Brown rice

Hey all!
Lately i've been soo busy, there was noo time alot for cooking but today i cooked my overdue request by a friend and that's high on fiber brown rice which take alot of time usually to cook. But i tried something different and i'm sharing it with you. Hope you enjoy!

INGREDIENTS:

1. 1 cup brown rice( serves 2)
2. 2 cup water or chicken stalk.
3. 1 tsp salt
4. 1 tbsp vegetable/olive oil
5. 1 tsp garlic paste
6. Additional seasoning as desired

METHOD:

1. Soak rice in water for at least an hour.
2. In a pressure cooker place the oil and add garlic paste. Allow it to cook.
3. Add salt and any other seasoning.
4. Now drain all the water and add the brown rice to the cooker.
5. Now add the 2 cups water or stalk.
6. Close the lid properly and place the weights( pressure regulating muzzle) above.
7. Increase the flame and wait for the weight to start moving, after it starts moving allow it to cook for another 2 minutes.
8. Now donot open the lid just lower down the flame to its lowest strength and place a flat griddle or tawa below the pressure to avoid the rice to burn.
9. Now cook like this for 10 minutes exact.
10. Then switch off the flame and open after another 5 minutes.
11. Serve warm.

COOKING TIME: 16-20 minutes

Home made mayonnaise

Chicken Kiev

Hi everyone! I'm sorry i was really busy past week so i wasn't able to past any recipie but today i'm posting my favorite, chicken keiv or chicken stuffed with seasoned butter! I love this recipie and i hope you'd enjoy it too!
So lets get started!

INGREDIENTS FOR MARINATION:

1. Four,  chicken breast pieces
2. 1 tsp garlic paste
3. 1 tsp salt
4. 1 tsp white pepper
5. 1 tsp mustard paste
6. 1 tbsp oyster sauce
7. 1 tsp hot sauce
8. 1 tsp ketchup
9. 1 tsp soya sauce
10. 1 tbsp yogurt
11. 1 tsp red chili flakes

INGREDIENTS FOR BREADING:

1. 1 large egg + water
2. Bread crumbs
3. Plain flour
4. Salt to taste
5. White pepper
6. Black pepper
7. Garlic powder
8. Red chilli flakes
9. Tooth picks
10. Oil for frying

INGREDIENTS FOR seasoned butter:

1. 100 g unsalted butter
2. Pinch salt
3. Fresh parsley ( bunch)/or dried parsley + origano
4. Garlic paste 1 tsp

METHOD:

1. Let the butter soften and mix all the seasoning ingredients with a folk and divide it into 4 bars and freeze the bars in a freezer for about 2 hours 
2. Now pond your chicken. ( I place my chicken in to a thick plastic shopper and pound it from above, with the smooth sode placed downwords) make sure you dont break the chicken.
3. Now add the ingredients for marinatiom into a bowl, mix well and then add chicken peices. To it, make sure you completely coat them.
4. Marinate the chicken for 2 hours.
5. Now prepair your breading. Mix egg+ water+ salt+ red chili flakes
6. Season breadcrumbs bygarlic powder white pepper, oregano.
7. Take the chicken out of the fridge and place the frrezed butter stick and make a roll.
8. Secure with tooth picks.
9. Fold in flour, then egg then breadcrumbs.
10. Either fry on low heat with a lid on for enough time to cook properly OR golden brown in oil and then bake it in an oven to cook through!
11. Take out the tooth picks.
12. Serve with mashed potatoes or fries!

COOKING TIME: 1 hour

PREPARATION TIME: 2 hours

Mandarin chicken

Hi all!
Ok so today i'm sharing with you one of my most favorite recipes, Mandarin chicken! It's totally easy and an instant hit. It's a Chinese recipe which can replace all your Manchurians and Shashliks! :P
Anyway let's get started!

INGREDIENTS FOR THE SAUCE:

1. 1 cup orange/pineapple juice.
2. 1/3 rd cup vinegar
3. 4 tbsp. Soy sauce
4. 3-4 tbsp regular or brown sugar
5. 1 tbsp honey( optional)
6. 4 tbsp. Ketchup.
7. 1 tsp red chilli flakes
8. 1/2 tsp salt
9. Pinch of black pepper

INGREDIENTS FOR CHICKEN:

1. Half kg boneless chicken cut in small cubes.
2. Half cup corn flour and plain flour in equal proportions.
3. 1 egg.
4. Salt
5. Black pepper 1 tbsp
6. White pepper 1 tsp
7. Red chilli flakes
8. Garlic paste or powder
9. Mustard sauce
10. Chinese salt
11. Dried herbs
12. Oil for frying.

