ¼ cup chopped green coriander
  • 4 button mushrooms sliced
  • 1 potato thinly sliced
  • ½ cup paneer (small cubes)
  • Little spinach leaved chopped
  • ¼ cup sliced capsicum
  • ¼ cup chopped cauliflower
  • 1 tbspn coriander mint chutney
  • Some salt
  • 1 ½ tspn red chilli powder
  • ½ tspn turmeric
  • 1 tbspn dry coriander
  • 1 tspn cumin seeds
  • 1 tbspn fenugreek leaves
  • 1 onion sliced
  • Oil for deep frying
  • Some water for batter (around ½ – ¾ cup)

Procedure:

-Sift besan and baking powder.

-Slice all vegetables and put them in a mixing bowl.

-Add all spices and sifted besan.

-Add all spices and mix well all the dry ingredients with vegetables.

-Gradually add water and mix with your hands.

-Make a lump free mixture with vegetables.

-Keep aside for 30 minutes.

-Heat oil and add spoon full of batter in it. Keep them away from each other.

-When they are brown, take them out on an absorbent paper and serve hot with tamarind sauce and mint coriander chutney.

Outcome:

Tasty mixed vegetable pakoras are ready to serve.

Serving:

Serves 6.

Mutton Pulao (Mutton Pilav)

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Mutton Pulao is one of the famous dishes of Pakistan (especially Punjab province) and Afghanistan. This is a very mild aromatic dish of rice and meat and is extremely nutritious…..

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

FOR STOCK

  • 1 kg mutton chops/ mutton pieces (pieces with some fats on)
  • 7 ½ cups water
  • 1 tbspn dry coriander
  • 1 tbspn cumin seeds
  • 4 black cardamoms
  • 1 tspn black peppercorns
  • 1 tbspn mace
  • 1 tbspn cracked nutmeg
  • 1 tspn cloves
  • 4 – 6 garlic cloves
  • 1 tspn crushed ginger
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 ½ tspns salt
  • Few saffron strands
  • 1 big piece of cinnamon
  • 1 tbspn dried fenugreek leaves
  • 1 onion sliced

FOR PULAO

  • ¾ cup oil/ ghee
  • 1 small onion sliced
  • 2 tbspns yogurt
  • 3 ½ cups super kernel rice
  • Some ginger juliennes
  • 2 green chilllies
  • Some water to soak the rice

(you can use basmati rice instead)

Procedure:

-In a pressure cooker or in a simple vessel place all the ingredients given for stock and cook until the meat in tender. If cooking in a pressure cooker, make sure you don’t overdo the meat. The meat should not be over cooked.

-Strain and reserve the stock and meat. Dispose of the residue of whole spices and vegetables.

-In a separate vessel, heat some oil or ghee (use ghee for rich and heavy Pulao) and fry onion and ginger juliennes in it.

-When the onion is golden brown add boiled meat and yogurt. Stir and cook for 1 minute. Now add 7 cups of stock and bring it to a boil.

-Add soaked rice and cook on medium heat until very less water is left. Add green chilllies and cover the vessel and let the Pulao cook on slow flame for 5- 10 minutes or until the whole water is absorbed and rice are dry.

-Serve.

Breakfast Keema (Mincemeat recipe for breakfast)

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I am using chicken mince because its low in fat and cholesterol. Start a nutritious and energetic day with this simple and easy recipe ….

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg chicken mincemeat
  • 2 chopped tomatoes
  • 2 – 4 green chillies sliced
  • ½ cup chopped coriander
  • ½ cup olive oil
  • Some salt
  • 1 tspn black pepper (cracked)
  • 1 tspn red chilli powder
  • 2 tbspns yogurt
  • 1 tspn turmeric
  • 1 tspn cumin seeds
  • 1 tspn garam masala
  • 1 tspn crushed garlic
  • 1 tspn crushed ginger
  • 1 tbspn ginger julienne
  • 1 tspn coriander powder

Procedure:

-Heat oil, fry crushed ginger and garlic. Fry chicken mince until it is white. Stir constantly on medium heat. With the cooking spoon break the mincemeat chunk into small pieces.

-Add all the spices, tomatoes and yogurt.

-Mix well.

-Now cook it covered on medium heat until the water is evaporated.

-Mix well and add lemon juice, green chilllies, ginger julienne and coriander.

-Serve hot with toasted white bread or parathas.

Servings:

Serves 4.