Grilled chicken salad

Hi All,
           Grilled chicken salad, one of the most famous and tasty salad. Having a salad itself is a complete meal....
I added few Indian vegetables to give desi touch. Hope you all will like my this version ..


Ingredients:
2 boneless chicken breast
1 lettuce (roughly torn)
1/2 red bell pepper (finely sliced)
1/2 yellow bell pepper (finely sliced)
1 red onion (finely chopped)
1 carrot (finely sliced)
1 cucumber (finely sliced)
Few black olives
Few jalapenos

Dressing:
1/2 cup olive oil
3-4 garlic cloves
1/4 tsp pepper powder
1/2 tsp oregano
1/4 tsp chilly flakes
1/4 cup vinegar
Salt acc to taste
1/4 tsp mustard powder

For marination:
2 tbsp lemon juice
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper powder
1/2 tbsp honey

                                          

Method:

• Mix all the marination ingredients in a bowl. Marinate chicken pieces for an hour in the fridge.
• Preheat a grill pan on the medium flame. Add little bit of olive oil and place the chicken breast on the pan.
• Grill the pieces on the medium flame from both the sides.
• Transfer to a plate and cut into strips. Keep them a side.
• Put all the ingredients in a jar, churn till well blended.

                                            

                                           

• Put all the veggies (except lettuce leaves) in a large bowl. Pour the dressing on the veggies and mix lightly.

                                   

• Now place lettuce leaves on the serving plate, place some veggies on the leaves.

                                   
             
                                  

• And now the yummiest part, place the chicken pieces in the centre of the serving dish.

                                

• Enjoy with your favourite drink .........

Note: You can add dry fruits of your own choice like walnut, raisins .....

Shahi Paneer (Punjabi Style)

Hi All,
              
      Shahi Paneer is famous recipe from Indian cuisine. It is made in thick tomato gravy including cream and whole spices. The tomato gravy is so simple and easy... It is also know as Makhani (made with makhan/butter)

I make plain Makhani gravy in which I include paneer to make Shahi Paneer, Chicken to make Butter Chicken. My son loves the gravy and it is an easy method to give him something nutritive.

Sharing my recipe with you all, which will never let you down :)

 Ingredients:
2 medium onions (roughly sliced)
1 green chilly (roughly sliced)
2 black cardamom (roughly crushed)
1" ginger (roughly chopped)
2 tbsp ghee
5-6 large tomatoes (chopped)
3/4 cup well beaten curd
2-3 tbsp butter
1/2 tsp red chilly powder
1/2 tsp garam masala
2 tbsp tomato ketchup
1/4 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp cumin powder
Salt acc. to taste
1/2 cup well beaten cream
2 cups of milk
200 gm paneer (cut into cubes)

Method:

• Heat ghee in a kadhai. Add onions, green chilly and ginger. Mix well.

                          

• Add black cardamom and saute till onions become brown pink in colour.
• Now add chopped tomatoes and mix nicely. Cook the mixture covered on low flame till tomatoes become pulpy.

                           

• Once tomatoes become pulpy add beaten curd and cook for 3-4 mins on low flame.

                            

• Remove from fire. Allow the mixture to cool.
• Once its cool down, grind it in the grinder to make fine tomato puree by adding little milk in it.
• Strain the puree and keep it aside.
• In the same kadhai, heat butter. Add tomato puree.
• Mix well, add all the dry spices, sugar and tomato ketchup. Cook on low flame till the gravy becomes thick and has rich red texture...

                              

• If you find the gravy is very thick you can add milk otherwise skip it.
• Add cream and paneer cubes. Mix well and cook for 1-2 mins.
• Remove from flame.
• Garnish with beaten cream and coriander leaves.
• Serve hot with rotis.

                     
                   
                          

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Oats Idli

Hi Friends,
     
       Back with another healthy recipe for the breakfast or for your kids snacks time in school as well....
I bought a pack of instant oats for my son, thought of making oats porridge for him. I made it for him but waste he refused to eat, may be not that appealing. Personally I too don't like oats, now what to do with the pack ?? Found few recipes on Internet and tried OATS IDLI.....

