Coriander Chicken

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

Friday I when Ajoy asked me to make Chicken Rolls, I made this one for stuffing. I didn't want to make the red gravy so threw in some coriander and spices to go along with it. When he tasted the chicken, he was like this is out of world :) On the other hand, this was such a minor twist to how I cook chicken normally that I didn't even think about clicking photo and putting it as a blog post. My thought was because I made chicken after such a long time, probably he got too excited. But then, when we decided to invite friends for dinner last sunday, he was like you have to make that chicken again. After making it once again, and he giving same reaction after tasting it, I decided to click photos and may be post it. Now that even friends have same thoughts about the dish, I had to post the recipe :)


Ingredients
1/2 Kg Boneless Chicken
1 Spoon Jeera Powder
1 Spoon Coriander Powder
1/2 Spoon Garam Masala
1 Spoon Red Chilli Powder
1 Spoon Black Pepper Powder
3-4 Garlic Cloves
1 Spoon Ginger Paste
1 Big Tomato
2 Cup Coriander Leaves
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Marinate the chicken with salt, jeera powder, coriander powder, garam masala, black pepper powder and keep aside for half an hour.
• Heat oil in a pan and add in marinated chicken. Cook on medium high till chicken browns a bit.
• Meanwhile, in mixer mince tomato, garlic and ginger paste together.
• Add in coriander leaves and grind it to fine paste.
• Add it to the chicken, add some salt and cook till it reduces to dry gravy.

Notes
You can use this to make chicken rolls with onion or just it as a side dish with rice or roti. It just goes with anything.

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Chicken Rolls

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

Its been a while since I made any chicken dish.. It was always Ajoy who ended up cooking chicken or mutton which obviously is exactly of one type. Gravy remains same and chicken or mutton changes :) So today I thought probably i can make some chicken dish to surprise him. What would have been better than his favorite roll.


Ingredients
500g Boneless Chicken
2 Cup Maida
1/2 Cup Wheat Flour
1 Big Onion
1 Cup Broccoli
1 Cup finely diced Tomato
1/2 Cup Tomato Ketchup
1/4 Spoon Turmeric Powder
1/2 Spoon Red Chilli Powder
1/2 Spoon Black Pepper Powder
1/2 Spoon Garam Masala
1/2 Spoon Jeera Powder
1/4 Spoon Corriander Powder
1 Spoon Grated Ginger
8 Garlic Cloves
Salt
Oil

Method

• Mix in maida, wheat flour, salt and couple of spoon of oil and add in water and knead the dough well. Keep aside.
• Dice the chicken into small cubes.
• Heat oil in a pan and add in the chicken cubes. Cook stirring it occasionally
• When chicken turns white in color, add in grated ginger, turmeric powder, red chili powder, jeera powder, coriander powder, garam masala and pepper powder and cook till masalas start to leave aroma
• Add in tomato ketch up and cook further for 5 more minutes.
• Add in diced tomatoes and salt and cook till chicken is done completely stirring occasionally. Keep aside
• Heat a shallow pan with a spoonfull of oil and add in sliced onions, diced garlic and brocoli and cook till they are completely done. Add in salt and a pinch of pepper powder and stir well. Keep aside
• Beat the egg and put it in wide pan.
• Make a small lemon sized balls of the dough and roll thin roti
• Dunk the roti into the egg only on one side and then put it on the hot tawa with the non egg washed side down
• Sprinkle few drops of oil on to top of the roti and flip it and cook till both the sides are done. Put it on a plate
• Spread couple spoon of chicken we made earlier in the middle as one line. Add in half spoon of onion-brocolli mixture on it.
• Fold the roti from the bottom and then folding the left side on top of the mixture and roll tightly to cover the mixture completely. Serve hot with ketchup or just like that.

Notes
I wanted to keep the rotis light so instead of putting a complete egg on top of each roti i chose to egg wash one side and that worked well. rotis were light and the taste of chicken came out really well.

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Fried Chicken

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

When we were in Bangalore, KFC was our favorite joint. We also have couple of stories that took place in the KFC :) So quite a lot of memories. But since we came here, we haven't been to KFC once, though MacD is regular joint instead. But the fried chicken is something that went missing from our meal since then. So today I knew what I wanted to cook. I was earlier thinking of frying boiled chicken but then decided against it after a second thought. Bing just confirmed my thoughts :)


Ingredients
5 Chicken Leg Pieces
1 Egg
3/4 Cup Maida
5 Spoon Bread Crumbs
1 Spoon Red Chili Powder
1/4 Spoon Oregano
1/4 Spoon Pepper Powder
1/4 Spoon Corriander Powder
1/4 Spoon Garlic Paste
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• With a sharp knife, give slits to the chicken pieces
• In a warm bowl of water, add 1/2 spoon red chili powder, oregano and pepper powder with salt.
• Add the chicken pieces and soak them in it for an hour.
• In a bowl, beat egg with garlic paste, remaining half spoon red chili powder, coriander powder and salt.
• In another plate mix maida with bread crumbs and salt.
• Take out the chicken pieces out of water and drain the water.
• Dip each leg piece in egg mixture to coat it completely and then in maida mixture to cover it with maida coating.
• Heat oil to medium high.
• Add each leg piece and fry till golden brown in color.

