Showing posts with label Cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cooking. Show all posts

Tuesday, 23 June 2015

Mini doughnuts

Ingredients:
1 cup Self raising flour
2 table spoon sugar
pinch of salt
1 tea spoon yeast
1 tea spoon baking powder
100 ml warm milk
Oil to fry doughnuts
round cutters

Method:

  • First of all take one teas spoon yeast mix with 1 tea spoon sugar and add bit warm water in their and leave it to rise for around 10 minutes.
  • Now use one cup of self raising flour, baking powder, salt and sugar mix it and add yeast and warm milk and mix it well.
  • It will form a soft dough which can be very floppy and sticky. Leave it to rest for around 5 minutes and get other things ready.
  • Now  take a dough and use some self raising flour to shape up the dough  and roll it very lightly to make  base and use small lid or round cutter to cut the shapes you can use your own shapes as well if you want.
  • Now cut them and fry them on warm oil using medium heat.
  • Once fried let them cool down and decorate with chocolate syrup or icing sugar. You can serve mini doughnuts with custard or jam as well.

Friday, 29 May 2015

How to cook zarda or sweet rice

Ingredients:

!/2 cup boiled rice *
3 table spoon sugar
2 tablespoon raisins
2 table spoon cashew nuts
2 -3 cardamon
2 table spoon ghee or butter
1/4 boiled water
food coloring
1/2 teaspoon kewra water

Method:

  • Add two table spoon ghee in pan and add raisins, cardamon seeds, cashew nuts and stir it and toast them a bit.
  • Add boiling water 1/4th cup and add sugar and let it boil.Once it boiled add your food coloring
  • Once sugar is fully mixed and water gets a bit thicker add your boiled rice in it and cook on medium heat for 2 to 3 minutes.
  • Then once your rice absorbed sweetness raise up the flame and cook so water dries up quickly. Keep stiring so it doesn't get stick to the pan.Add kewra for a extra taste.
Serve them hot and garnish with nuts and dried fruit of your choice.

* (For boiled rice soak 1/2 cup rice in water for around 10 minutes and then add them in 2 cup boiling water and let it boil, Once they are soft of your choice drain the water out.)



Tuesday, 28 April 2015

How to make Kofta /meat balls with curry



Kofta/Meat balls

Ingredients:
lamb mince 1 small bowl
1 onion
1 tea spoon ginger garlic paste
Masala (chili powder, turmeric,ground coriander,salt)
2 Table spoon gram flour
1/2 egg
Method:
Mix all ingredients with hands and make small balls and leave aside.


Curry:

Ingredients:
4 onions
1 bowl chopped tomatoes
1 to 2 tsp ginger garlic paste
Masala (red chili powder, turmeric, curry powder, ground corriander)
5-6 Round black peppers
1/2 cinnamon stick
salt (as per your taste)
oil

Method:

  • Brown the onion in oil.
  • Once its brown add tomatoes, masalas, ginger garlic paste and cook well until its mixed together and tomatoes water dries up. When you see oil is coming out of curry this mean it is ready.
  • Now add little bit water. add black peppers and cinnamon stick bring it to boil.
  • Now add kofta balls in the cooking pan one by one.
  • Cook for 2 to 5 minutes on medium heat. Check the koftas and turned them upside down using spoon and cook for another 5 minutes.
  • Now check your kofta are cooked from out side.Once its start looking thick curry and oil stated to be appear add two cup water and leave it to boil.
  • Now check one kofta it should be cooked but if you feel its need to boil more leave it to boil for another five minutes.
Now server your kofta curry with boiled eggs and garnish with fresh coriander.


Monday, 23 February 2015

Fruit crumble with custard


Bread crumb:
1 cup Plain flour
2 table spoon butter
2 table spoon sugar
Method:
Swift flour add sugar and mix and add butter and rub it well in the flour it will texture as a  bread crumbs. Its best to use hand.
Syrup:
1 cup sugar
3 cup water
Method:
Add sugar in the water and boil it and if you are using apples i will suggest you to add apples in the syrup so they will become soft and sweet.

Fruits:
1 Apple
1/2 cup raspberries
1/2 strawberries
Method:
Cut apple into small pieces and cook them in syrup.
Raspberries and strawberries cut them into halves or small if you like.
You can choose your own favorite fruits as well

Baking Fruit Crumble

  1. Now put your syrup with apple in the baking tray and add strawberries and raspberries in it.
  2. And crumble your bread crumb all over it to cover all the fruit.
  3. Bake for round 20 minutes in a preheat oven .Until it golden at your desired color.
  4. you can use tin fruit with its syrup as well if you are short of time.
Custard:
2 cup whole milk
1/2 cup sugar
3 table spoon custard powder.
  1. Add sugar in milk and bring it to boil.
  2. Mix 3 spoon full custard powder in half cup water.
  3. Once milk comes to boil lower the heat and add custard mix into milk with one hand and continue mixing with other hand so custard dont get stick at the bottom.
  4. If you want to thicken the custard you can add 4 spoon custard powder.
  5. Bring your custard to boil for 3 to 5 minutes.
Serve your fruit crumble with your hot custard.

