Friday, January 8, 2010

Indian-Chinese Fried Rice

This Chinese fried rce is usually the greatest favourite of all kids.

Ingredients:

Oil- 1 cup
Mustard seeds- 1/2 spoon
Jeera- 1/2 spoon
Egg-1
Shredded Cabage-1 cup
Diagonally cut carrot-1 cup
Half slit beans-1 cup
Minced ginger-1 spoon
Minced garlic-1 spoon
Sliced onion-1
Half slit green chilli-2
Soya sauce-2 spoon
Vinegar-2 spoon
Red chilli sauce-2-3 spoon

Method:

Heat oil in a wok and splutter the mustard seeds and jeera.
Fry in the vegetables for 2 minutes.
Scramble the egg in oil and mix with the vegetables.

Cook rice seperately with little salt and add in a pinch of saffron.
Add the cooked rice in the vegetables.
Add in the soya sauce, vinegar and red chillisauce.
Allow till everything is well cooked.

Garnish with minced coreander leaves and fried onions.

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Vegetable Biryani

I wanted to prepare a rich and tasty vegetable biryani for my husband for a sunday lunch. This is how the biryani came up.

Ingredients:

2 cups of basmati rice
1 sp of saffron
Cloves-4
Bayleaf-1
cardamom-4
Fried onions-1 cup
1 sp of Cumin seeds
5-6 red chillies
1 sp of Coreander seeds
Turmeric powder- 1/2 sp

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Capsicum curry

While you are in no mood to cook or dont have any stock of vegetables for a gravy...probably you can the try the below mentioned easy to cook gravy.


Recipe Summary
Difficulty: Easy
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Yield: 4 servings

Capsicum Curry Ingredients
Onions - 2
Tomatoes - 3
Chilli powder - 2 teaspoon
Coriander powder - 2 teaspoon
Garam Masala - 1/2 teaspoon
Capsicum - 4-5
Cinnamon -2 pieces
Cloves - pieces
Oil - 2 tablespoon
Salt - to taste



Capsicum Curry Preparing Method
1. Grind the onions and the tomatoes
2. Cut the capsicum into pieces (bigger)
3. Heat 1 table spoon oil in a pan and fry the capsicum in a medium flame until it is half cooked
4. Then remove the capsicum from the pan and in the same pan add 1 teaspoon of oil
5. Add cinnamon and cloves. When they splutter add the tomato onion paste. Let it cook until the oil separates
6. Now add the chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala, and salt
7. Mix them properly and add the capsicum to it. When the capsicum gets cooked ( 5-10 min), Capsicum curry is ready to serve.