Notes
Soaking the chicken in water, tenderizes it a bit adding to the taste. I used mild spices to soak them in instead of dipping it in plain water.
I fried chicken on medium high heat instead of very high or very low. That helped me get the chicken that wasn't too dark in color and yet it was completely cooked.
I made extra bread crumbs while making Paneerbhara Kabab and stored them in air tight container. You can refer to it for how to make bread crumbs.

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Chicken Satay

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

Chicken Satay is one of our favorite stater in Thai cuisine. So this time when we got the chicken from costco, I decided to give this a try. I had made this earlier but it was over even before I could click photo :) So now this time I made sure we click photos before making the strike.


Ingredients
400g Boneless Chicken Breasts
1 Spoon Brown Sugar
2 Garlic Cloves
1 Spoon Corriander Powder
1 Spoon Jeera Powder
1/4 Spoon Turmeric Powder
1 Spoon Black Pepper Powder
2 Spoon Oil
2 Spoon Soya Sauce
2 Spoon Lemon Juice
1/2 Cup Milk
Salt to taste

Method

• Make thin and rectangular slices of the chicken
• Add brown sugar, garlic cloves, corriander powder, jeera powder, turmeric powder, black pepper powder, oil, soya sauce, lemon juice and salt and mix well. Keep aside in refrigerator for 4 hours
• After 4 hours, attach the strips of chicken on to scewer sticks, 2 pieces on one stick.
• Bast the chicken with the milk.
• Heat a non stick pan and cook the chicken with scewers on medium flame by flipping them over continuously every 2-3 minutes till done.

Notes
I read in lot many recipes to add fish sauce to the marination, but I investigated a bit and found that it is some what salty liquid and usually used instead of salt. Hence instead of going to asian shop for fish sauce I used normal table salt instead.

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Tandoori Chicken

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

One of the best starters we both love. In hyderabad I use to prepare this with Everest Chicken Tandoori Masala but this time I made it with my mix of masalas. It tasted awesome.


Ingredients
6 Chicken Leg Pieces
3/4 Cup Curd
2 Spoon Red Chilli Powder
1 Spoon Garam Masala
2 Spoon Ginger Paste
2 Spoon Garlic Paste
4 Spoon Lemon Juice
1/2 Spoon Chaat Masala
2 Spoon Oil
1/2 Cup Butter
Salt to taste

Method

• Make horizontal cuts on the chicken pieces
• Apply 2 spoon lemon juice and 1 spoon red chilli powder to it and keep aside for 30 minutes
• In a bowl mix curd, garlic paste, ginger paste, 1 spoon red chilli powder, 2 spoon lemon juice, garam masala, oil and salt
• Apply the above marination to chicken and store in fridge for 4-5 hours
• Preheat oven to 395F(200C)
• Melt the butter and sprinkle some on the chicken and bake it for 15 minutes
• Turn the chicken to face other side and sprinkle more butter on both sides. Bake for another 15 minutes
• Again turn the chicken and sprinkle remaining butter and bake for another 10 minutes
• Sprinkle chaat masala and serve with onions rings and lemon wedges

Notes
Instead of leg pieces you can use 700g mixed pieces as well.
In restaurants, they use color to make it look reddish but I didnt have it neither did I intended to use it.
I baked it over this bakeware set. It helps in dropping off extra marination, butter in the tray.

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Besengek Ayam

Ingredients:

• 1 broiler or fryer
• 2 tsp salt
• 3 tbsp vegetables oil or margarine
• 2 clove garlic, chopped finely
• 2 red chilies, crushed
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• pinch of ground cumin
• 1 tsp ground laos
• 2 candlenuts, grated
• 1/2 tsp shrimp paste
• 2 tbsp coconut, desiccated or freshly grated
• 2 cup coconut milk from 1 coconut
• 1 tsp brown sugar
• 1 tbsp tamarind juice

Method:

1. Cut chicken into serving portions. Wash thoroughly. Rub thoroughly with salt and fry in oil until light golden brown.
2. Add onion and garlic to chicken and fry until onion turns medium brown.
3. Now add chili, coriander, cumin and laos and fry again for about 1 minute. Add candlenuts to mixture and stir well. Add shrimp paste and grated coconut. Fry an additional minute. Then add coconut milk and brown sugar. Simmer over low heat for about 30 minutes. Finally add in tamarind juice. Serve.

