Fried Chicken Leg Pieces

Ingredients
chicken leg pieces - 7
one small piece of ginger
6 flakes of garlic
corriander powder - 1 tbl.sp
roasted cumin powder - 1 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
garam masala - 1/2 tsp
salt and chilli as per taste

Method
Clean and wash the chicken and pat it dry. Make slit in the chicken pieces so that the marinated masala is absorbed by it.

Make a paste of ginger and garlic.

Make a marination from all the given ingredients and marinate the chicken for 1 to 2 hours or overnight.

Deep fry the chicken and serve hot.

You can even coat it with egg batter and bread crumbs.

Pinwheel Sandwich

Ingredients
few bread slices
grated cucumber
chopped tomato

for making chutney
grated coconut - 2 to 3 tbl.sp
mint and corriander leaves
green chilli as per taste
garlic flakes - 2 to 3
juice of 1/2 lemon
salt as per taste

Method
Take a bread slice, remove the sides and with the help of a rolling pin flatten it.
Spread green chutney on it and a spoon of grated cucumber and tomato. Roll it and in a plastic sheet and let it set in the refrigerator. Remove and serve.

Chicken and Vegetable Fried Rice

Ingredients
cooked rice - 2 cups
boiled and shredded chicken - 1 cup
crushed ginger and garlic - 1 tsp
mixed vegetable - 200 gm (carrot, capsicum, beans, onion)
soya sauce - 1 tsp
green chilli as per taste
egg - 2
salt and pepper as per taste

Method

Heat oil in a pan,  add crushed ginger and garlic and saute for few seconds. Then add green chilli and again saute for few seconds and then add boiled and shredded chicken and stir fry for 2 to 3 minutes.
Then again mixed vegetable and cook on a high flame for 2 to 3 minutes. Add soya sauce, salt and pepper and eggs, mix well and cook till the eggs are cooked. Add rice and mix gently.Serve hot with manchurian.

Mysore Pak Recipe

Ingredients
chickpeas flour - 1 cup
sugar - 1 cup
ghee - 1 cup
cardamom powder - 1/4 tsp

Method
First heat ghee and pour in the chickpeas flour and mix well. Seive it and keep it aside.

Make a one thread consistency of sugar syrup by adding  1/4 cup of water, also add cardamom powder to it.
In another pan, keep ghee for heating.

When syrup is ready add chickpeas flour to it gradually. Keep on stirring it continously. When it is done, add hot ghee about 1 spoon at a time till all the ghee is over.

See that when you put hot oil, the mixture will turn frothy and will become porous too.

Now take a greased pan and immediately pour into it. Remove all the excess oil. When it is still warm, cut into cubes, so that it becomes easy to cut after wards.

Remove and serve.

Traditional Indian Chakali Recipe

Ingredients
rice flour - 200 gm
chickpeas flour - 100 gm
green gram dal flour - 70 gm
black gram dal flour - 50 gm
cumin seed - 1 tsp
corriander powder - 1 tsp
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
sesame seed - 1 tbl.sp
carom seed - 1/4 tsp
salt and red chilli powder as per taste
hot oil - 2 tbl.sp

Method
Mix together all the flour and the spices and gradually put hot oil into it, mix immediately.
Now add hot water and leave it for some time and when it comes at room temperature, knead it to form a dough.

Put in the chakali maker and make round chakalis. Deep fry in oil and serve hot.
When it comes at room temperature, store it in air tight container.

Paneer Tikka

Ingredients
paneer cubes - 200 gms
paste of 15 to 20 cashewnuts
red chilli powder - 1 tsp
yoghurt - 1 tbl.sp
roasted cumin powder - 1 tsp
garam masala - 1/4 tsp
juice of half lemon
diced capsicum
diced onion
diced tomatoes
salt as per taste
skewers

Method
 combine all the ingredients in a bowl and then put paneer cubes into it and leave it to marinate for half an hour to one hour.
Take skewer and insert first onion, then tomato, then capsicum and then paneer and then repeat in the same way. Shallow fry in oil and serve hot with roti.

Chocolate Modak Using Cocoa Powder

Ingredients
condensed milk - 3/4 of the tin
milk - 1/2 cup
cocoa powder - 3 tbl.sp
cinnamon powder - 1/4 tsp
few cashewnuts and walnuts
few digestive biscuits

Method

coarsely powder digestive biscuits and cashewnuts and walnuts and keep aside.

In a pan, mix together condensed milk, milk, cinnamon powder and cocoa powder.Let it boil.

Remove from flame and mix biscuit crumbs to it. . Refrigerate this for half an hour.

Stuff this in the modak mould, remove and again set it in the refrigerator for 5 to 10 minutes.

(Keep on adding biscuit crumbs into the milk mixture till you feel you can roll it with your hands.)

Dal Pakwan Recipe

Ingredients

for making pakwan
maida flour/all purpose flour - 2 cups
cumin seed - 2 tsp
oil - 2 tsp
pinch of baking soda
pinch of salt


for making dal
chana dal - 100 gm
turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
salt as per taste

for making tamarind chutney
pulp of lemon sized tamarind
sugar - 1 tsp
onion chopped - 1
green chilli chopped as per taste
few corriander leaves

Method
first pressure cook chana dal till 4 to 5 whistles and then add turmeric powder and salt and let it simmer on a low flame for few minutes.

make tamarind chutney by mixing all the ingredients given.

for making pakwan, mix the ingredients and knead it to a dough. Make small puris, deep fry it in oil.

Add tamarind chutney to the dal and serve with pakwan.

Bread Kachori

Ingredients

for making the covering
6 to 7 slices of bread
semolina - 2 tbl.sp
maida/all purpose flour - 6 tbl.sp
pinch of baking soda
little salt

for the stuffing
boiled and mashed potato
paneer/cottage cheese - 100 gms
green chilli and ginger paste - 1 tsp
chaat masala - 1/2 tsp
roasted cumin powder - 1 tsp
juice of 1/2 lemon
few corriander leaves
salt as per taste

Method
make bread crumbs from bread slices and add all other ingredients given and knead it to a dough.

for the stuffing
combine all the ingredients given and keep aside.

With the help of a rollling pin, make small puris and place one spoon of this stuffing inside. Seal it well and deep fry it till golden brown in color. Serve with chutney or ketchup.

Steamed Modak Recipe

Ingredients
rice flour - 1 cup
pinch of salt
warm water for kneading the dough

for the stuffing
grated coconut - 1 cup
jaggery as per taste
cardamom powder - 1/2 tsp
poppy seed - 1 tsp
pinch of nutmeg powder

Method

first make a dough of rice flour using warm water and keep aside for 10 to 15 minutes.

Heat 1 tsp of ghee/butter in a pan, add cardamom powder, nutmeg powder and poppy seed and stir fry for few seconds and then add jaggery and grated coconut. Cook till jaggery melts. Off the flame and let it cool down.
Take a small ball of rice flour and spread on the modak mould, put the stuffing inside and again close it with rice flour dough as shown in the video. Remove and steam it for 10 to 15 minutes and serve.