Pepper Chicken

Hellow friends This is Aara Again here with a New Guest Post. 

Today I welcome Usha of Mahaslovelyhome. Im sure many of us are aware of this blog, and those who are not aware pls go ahead viewing her blog and lovely posts she keeps blogging about. Im constantly in touch with her in facebook. Though its very short time we had become friends but its always nice talking to her. Real friendship is one where we spend quality time talking to each other, let the time be short but we like sharing ourselfs to each other that has been so important to me :) She is so very innovative with her recipes, Im amazed at her recipes sometimes!!!

When I asked her to do guest post for me, She just said she give me ur id and I will mail u. And here is the result below in front of you guys. Usha is very loving and caring human. Lovely mom of 2 kids and loving wifey to her dear hubby :D and What all rest she has to talk lets see :D

 Aara shaikh  is one one of my close/caring  friend in blog world whom I met recently in Facebook..She is straight forward and sincere girl..Reacts in seconds when any one is in trouble.Whatever she feels she expresses  very honestly..Sweets n spices is her food blog where we can see lots of innovative and interesting recipes..Being a food lover I can understood the interest and love on food..I feel some times,that Aara also tries to find easy methods in cooking like me..I love her dedication on blog as well..

Aara...Thank you so much for giving this opportunity...All the very best to your blog and also wish god bless you what ever you desire.

Me Usha Rani.Gadde wife of Shiva kumar. Also proud ful MOM of two little boys.presently, Iam full time mother and running food blog Mahaslovelyhome. Recently decided to work on photography more than the cooking.So,from next year definitely readers and visitors of my food page can see the beautiful pictures.If you want know more about check here..

 

Coming to the Recipe:

The name itself sounding so Hot na.....Hehehehe!!! This is for those who are absoluteTrue spice lovers...I think It`s difficult to find Chicken haters..Am I right??!! Even I love chicken...Don`t know how I managed previous 5 years without meat...After restarting eating chicken Iam cooking lots and lots of varities,especially on my own ideas...Some are resulting well and of course I faced few worst results too.Black pepper corn is  DH favourite spice and I love to add it with chicken especially..With my own Idea I cooked this for the first time..I prepared spice powder separately and it was the key of this recipe.Try next time and enjoy...

CATEGORY-NON-VEG/CHICKEN/PEPPER CORNS

PREPARATION TIME-15 MNS

COOKING TIME-20-25 MNS

WHAT YOU NEED

Boned chicken leg pieces-12

onion-1 med size

tomato-1 small

ginger garlic paste-1 tsp

salt- to taste

red chilli powder-1/2 tsp

garam masala-1/2 tsp

coriander powder-1/4 tsp

cumin powder-1/4 tsp

turmeric powder-1/2 tsp

lemon-1

TO ROAST AND GRIND

Black pepper corns-15+10

cumin seeds-1/2 tsp

cloves-5

cardamoms-3

cinnamon stick-1 inch

fennel seeds-1 ts

{* After grinding I used only half quantity of powder..So,please be careful while adding...Don`t forget this..}

HOW TO COOK

Wash thrice well the chicken then put some slits on top with sharp knife...

Marinate those in 1/2 tsp of turmeric,lemon juice and little bit salt..

ROAST AND GRIND the ings which given under the list and keep aside this powder...

Now heat pressure cooker  with 1 tsp of oil  and add chicken pieces+little bit of water and cook for 10 minutes or 3 whistles.

Heat a woke a remaining oil and add chopped onions..fry well...Next add tomatoes chopped and cook til mushy..

To this add GGP,turmeric,red chilli powder,salt and mix well..Time to add pressure cooked chicken...Combine every thing well..

By this every thing in the pan may looks colourful. If it is too dry add very less quantity of water.To make it spicy add ground masala powder and mix..

After 5 minutes of cooking in low flame add in garam masala,coriander and cumin powders and turn off..

Garnish with cilantro leaves... and serve hot like appetizer..

MAHAS NOTES

I used only half of the masala and stored remained..please note this..

Exactly my choice of choosing ingredients and its very delicious..

Be careful while adding chilli powder again.It`s only for colour...

Marinating and pressure cooking gives good taste and saves time..

I used leg pieces,If you like to use bone less chicken then follow the recipe without pressure cooking.

I HOPE AARA IS HAPPY WITH MY GIEST POST...ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU DEAR

SOME THING SPICE AND HOT

Thank you dear Usha For such a Lovely Stunning Guest Post I absolutely loved It. And soon gonna try out when ever possible next :) I wish you all the luck in this blogging world and your life too. 