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Soto Ayam Madura (Madurese Chicken Soup)

Ingredients:
• 1 chicken, quartered, or 800 g (1 ½ lbs) • 2 liters (8 cups) water • 2 stalks lemongrass, tender inner part of bottom third only, bruised • 1 teaspoon salt • 1 tablespoon oil
Spice Paste:
• 2 teaspoons black peppercorns • 6 cloves • 3 cm (1 in) fresh ginger, peeled and sliced • ¼ teaspoon dried shrimp paste
Accompaniments:
• 100 g (3 ½ oz) glass noodles, soaked in warm water to soften, cut in lengths • 4 hard-boiled eggs, quartered • 1 portion Fried Potato Patties • 100 g (2 cups) fresh bean sprouts • 2 tablespoons Crispy fried shallots • 2 tablespoons finely chopped Chinese celery leaves • 1 lime or lemon, quartered • Sweet Indonesian soy sauce, to serve • 1 portion Candlenut Sambal

Preparations:
1. Place the chicken, water, lemongrass and salt in a large pot. Bring to a boil, cover, lower the heat and simmer gently until the chicken is tender, about 40 minutes. Remove the chicken and when cool enough to handle, debone and cut the meat into small cubes. Discard the bones and return the meat to the pot. Remove and discard the lemongrass 2. Prepare the Spice Paste by grinding the peppercorns and cloves until coarse. Add the ginger and shrimp paste and grind to a smooth paste, adding a little water if necessary to keep the mixture turning. 3. Heat the oil in a wok or saucepan and fry the Spice Paste over low heat until fragrant, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the Spice Paste to chicken soup 4. Prepare the Candlenut Sambal and transfer to 4 small dipping bowls to serve with the soup 5. Divide the glass noodles, eggs, Fried Potato Patties and bean sprouts into 4 individuals serving bowls. Reheat the chicken soup, taste and add more salt if desired. Ladle the soup into the bowls. Sprinkle each serving with Crispy Fried Shallots and celery leaves. Serve with the Candlenut Sambal, lime quarters and a bowl of sweet soy sauce on the side

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Sop Banjar/Pearl Sop (Banjar)

Ingedients :

• 7 pieces chicken sausage, cut into pieces
• 3 pieces carrots, cut dice, boiled until soft
• 1 canned pea
• Macaroni 200 grams
• 1 tbsp Salt
• 2 tbsp Sugar
• ½ tsp pepper
• ½ tsp nutmeg
• 1 tin cornation milk
• 1.5 liter chicken broth
• Celery leaves

Mashed the ingredients:

• 2 grains Onion
• 1 cm ginger

Materials Pearl:

• 300 grams of chicken mince
• 1 potato pieces, fried, mashed
• ½ tbsp salt
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• ½ tsp pepper
• 50 grams of milk powder
• 2 tbsp margarine
• 1 yellow grains

Directions :

1. Pearls: Mix all ingredients, and make form like marbles.
2. Boil broth, along with a smooth flavor, a celery leaf stem has hit, salt, sugar, pepper and nutmeg. Enter the pearl after pearl float, lift.
3. Enter carrot in chicken broth, after boiling, add the pea, Macaroni and sausage. After boiling entries celery leaves, pearls, and last, when all ingredients have been entered and is boiling, inputs cornation milk. Stir briefly, boiling, lift. Serve warm.

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Rissole/Risoles, Indonesian Savoury Eggrolls

Risoles is one of popular appetizers in Indonesia. It looks similar with spring rolls but the how to make it is a little bit different. Also the taste. The name Risoles is borrowed over from the traditional Portuguese rissole. A rissole is a small croquette, enclosed in pastry or rolled in breadcrumbs, usually baked or deep fried. It is filled with sweet or savoury ingredients, most often minced meat or fish, and is served as an entrée, dessert or side dish.