First time I used the same ratio which was given on the net but then I realised it makes idli little sticky than crispy. I tried my own ratio of ingredients and sharing with you all. Hope you will like it :)

Ingredients:
1 cup oats (I used saffola instant oats)
1 cup medium size rava/suji/ semolina
3/4 cup curd
1 finely chopped carrot
1 finely chopped capsicum
2-3 finely chopped green chillies
Few fresh leaves of coriander (finely chopped)
2 tsp of mustard seeds
Salt according to taste
1/2 tsp hing
1/4 tsp baking soda/eno fruit salt
Oil for temper and to grease the idli trays

                                           

      

Method:

• Dry roast oats in a non-stick pan for 3-4 mins or till aroma arises.
• Remove from pan, grind them once cool down. Keep aside.
• In the same pan dry roast semolina till it becomes light brown in colour. Remove and keep aside.
• In the same pan, add 1 tsp of oil. Add mustard seeds, let it splutter add carrot, capsicum, green chillies and chopped coriander along with 1 tsp of salt.

                                 

• Cook till carrot becomes soft.
• Now transfer rava/semolina, oats, carrot mixture, curd, salt, baking soda/eno fruit salt and hing in a mixing bowl.
• Add water in the mixture to get proper consistency.(neither too thick nor too watery)

                                

• Grease the idli plates and put a batter with the help of ladle.
• Steam it for 10-15 mins or until done.
• Remove from the plates and serve hot along with your favourite chutney.

                       

Sending this recipe to Pari's event hosting by me ....

Garden Salad

Hi Friends,
               After having too many sweets on Diwali, me and my husband decided to have less calorie intake in our meal. So now a days I am making soups and salads more often than our full course meal.

I tried Garden Salad, adding bread croutons in it makes it crunchy and yummy ... So sharing my version of Garden Salad with you all :)

Ingredients:
1 bunch of lettuce (washed and torn roughly into pieces)
2 large tomatoes (sliced)
1 red onion (sliced)
1/4 cup chopped red bell pepper
1/4 cup chopped yellow bell pepper
1/4 cup of boiled corn kernels
Few olives (optional)
Handful of bread croutons
For Dressing:
2 tbsp of olive oil
2 cloves of garlic (mashed)
1 tbsp vinegar or juice of 1 lemon
A pinch of pepper powder
Salt according to taste

Method:

• Put all the veggies in the large salad bowl.





• To make dressing, put all the dressing ingredients in a small bowl. Whisk it nicely.

• Pour on the veggies. Toss well.
• Garnish with bread croutons. 
• Serve immediately.  

Butter Chicken (Punjabi Style)

Hi All,
    Butter chicken is a popular dish of Punjabi Cuisine made in tomato gravy. Rich gravy includes cashew-nuts, tomatoes and cream as main ingredients

Restaurant style Indian butter chicken was tried at home yesterday, which came out very well. 

Ingredients:

Grilled/Tandoori boneless chicken 

For Gravy:

• 2 tbsp butter
• 2 tbsp oil
• 1 big cardamom 
• 2-3 cloves
• 1 tej patta
• 1" ginger (roughly chopped)
• 4-5 cloves of garlic (roughly chopped)
• 1 onion (sliced)
• 6-7 tomatoes (roughly chopped)
• 3-4 tbsp cashews (soaked in hot water)
• 1/4 tsp deggi mirch
• 1/2 tsp coriander powder
• 1/2 tsp garam masala
• 1 cup milk and 1 cup water
• 1 small pack of cream
• 2-3 tbsp of ketchup sauce

Method:

• Prepare grill chicken with the help of sandwich maker.

• To make makhani gravy, heat butter and oil together in a kadhai. Add big cardamom, cloves and tej patta. Now add ginger and garlic . Saute till they become golden pink in colour.
• Add sliced onion. Cook till it becomes golden pink in colour. 

• Add chopped tomatoes, mix well and cook covered till they become pulpy.
• Remove from fire. Allow it to cool.

• Blend the mixture in the blender and sieve.
• Add all the dry masalas and cashew paste.Stir for few seconds on medium heat.