Hope to see more and more posts from you in near future :)

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Simple Karahi Chicken Hotel Style

Simply Delicious Chicken Recipe I can Describe Or say!!

I know I have too many recipes title saying hotel style, But honestly It is!! The reason behind is Majority of my relatives back from orrisa work in hotel And I make Sure to Lick their brains regarding recipes when ever they visit me. Until I got Internet ;)

This recipe was pass by my uncle to us! He has gud experience working in restaurants and hence forth taught me few Dishes. Oh no he dint came up willingly I ate his brains when ever he visited us! more than a decade when I was still a teenager I used to either write down recipes from him or ask him to cook and teach me :P sometimes he agreed ;)

This particular thing he taught to mom and she makes it very rarely! At times even she forgets what ingredients to add lolz, I too learned once but I forgot too. But This time when she was making I made sure to learn. Now At least Im not going to forget after documenting it here :D

Ingredients 

Chicken- 500-600 gms
Onion - 4 - 5 medium size, finely sliced
Green Chillies - 4-5 slit
Curry leaves - 2 springs
Ginger - Garlic paste - 2tsp heap
Cashewnut paste - 2 tbsp
Poppy seeds paste - 2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Garam masala - one fat pinch
Turmeric Powder - 1 pinch optional
Oil - 2 tablespoon or more If required

Isnt the Ingredients list simple?

Method:

- Heat Oil in a wok/kadai.
- Add in Onion, Green chillies and curry leaves together. (Oh the heavenly Aroma It emits ;) )
- When the onion turns just a little soft, add chicken pieces and saute it along with onion for a munite or 2.
- Add in Ginger garlic paste, turmeric, salt and mix well, saute in medium heat till raw smell of ginger garlic paste turns aromatic.
- Next add cashew nut paste and saute well for another 2 mins. Till the paste gets cooked and rawness from the nuts leaves!!
- The mixture would be dry by now make sure to give continous stir, not allowing it to stick at bottom. 
- When the whole thing becomes aromatic add water enough to cover the chicken pieces. Add garam masala, close the lid and cook for 10 mins
- The gravy will turn thick in consistency on its own!!
- Once this is done Its ready to serve with any main course ;) Like White rice, Pilaf, Tandoori Roti, Nan / Kulchas 

Its so yummy that we always want it more :)

Notes:

- You can use Chicken With or Without bones Up to you.
- Turmeric can be made optional depending upon the color u like to have in your gravy.
- Consistency of gravy can be thick or think as per your choice, If u want thicker gravy add little of cornflour paste. If thinner variety needed just leave it as it is, There shall be no compromise in taste. 
- If you dont have poppy seeds just use cashew nut paste 4 tbsp instead.
- Add Enough water just to cover the chicken for further cooking. Too much water may not give desired consistency to the gravy.
- Cooking chicken for longer period of time might make it hard and chewy. So Make sure just cook enough so that its soft & juiciness remains so 10 mins time is enough. 
- My mom like it thin consistency gravy so the cooks it that way :)

Do Try this simple recipe for a Party Or Dawat And you are surely going to please everyones taste buds! More Over Its so very simple to prepare with minimum handy Ingredients we can get at home :)

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MEAT BALLS

Yummy Meat Balls Anyone?? 

Im here again with a guest post from my non blogger friend Nargis Habibullah. Her previous Guest Post of Sausages Roll was hit Thank u dear for lovely recipe. 

As the time goes we have been enjoying talking and sharing alot as and when free time permits. And Its quiet a comfort zone. She loves to cook for her kids and her son is fussy eater and she chooses out selected food which he enjoys eating. Difficult task for mommy's to feed their kids Mum's Cries are endless over this topic...... This recipe is again a keeper for her to make her son eat!!


Ingredients

500gms meat (any kind of meat which is fatless/ skimmed)
Onion 1 medium size chopped finely
3 bread white curst removed
1/2 cup coriander leaves
Green chillies 3-4 chopped
2 Garlic cloves chopped
1tsp coriander powder
Salt to taste
Pepper powder as needed
Oil for shallow frying

Method

- Mince meat nicely using food processor or mixer
- Soak bread slices in water and squeeze out the water well 
- In a bowl add mince meat, soaked bread and onion mix it well
- Make paste of Garlic, green chillies and coriander leaves
- Now mix this paste with meat mixture, add salt pepper and coriander powder 
- Make small balls and Fry them over medium heat till dark golden brown.

