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Friday, 9 May 2014

All in one chocolate cake


Ingredients
Flour 1 ¾ cup
Coco powder 5 tbsp
Sugar 2 cups
Baking powder 1 ½ tsp
Baking soda 1 ½ tsp
Salt ½ tsp
Eggs 3
Milk 1 cup
Oil ½ cup
Vanilla essence 2 tsp
Hot water 1 cup
Method
Put all the ingredients in one bowl, beat until combine, pour into well greased bandit pan and bake on 180 degree c for 45 minutes, remove, cool, dust with icing sugar or top with genache.
Ingredients for genache
Cream 100 gm
Chocolate 100 gm

Sarso ka saag


Ingredients
Sarso ka saag 1 kg
Garlic 10 cloves peeled
Green chilies 6
Water 1 cup
Ghee 3 tbsp
Crushed garlic 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Makai ka aata 3 tbsp
Whole red chilies 8 to 10
Butter 2 ounce
Method
Clean saag, remove stems, boil leaves with garlic, green chilies, 1 cup water, cover and cook for at least 45 minutes then ghoto well, heat ghee add crushed garlic, fry till garlic, add in saag, fry well, add salt, makai ka aata, fry well, lastly give baghar with 2 tbsp ghee, whole red chilies and 1 tsp crushed garlic, serve with makai ki roti and butter.

Makai ki roti


Ingredients
Makai ka aata 250 gm
Wheat flour 250 gm
Salt ½ tsp
Luke warm water to knead
Method
Knead and make peara, roll between 2 sheets of plastic, cut with a lid to make a perfect round, fry on tawa adding ghee.

Chicken nihari

 


Ingredients
Chicken 1 kg 8 pieces
Ingredients for nihari masala
Sonf 1 tbsp
White cumin 1 tsp
Anis star 1
Allspice 1 tsp
Dried ginger ½ tsp
Chili powder 3 tbsp
Wheat flour ¼ cup
Flour ¼ cup
Ghee 1 cup
Ginger garlic 2 tbsp
Chili powder 2 tsp
Salt 2 tsp
Chopped coriander leaves 2 tbsp
Green chilies chopped 2
Brown onion 2 tbsp
Lemon wedges to serve
Method for masala
Grind all together fill bottle and store.
Method for nihari
Heat ghee add ginger garlic paste, salt, chili powder, slightly fry add chicken and 4 tbsp of the prepared nihari masala, fry well add 5 cups of water when water boiling add in the dissolve paste of both the flour, keep stirring till one boil comes, lower flame and leave it on dum till chicken tender and oil comes on top, serve with chopped greens, lemon, brown onion and nan.

Spicy fried fish


Ingredients
Sole fillets ½ kg
Fresh bread crumbs 1 cup
Desiccated coconut 2 tbsp
Chili powder 1 tsp
Coriander powder 1 tsp
Cumin powder 1 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black pepper ½ tsp
Flour 2 to 3 tbsp
Eggs 2 beaten
Method
In a bowl mix bread crumbs, coconut, chili powder, cumin, coriander, salt and pepper, spread flour on a plate, seasoned with salt and black pepper, beat eggs well, dip fish fillet in flour then in eggs, coat well in bread crumbs, deep fry until crisp.

Sheppard’s macaroni pie


Ingredients
Oil ¼ cup
Mince ½ kg
Onion 1 cup chopped
Carrot ½ cup chopped
Flour 1 tbsp heaped
Water 1 ¼ cup
Corn flour 1 tbsp
Salt and pepper 1 tsp each
Tomato purees 4 tbsp
Ingredients for topping
Macaroni boiled ¾ cup
Butter 2 tbsp heaped
Flour 2 tbsp
Milk 2 cups
Salt, pepper and mustard ½ tsp each
Grated cheddar cheese ½ cup
Mash potatoes 2 cups
Method
Make white sauce for topping; add boiled macaroni to it with ½ quantity of cheddar cheese grated.
Method for mince
Heat oil add mince, fry until brown, add onions and carrots with tomato puree mix in flour, water, corn flour, salt and pepper, cover and cook for 20 minutes, till mince tender and thick gravy left.
To assemble
In an oven proof dish put meat mixture topped with macaroni and white sauce mixture, sprinkled with cheese, pipe with a layer of mashed potatoes, bake for 15 minutes until top golden.

