INDO-CHINESE STYLE CHICKEN PASTA

Pasta is the traditional staple food of Italian cuisine.?An Italian cuisine will be incomplete without a Pasta recipe.It is available in different shapes and sizes.It is used in soups,salads,sauce etc.Pasta can be prepared in different varieties and different styles.Pasta can be used to prepare quick and delicious dishes.Today I have prepared this in an Indo-Chinese style.Let us see the preparation in detail now.

                                                       INGREDIENTS

• Carrot                                              -  1 cup
• Beans                                              -  1 cup
• Capsicum                                        -  1 cup
• Chicken cubes                                -   2 cup
• Pasta                                               -   2.5 cup
• Garlic                                             -   1 bulb
• Ginger                                            -   a small piece
• Green chilies                                  -   6
• Shallots                                          -   2-3
• Pepper powder                               -   2 tsp
• Tomato sauce                                 -  1.5 tbsp
• Soya sauce                                     -   2 tsp
• Butter                                             -  1 tbsp
• Salt to taste
• Coriander leaves
• Spring onion optional

                                                          METHOD

•  Cut the vegetable into julienne.

• Cook the pasta in hot water by adding a tsp of oil and salt.When it is done stain it and keep under running water for 1 min.Now keep it aside.

•  Cut the chicken into cubes and keep it aside.

•  Heat a kadai and add some oil to it.Saute the garlic paste.

•  Wash the vegetables and keep it aside.

•  Add ginger paste and green chilly paste to it.Saute it till brown.

•  Add pepper powder to it.

•  Now add the chicken pieces to it.Saute well till it is cooked.

•  Stir well while cooking.

•  Add carrot julienne to it.

•  Next add beans julienne

•  Then add capsicum and little salt if required.Now we will add soya sauce to it.So be careful whil adding salt.

•  Add Tomato sauce to it and mix well.

•  Add soya sauce to it.

•  Now add the cooked pasta to it.

•  Mix it well.

•  Add butter to it.

•  Sprinkle some oregano on it.

•  Mix well.

•  Garnish with coriander leaves.

                                          Serve it with tomato sauce and ENJOY!!!

CHICKEN SAMOSA

Samosa  is a crispy tasty snack item.Samosa is now a days available in different types like potato samosa,onion samosa,corn samosa,non veg samosa,mixed vegetable samosa.Today we will see how to prepare a yummy Chicken Samosa.The procedure is same, we fill the chicken masala  in the samosa patti and deep fry it.So now let us start the preparation.

                                                  INGREDIENTS

• Chicken breast                    -  2 breast  
• Onions chopped                          -  2 big

• Green chilies                            -   5
• Ginger paste                             -   2 tsp(I have used home made paste)
• Garlic paste                              -   2 tsp home made
• Pepper powder                         -   1+ 1/2 tsp
• Maida                                       -   3 tbsp mix with little water and make a smooth paste
• Garam masala                          -   a pinch
• Samosa patti                            -   as required
• Oil
• Salt to taste
• Capsicum                                - optional

                                                    METHOD 

• Clean the breast pieces and cook it with little water, salt and 1/2 tsp of pepper powder.

• When the water dries ,cool it and chop it in a mixer.

• Chop the onions and keep it aside.

• Chop the green chilies and keep it aside.

• Heat a kadai and add some oil and saute the chopped onions.

• Add green chilies too.

• Add ginger paste to it.

• Add garlic paste to it.Saute it for 2 mins.

• Add balance pepper powder to it.

• Add shredded chicken to it.

• Add a pinch of garam masala to it.

• Make a smooth paste with maida and water.

• Fold the patti to a cone shape.

• Apply the maida paste to the edges of the cone and fill the chicken masala into it.

• Make perfect cones and keep it aside.

• Heat some oil in a pan and fry one by one till crispy.

         Here is your yummy Chicken Samosa, enjoy guys!!!!!

SMALL ANCHOVIES IN CRUSHED COCONUT STIR FRY / SOOJI KOZHUVA PEERA PATTICHATHU

Small Anchivies is a type of small fish which have very good calcium content.This anchovies are seen in fresh water.One speciality of this fish is that its bones are very small and flexible so we can consume the bones too.We can prepare a number tasty recipes with this small fish such as fry,pickle, gracy type etc.Now let us see the preparation....

                                                       INGREDIENTS

• Small Anchivis                          -  500gms
• Coconut grated                          -  1.5 cup
• Green chilies                             -  5 
• Shallots                                     -  15
• Ginger                                       -  1
• Curry leaves                              -  2 sprigs
• Coconut oil                               -  1.5 tbsp
• Turmeric powder                      -  1/2 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Water                                        -  3 tbsp
• Cambogia soaked in water       -  4 piece

                                                        METHOD

• Crush the green chilies, shallots and ginger in a hand motor. Keep this aside.
• Coarsely grind the coconut with turmeric powder.

•  Clean the fish and keep it aside.

•  In a kadai add the fish , then add the coarsely grind coconut and water.Then add hand crushed shallots, ginger, green chilies and some salt.Mix this well with your hands.

•  Add coconut oil and curry leaves and cook it in a very low flame. 15 mins will be more than enough for cooking .If water is there dry it by switching to high flame

Serve it and enjoy this awesome dish with rice chapati etc!!

KAJU COCONUT PEDA

Today I have planned to prepare a Sweet.I searched my kitchen cabinet and I got some cashews from there.Then I thought why dont I try some sweet made of cashew?But just cashew alone I did not want to prepare, so I added some coconut too in that.The final product was an awesome sweet dish.So here I am sharing with you all another new recipe for the day.It is definitely a yummy Sweet.Let us see the preparation now....

                                                INGREDIENTS

• Milk                                      -  1/2 litre
• Cashews                               -  1/2 cup
• Coconut grated                     -  2 cups
• Sugar                                    -  1.5 cup
• Badam essence with color   -  3-4 drops
• Ghee                                    -  1 tbsp
• Cashews to decorate

                                                  METHOD

•  Take a heavy bottom pan,add 1 tbsp of ghee to it and pour the milk on it.Let it boil.

•  In a mixer add the grated coconut and cashews.Add little water and blend it to a fine smooth paste.

•  This is the blended mixture.

•  When the milk starts boiling add this coconut cashew paste to it and stir well.

•  When the mixture started boiling add sugar to it.Cook this in medium flame for 1 hr.

•  When it start thickening add badam essence to it.Keep stirring well. 

•  When the mixture gets thickened like this, take little with a spoon and roll it with hands.If it does not stick and gets rolled easily ,it is ready to remove to a plate.

• Grease a plate with ghee and pour this mixture to this plate suddenly.After 20 -30 mins grease our hands and make balls of it and decorate it and serve.

Enjoy the Yummy Kaju Cocunut Peda!!