Ingredients:

For Risoles skin

• 150 g all purpose flour
• 1 egg
• 200 ml milk, or a little bit more depend how thick the mixture
• Salt to taste

For filling

150 g minced beef/chicken 2 medium or 3 small potatoes, cut into small cubes 2 carrots, cut into small cubes 1 onion, peeled and sliced 2 cloves of garlic, peeled and sliced 1 stalk of celery, chopped 1 stalk of spring onion, chopped - (optional) 1 tablespoon of flour, mixed with a little of water 1/2 teaspoon of pepper salt to taste or 1/2 block beef seasoning mixture/beef bouillon (Maggi or Knorr block) sugar to adjust the taste 1 cup of water

For dipping

1 egg

Bread crumbs

Instructions:

1. Make the skin: take a bowl then combine the flour, salt and egg. Gradually add the milk whisk them to make a smooth texture. When it's done, heat up non-stick pan. Take about 2 tablespoons of the mixture, pour to the pan and make it thin (just like how you make crepes). Cook it with low heat. When the edge of the skin is dry and you can peel off easily, it means it is cooked. Set aside.

2. Filling: heat up the wok, then sauté the onion and garlic until fragrant. Add the meat and mix them well for few minutes. Then add carrots, pepper, salt, celery and 1 cup of water. Cover. When the carrots are half-cook, add the potatoes. Continue cooking until they are tender and add 1 tablespoon of flour mixed with water to make the filling thicker. You can add a little of sugar to adjust the taste.

3. Make the rissole: take one rissole’s skin then add the filling in the bottom. Leave the bottom few centimetres clear. Lift the wrapper over the top and tuck it in under the filling. Fold over the left side, and then the right side and roll it up to form a tube. Repeat until all the skins are finished.

4. Prepare the dipping: dip the rissoles into beaten egg then coat them with bread crumbs. Deep fry them with low heat, set aside and use the tissue paper to absorb the oil.

5. Serve with fresh green bird's eyes chillies or chilli sauce.

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Ayam Goreng Penyet (Indonesian Smashed Fried Chicken)

Please don't roll your eyes, the truth is not like what it sounds. You don't need to smash the chicken on the wall to prepare the dish

Ingredients:

• 6 large chicken legs or breas, deboned
  
• 2 stalks lemon grass, crushed
• 2 bay leaves (salam leaves)
• 1 tbsp coriander seeds (ketumbar)
• 1/2 tsp ground cumin (jintan manis)
• 2 tbsp thick coconut milk
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tbsp cooking oil

Ingredients to grind:

• 3 cloves garlic
• 1 red chilli, seeded
• 2 cm knob tumeric
• 120g lengkuas, peeled and sliced
• 4 slices ginger
• 3 candlenuts (bush keras)

Instructions:

1. Fry coriander seeds over slow fire till fragrant then grind coarsely.
2. Wash chicken and drain well. Prick chicken all over with a fork.
3. In a mixing bowl, combine ground spices with ground cumin, coriander, salt, sugar, coconut milk and crushed serai. Add chicken and mix thoroughly. Leave to marinade for 30 minutes.
4. Grease base of cooking pot with some cooking oil. Arrange chicken in pot, add crushed bay leaves. Cover pot and cook over moderate heat for 8 minutes. Turn chicken over, cover pot and continue to simmer for another 10 minutes or until almost dry. Remove chicken and drain off excess liquid.
5. Grill or roast chicken on high heat, 250 deg Celcius until golden brown on both sides.

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Curried Java Soup/Sayur Kare

Curried meat dishes, such as this savory soup, are typically served during Ramadan after the sun sets.

ingredients:

• 1 lb. beef stew meat, cut into bite-sized pieces*
• 4 c. water
• 3 beef or chicken bouillon cubes
• 2 tbsp. butter**
• 4 scallions, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 red chili pepper, minced
• 1 tbsp. ground dried ginger
• 1 tsp. turmeric
• 1 tbsp. ground coriander
• 1/2 tsp. ground cumin
• 1 tsp. shrimp paste
• 1 stalk lemongrass
• 1 salam leaf
• 1 c. diced fresh or frozen green beans
• 5 small red potatoes, peeled and chopped
• 1 c. reduced-fat coconut milk
• 1/2 tsp. sugar

Directions:

1. In a Dutch oven, combine beef, water,
2. and bouillon cubes and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 hour.
3. While meat is cooking, heat butter
4. in a wok or skillet over medium-high heat. Add scallions, garlic, chili pepper, ginger, turmeric, coriander, cumin, and shrimp paste and cook for 5 minutes.
5. Add lemongrass and salam leaf and
6. cook for 2 more minutes.
7. Add spice mixture to the beef stock
8. and simmer for 5 minutes.
9. Stir in green beans and potatoes.
10. Cover and cook for 10 minutes.
11. Add coconut milk and sugar. Cook
12. uncovered for 5 minutes, or until the vegetables are tender. Serve hot.