Saturday, 21 February 2015

Chicken pilau

Ingredients:
1 cup basmati rice
2 chicken breast (cut into small pieces)
2 small onions
3 Red chilies s(dried whole)
5 round black peppers
2 small sticks of cinnamon
2 tea spoon cumin seeds
2 tea spoon ground coriander
1 vegetable stock cube (optional)
3 to 4 table spoon oil
 1 tea spoon salt  for rice and pinch of salt for chicken
Pinch of turmeric powder

Method:

  1. Soak rice in warm water.
  2. Cut onion long and thin and fry them in oil.
  3. Once onion turn slight brown add black peppers, cinnamon sticks, cumin seeds, ground coriander and red chilies and cook for a minute on medium heat and add chicken in it and stir and cover the cooking pan.
  4. Chicken will leave its water  add a pinch of salt and cook.
  5. Once water start drying up add 2 cup warm water in it and add your soup cube as well and leave it to boil.
  6. On the other hand your soak rice will be fluffed and become soft . Drain their water out and add them in your boiling chicken soup and cook on medium heat.
  7. Do stir it in the mean time water will dry up and rice will be cooked. Check some rice if you prefer very soft rice add few spoon water and sprinkle some turmeric powder in a line.Its best to wrap a kitchen towel on the lid and cover the rice and leave it to cook on very low heat for 5 minutes.
  8. Now when you open your rice mix it upside down and you will see yellow and brown rice mixed giving a beautiful image of delicious rice. 
If you prefer less chilies dont add red chilies in it. For vegetarian cooking you can use green peas, or mix vegetables instead of chicken and rest recipe will be the same.




Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Quick ,easy and healthy chicken wraps.




Ingredients:

1 chicken
1 onion
1 tomato
Pinch of black pepper
Pinch of salt
2  table spoon oil
1/2 cucumber an some lettuce or mix salad(optional)
4 wraps

Method:

  1. Put oil in frying pan and add chicken ( cut in small pieces) and seasoned it with salt . pepper and red chilli powder if you like it spicy and cook until chicken leaves its water.
  2. Add chopped onion, tomato and cook until chicken water dries up.
  3. If you are using chicken with bones then take chicken bones out and leave  meat pieces in the pan and cook.
  4. Cut cucumber into small pieces and add in chicken and add chopped fresh coriander and stir it and cook it for a minute.
  5. Now use a wrap and add chicken mixture in it with lettuce and roll it and serve. For children you can cut wrap into two pieces.

Monday, 2 February 2015

How to cook Tuna Pasta Baked - With Asian Touch


The video will take you through step by step procedure and in a very simple way to show you how to make tuna pasta baked including making your own pasta sauce. 





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Sunday, 1 February 2015

How to cook Pasta bake Step 3 :cooking tuna pasta bake

                           



Once you pasta is boiled and sauce is made there is nothing much to do left you are half way through of your cooking.

Ingredients:

  • Mix vegetable (one small bowl)
  • Tuna
  • Onion for garnishing
  • Cheese

Method:

  1. Add your vegetables  in the pasta sauce. 
  2. Add tuna.Before adding tuna into pasta u can wash tuna with warm water to avoid tuna smell if you like.
  3. Cook it for 3 to 5 minutes so vegetables will be cook and you can taste the flavors.
  4. After cooking add the pasta mix into baking tray
  5. Garnish pasta with long thin cut onions or you can add mushrooms, fresh peppers anything u like.
  6. Bake in the preheat oven for 5 minutes so the water of garnish onion or your chosen topping will be absorbed in pasta.
  7. then take the tray out spread grated cheese over it and bake for 3 to 5 minutes.
Here your favourite pasta is ready serve hot and enjoy.









                                     






How to cook pasta bake - Step 2- How To make pasta sauce

To make pasta sauce we need (enough sauce for 2 cup pasta)


  • 3 onions
  • 2 tin of tomatoes
  • Pinch of powder chilly (if you want)
  • Pinch of salt
  • Pinch of black pepper
  • Tomato sauce (just for extra taste)
  • Vegetable soup cube
  • Add one or two carrots

Method

  1. Toast onion in little oil until gets light brown.
  2. Add your tins of tomatoes and carrots and cook until tomatoes gets dried enough to form sauce
  3. Blend or grind the onion,carrots and tomatoes to create paste.
  4. Add chilly powder, salt, black pepper, ground coriander and soup cube and a little bit water and cook for 3 minutes on medium heat.
  5. Once it looks blended together you can add little bit tomato sauce for an extra taste and mix.
You own pasta sauce is ready . 








                                   

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