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Pasta Grande

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Pasta Grande is my own invention and believe me it is one of the bests. I love the sweet chilli sauce taste in chicken pasta and the champignons and the bell pepper adds a very fine taste to it plus it is covered with cheese. You and your family or whoever you will feed this will love it.

Ideal for lunch, snack, hi tea parties, birthday parties, kids parties, camping trips, picnics, etc.

 

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Ingredients:

  • 500 gms chicken mince
  • 100 ml tomato paste
  • 200 ml pasta sauce (1 kg tomatoes, cut into chunks, sprayed with olive oil, salt, thyme, oregano and rosemary, broiled for 35 mins of 200 degrees Celsius or until crusty, mashed and passed through sieve)
  • 4 tbspns sweet chilli sauce
  • 2 small cans/ 2 cups of champignons (button mushrooms) ( I used champignons because they taste better in this recipe?
  • 1 bell pepper/ capsicum (chopped into small dices)
  • 1 tbspn red chilli flakes
  • 1 tspn cracked black pepper
  • 1 packet of spaghetti (I use 1 packet of San Remo)
  • Salt to taste
  • 2 tbspns of minced garlic

FOR WHITE SAUCE

  • 2 cups whole milk
  • 2 tbspns flour
  • 100 gms butter
  • 2 tbspns sharp parmesan cheese (optional)
  • Salt and pepper (be careful with salt as we have added salt in the pasta as well plus the cheeses are a bit salty too)

FOR TOPPING

  • Mix of shredded Mozzarella (1cup), Cheddar( ½ cup) and (4 tbspns) Parmesan.
  • Some Italian herb mix
  • A bell pepper sliced
  • 4 tbspns oil

Method:

  1. Heat oil in a pan and fry chicken mince. Break it into pieces when sautéing. Add garlic when the chicken changes its color and cook until the water from the chicken dries.
  2. Now add all the sauces (pasta sauce and sweet chilli sauce) and tomato paste and mix. Add champignons and bell pepper and cook for 5 minutes on medium heat with the lid on.
  3. Add salt, pepper and chilli flakes. Stir and remove from heat.
  4. Boil some water in a big pot and add a generous pinch of salt. Add spaghetti and cook until al dente’.
  5. Drain the water and keep the boiled spaghetti in the colander under running cold water and separate them with your hands. When the spaghetti is all separated and the starch is drained turn off the water and keep the spaghetti aside in the colander for 2 minutes. Now add the spaghetti in the tomato and chicken mixture.
  6. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius on broil mode.
  7. For white sauce, melt some butter in a sauce pan, add some Italian herb mix and flour. Saute until the flour starts turning light brown. Add milk with constant whisking and cook until the sauce thickens. Add parmesan cheese, salt and pepper and turn off the flame.
  8. Put the pasta in the baking dish, pour over the white sauce and then cover with a layer of mix cheeses, capsicum slices and herb mix and broil for good 20 minutes until the cheese looks bubbly and golden from the top.
  9. Take out the dish from the oven very carefully and let it rest for good 10 minutes. It will allow it to settle down a bit which will make it easier for you to cut the portions. Serve hot.

 

 

 

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Snowy Cheese & Chicken Vegetable Omelette

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Snowy Cheese & chicken vegetable Omelette is my favorite breakfast when I am on a diet. It is nutritious and protein rich, healthy start to your day ❤

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Ingredients:

  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tbspns red onion (finely chopped)
  • 1 tbspn red chilli (finelly chopped)
  • 2 tbspns spring onion (green part, finely chopped)
  • 4 tbspns champignons (sliced)/ Mushrooms (sliced)
  • 2 tbspns capsicum (finely diced)
  • A handful of sliced/ shredded smoked chicken/ chicken boloni/ boiled chicken/ grilled chicken/ chicken Frankfurt
  • 3 tbspns black olives (pitted and sliced)
  • 3 tbspns jalapenos (marinated and sliced)
  • 50 gms chunk of parmesan cheese
  • 1 knob butter + 2 tspns olive oil
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Some Italian herbs to garnish
  • 1 tbspn cream/ 3 tbspns full cream milk

Method:

  1. In a mixing bowl, crack 4 eggs, add milk/ cream, salt and pepper and whisk.
  2. In a pan, melt some butter and add a drizzle of olive oil on a medium to low heat. saute’ the onions and tomatoes and pour the egg mixture.
  3. Add all the vegetables and chicken and let the eggs change the colour. Then flip one side onto the other side.
  4. Let it cook and flip the side and flip it onto the plate.
  5. Use a grater to freshly grate parmesan cheese onto the hot omelette and serve hot with crusty rye bread.