Kasori khara masala murgh


Ingredients
Chicken 1 kg 16 pieces
Salt 1 ½ tsp
Yogurt 1 cup
Oil ½ cup
Button red chilies chopped 6
Onion 1 cup finely chopped
Garlic finely chopped 1 tbsp
Ginger finely chopped 2 tbsp
Green chilies 4 chopped
Coriander powder 1 tsp
Chili powder 1 tsp heaped
Tomatoes 2 finely chopped
Kasori methi 1 tbsp
Allspice 1 tsp
Method
Marinate chicken with yogurt and salt for 30 minutes, heat oil add chopped button chilies, chopped onion, fry till onion light golden add chopped ginger garlic with chopped green chilies, chili powder, coriander and chopped tomatoes, fry well till oils separates, add chicken with 1 cup water, cover and cook till chicken done, lastly add kasori methi, allspice, serve garnished with coriander leaves.

Strawberry ring


Ingredients
Evaporated milk chilled 1 tin
Condensed milk chilled 1 tin
Gelatin 2 tbsp
Water ¼ cup
Egg whites 2
Strawberry pulp 1 ½ cup
Fresh cream whipped 12 ounces or 1 ½ cup
Strawberry essence ½ tsp
Method
Dissolve gelatin in ¼ cup water and keep aside, beat chilled evaporated milk till double in volume, add condensed milk, gelatin, strawberry puree, beat egg white stiff, fold in the mixture also fold in the whipped cream and strawberry essence, pour in a well rinsed ring mould and chill until set, unmold and decorate with whipped cream and strawberries.

Saucy chicken



Ingredients
Chicken 1 kg 16 pieces
Ginger garlic 1 tbsp
Green chilies grinded 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Vinegar 2 tbsp
Coriander leaves grinded 1 tbsp
Water 2 cups
Ingredients for white sauce
Butter 2 ounce
Flour 2 tbsp
Salt, pepper, mustard ½ tsp each
Stock 1 cup
Milk 1 cup
Mayonnaise ¾ cup
Ketchup ¾ cup
Prepared white sauce
Cheddar cheese grated ½ cup
Method
Boil chicken with ginger garlic paste, green chilies grinded, coriander leaves grinded, salt, vinegar and water till chicken tender and 1 cup stock left, mix together white sauce, mayonnaise and ketchup and add your boiled chicken in this, put in a oven proof dish, top with grated cheese, bake on 200 degree C for 15 minutes till cheese melts.

London fish and chips


Ingredients
Boneless fish fillet ½ kg (sole)
Salt, white pepper, mustard powder ½ tsp each
Ingredients for batter
Flour 1 cup
Baking powder 1 tsp
Salt ½ tsp
Oil 3 tbsp
Chilled water 1 cup to make batter
Method
Marinate fish with salt, pepper, mustard; dip in prepared batter, deep fry in a frying pan till golden and crisp, serve with French fries and ketchup.

Stuffed mince kababs


Ingredients
Mince 250 gm
Water 1 cup
Chili powder 1 tsp
Turmeric ½ tsp
Salt 1 tsp leveled
Ginger garlic 1 tsp
Onion chopped 2 tbsp
Potatoes ½ kg peeled, boiled and mashed
Eggs 1 to 2 beaten
Bread crumbs as required
Oil 2 tbsp
White vinegar 2 tbsp
Wooster sauce 2 tbsp
Black pepper ½ tsp
Mustard powder ½ tsp
Salt ½ tsp
Chopped coriander and green chilies as required
Method
Boil mince with one cup water, salt, chili powder, turmeric, ginger garlic and chopped onion till water dries completely, then add in the mince vinegar Wooster sauce, black pepper, mustard powder, fry well, cool mince add chopped coriander and green chilies, take a portion of boiled potatoes, fill with 1 tsp of mince filling, form into a Pattie shape, dip in beaten egg, roll in crumbs and deep fry.

