Apricot Tea Bread

Ingredients:

All purpose flour                                  2cups

Salt                                                             1 teaspoon

Baking powder                                      2 teaspoon

Egg                                                             1 whole

Castor sugar                                           1 cup

Milk                                                           ½ cup

Sugar syrup                                            ½ cup

Butter                                                       1 cup

Apricot (dried and chopped)           1 cup

Almonds (chopped)                            ½ cup

Method:

Preheat the oven 20 minutes before baking at 180°C. Now take a bowl and putt all the flour into it. Add baking powder and salt in it. In a separate bowl, beat the egg and put butter and castor sugar in it. Beat again. Now add milk and mix it well with the help of a spatula. Now in this bowl add the flour mixture and mix well. Add sugar syrup into it. Now add the apricots and chopped almonds into it. Mix it firmly. Take this batter into a bread making tray and bake it for about 1 hour at 180°C. after baking take ou and cut into slices and serve with tea… J

Chicken Mustard Burger

Ingredients:

Chicken                                                    2 breast pieces

Mustard paste                                      1 teaspoon

Worcestershire sauce                        1 tablespoon

Ketchup                                                   1 cup

Bread crumbs                                        1 cup

Brown sugar                                           1 tablespoon

Black pepper                                          1 teaspoon

Salt                                                             to taste

Eggs                                                           2 whole

Bun                                                            2 whole

Mayonnaise                                           2 tablespoon

Lettuce leaves                                       2

Oil                                                               to fry

Method:

Take a bowl and put the chicken breast in it. Marinate them by mustard paste, Worcestershire sauce, ketchup, brown sugar, black pepper and salt and mix them well. Keep the bowl in fridge for 2 hours. Beat the eggs in another bowl. Now take the bowl out and wrap the breast with eggs first. Then coat then with bread crumbs and shallow fry it on medium heat until golden brown.

Slice the buns into two halves. Spread 1 tablespoon mayonnaise and put fried chicken breast onto it. Put a lettuce leaf and cover the bun with another half. Repeat the procedure with the other bun. Serve it as evening snack… J

Chicken Grill with White Sauce

Ingredients:

Chicken breasts                                    2

Worcestershire sauce                        2 tablespoon

Salt                                                             to taste

Red chilli flakes                                     2 tablespoon

Black pepper (crushed)                     1 tablespoon

Lemon juice                                           1 tablespoon

For white sauce

Milk                                                           1 cup

Flour                                                          2 tablespoon

Salt                                                             ½ teaspoon

Mustard powder                                  ½ teaspoon

Butter                                                       2 tablespoon

Oil                                                               2 tablespoon

Method:

Marinate chicken breasts with Worcestershire sauce, salt, red chilli flakes, black pepper and lemon juice and keep it in fridge for at least 1 hour. Now after one hour take out and put 2 tablespoon oil on a grill pan. Lay down the marinated chicken breasts onto it and fry on medium heat. Turn when one side is done to cook the other side.

To make the white sauce, in a pan put butter and put that pan on a stove. When the butter melted add flour in it. Mix well and then add milk into it. Mix it very well continuously that the sauce doesn’t become lumpy. Add salt and mustard powder into it and keep aside. Now in a platter, take out the chicken breasts and pour white sauce onto top of it.

Chewra (raw flat rice) with Peas

Ingredients:

Chewra                                    250 grams

Salt                                            1 teaspoon

Oil                                              3 tablespoon

Peas                                          250 grams

Onion (chopped)                 2 whole

Green chillies                        4-5

Method:

In a pan, put 1 tablespoon of oil and add chewra into it. Now fry the chewra until golden brown and crispy. Take it out on a bowl and let it aside. On the same pan put 2 tablespoon of oil and add peas into it. Sprinkle salt and fry the peas for 5 minutes. Now take it out in a plate. Add chopped onion and chopped green chilies in the chewra and add the fried peas too. Mix it well. Your evening time tea snack is ready… J

Sugar Cubed Snacks

Ingredient:

Sugar                                         1 cup

All purpose flour                   3 cups

Semolina                                  ½ cup

Oil                                               ½ cup

Baking soda                             ½ teaspoon

Egg                                              1

Oil (for fry)                              as required for shallow fry

Method:

In a bowl, put flour, oil, semolina and baking powder, mix well until crumble. Now add egg and make hard dough by adding water.

Now spread the dough by rolling out on a flat surface. It should be of half inches thick. Now cut it in a square form with the help of a knife. Heat the oil and let the squares cook on a slow flame. Take it out until golden in color on a tissue paper so that all the excess oil got absorbed by the tissue.

Serve it with tea and you can also keep them in an air tight jar… J

Chicken Balls with Almond Sauce

Ingredients:

For balls

Chicken                                                          250 grams

Onion (chopped)                                        ½ cup

Salt                                                                   to taste

Green chillies (chopped)                         2-3 whole

Coriander (fresh)                                       to garnish

For sauce

Cumin powder                                            1 teaspoon

Chilli flakes                                                    1 tablespoon

Lemon juice                                                  2 tablespoon

Yoghurt                                                          ½ cup

Onion (chopped)                                        ½ cup

Garlic (chopped)                                         1 tablespoon

Almond (chopped)                                    2 tablespoon

Salt                                                                   to taste

Method:

In a pan, heat the oil, put the onion and garlic and fry. Now add almond, yoghurt, lemon juice, chilli flakes and cumin powder in it and cook it for 2 minutes.

In another bowl, mix the chicken mince, salt, onion, green chillies and coriander and make small balls of it. Now add these balls in the sauce and cook until all the water of yoghurt evaporated. Don’t stir much as the balls get broken by stirring much.

When the balls got a golden color from all the sides, take it in a platter and serve with pita bread… J

Colocasia (arwi) Balls

Ingredients:

Colocasia (arwi)                                           250 grams

Potato                                                             2 big whole

Onion (chopped)                                        1 medium whole

Green chillies (chopped)                         2-3

Chickpea flour                                             ½ cup

Water                                                              ¼ cup

Garlic paste                                                   1 teaspoon

Chilli flakes                                                    1 teaspoon

Cumin (crushed)                                         1 teaspoon

Black mustard seed                                   1 teaspoon

Mint leaves                                                   1 tablespoon

Coconut powder                                        1 tablespoon

Coriander (fresh)                                       1-1/2 tablespoon

Oil                                                                     to fry

Salt                                                                   to taste

Method:

Boil the colocasia and potato. Mash them all. Now in a bowl, put the mashed potatoes and colocasia. Add onion, green chillies, garlic paste, chilli flakes, cumin, black mustard seeds, mint leaves (chopped), coconut powder, coriander and salt. Mix it well and make small balls of it.

Now in a separate bowl, make a mixture of chickpea flour and water. Cover all the balls of potato and colocasia with this mixture one by one. Deep fry it all in oil and take out in some tissue paper in order to absorb all the excess oil from it.

Serve it with chilli garlic sauce... J