METHOD:

1. Mix all ingredients for the sauce and place aside.
2. Marinate chicken with salt, pepper, chinese salt, garlic paste, mustard sauce for half hour.
3. Now season the flour mix with salt, black n white pepper, dried herbs.
4. Season egg with garlic paste/powder, little salt, black pepper, red chilli flakes.
5. Now place the chicken in flour mix and coat completely.
6. Now throw the coated chicken into the egg.
7. Coat properly and refrigerate for atleast half an hour.
8. Now fry the chicken.
9. In a separate pan add the sauce without oil and let it warm up.
10. Now add your fried chicken into it. 
11. Add 1 tsp corn flour/ corn starch in to 2 tsp water. Mix.
12. Add the the cornflour mix to your gravy.
13. Cook for another minute.
14. Serve with boiled rice.

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Meatballs pasta

Hi everyone!
Today i was really hungry so i decided to make this pasta which is not exactly easy because it has some different steps but the end result is amazing! Yumm!
So lets get started!

INGREDIENTS FOR TOMATO SAUCE:

1. 5 ripe tomatoes
2. 1 cup water
3. Mint leaves( 2 stalks)
4. Salt to taste
5. Rich chilli powder
6. Orange juice( out of 2 fresh oranges)
7. Pickles
8. Oregano
9. Garlic paste ( quarter tsp)
10. 1 lemon
11. 1 cup ketchup
12. White pepper
13. 1 green chilli

INGREDIENTS FOR MEATBALLS:

1. Half kg minced chicken or beef
2. 1 onion chopped
3. 1 tsp garlic paste
4. 1 tbsp salt (leveled)
5. Red chilli powder
6. Red chilli flakes
7. Soya sauce (3 tbsp)
8. Hot sauce (3 tbsp)
9. Vinegar (2 tsp)
10. Black pepper
11. Oil to fry
12. Cornflour 2 tsp
13. 3 tbsp bread crumbs

INGREDIENTS FOR PASTA:

1. 400 g boiled spiral pasta (or any shape)
2. 2 capsicum
3. 1 carrot
4. Half cabbage
5. Peas
6. Salt
7. Black pepper
8. Soya sauce
9. Oil
10. Garlic paste

METHOD FOR SAUCE:

1. In a saucepan add some water and tomatoes and allow the water to boil a little then take it off the flame.
2. Carefully remove the tomatoes and peel off the skin.
3. In blender add tomatoes, green chilli, red chilli powder, salt, mint leaves, pickles, lemon juice, orange juice, water and blend.
4. Now in a pan heat a little oil, add garlic paste. Allow it to cook.
5. Now add the blended mixture. 
6. Add oregano/thyme and ketchup.
7. Allow it to cook and reduce a little.
8. You can always double the amount of ingredients for twice the amount of sauce if you love more flavor! :D

METHOD FOR MAKING MEATBALLS:

1. Add all the ingredients to the chicken or beef.
2. Mix well and marinate it if you've got time.
3. Heat oil.
4. With the help of you fingers take little chicken at a time and carefully add directly to the oil(no need to formulate any balls)
5. Fry till they are cooked.

INGREDIENTS FOR PASTA:

1. In a pan heat some oil and add garlic paste.
2. Add vegetables and stir fry.
3. Add salt, black pepper.
4. Add pasta and soya sauce.
5. Now meanwhile mix the meatballs in your sauce and add this mixture over you pasta.
6. Mix well.
7. Top with oregano or mixed herbs.

You can add mozzarella/ cheddar on top aswell if you like!

COOKING TIME: 1.5 hours

Easy Pancakes

Hi all! Today i'm sharing with you an easy version of pancakes for beginners and below it i'm going to add tips to make them fluffy! So let's get started!

INGREDIENTS: (1cup=200ml)

1. 1cup plain flour
2. 1 cup milk
3. 1 egg
4. 1 tsp baking powder
5. 1 tsp baking soda
6. 2 tablespoons melted butter or oil
7. 2 tbsp sugar
8. Pinch of salt 

METHOD:

1. In a bowl mix dry ingredients.
2. In another bowl mix wet ingredients.
3. Mix dry and wet both together but not too much, lumps should be left.
4. Take a non stick pan, use cooking spray or a tissue paper dipped in oil to grease the pan and allow it to get warm.
5. Take a large spoon to place pancake mix.
6. When you see bubbles all over flip it.
7. Cook evenly without pressing.
8. Serve with bananas, pancake syrup, butter, honey, caramel or Nutella or whatever you like!