*Other meats may be used in place of the beef if you prefer.To make this a vegetarian dish, substitute fried tofu cubes for the beef and vegetable bouillon cubes in place of beef or chicken bouillon. Add the tofu cubes at the very end and allow to cook for 10 minutes, or until the tofu is heated through. **To reduce the saturated fat in this recipe, use canola oil or peanut oil in place of the butter.

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Nasi Goreng

Nasi goreng,indonesian fried rice. this dish can be enjoyed by itself or as the basis of a larger meal,for example with a rijsttafel. it is very easy to make and won't take more than 20 minutes to prepare.

Ingredients:

• 350 gr. Long Grain Rice
• 2 Tbs. Vegetable Oil
• 3 Eggs
• 1 Onion
• 2 Green Chillis, Sambal Ulek or Sambal Badjak.
• 1 Garlic Clove
• 1 Leek
• 1 teaspoon Ground Coriander
• 1 teaspoon Ground Cumin
• 250 gr. Chicken meat
• 250 gr. Shelled Prawns
• 3 Tbs. Kecap Manis

Preparation:

1. This dish is best made from cold leftover rice, but you can cook a fresh batch and leave it to cool for at least 4 hours.
2. Beat the eggs and make into a omelette, slice into strips and set aside.
3. Heat the oil in a wok or large frying pan. Add the chopped onion, leek, garlic and chillis. Fry until the onion is soft. Add the Coriander and Cumin. Slice Chicken into strips and add with the prawns to the onion mixture and cook, stirring occasionally until they are well mixed. Add the rice, soya sauce and omelet strips and cook for a further 5 minutes.Decorate with some of the leftover leek and serve hot. Enjoy.

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chicken porridge

Ingredients:

* 300g chicken meat
* 200g rice
* 1 liter water
* salt
* 1/2 tsp pepper
* fried shallot
* green onions, finely chopped

Directions:

1 Boil water and put some salt, put chicken meat and cook until softened. Reserve the soup for later use
2 Heat oil in a frying pan, pan-fry the chicken until it's golden brown. Take out the chicken and split the meat into small pieces.
3 Wash rice and cook in 1 liter water until the rice softened. Add 2 liter of the reserved soup and bring to boil.
4 Put 3 into a serving bowl, put chicken meat, chopped green onions, fried shallots on top.

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Hariyali Chicken Biryani

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

I wanted to eat something chatpata and hence had prepared Pani Puri. So i had plenty of pudina remaining. So was frozen chicken waiting for being cooked in freezer. Ajoy wanted to eat biryani and I wanted to get over the freeze items... Thats when this recipe was born :) and became super hit for its different taste and fragnance :)


Ingredients
6 Leg Pieces of Chicken
2 Cup Basamati Rice
1/2 Bunch of Pudina
1/2 Bunch of Corriander Leaves
2 Green Chillies
2 Cinnamon Sticks
1/4 Spoon Black Pepper
4 Cloves
4 Cardamoms
1/2 Cup Ghee
3 Onions
1 Tomato
1/2 Spoon Garlic Paste
4 Spoon Curd
1 Spoon Red chilli powder
A Pinch of Turmeric Powder
Salt to taste

Method

• Marinate chicken with red chilli powder, turmeric powder, garlic paste and curd and keep aside for couple of hours.
• Warm around 6 cups of water and soak the rice in it and keep aside for half an hour.
• In a mixie grind pudina leaves, corriander leaves, tomato and green chilli to fine paste.
• Keep aside 2 spoon of ghee and heat remaining ghee in a pan.
• Chop one of the onion into thin slices and fry it to light brown colour into the ghee. Keep aside.
• In remaining ghee from frying, add cinnamon, black pepper and remaining onions - grated and cook them till light brown in colour.
• Add this mixture to mixie along with green paste and grind again to smooth paste
• In same pan add this ground paste, 1.5 cup of water and marinated chicken and cook till completely dry with stirring in between. Add salt to taste and keep aside.
• While chicken is cooking, drain the water from the rice, cook it with another 2 cups of water and salt to taste till almost done. Drain the water and keep aside for cooling down.
• Heat 1/2 spoon of ghee and add cloves and cardamom to it. Fry them for a minute on low flame and then add this ghee to the rice and mix well.
• Grease a thick bottom pan or cooker and layer the rice and chicken mixture alternating. Also add fried onions in between while adding chicken.
• Cook on low flame for 15 minutes and serve hot

Notes
I had leg pieces of chicken so used them all but you can substitute it with equal grams plus little more of normal chicken pieces too.
Here the electric stove has variations of 8 degrees so I used 2 for cooking the layered biryani instead of my usual cooker on top of tawa and a layer of potato down the biryani. So if you are using regular stove you would need to follow same procedure so that biryani doesnt burn.

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