Foil kababs



Ingredients for kababs
Mince ½ kg
Ginger garlic 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 1 cup
Onion 2 chopped
Green chilies 6 chopped
Coriander chopped 2 tbsp
Mint chopped 2 tbsp
Allspice ½ tsp
Chili powder 1 tsp
Coriander powder 1 tsp
Bread crumbs as required
Eggs 1 – 2
Foil cut into 6*6 inch pieces
Ingredients for stuffing
Hard boiled eggs 3 chopped
Salt and pepper ½ tsp each
Coriander and mint leaves chopped 1 tbsp each
Onion chopped 3 tbsp
Ingredients for gravy
Oil ¼ cup
Onion 1 grated
Yogurt 1 cup
Ginger garlic 1 tsp
Cumin roasted and crushed 1 tsp
Salt ½ tsp
Cashew nuts grinded 10
Green chilies 6 grinded
Allspice 1 tsp
Coriander leaves 2 tbsp
Method for kababs
Boil mince in a pan with a ginger garlic paste, salt, chili powder, coriander powder and 1 cup water till tender and water dries, remove, cool, put in a chopper with chopped onion, green chilies, coriander and mint, allspice and 1 egg, chopperize well, make equal size balls, flatten on your palms and put in 1 tbsp of stuffing form into oblong kababs, roll in bread crumbs, fry till golden in color, remove and keep aside.
Ingredient for gravy
Heat oil add chopped onion, fry till light golden, add in grinded cashew nuts and green chili paste, add beaten yogurt with 1 cup water, cook till thick, add ginger garlic, salt, allspice, place kababs in foil and pour 1 tbsp gravy, seal and place all the kababs in foil in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes, serve hot.

Chocolate pistachio pin wheel



Ingredients
Butter 6 ounces softened
Sugar 1 cup
Eggs 2
Flour 3 cups
Baking powder 1 tsp
Salt ½ tsp
Vanilla essence 1 tsp + 1 tsp
Pistachio very finely chopperized 4 to 5 tbsp
Green color few drops
Milk 1 tbsp
Coco powder 2 tbsp
Method
Beat butter, sugar and eggs until smooth, mix in flour, baking powder and salt, put half dough in another bowl add vanilla, pistachio, green color, mix well, wrap in plastic bags, refrigerate for 30 minutes until firm, mix vanilla, milk and coco into remaining dough and chill for 45 minutes, put one part of chocolate dough between two sheets of butter paper, roll, repeat with 1 part of pistachio dough, peel top sheets of butter paper, turn pistachio dough upside down onto chocolate dough, roll up together, starting at long sides, wrap in plastic wrap, refrigerate for 30 minutes, cut roll into ¼ inch slices, place slices 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet, bake for 12 to 15 minutes, remove, cool and serve.

Saturday, 3 May 2014

Chicken chili with garlic rice



Ingredients
Chicken boneless 300 gm cut into 1 inch cubes
Salt and pepper ½ tsp each
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Ingredients for batter
Egg 1
Corn flour 2 tbsp heaped
Flour 2 tbsp
Salt ½ tsp
Baking powder ½ tsp
Black pepper ¼ tsp
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Ingredients for sauce
Onion sliced 1
Green chilies cut in strips 4 seeds removed
Ketchup ½ cup
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Chili sauce 2 tbsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Water 1 ½ cup
Oil ¼ cup
Corn flour 1 tbsp heaped mixed with ¼ cup water
Method
Marinate chicken with salt and pepper, soya sauce for 15 minutes, dip in prepared batter and deep fry.
Ingredients for sauce
In a wok heat oil add onion and green chilies add seasonings, sauces, water, cook till boiling, thickens with corn flour, cook till thick, remove add in fried chicken cubes, serve with rice.
Ingredients for garlic rice
Boil rice 250 gm or 2 cups
Crushed garlic 1 tbsp
Oil ¼ cup
Salt and pepper ½ tsp each
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Spring onion leaves chopped ½ cup
Method
Heat oil add crushed garlic till brown add boiled rice with seasonings and soya sauce, mix well, lastly add spring onion leaves and remove. Serve with chicken chili.

