Chicken Kofta Curry

Chicken Kofta Curry

Ingredients 

1/4 kg boneless chicken (minced chicken)

1 1/2 spoon ginger garlic paste

2 spoon chilli powder

2 spoon coriander powder

1 spoon chicken masala

1 spoon garam masala powder

2 big spoons cornflour

1/2 spoon turmeric powder

1 spoon chicken masala

oil for deep frying

salt to taste 

2 cloves

cinnamon

2cardamom 

1/2 cup kaju paste

2 onions sliced

1 small tomato or 1/4 cup tomato puree

coriander leaves chopped to garnish

Method

For Koftas

1. Clean chicken and add 1 spoon salt ,1/2 spoon ginger garlic paste, 1 spoon chilli powder, 1 spoon coriander powder, 1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder , chicken masala and cornflour.

2. Mix well and make small balls keep aside.

3. Now heat oil for deep frying, and deep fry those chicken balls till golden on very low flame.

4. Take out of oil on a paper napkin keep aside.

For Curry

1.Take a pan add oil fry onions till transparent and make paste.

2. In another pan fry cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and remaining ginger garlic paste and then add onion paste fry for 4 minutes.

3. Now add chopped tomato or tomato puree and fry for 2 minutes add turmeric.

4. Add kaju paste and 1 chilli powder, 1 garam masala, and 1 spooncoriander powder.

5. Add koftas and water if needed, cook for 5 minutes and garnish with coriander.

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Simple Vegetable Pulav

  

Simple Vegetable pulav

 

Ingredients

250 grams rice (1 big cup) 
2 cups water 
1 carrot (big)
5 green beans (big) 
2 potato's (big)
1 onion chopped
1/2 inch cinnamo
1 teaspoon ghee
2 table spoon oil
2 cloves
2 cardamon
2 green chillies 
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1/4 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon coriander powder
1 teaspoon garam masala
salt to taste (1 1/2 spoon approximately)
1 tablespoon coriander leaves chopped 
1 tablespoon mint leaves chopped
1 teaspoon tomato sauce
1 teaspoon soya sauce
1 spoon ginger garlic paste

Method

Rice Preparation 

1. Wash rice and soak for 20 minutes.

2. Now take a pressure cooker and add ghee in that fry cinnamon, cloves, cardamon.

3. Add water,1 teaspoon salt and lemon juice into cooker.

4. Now close lid and pressure cook rice till 1 to 2 visil's.

5. Keep aside till pressure escapes. Your rice is ready.

Pulav Preparation

1. Cut vegetables into very small pieces, and boil them in water with salt and lemon juice.

2. Now strain water and take veggies into a bowl, in that add chilli powder, coriander powder, garam masala, turmeric powder, soya sauce and tomato sauce, keep it aside.

3.  In a pan pour oil and add chopped onions and fry till transparent.

4. Now add ginger garlic paste and fry till its done.

5. Now add green chillies and vegetables with masalas...and fry till veggies are fried well and everything gets mixed up.

6. Add coriander and mint leaves fry for few seconds.

7. Now add cooked rice into that and mix well and close lid and cook for few seconds on low flame.

Serve with raita ...

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Chicken Fry

                             Chicken Fry

Ingredients

1/2 kg chicken

1 spoon ginger garlic paste

1 table spoon coconut paste

1 spoon chilli powder (as needed)

1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder

1 spoon coriander powder

1 teaspoon garam masala

1 spoon salt (as needed)

1 to 2 table spoon oil (for frying)

 Method

1. Clean and marinate chicken with all above ingredients except oil

2. Now boil chicken (in a pressure cooker) with 1/2 glass water.

3. Open cooker if you find any water let it evaporate by heating it for some time.

4. Now take a pan with oil, empty the chicken into that pan.

5. And fry on medium flame stirring continuously till it looks like the pic shown.

6. Garnish it with coriander leaves.

7. Serve with daal rice or chapatti or biryani...

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Chicken Curry

                                      Chicken Curry

Ingredients

 

1/2 kg chicken

3 onion medium size (chopped)

1 spoon red chilli powder

1 1/2 spoon ginger garlic paste

1 tomato medium size (chopped)

1 table spoon coconut paste

1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder

1 teaspoon coriander powder

1 to 1 1/2 spoon salt

1 teaspoon garam masala powder

2 cloves

1 small piece of cinnamon 

1 to 2 cardamon 

coriander for garnishing 

1 to 2 tablespoon oil

Method

1. Clean and wash the chicken, and marinate with salt, turmeric and chilli powder.

2. Now heat oil in a pan or wide pressure cooker, and add cloves, cinnamon and cardamon.

3. And now add chopped onion fry till golden, now add ginger garlic paste, fry till its done.

4. Now add tomato fry till it became paste and oil oozes out.

5. And in that add chicken, fry it till the color of chicken change.

6. Now add coconut paste, garam masala powder and coriander powder.

7. Add 1/2 glass of water and boil till the chicken is done. Garnish with coriander leaves. 

      Serve with rice or roti or even dosa and also vada changing its consistancy..

