chicken manchurian

Ingredients:

For Chicken balls:

Chicken - 1/2 kg or 1 lb
cinnamon - 2 inch stick
cloves - 4 or 5
star anise -1/2
black pepper corns - 1/2 tsp
ginger paste - 1 tsp
garlic paste -1 tsp
coriander powder - 1 tsp
cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
dry red chillies - 4 or 5
coriander leaves - handful
salt to taste
oil for frying

For manchurian seasoning:

chopped ginger - 1 tsp
chopped garlic - 1tsp
chopped green chillies - 2 chillies (optional)
chopped onions (long slices) - 1/2 cup
chopped red and green peppers - 1/2 cup
chopped green onions- 1/2 cup
chopped coriander leaves -  1/2 cup
soy sauce - 1/2 cup
chilli sauce - 1/2 cup
ground black pepper - 1/2 tsp 

Preparation:

1. First we need to make  chicken kheema balls recipe (you can find the recipe in the link).
2. Take a pan, add some oil and let it heat.
3. Now add chopped ginger, chopped garlic, chopped onions, chopped red and green peppers.
4. Let them fry before onions turn into golden yellow.
5. Now add chicken balls, soy sauce and chilli sauce and fry a little.
6. Finally for garnishing add chopped green onions, chopped coriander leaves and ground black pepper.

*If you want to make gravy, take a tsp corn starch and mix it well in water. Add this to the pan before garnish.

It goes well with ginger rice, roti, fried rice or as a starter.

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chicken kheema balls

Ingredients:

Chicken - 1/2 kg or 1 lb
cinnamon - 2 inch stick
cloves - 4 or 5
star anise -1/2
black pepper corns - 1/2 tsp
ginger paste - 1 tsp
garlic paste -1 tsp
coriander powder - 1 tsp
cumin powder - 1/2 tsp
dry red chillies - 4 or 5
coriander leaves - handful
salt to taste
oil for frying

Preparation :

1. Grind cinnamon, cloves. star anise, dry red chillies into a fine powder.

2. Then add ginger garlic paste, coriander powder, cumin powder, coriander leaves and salt and grind it into paste. Taste it before you add chicken into it.

3. Now add chicken and grind it.

4. Take the kheema  into a bowl and mix well and some oil and mix well again. Make kheema paste into balls.

5. Take a pan, add some oil and keep the balls in a pan and close the lid. Turn into side so that they will get nice golden brown colour. (If you want you can deep fry or bake those kheema balls ).

It goes well with salad , you can make subway sandwich or you can make patties for burger.

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Egg fry

Ingredients :

Boiled and unshelled eggs - 2
sliced onions - 1 small (optional)
garlic cloves- 6
salt to taste
dried red chilli powder 1 tsp
oil - 4 tsp

Preparation :

1. Take medium sized pan and add oil to it. Let it heat. (Add sliced onion to pan and fry until it turns golden brown).

2. Meanwhile add salt, chilli powder and garlic to a mixie jar and grind it for 10 sec to mix altogether.
Keep it aside.

3. Cut the eggs in half and add them to pan. let it fry for few minutes and add chilli powder mix to pan and fry for few more minutes.

That's it our egg fry is ready to taste.

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Pappu pulusu

My mom always liked to cook this pappu pulusu especially when my grandpa came to our house. likes this curry sooooooooo much.

Ingredients:

moong dal(pesara pappu) - 1 cup
chopped onion - 1/2 cup
chopped tomato - 1/2 cup
chopped green chilli - 6 no.
turmeric - 1/4 tsp
mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
cumin seeds - 1/2 tsp
fenugreek seeds - 1/4 tsp
curry leaves - 5 no.
lemon juice - 2 to 3 tsp
oil - 3 to 4 tsp
salt to taste
asafoetida - a pinch

Preparation:

1. Fry moong dal in a dry pan until you smell nice aroma of dal. Or you can fry until light golden brown if you want to cook in a pressure cooker.

2. Add  dal, onions, tomato, chillies into a cooking vessel or pressure cooker. Now add two cups of water and turmeric to it.

3. After dal is cooked mash it and add some water. Don't make it too watery. And add lemon juice and salt. Taste it and don't make it too sour.

You need to balance spice, salt and sour.

4. Take a small pan and put oil in it. Let it heat and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, fenugreek seeds. Wait until it splutter and add 1 tsp onion, after it turns into golden brown add curry leaves and a pinch of asafoetida.

5. Now mix everything into dal mix and let it boil for few minutes.

Now it is time to eat...............

It goes well with rice and along with this you should try on the side vadiyam and salted chillies. Crush the chillies and mix with curry and eat alon with vadiyam, Mmmmmmmmm you feel like you are in heaven.

On the side you can also try egg fry or pepper chicken or chintaku ( dried tamarind leaves powder) chepa (fish).


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Stotra

Vegetable stir fry

Ingredients:

chopped broccoli - 1 cup
chopped red capsicum - 1/2 cup
chopped yellow capsicum - 1/2 cup
chopped cauliflower - 1 cup
chopped onion - 1/2 cup
chopped garlic - 1 tsp
crushed dried red chilles- 1 tsp
sugar - 1/2 tsp
soy sauce - 2 tsp
salt to taste
oil - 3 to 4 tsp

oats - 1 cup( soaked and drained)
or
couscous - 1 cup(soaked in warm water and drained)
or cooked cracked wheat

Preparation:

As usual, first we have to take a pan and heat it. Add oil and garlic and then add remaining vegetables and add little bit of salt. Fry them and let them cook. After they cooked(i like half cooked with little bit of crunchiness ) add soy sauce, sugar and fry it. And season it with crushed chillies and fry it. Now add oats or couscous or cracked wheat. Now you can feel less salt. If you want a little salt add it and we are done.

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Capsicum and Broccoli curry

Ingredients:

chopped capsicum - 1 cup
chopped broccoli - 1 cup
chopped onions - 1/4 cup
chopped green chillies - 1 tsp
mustard seeds - 1 tsp
cumin seeds - 1 tsp
oil - 1/2 tbsp
salt to taste
turmeric - 1/2 tsp

Preparation:

Take a pan, let it heat and oil and mustard seeds, cumin seeds. Wait until they splatter and add onions and chillies. Let it fry until golden brown. Now add capsicum and broccoli, turmeric and salt. Fry it for a while and close the lid let it cook and ready to eat.

It goes well with rice or as a side dish.

You can even try without capsicum.

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Zucchini Curry

Ingredients:

Zucchini - 1cup (cut into small pieces)
Chopped Onions -1/4 cup
oil - 1 tbsp
Peanuts - 2 tbsp
dried red chillies - 2
coriander seeds - 1 tsp
cumin - 1 tsp
turmeric 1/2 tsp
salt to taste

For seasoning:

Dry roast peanuts, dried red chillies, cumin and coriander. Grind them and add salt. Keep it a side.

Preparation:

Take a pan, let it heat a bit and add oil, onions. fry onions until it turns into golden brown and then  zucchini and turmeric. Fry it and keep flame in medium and close the lid. After 5 mins add the seasoning that we made above, mix it well and close the lid. Turn off the stove after 5 mins.

It goes well with rice and roti too.......

When i cooked it for the first time, my husband ate the whole dish and I was standing still watching him eating.


Stotra :-)