Blueberry muffin


Ingredients
Flour 1 ¼ cup
Pinch of salt
Butter 2 ounce melted
Caster sugar 3 ounce
Eggs 2
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Baking powder 2 tsp
Milk ¾ cup
Dried blueberries 1 cup
Method
Pre-heat oven to 200 degree C, grease muffin tray, sieve flour and baking powder add in salt and sugar, in another bowl beat eggs, melted butter, milk and vanilla, make a well in dry ingredients, pour in the egg mixture with a large metal spoon, stir until the flour just moisten, gently fold in the blueberries in the batter, spoon the mixture in to the muffin tins, bake for 20 minutes, cool for 5 minutes before removing.

Tandoori hut showarma



Ingredients
Boneless chicken breast cut into thin strips 400 gm
Garlic paste 1 tsp heaped
Black pepper 1 tsp
Soya sauce 1 tbsp
Vinegar 2 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Cinnamon powder ¼ tsp
Hp sauce 2 tbsp
Oil 2 tbsp
Chili sauce 3 tbsp
Dp sauce 2 tbsp
Yogurt whipped 3 tbsp
Pita bread 4 
Hot dog buns 2
Onion julienne ½ cup
Salad leaves chopped 1 cup
Jalapeno sliced as required
Jerkins as required
Ingredients for tahini sauce
Tahini 3 tbsp
Whipped curd ½ cup
Garlic paste 1 tsp
Salt and white pepper ½ tsp each
Lemon juice 2 tbsp
Method for tahini sauce
Mix altogether
Method 
Marinate chicken with all the ingredients for 30 minutes, heat 2 tbsp oil in a frying pan, pan fry chicken for 10 minutes till tender, remove, heat pita bread and hot dog bun, spread with tahini sauce, chicken, vegetables, re-roll in butter paper and serve.

Foil kababs



Ingredients for kababs
Mince ½ kg
Ginger garlic 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 1 cup
Onion 2 chopped
Green chilies 6 chopped
Coriander chopped 2 tbsp
Mint chopped 2 tbsp
Allspice ½ tsp
Chili powder 1 tsp
Coriander powder 1 tsp
Bread crumbs as required
Eggs 1 – 2
Foil cut into 6*6 inch pieces
Ingredients for stuffing
Hard boiled eggs 3 chopped
Salt and pepper ½ tsp each
Coriander and mint leaves chopped 1 tbsp each
Onion chopped 3 tbsp
Ingredients for gravy
Oil ¼ cup
Onion 1 grated
Yogurt 1 cup
Ginger garlic 1 tsp
Cumin roasted and crushed 1 tsp
Salt ½ tsp
Cashew nuts grinded 10
Green chilies 6 grinded
Allspice 1 tsp
Coriander leaves 2 tbsp
Method for kababs
Boil mince in a pan with a ginger garlic paste, salt, chili powder, coriander powder and 1 cup water till tender and water dries, remove, cool, put in a chopper with chopped onion, green chilies, coriander and mint, allspice and 1 egg, chopperize well, make equal size balls, flatten on your palms and put in 1 tbsp of stuffing form into oblong kababs, roll in bread crumbs, fry till golden in color, remove and keep aside.
Ingredient for gravy
Heat oil add chopped onion, fry till light golden, add in grinded cashew nuts and green chili paste, add beaten yogurt with 1 cup water, cook till thick, add ginger garlic, salt, allspice, place kababs in foil and pour 1 tbsp gravy, seal and place all the kababs in foil in the oven for 10 to 15 minutes, serve hot.

