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Shrimp Toast

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A flavorful snack dish, originally from Hong Kong but mostly referred as Chinese finger food. Do try this and impress your guests ….

Cantonese Shrimp Toast

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 200gms peeled, deveined prawns (raw)
  • 1 tbspn corn flour
  • Some salt
  • Some paprika
  • Some black pepper
  • Some cracked chilli
  • Some chopped Thai chilllies
  • 2 tbspns parsley/ coriander
  • 1 tspn sesame oil/ any other oil
  • 1 tspn vinegar
  • 3 white bread slices (without sides, cut into 4 triangles each)
  • Oil for frying

Procedure:

-Chop off shrimp tails and dispose them off.

-Dice the prawns until it is almost a paste. Add all other ingredients except bread and mix well.

-Spread the shrimp paste of toasts.

-In a 3 quart pan, fill the pan up to 1/3 full with vegetable oil. Remember, when you are frying, you must not fill the pan more than half; otherwise, the oil will overflow during frying and trust me, that’s a very bad thing to have.

-The temperature is the key when frying. Using a candy thermometer, check to make sure the oil is heated up to 300 F. If you fry the toasts with oil that’s hotter than this, then they will burn. If you fry with oil that’s colder, then the toasts will be too greasy as they will soak up too much oil during frying.

-When the oil reaches 300 F, drop in the toasts. Try not to be greedy and fry only a few toasts at a time so they have room to “swim” around in the oil.

-Fry each toast for one minute or until golden brown.

-Take them out and serve hot with tartar sauce.

Serving: 

This will make 12 shrimp toasts.

Chicken Nuggets Recipe 1

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This how to make healthy chicken nuggets, the Ayesha’s Kitchen Way ….

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Ingredients:

  • 2 large chicken breasts (skinless and boneless)
  • Some salt and pepper for seasoning
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 ½ cups bread crumbs (fine)
  • Oil for shallow frying

Procedure:

-Cut chicken breasts in chunks and process them in chopper.

-Add seasoning and give it another chop.

-Now in a bowl whisk two eggs. Season the breadcrumbs with some salt and pepper if you want to.

-Now take very little amount of minced chicken and shape it into a bowl. Roll it into flour, dip it into egg and then roll it into bread crumbs and shape it like a nugget.

-Do the same with rest of the meat. This will make approximately 16 – 20 nuggets.

-Now heat some oil in a frying pan and fry them for approximately one minute per side or until they are golden brown.

-Serve hot with chilli garlic sauce, tomato ketchup or any other dip of your choice.

Storage:

-You can store it covered in the freezer. Make sure you spray or glaze the storage box with some oil and then freeze.

-Do not microwave/defrost them before frying.

Fruit Chaat

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Fruit chaat is the most common way to consume fruits in the month of Ramadan in Pakistan. Nearly, everyone in Pakistan, make this fruit salad to give their bodies energy, vitamins and nutrients, moreover its very refreshing and if you are on diet or you want to lose weight, then this is the best thing you can have because it is filling and full fills all the healthy requirements of your body ….

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Ingredients:

  • 1 banana (sliced)
  • 1 apple with skin (sliced)
  • 1 pear with skin (sliced)
  • 5-6 grapes cut in half
  • 4 dates (firm, sliced)
  • 1 mandarin/ orange (squeezed)
  • Some salt and black pepper
  • A pinch of roasted powdered cumin
  • 1 strawberry sliced
  • ½ kiwi fruit sliced
  • ½ cup sliced pineapple
  • ½ cup diced guava (Optional)
  • 2 tbspns boiled chickpeas

Procedure:

-Combine all the ingredients in a deep mixing bowl and mix.

-Take it out in a serving bowl.

-Decorate it with some fruit slices and serve chilled in Iftar or as a desert.

Tips:

-You can use several other fruits like melon, pomegranate, Feijoas etc.

Fish Pakora (Recipe 1)

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Fish Pakora is another wonderful recipe of Pakistan which is popular in home cooking during the Month of Ramadan. This pakora is not available on streets and stalls, people make them at home or some posh restaurants have them on their menu card. If you want to enjoy the best taste of Fish pakora, make it at home with fresh fish and fresh herbs and spices and I am sure you are going to love this recipe …..

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Ingredients:

  • ½ kg fish (Diced)(Rohu/snapper/hoki/sole)
  • 1 ½ cup besan (gram flour)
  • 2 tbspns lemon juice
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tspn red chilli powder
  • ½ tspn cracked black pepper
  •  1 tbspns chopped mint leaves
  • 2 tbspns chopped coriander
  • 1 green chilli chopped
  • 1 tspn cracked dry coriander
  • 1 tspn cumin seeds
  • 1 tspn baking powder
  • Oil for deep frying
  • Some water for smooth batter ( ½ to ¾ cup)

Procedure:

-In a mixing bowl combine all the dry ingredients (besan and baking powder) and spices and mix well.

-Gradually add water and make a smooth, lump free batter. Now the consistency of the batter should not be runny like water or thick like dough. Make it in between, something which is easy to handle.

-Now stir in chopped herbs and chilllies.

-Add fish chunks in this mixture and keep aside for 20 minutes.

-Heat oil to 190 degrees Celsius and put each chunk separately in hot oil for frying. Make sure your fish chunks do not overlap each other.

-When they look brown and cooked take them out on an absorbent paper and serve hot with tartar sauce and lemon wedges.

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!

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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.

Aalu Pakoras

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Aalu Pakoras are lovely and one of the Famous street Foods of South Asia, do try them and let me know your remarks …

Ingredients:

  • 2 potatoes sliced thinly
  • 2 cups gram Flour
  • ¾ cup water
  • Some salt
  • Some red chilli powder
  • ½ tspn turmeric powder
  • 1 tbspn cracked dry coriander
  • ½ tspn cumin seeds
  • ½ onion sliced
  • 2 green chillies sliced
  • Oil For Frying

Procedure:

-Combine all the ingredients except oil in a bowl and make Fine mixture.

-Keep aside For 20 – 30 minutes and heat oil.

-Take 1 tbspn of this mixture and deep Fry

-Take out on an absorbent paper and serve immediately.

Outcome:

Tasty aalu pakore are ready to be served.

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Tips:

-Avoid lumps and do not make thin mixture.

-Adjust salt and pepper according to your will.

Servings:

This will serve 3 -4 persons easily.