Serve it along with any kind of Dish of ur choice!! Specially Rice varieties. Nargis Habibullah Took pleasure to serve this to her boy with Curd Rice and He had happily enjoyed it!!

Recipe is very simple and flavorful, Hence I have no extra added notes or variations to add on :)

Hope u guys like the recipe, Any time u make this do let us know with ur valuable feedback :)

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CHATTI PATHRI / ATHISAYA PATHRI

All my excitement ends today!! I should pat my back for trying this out!! The following recipe is not only long but also worth to try all your efforts :)

This dish was nameless since my childhood. We used to receive this in Ramdhan From My Grandfathers Family frnd from bhatkal. Though me my uncle and aunts enjoyed it. We always felt It went short coz our taste buds wanted more and more. We dint knew the name, but we were always excited about the layers and stuffing wow. Even my 5yrs of being online I was never able to find this nor made an attempt to until +Rafeeda AR  Posted Athishaya Pathiri - Baked Pancakes 2 months back and I had bookmarked it!! I had no plans until again this Ramdhan we received the same delicacy and again I was present at my grandma's home the very day!! I enjoyed my share and told them that this is called athishaya pathiri, though they dint react coz name was very strange. I came up the other day to Google and had this in my mind. 

2 days back there was a Jeena Eugene in fb group who posted a beautiful pic of these and called it chatti pathri people there asked her for recipe (I was one among) and she was kind enough to forward us the recipe with much details and a you tube link to follow as well. 

Now it was my mom who had never tasted it though but with much excitement wanted me to make it!! I gathered much strength and Started the process today morning.

Ingredients:

For Stuffing:
Chicken - 1.5 cups (mince)
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
Coriander powder - 1 tsp heaped
Salt to taste
Oil - 1tbsp

In a pan heat oil. Add in all the ingredients and cook in low heat for 5 mins, Once you find chicken mince cooked and well separated  there will be water oozing in the pan, High the flame and cook for few more mins till the water is evaporated. (this can be made in advance and refrigerated)


Scrambled Egg Mix:
5 eggs
Salt
1/4th cup milk
Oil- 2 tbsp

Heat oil in a pan, mean while whisk, egg, milk and salt. Pour this mixture into the pan and cook it as u scramble. Break the pieces chunks to small ones and cook till done!! Remove it in a bowl and keep it aside. 


Pancakes:
2 1/2 cups Maida
Salt to taste
Egg One large
Water to make batter
Ghee 2tsp

Add in all ingredients into a large bowl, and make a batter not thick nor thin. One can add little milk also if they like. 
Prepare Thin Dosa of this batter (suitable to size of pan you will make final pathri in). Just cook 1 side and remove it. Make sure u dont make thick pancakes as it may not be liked later when you eat it!! Keep each pancakes separately until its cooled and then you can stack it one over the other in a plate. This is to avoid sticking with each other!!

Stuffing mixture
Prepared mince chicken
Prepared scrambled eggs
Ginger chopped 2tbsp
Garlic chopped 5-6 big cloves
3 large / 6 medium size onion
Green chillies 3-4 chopped
Carrot - 3 medium size chopped
Oil - 2 tbsp
Salt to taste
Tandoori masala - 1 1/2 tsp
Ghee - 2 tsp
Curry leaves 1 spring

Take Oil in a pan. Add in Ginger- garlic and green chillies, In medium heat allow the raw smell to go. add in curry leaves, Onion, carrot and cook for 2-3 mins till onion gets little soft. Add in chicken and scrambled eggs cook for few more mins, add in salt and tandoori masala. cook till you get nice aroma, add in ghee. If you have coriander leaves do add in most welcome I dint had so omitted it!! Cool it.

Dipping Mixture
6-8 eggs
1 cup coconut milk
salt to taste

Whisk it all well and keep it ready in flat bowl for easy dipping of pancakes


Assembling and cooking!!

Grease a non stick pan with ghee. Take a pan cake dip in the dipping mixture and place it in the pan. lay out the chicken mixture evenly, and again dip in another pan cake and place it over the chicken mixture, This way repeat the process and end layer should be pan cake. Pour in the egg mixture around the pancakes and the sides. and cook it in low medium heat for 15-20 mins with lid well closed.  After you open the lid, you may find, all the liquid is absorbed and now you can flip it in a plate, and turn the side, into a tava or same pan if u find it easy, and cook for 5-10 mins again in low medium heat.

