French Fries

Home made french fries :)

Ingredients:

• Large potatoes - 3
• Cornflour - 4 tbsp
• Red chili powder - half tsp
• Salt
• Oil for deep fry

Method:

1. Cut the potatoes in finger size pieces and place them in water to take out starch ,wash the potatoes thoroughly.
2. In a cooking pot add one teaspoon salt and enough water and boil the potato fingers until its cooked up to 75%
3. Take it out on and dry it completely using a paper towel.
4. In a wide bowl add salt, red chili powder, cornflour and mix ,now add the potato fingers to this and mix well so that the cornflour is nicely coated. 
5. Keep the cornflour coated potato fingers in freezer for minimum 3 hours.
6. Heat oil in a wok and fry them in small batches until golden and crisp. Remove and drain on an absorbent paper.
7. Drizzle some salt and enjoy them with nice dips. 

Note: You can make a large batch of french fries and store it in the freezer and fry it as and when you like.

SpicY HoT ChikeN

Ingredients:

• Chicken - 500 gms - preferably boneless
• Soya sauce - 3 tbsp
• Green chili sauce - 2 tbsp
• Red chili sauce - 2 tbsp
• Vinegar - 1 tsp
• Ginger garlic paste -  2tsp
• Black pepper powder - 1 tsp or more
• Red chili flakes - half tsp
• Onion  - cut in cubes
• Capsicum - cut in cubes
• Oil - 3 tsp
• Salt

Method:

1. In a non stick pan add soya sauce, green chili sauce, red chili sauce, vinegar, ginger garlic paste, salt, chicken and marinate it for few hours.
2. Keep the same pot on the stove and cook this on medium to low flame until the chicken is cooked and nicely coated with the sauce ( add half cup of water if needed while cooking chicken)
3. In a separate pan add oil and saute onions and capsicum and mix it with the chicken, in the end sprinkle black pepper powder and red chili flakes and serve.

Enjoy with roti,naan, rice, pulav..etc :)

Egg with rice - Baby Food

Ingredients:

• Boiled and grated egg  - 1
• Cooked rice for baby
• Chopped coriander
• Cumin powder - a pinch
• Black pepper powder - a pinch

Method:

• Mix everything in a bowl and its ready, simple and easy :)

Palak Poori

On the menu for friends get together is palak poori, malai egg, boondi raita, chilled mango custard and ofcourse PEPSiii   

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 3 cups
• Hing - a generous pinch
• Salt - 1 tsp
• Turmeric powder - half tsp
• Palak / Spinach -  1 medium bunch
• Boiled and grated potato -  1 big
• Onion - 1 medium 
• Garlic cloves - 3
• Green chilies - 3

Method:

1. Blanch Palak with onion and garlic. Make a puree of this.
2. In a wide vessel, add wheat flour, salt, hing, turmeric powder, potato and mix well , now add the palak  puree to the flour and make a dough, apply some oil , cover it and keep aside. ( add water only if needed).
3. Make small balls of the dough and roll them in to small circles with medium thickness, don't make it too thin otherwise they will be crispy.
4. Repeat the same process for rest of the dough.
5. Heat oil in a wok, slip in the poori one at a time and fry it until slightly golden on both the sides.
6. Take it out on a tissue paper so that it absorbs the excess oil.
7. Serve hot pooris with any side dish of your choice like aloo sabzi, chickpeas masala.. etc but guys do try this with malai egg, it tastes yummm.

For boondi raita , whisk some curd, add boondi , salt , and sprinlke some red chili powder and cumin powder and its ready.


The recipe for palak poori is of Zankar Uchat.
(minor change i did was of adding green chilies)
Thank you Zankar Uchat for the wonderful recipe, everyone just loved the pooris even my one year old son enjoyed them.

Mango custard.. joint efforts by me and my friend Rachana ;)

Malai egg made by my Best friend Raji recipe on "Cook Click and Share" (Facebook)