Chocolate pistachio pin wheel


Ingredients
Butter 6 ounces softened
Sugar 1 cup
Eggs 2
Flour 3 cups
Baking powder 1 tsp
Salt ½ tsp
Vanilla essence 1 tsp + 1 tsp
Pistachio very finely chopperized 4 to 5 tbsp
Green color few drops
Milk 1 tbsp
Coco powder 2 tbsp
Method
Beat butter, sugar and eggs until smooth, mix in flour, baking powder and salt, put half dough in another bowl add vanilla, pistachio, green color, mix well, wrap in plastic bags, refrigerate for 30 minutes until firm, mix vanilla, milk and coco into remaining dough and chill for 45 minutes, put one part of chocolate dough between two sheets of butter paper, roll, repeat with 1 part of pistachio dough, peel top sheets of butter paper, turn pistachio dough upside down onto chocolate dough, roll up together, starting at long sides, wrap in plastic wrap, refrigerate for 30 minutes, cut roll into ¼ inch slices, place slices 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet, bake for 12 to 15 minutes, remove, cool and serve.

Dajjaz mandi


Ingredients
Chicken 1 kg whole
Butter 2 ounce
Oil ¼ cup
Green cardamom 10
Black cardamom 1
Cinnamon 2 sticks
Black pepper whole 1 tbsp
Cloves 8 to 10
Bay leaf 2
Rice ½ kg
Saffron ¼ tsp + ¼ tsp
Yellow color pinch
Green cardamom grinded ¼ tsp + ¼ tsp
Salt 1 tbsp
Onion 1 cup chopped
Lemon juice 2 tbsp
Lemon dried 1
Method
Heat butter and oil in a pan add whole spices with chopped onion and whole chicken, fry till chicken golden brown on both sides add 6 cups water with ¼ tsp grinded green cardamom, ¼ tsp saffron, 1 dried lemon, salt 1 tbsp, cover and cook till chicken tender and 2 ½ cup stock left, remove chicken from stock add ½ kg soaked rice cover and cook till rice done, slightly sprinkle powdered yellow color on one side of rice only, leave it on dum for 10 minutes. Now mix well, remove in a platter, and serve chicken over rice. In small bowl mix together 1 tbsp butter with remaining cardamom powder, saffron, soaked in hot water, lemon juice, mix well, and brush on top of chicken, bake in a preheated oven for 15 minutes.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Spin


Ingredients
• 1 cup vanilla ice cream
• 1/2 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons Peanut Butter
• 2 tablespoons jelly or jam
Directions
1. Combine peanut butter and 1 tablespoon jelly. Place in blender container.
2. Add milk and ice cream. Cover; blend until smooth. Pour into tall glass. Stir remaining tablespoon jelly to soften; drizzle over surface of drink. Serve immediately.

Meat ball lollypops



Ingredients:
Mince ½ kg
Onion 1 ground
Salt 1 tsp
Black pepper 1 tsp
Paprika 1 tsp
Corn flour 2 tbsp
Ginger garlic 1 tsp
Egg 1
Bread 2 slices soaked in milk
Coriander leaves 2 tbsp
Ingredients for salt:
Oil 2 tbsp
Garlic paste 1 tsp
Onion chopped 2 tbsp
Ketchup ½ cup
Chili sauce 1 tbsp
Water 1 cup
Corn flour 2 tbsp
Salt ½ tsp
Black pepper ½ tsp
Method for meatballs:
1. put all together in a chopper, chopperize until smooth.
2. make into round balls. shallow fry
3. toss in sauce. serve in a platter, fized with lolly pop sticks
4. serve sprinkles with fnely chopped coriander
method for sauce:
1. heat oil, fry onion and garlic paste till transparent
2. add ketchup, chili suace, water, corn flour, salt and pepper. cook till thick. add in meat balls. cook till well coanted in sauce.

Henny Penny Chicken


Ingredients:
Chicken boneless ½ kg
Oil ¼ cup
Butter 1 tbsp
Flour 1 tbsp
Cream1/2 cup
Salt 1 tsp
Black pepper ¼ tsp
Ketchup ½ cups
Mushrooms sliced 4
Garlic paste 1 tsp
Method:
1. Heat oil, add garlic paste, chicken with salt, pepper fry well
2. Add flour with 1 cup water, ketchup, cream, mushrooms
3. Cook till thick and chicken tender.
4. Serve with egg fried rice

Egg fried rice


Ingredients
Rice ½ kg boiled until done
Spring onion 1 cup chopped
Carrot ½ cup chopped in small cubes
Eggs 2 beaten
Oil ¼ cup
Garlic crushed 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Black pepper ½ tsp
Soya sauce 2 tbsp
Method
Heat oil add chopped garlic, fry for 1 minute add beaten egg, add vegetables with boiled rice, mix all well, add seasonings and soya sauce, toss well and remove.