Tawa Keema/ Tawa Qeema

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This recipe is my very own version of tawa keema. It is a very chat pata, masaledaar dish which can be made in minutes and loved by all. A very easy and rich recipe for you one dish girls party or just a casual dinner when you dont feel like cooking a time consuming dish.

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Ingredients:

  • 4 tbspns oil
  • 500 gms chicken/ lamb/ beef keema
  • A generous pinch of meat tenderizer (only if using beef or mutton)
  • 2 tbspns fried onions (crushed)
  • 1 tbspn ginger and garlic paste (fresh)
  • 2 tomatoes blanched, peeled and chopped fine
  • 3 tbspns green chillies (chopped fine)
  • Salt to taste
  • A generous pinch of chicken salt
  • 1 tspn Kashmiri red chilli powder
  • 1 tspn red chilli flakes
  • ½ tspn turmeric
  • 1 tspn cracked coriander seeds
  • 1 tspn crushed roasted cumin seeds
  • 1 tspn pan roasted anardana (crushed)
  • A pinch of cracked black pepper
  • A generous knob of butter
  • A pinch of methi leaves
  • 2 tbspns lemon juice

Method:

  1. Add a generous pinch of meat tenderizer to the mincemeat and mix. Keep aside for 30 minutes. If you are using chicken mince, eliminate this step.
  2. Heat oil on a tawa and fry ginger garlic paste and green chillies. Add the mince and stir fry. Break it into pieces while stir frying on medium heat. Add tomatoes and all the ingredients accept lemon juice, methi leaves, black pepper and butter and cook until the tomatoes are mushy.
  3. Add butter and stir fry until the food looks cooked and the oil starts separating. Add rest of the ingredients and give a quick last stir.
  4. Serve hot with roti.

Butter Chicken

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Butter chicken, another North Indian delicacy, very famous and almost available in every Indian restaurant and take away but all of them does not taste good or authentic. With this recipe you can get the most authentic and great flavour of butter chicken because it has been mastered after 4 trials.

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Ingredients:

FOR CHICKEN

  • 4 chicken thigh fillets (cut into big chunks/ 3 pcs. Per thigh fillet)
  • 1 tspn roasted gram flour (besan)
  • Salt to taste
  • A generous pinch of chicken salt
  • 1 tspn red chilli powder
  • 1 tspn cumin powder
  • 1 tspn special masala (a pinch of nigella seeds, a pinch of garam masala, a pinch of kasuri methi, a small pinch of ajwain, a pinch of black pepper corns and a pinch of cloves grind into a powder)
  • 1 tbspn yogurt
  • 1 tspn mustard oil
  • 1 tson ginger garlic and green chilli paste
  • A pinch of meat tenderizer

FOR CURRY

  • 3 tbspns oil
  • 2 generous knobs of butter
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 big cardamom
  • 3 small cardamoms
  • A stick of cinnamon
  • ½ tspn cumin seeds
  • 1 tbspn kasuri methi
  • 3 tbspns cooking cream
  • 1 large onion
  • 2 large tomatoes (cut into chunks)
  • 1 tbspn tomato paste
  • 3 cloves of garlic
  • A small piece of ginger
  • 3 tbspns cashew nuts
  • 2 small green chillies
  • Some cream and chopped coriander for garnish

Method:

FOR CHICKEN

  1. Wash, pat dry and cut chicken into chunks.
  2. Apply all the dry spices and ginger garlic paste mixed with mustard oil and keep aside for 20 minutes.
  3. Now add gram flour and yogurt and mix well. Keep aside for 30 minutes.
  4. Heat the grill plan to high and grill the chicken chunks to 3 mins per side. (Do not flip over and over, just 2 flips are fine)
  5. Keep aside until needed.