 

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French Toast

                             French Toast

French toast is a healthy breakfast to your toddler. Its not only a healthy and also very tasty and soft enough to feed a new toddler i,e 12 months old. It is very easy and fast recipe to prepare. My daughter loves it. And i am sure that your kids love it too...

   

Ingredients 

1 whole egg

1 to 2 table spoons milk

2 drops of vanilla essence

a pinch of cinnamon 

1 spoon sugar

butter for toasting 

4 slices bread (whole wheat is best)

Method

1. Take a bowl in that add egg and beat it with sugar till sugar is melted.

2. Add milk, vanilla essence, cinnamon to that mixture.

3. Now heat a pan add butter.

4. Fry bread slices dipped in egg mixture on both sides.

5. And cut it into three to four pieces (length wise) and offer to your toddler as evening snack or morning breakfast.........

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Plain Dosa

                                             Plain Dosa

Ingredients

1 cup urad dal (black gram without outer skin)

3 cups raw rice

water as needed

1 spoon salt

pinch of cooking soda (its your choice)

oil as required

Method

1. First of all take urad dal and rice in a bowl and wash it well.

2. Now pour fresh water and soak it for minimum of 4 hours.

3. And take that soaked mixture in a grinder are mixer grinder and make paste adding sufficient water to form a batter like this...

4. Leave it over night at room temperature.

5.In the morning add salt and cooking soda.

6. Now heat a dosa pan and apply little oil on that and wipe it off... when pan is hot pour dosa batter with a deep spoon or a cup with wide flat bottom (if you can tolerate heat coming out of the pan).

{tip:- slow the gas to minimum before pouring the batter so that it wont get cooked before you spread}

7. Spread it all over the pan starting from the center.

8. Let it cook on one side and fold it and serve it with coconut chutney or chicken shorba or groundnut chutney ....

(If dosa is thick cook it both sides so that it cooks well from inside)

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Lady's Finger Fry

                                      Lady's Finger Fry

Ingredients

1/4 kg lady's finger
few curry leaves
1 teaspoon mustard seeds
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 tablespoon oil to fry
few coriander leaves
1 teaspoon salt

To powder 

1 whole garlic peeled
10 dried red chillies
1 to 2 tablespoon bengal gram flour [besan]

Method

1. Cut lady's finger as shown in the picture, into small pieces.



2. In a pan heat oil then fry mustard seeds, cumin seeds and curry leaves.

3. Add lady's finger pieces and salt, fry on high stirring continuously without lid till stickiness is gone.

4. Now simmer till pieces are crisp.

5. Now powder chillies and garlic then add besan.

6. Add that powder to fry and sprinkle some coriander leaves.

Tip :- [If you find frying lady's finger difficult, you can deep fry it , and take in another pan then add powder and fry till powder absorbs oil]

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Ragi Powder and Porridge

 

Ragi Powder and It's Porridge for Baby

Raagi or ragi or nachini its is a finger millet.It is used in many types of recipes. It is a unpolished one so very healthy for a baby who started feeding solids recently. Note :- Its better to avoid ragi till the baby is 11 months old. Because baby's digestive system is not ready to digest a heavy food like ragi untle 11 months.

Here are the Nutritive value of Ragi per 100

Protein 7.3 g

Fat 1.4 g

Carbohydrate 72 g

Minerals 2.7 g

Calcium 344 mg

Fibre 3.6 g

Energy 328 kCal

 

How to Make Ragi Powder for Baby:- 

First of all select best quality ragi .

1.Take 1/4 kg of ragi and wash it thoroughly.

2. Drain it and dry in sun or dry it in fan on a cloth till all the moisture is dried up.

3. Now fry it in a pan till it smells sweet. make sure not to burn.

4. Let it cool to room temperature and make it into a fine powder and store in a airtight container.

5.Now baby's ragi powder is ready to make instant porridge

Ragi for the first Introduction to baby:- 

1. Take ragi 1/4 th cup and wash it and soak for over night.

2. Now in the morning wash it again and make paste with more milk.

3. Strain that paste. Now you will get a milk like substance.

4. Boil that on low flame, till it is cooked adding a little sugar or jaggery in that.

5. Now ragi  is ready to feed the baby.

How to Make Ragi Porridge With Above Powder:- 

 

Ingredients

1 to 2 spoons ragi powder

1 1/2 cup full cream milk

Pinch of ilachi powder (cardamom powder)

1 teaspoon sugar or jaggery 

Method 

1. Boil 1 cup milk in a pan and in remaining milk add ragi powder and mix it well.

2. Now add milk and ragi paste into boiling milk slowly stirring well.

3. And then add ilachi powder and sugar.

4. Feed it little thicker for big baby and little thin for small baby.

My baby is not a sweet eater so sometimes i used to make it in a different way.

Instead of milk i use to add water and ghee, and instead of sugar i added salt.

My baby now is a toddler and till now she feeds raagi twice a week.

There are many ways to make ragi and feed our babies to fill their little stomach's.

 

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