Hot and spicy Fried drum sticks


Ingredients
Chicken wings ½ kg make into loly pop shape
Salt ½ tsp
White pepper ½ tsp
Sugar ½ tsp
Chopped garlic 1 tsp
Egg 1
Corn flour 2 tsp heaped
Flour 2 tsp heaped
Method
Marinate your drum sticks with all above, mix very well, deep fry for 10 minutes, then remove and re fry once again for 10 minutes till crisp and golden brown

Gummy Bear Popsicles:


Ingredients:
• Gummy Bears
• Sprite
• Popsicle mold
• Popsicle sticks

Directions:
1. Fill molds about 3/4 of the way full
2. Drop in gummy bears
3. Place popsicle stick into mold
4. Freeze until frozen all the way through

Cookie and cream Surprise Cups


Ingredients:
cookies crushed 2 cups
Cream cheese 4 tbsp
Condensed milk 2 tbsp
Fresh cream whipped 8 ounces
Milk 2 cups
Chocolate pudding powder 1 packet
Chocolate sauce ½ cup
Method:
For pudding:
1. Heat milk, add chocolate pudding powder cook till boiling remove and cool.
For assembling:
1. Put crushed biscuits on a base of a parfait cups
2. Top with cream cheese and cream mixture then chocolate mixture
3. Top with chocolate sauce again oreo cookies crushed repeat layers ending with piped cream and chocolate sauce

Friday, 2 May 2014

chicken chowmein




Ingredients
Chicken boneless 1 cup thinly sliced
Salt 1 tsp + ½ tsp
Sugar ½ tsp + ½ tsp
Corn flour 1 tbsp
Beaten egg Half
White pepper ¼ tsp
Cabbage thinly sliced 2 cups
Capsicum 1 sliced
Egg noodles 1 packet boil for just 3 minutes
Chili sauce 2 tbsp
Soya sauce 2 tbsp
Crushed garlic 1 tsp
Onion 1 sliced
Carrot 1 thinly sliced
Spring onion leaves 2 inch long strips 1 cup
Oil ¼ cup
Ketchup ¼ cup
Method
Marinate chicken sliced with salt, white pepper, sugar, soya sauce, corn flour 1 tbsp, half beaten egg for 15 minutes, heat ¼ cup oil fry crushed garlic till light golden add sliced onion, add marinate chicken cook for 1 minute add in cabbage, carrot, capsicum with chili sauce, soya sauce, ketchup, salt and sugar add boiled noodles, toss well, lastly add spring onion leaves and remove.

SFC twister



Ingredients for tortillas
Flour 2 cups
Salt ½ tsp
Baking powder ½ tsp
Oil 2 tbsp
Luke warm water to knead
Method for tortillas
Mix altogether in a bowl knead the dough into a medium soft dough, leave covered for 30 minutes, make into dinner plate size tortillas, cook on tawa, cover and keep warm.
Ingredients for filling
Boneless chicken breast 2 cut in thick 4 pieces of each breast
Salt 1 tsp
Pepper 1 tsp
Paprika 1 tsp
Chili garlic sauce 1 tbsp
Chili sauce 1 tbsp
Cabbage thinly sliced ½ cup
Tomato 1 cut in cubes
Mayonnaise ½ cup
Salad leaves as required
Ingredients for batter
Self raising flour 4 tbsp
Corn flour 2 tbsp
Salt, pepper ¼ tsp each
Chili sauce 1 tbsp
Oil 1 tbsp
Chilled water to make batter
Baking powder ¼ tsp
Method
Marinate chicken strips with salt, pepper, paprika, chili garlic sauce, chili sauce for 30 minutes, dip in prepared batter and roll in corn crumbs and deep fry until done. 
To assemble
Put the tortillas on a table, put 2 fried chicken strips, cubes of tomato, lettuce, cabbage, 2 tbsp mayonnaise in each twister, hot sauce, roll, serve wrapped in paper.