• Add milk and water mixture to get the desired gravy.Bring it to boil. Stirring constantly.
• Add grilled/tandoori chicken and tomato ketchup. Cover and cook for 5-7 mins.
• Before serving add cream. Mix well.
• Garnish with fresh cream and fresh coriander leaves.
• Enjoy.

Fish Fry (Kerala Style)

Hi Friends,
  Blogging after so many days, it seems like its been ages since I wrote my last post. Busy bee now a days ..
As I started my new blog, so many orders are coming which always keep me occupied.
But now I thought of giving time to my family, on their demand I made Fish Fry  in Kerala Style today for the dinner....
Sharing recipe with you all, hope you will like it :)

INGREDIENTS

500 gm surmai or salmon fish (sliced)
2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste 
3 tsp of fish masala (It contains everything, chilly powder, salt, garam         masala) You can add more of chilly powder and salt according to your taste.

1/2 tsp turmeric powder
5 tbsp Lemon juice
2 tbsp semolina or roasted gram-flour or fine rice powder 
Oil for shallow frying
Chaat masala
For Serving : Lemon wedges and onion rings

METHOD

• Clean and wash the fish nicely under the running water. Keep it aside.
• Pat dry gently with the kitchen towel. 
• In a bowl put fish slices, ginger-garlic paste, fish masala, turmeric, lemon juice, salt, semolina/gram-flour/rice powder. Mix well to make a paste. (Extra amount of red chilly powder can be added to make little more spicy)
• Coat the marination evenly on both the sides of the fish and marinate for 30 minutes or 1 hour in the fridge.
• Heat oil in a non-stick pan. Put the fish pieces slowly in the pan. 
• Fry till the fish slices become golden brown from both the sides. 
• Remove on an absorbent paper and sprinkle chaat masala on the top.
• Serve with lemon wedges and onion rings.
• Enjoy...........

Chicken Thukpa ( With home-made flat noodles)

Hi Friends,
    Thukpa is famous recipe from Tibet ....... It is highly nutritive soup as it contains lots of veggies and chicken. 
Recently I tasted it at one of my neighbour's house and started searching for a good Thukpa recipe....
Finally I made my own version which came out very nice and loved by all at home. Sharing the recipe with you all :)

Ingredients:
300 gm boneless chicken (cut into cubes)
Finely chopped vegetables (beans, carrot, onion, corn kernels, mushrooms )
5-4 spring onions (finely chopped)
1/2 thinly sliced red bell pepper
2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
Salt 
1/4 tsp pepper
1/2 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp Soya Sauce
1/2 tsp Chilly Sauce
1 tbsp lemon juice
A pinch of ajinomoto
Olive oil
4 cups of Chicken Stock

For Home-made flat noodles:
1/2 cup all purpose flour (maida)
1 egg
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp oil
Water to knead dough

Method:

• First to make flat noodles, put all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and make a soft dough of it.

• Divide the dough into equal portion, make small balls.
• Roll them with the help of a rolling pin. Make thin chapatis out of it.
• Now take a knife and cut the chapati into long thin strips like flat noodles.

• Keep them aside.
• Now take a non stick pan, add olive oil. Add chicken cubes and fry till they are cooked and turn light pink in colour. Remove on an absorbent paper.Keep it aside.

• In the same oil add chopped onions and saute till light pink in colour. Add ginger-garlic paste and saute for a minute.

• Now add carrot, beans and red bell pepper. Mix nicely and cook on high flame till all the veggies are half cooked.

• Now add corn kernels, mushrooms and spring onion. Cook on high flame for 1-2 mins.

• Now add soya sauce, chilly sauce, salt, pepper, sugar and ajinomoto. Mix nicely. 

• Now add chicken pieces along with the chicken stock. Stir nicely and bring it to boil.
• Once its start boiling add home-made flat noodles in the soup. Keep it on low flame and cook for another 7-8 minutes or till the noodles are cooked. carefully stir it in between.

• You will see that the noodles will itself start floating on the surface. Now the soup is ready to serve.
• Sprinkle lemon juice on the top and serve it hot with garlic bread or soup sticks
• Enjoy.................