Remove in a large plate. Allow it to drop its temp and then cut it to desired shape.

Notes:

- I have done preparation for 2 batches of this so the ingredients mentioned is of 2 portions. You can half of the quantity and make 1 portion 1st as trial.
- You can add some pepper powder to this mixture if required.
- Make use of non stick pan.
- Can be baked at 180 C till the upper side looks dry and cooked/ baked well!!
- Pre planned work is required as lots of ingredients and materials are consumed. until you are an expert making in this.
- I prepared 2 batches and each batch I utilized 7-8 pan cakes
- Using ghee was a nice idea As I was eating I could feel the flavor which was outstanding with the whole combo 
Difficulties / Technical faults I made 

- Dint had non stick pan. So my base layer was sticking. I faced difficulty with my 1st set.
- I dint pour enough egg mixture on top to cover the whole thing as a result the sides dint hold even coating. and when I tried to take it out, Sides of pancakes got disturbed.
- Because of no proper sides Flipping was another difficult part I faced. Mom helped me in 2nd batch. I was changing pan to tava. and tava to shallow pan. Felt like monkey jumping from one tree to the other
 
So make sure add in nice amount of egg mixture and use non stick for gud result

I was just thinking lining up the sauce pan with aluminium foil would work? for people like me 

I checked back with facebook group for my doubts and got answers from my frnds. Specially Gazeenasulu who was present there right away to answer me what might have went wrong!!

- She said more eggs r needed for binding the whole stuff and removal of the chatti pathri at ease.
- I asked if baking is more convenient and she said yes baking is fuss free 
- She also said eggs mixed with ground green chilli, n salt and little sugar to balance is required for dipping sauce.
- She also gave idea about tava top baking 

HCB had been a great support with all lovely frnds around always there to suggest and help when ever needed!! 
Thank you Sulu, Shazia and Shuja for the instant response over my quires. Also not to forget Jeena for her document along with you tube demo which inspired me the most. 

The recipe for masala was my own and rest of the procedure was as followed by other blogs and documents

Impression:

Everyone liked it!!! Phew!! What a relief When my dad and one of my uncle present for iftar said 1st try and taste very good what else needed???  I was all happy happy
 My mum my biggest critics also loved the taste. Finally felt my whole lotts hard work dint go in vain!!! Collar Up Up :P (Dont have one though) 



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Shrimps Maggi Noodles Stir Fry

Some times I go crazy!!!
Yes You Got There Right Very Crazy This Is Where This Maggie Came UP!!!

I dont know how many ever had tried to experiment with maggi and shrimps???? Eggs and Chicken are common combi with other veggies I know!!

Getting Back To the Topic......

Cooking Level : Simple
Time: 10- 15 mins
Serves : 2 People

Ingredients: 
Maggi: 2 packs
Onion - 1 large roughly chopped
Carrot - 1 Thin sliced
Soya Sauce - 1 tsp
Chilli Sauce - 1 tsp
Salt a little
Oil - 1-2 tsp

Method: 

- Heat oil in a wok. Add in shrimps n little salt. Fry it for a while in medium heat say for 1 min.

- Add in onion and carrot, cook for a while, say again 1 or 2 mins. At this point  keep the flame low add soya sauce and chilli sauce, and cook for 2 mins more. 

- Add in water 1 cup and maggi 1 masala pack, this is because I dint wanted masala flavor to dominate over shrimps flavor in the dish so the ratio for maggi to masala is 2:1

- As the water comes to boil add in noodles, and cook till firm yet soft, if you feel magi has dried up before getting cooked, add little more water depending on moisture noodles need to cook stir in quickly, this cooking process takes less than 5 mins time.

- Don’t over cook it will stick in the bottom, No need to add more salt, as the sauces we have added here also have some salt content,  make sure it is dry in texture and not soggy as we eat 

- Mouth Watering Delicious Lip Smacking Shrimps MAGGI Ready in no time.

Notes: 
- Capsicum also can be added along with onion and carrots, it was a hurry cook that i forgot to include while cooking.

- You can try the same with chicken, eggs, and normal veggies too

- If you dont have the sauces its ok to ignore including them. 

- Always check for salt before serving as only one pack of masala is added to 2 packs of noodles


Hope You Cook This Quickie And Enjoy Sometime :) 

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