Pizza Pinwheels


Ingredients:
• 2 cups self-raising flour
• Pinch of salt
• 90g butter, cut into cubes
• 2/3 cup milk
• Plain flour, to dust
• 3 tbpsn Pizza Sauce
• 1 cup grated cheddar cheese
• Chicken tikka chunks 1 cup
• Capsicum 1 finely chooped
• Oregano 1 tsp
• 1 egg, lightly beaten
Method:
Preheat oven to 200°C. Line a tray with baking paper.
Sift the flour and salt into a large bowl. Use your fingertips to rub the butter into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. Add the milk mix into a dough.
Turn the dough onto a lightly floured surface and gently knead (about 5 minutes) until smooth. If the dough is sticky sprinkle with a little more flour.
Roll dough into a 20cm x 40 cm rectangle and spread with pizza sauce. Sprinkle with chicken tikka chunks, capsicum, oiregano and cheese.
Turn the dough so the long end is in front of you and roll up. Slice into 10-12 pieces and place side-by-side on the tray.
Brush with egg and bake for 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted into a ‘join’ comes out clean.

Tomato cream soup



Ingredients
Butter 2 tbsp
Chopped onion 2 tbsp
Carrots chopped 2 tbsp
Ginger chopped 1 tbsp
Garlic chopped ½ tsp
Cinnamon 2 sticks
Black pepper 6
Flour 3 tbsp
Stock 4 to 5 cups
Orange color ¼ tsp
Tomatoes ½ kg chopped 5
Salt 1 tsp
Vinegar 2 tbsp
White pepper ½ tsp
Sugar 1 tbsp
Ketchup 4 tbsp
Fresh cream 3 tbsp for serving
Fried croutons for serving
Method
Heat butter fry chopped vegetables, ginger garlic chopped, whole spices for 2 minutes add in flour, stir, do not brown add chopped tomatoes with stock, simmer for a while add vinegar, seasonings, ketchup, color, cook for 10 to 15 minutes till thick, pass it through a fine sieve, again strain it, serve hot with drizzle of fresh cream and fried croutons.

Chicken nuggets burger


Ingredients
Chicken breast 4 boneless cut in 2 inch cube
Egg 1 beaten
Salt ½ tsp
White pepper ½ tsp
Chili powder ½ tsp
Mustard powder ½ tsp
Lemon juice 2 tbsp
Corn flour 2 tbsp
Bread slices 4 made into crumbs
Flour 3 tbsp
Oil for frying
Fries to serve
Method
Make smooth batter with Egg 1 beaten, Salt ½ tsp, White pepper ½ tsp, Chili powder ½ tsp, Mustard powder ½ tsp, Lemon juice 2 tbsp, Corn flour 2 tbsp, marinate your chicken in this for 30 minutes spread each chicken piece in dry flour then in bread crumbs, press with palms to give shape deep fry till light golden, serve with fries.

Carrots cake



Ingredients
Flour 150 gm 6 ounces
Eggs 2
Sugar 150 gm 6 ounces
Vanilla essence 1 ½ tsp
Walnuts 50 gm crushed
Baking soda ½ tsp
Baking powder ½ tsp
Grated carrots 2
Oil
Cinnamon powder ¼ tsp
Salt pinch
Ingredients for cream cheese frosting
Butter 2 ounces 50 gm
Cream cheese 5 ounces 125 gm
Sifted sugar 4 to 6 ounces
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Whipped cream ½ cup
Walnuts crushed ½ cup
Method for icing
Beat butter until smooth, add cream cheese beat for 3 minutes tart adding in sugar and beat for another 3 minutes add vanilla essence, beat cream, continue to beat for 5 minutes, cut cake from middle, put cream cheese frosting top with cake, cover cake with frosting, decorate with carrots made with marzipan and walnuts.
Method for cake
Sieve together flour, baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon, mix in salt, beat eggs for 2 minutes gradually start adding in sugar beat for 5 minutes until creamy add vanilla essence, beat well start adding in oil, add in the dry ingredient gradually to the egg mixture and beat for another 5 minutes, remove fold in grated carrots with spatula, spread mixture in a well greased and 9 inch pan, bake for 25 to 30 minutes on 180 degree C, cool and ice cover with frosting.