FOR CURRY

  1. Heat oil and sweat the onions. Add ginger garlic paste, green chillies and all the whole spices along with cashews. Saute for around 2 minutes and add tomatoes and tomato paste. Cook on medium heat with the lid on until the tomatoes are mushy.  Add water if needed.
  2. Turn off the heat and let the mixture cool for a bit. Take out the bay leaf and cinnamon. Now add 1 cup warm water and blend it to puree.
  3. Pass it through the sieve to get the silky smooth curry and discard the residue.
  4. Heat the same pan and melt 2 knobs of butter. When the butter is melted and hot add the curry. Let it simmer for 2 minutes, then add fenugreek leaves by crushing between your palms to get the extra flavour and fragrance and add cream. Stir and add the grilled chicken and let it cook in the curry for 1 minute.
  5. Take it out in the serving bowl, let it cool for 2 minutes and then garnish with cream and coriander.
  6. Serve with boiled rice/ naan/ garlic naan.

 

Parsi Chicken Cutlets

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Parsi chicken cutlets is the recipe inspired by one of the internet recipes. I was watching cooking videos as usual and watched this one which kinda attracted my taste buds, so I tried it and no doubt it was yum 🙂 Give it a try and let me know what you think about it!

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Ingredients:

  • 250 gms boiled and mashed potatoes
  • 500 gms chicken mince
  • 1 cup coriander chopped
  • 1 cup mint leaves chopped
  • 1 medium red onion chopped fine
  • 1 tbspn ginger & garlic paste
  • 4 – 5 green chillies chopped
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tspn red chilli powder
  • ½ tspn turmeric
  • 1 tspn coriander powder
  • 1 tspn cumin powder
  • 1 tspn garam masala

FOR COATING

  • 2 cups bread crumbs
  • 2 beaten eggs
  • Oil for shallow frying

Method:

  • In a shallow wide dish, combine boiled mashed potatoes and chicken mince well and add all the spices and veggies. Mix well and keep aside for 10 minutes.
  • Now make small cutlets depending on hat size you want and coat them in breadcrumbs, then egg and fry for 2 minutes per side on medium flame.
  • Serve hot with tomato mint chutney or ketchup.

Chicken Francaise

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Chicken francaise is a very popular American – Italian dish which is available in nearly all the cafes and restaurants in America. In general it is very difficult and boring to eat chicken breast but in this dish I like the subtle lemony sauce over crumbed, soft and succulent chicken breast. Give it a try and I am sure you will love it….

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Ingredients:

  • 2 chicken breasts (cut into butterfly cut) (small size)
  • Salt & cracked pepper
  • Oil

FOR COATING 1

  • 1 cup plain flour
  • 1 tbspn corn flour
  • Some chicken salt to season

FOR EGG COATING

  • 2 eggs (whisked)
  • 4 tbspns finely grated parmesan cheese
  • 2 tbspns chopped parsley

FOR SAUCE

  • 1 knob of butter
  • 1 cup chicken stalk
  • ½ cup lemon juice
  • 2 tbspns chopped parsley

Method:

  • Cut the chicken breast into butterfly cut or just in two fillets and season with some salt and pepper. Put each piece in the zip lock bag and pound with the meat hammer until thin and flat.
  • Take some flour on a shallow plate and season with some chicken salt, and prepare the egg mixture in a shallow plate by mixing everything.
  • Heat some oil in a pan.
  • Take one chicken breast, roll it in flour and then shake off the access and dip it in egg mixture and fry on medium heat for 3 minutes per side.
  • Do the same with all the chicken pieces and then in the same pan add the chicken stalk and lemon juice and let it simmer to half. Add parsley and butter. When the sauce begins to get thick add the fried chicken and cook 1 minute per side so the sauce penetrates in the chicken.
  • Serve hot with pouring the extra sauce on top of the chicken.

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