TIPS FOR FLUFFIER PANCAKES:

1. Separate the egg yolk and egg white. Add egg yolk into wet mixture and beat egg white with egg beater or otherwise. Add the egg white just before you have to pour mix over the griddle, don't mix a lot , let the froth be there.
2. Use buttermilk instead of normal milk. If you don't have it, add vinegar into normal milk and place it untouched for five minutes.
3. Never smooth out the lumps!
4. Use both baking powder and soda.
5. All your ingredients, your eggs, milk, butter should be at room temperature!

YIELDS: 3-4 large pancakes.

Mozzarella sticks

Hey everyone! Hope you are all doing well! So here's another blog post on my friends request! Mozzarella sticks😍😂
So without further hotchpotch lets dig into the recipe!

INGREDIENTS:

1. 200gram of mozzarella cheese
2. Bread crumbs made out if 4 breads
3. 1 egg
4. 1 cup of plain flour
5. Salt to taste
6. 1 tsp Garlic powder
7. Red chilly flakes
8. 1/2 tsp White pepper
9. Milk 2 tbsp
10. 1/2 tsp black pepper
11. Dried Oregano
12. Dried thyme
13. Oil for frying

METHOD:

1. Cut mozzarella into 8, 1 inch pieces.
2. Mix salt. Black pepper, white pepper, garlic powder, red chili flakes, herbs and add these equally to flour, egg wash and breadcrumbs.
3. Mix milk with egg.
4. Dip each stick one by one, first into flour then egg then the breadcrumbs.
5. Repeat this dipping process.
6. Place in the freezer for an hour.
7. Now fry the sticks untill golden brown.
8. Serve with honey mustard dip.

Layered chicken burgers

Hey everyone!
Hope all of are doing well!
Since the pole suggests chicken burger as to be the favorite, so i decided to make one today! But the difference is that it has 2 patties and there's an addition of a yummy sauce and caramelized onions! The reason i opted for a double size option is that you can use two thin chicken patties and they are easily cooked in lesser time. So lets get started!

INGREDIENTS FOR MARINADE:

1. Minced chicken 400-500 g
2. 1 egg
3. 5 tbsp bread crumbs
4. 1 tsp salt
5. 1 tsp red chili powder
6. 1 tsp garlic paste
7. 1 tsp mustard paste
8. 1 tbsp vinegar
9. 1 tsp hot sauce
10. 1/2 tsp black pepper
11. 1/2 tsp white pepper
12. 1 small onion finely chopped or blended
13. 2 pickled green chilies or jalapeños
14. 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
15. Red chilly flakes

Hi everyone!
Lately I've been busy studying for my upcoming exams on 25th and will be busy till then but i thought i should take out time for the quickest easiest recipe which only takes 15 minutes to cook! Yes it's the white sauce based penned pasta which I've made for 1 serving. So let's begin:

INGREDIENTS:

1. 1/5th 400 gram pack of boiled penned pasta (basically for one person)
2. 1 tablespoon of salted butter
3. 1 tablespoon leveled plain flour (maida)
4. 1 tsp mustard paste
5. Pinch black pepper
6. Pinch salt
7. 2 tablespoons cream (40% fat)
8. 1 cup milk 
9. Half chicken cube (or chicken stalk)
10. Half tsp red chili flakes
11. Pinch dried oregano and Parsley
12. Dried thyme for garnish
13. 1 cheese slice
14. Grilled chicken/ any leftover chicken

Hi all!
This is going to be my first food related post, what I'll try is that in all the recipes i share, that the recipes are super easy and you can recreate them. Also I'd make sure I'll tell you the estimated cost of the recipe and post a few pictures in the process.
Mint Margarita can be anyone's go-to recipe when guests are coming over or it's hot summer or you just want to chill out! The version of mint margarita that I'm posting is very easy and probably half of you know it already. :D

So lets get started!

All you need is:

1. 1 glass of sprite/7up
2. 3/4th glass of water
3. 6 tbsp sugar
4. 1/2 tsp salt
5. 2-3 lemons
6. mint leaves out of 4-5 mint stalks
7. ice cubes(3-4)
8. a blender

NOTE: You can replace water entirely with ice if you crush ice before hand.

                                                    photo editing credits: Abdul Hameed

Method:

1. Add every thing except the sprite, into the blender and blend.
2. fill the serving glass half way (or less if you don't like too much sweetness)
3. Pour the blended mixture into the serving glass.

NOTE: You can invert you serving glass and kind of dip it into salt before adding sprite.

Serves: 2-3   Cooking time: 3 minutes