Brownie Bites


Ingredients
• Chocolate kisses
• 2/3 cup butter or margarine, softened
• 1-1/4 cups granulated sugar
• 1 tablespoon water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/2 cup Cocoa
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
• Powdered sugar
Directions
1. Remove wrappers from chocolates; place in freezer while preparing and baking cookies.
2. Beat butter, granulated sugar, water and vanilla in large bowl on medium speed of mixer until well blended. Add eggs; beat well. Stir together flour, cocoa, salt and baking soda. Gradually add to sugar mixture, beating on low speed until blended. Cover; refrigerate dough about two hours or until firm enough to handle.
3. Heat oven to 180 C. Line 24 small muffin cups . Shape dough into 1-inch balls; place in prepared muffin cups.
4. Bake 11 to 13 minutes or until cookie surface is set. Cookies will appear soft and moist. Cool about 5 minutes on wire rack. Dust cookie tops with powdered sugar. Press frozen chocolate piece into surface of each cookie. Cool completely in pan on wire rack.

Christemas Jelly Slice


Ingredients:
• 1 packet sweet plain biscuits crushed 2 cups)
• 6 ounces butter
• 400g sweet condensed milk
• 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon gelatine
• 1 packet of raspberry jelly
Method:
Butter a slice tray (16cm x 26cm x 3cm).
Crush biscuits in a food processor (or in a plastic bag with a rolling pin), transfer to a bowl and mix in melted butter. Place mixture in prepared tray and press down firmly. Refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Dissolve gelatine in 1/2 cup hot water. Combine gelatine mixture with condensed milk in a bowl, pour over biscuit base and place back in fridge for 30 minutes until cool and nearly set.
Dissolve jelly, Pour cold jelly on top of slice and return to fridge to set.
Slice into squares using a butter knife. I wiped the knife occasionally so that the white filling didn't ruin the look of the jelly.

Chicken corn soup


Ingredients
Chicken breast 1 cut into tiny cubes
Chicken stock 8 cups
Cream of corn 1 tin
Salt ¾ tsp
White pepper ½ tsp
Egg 1 beaten
Corn flour ½ cup heaped
Method
Heat stock in a wok add chicken cubes with salt, pepper, cook till boiling add cream corn lastly mix corn flour with little water into a paste, add to the soups stirring well till soup thick, lastly add beaten eggs, cook for 2 minutes and remove.

Peanut butter blossoms


Ingredients
Hershies kisses 2 to 3 dozens
Shortening ½ cup
Creamy peanut butter ¾ cup
Granulated sugar 1/3 cup
Brown sugar 1/3 cup
Egg 1
Milk 2 tbsp
Vanilla 1 tsp
Flour 1 ½ cup
Baking soda 1 tsp
Salt ½ tsp
Extra granulated sugar
Method
Preheat oven to 180 degree C, beat shortening and peanut butter well till blended, add both the sugars, beat until fluffy, add egg, milk, vanilla, beat well add sifted flour, baking soda and salt, gradually into peanut butter mixture, shape into 1 inch ball, roll in granulated sugar, place on ungreased cookie sheet, bake for 10 minutes, immediately press a chocolate kiss into the center of each cookie, cookie will crack around edges, remove from cookie sheet to wire rack, make 3 to 4 dozen cookies.

Thursday, 1 May 2014

Fruit parfait



Ingredients
Kellogg’s frosties coarsely crushed 1 ½ cup
Almonds sliced toasted 3 tbsp
Flaked coconut toasted 3 tbsp
Cream cheese 8 ounces
Condensed milk ½ cup
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Curd cheese ½ cup
Pineapple tidbits 1 can
Cherries or strawberries 2 cups chopped
Method
In a serving bowl spread half cheese mixture, half fruit mixture and mix together then cheese mixture then fruits again top with cheese, top with frosties crushed, nuts, chill for 2 hours, serve decorated with swirls of fresh cream.