Gajar Bhath (Carrot Fried Rice)

Rice is a very common item for most of us. Sometime I feel very boaring having same rice every day. So I have done some experiment with carrot and rice and found carrot fried rice. It turns very tasty and also added a lot nutritious value as well.

Preparation Time: 40 min

Ingredients:

2 cup rice

2 onions chopped finely

1/2 carrot finely chopped

1 capsicum finely chopped

2 green chillis finely chopped

1 tbsp sauf (Misti jeera)

1/2 tbsp turmeric powder

Salt

1 tbsp sugar

1 tbsp ginger garlic paste

1 tbsp soya sauce

How to cook:

This recipe is a very healthy one as I have not added any masala. Just simple vegetables and little bit spices.

First of all wash the rice properly and cook for boil. Add chopped carrot also into the rice. You can add little bit of salt to that.

Now in a separate pan add refined oil and heat it. Add jeera to sit and wait for 1-2 min. Add chopped onions, chilis and capsicums to it. Add little salt as well. Add turmeric powder. Now fry them till they turn brown.

By the time the rice gets cooked. Be careful about the rice. It should not be overcooked. You can cook 80% as we will fry the rice later.

Drain the water from the rice and carrot mixture and keep them under fan to get cool down. Now take a look at the pan. Add ginger garlic paste to the fried onion and capsicum and fry for few more minute.

Now add rice to this fried mixture and mix them with the rice. Add little more salt and sugar to the rice. Stir regularly to mix the rice with all the fried vegetables. Finally add soya sauce to it and finish cooking.

Serve hot with any curry. Better to go for a thick gravy paneer or chicken item.

You can add lot of vegetables to this rice. My family liked it very much and due to less masala and oil, it actually increases taste and health value.

Try this once, your family will like it.

Dry Capsicum Chicken in tomato sauce

Chicken is one of the most experimented foods in everyone’s kitchen. I have experimented with chicken breast pieces with some onions and capsicum. It’s really wonderful to have. Actually breast pieces are very non juicy in nature and at my home everyone is asking for leg pieces. But a chicken can have only 2.

So I generally try to cook something different with the breast pieces. This time I got success, hope you will like the recipe too.

Preparation Time: 30 min

Ingredients:

Curry patta

2 tbsp tomato sauce

1 big onion finely chopped

1 big capsicum finely chopped

Cut chicken pieces in small cubes

1 tbsp jeera powder

1 tbsp dhania powder

1 tbsp ginger garlic paste

2 green chillies finely chopped

1/2 tbsp chilli powder

Mustard oil

Salt to taste

How to cook:

The recipe is very simple. In a separate bowl marinate the chicken cubes with salt and mustard oil and keep aside.

In a pan add oil and chopped onions & curry patta. Add capsicum and chillies as well. Fry them well.

Now add all the masalas and chicken cubes. Cover the pan and low the flame. All the ingredients are now cook in low flame and they will get soft gradually.

When you fill the chicken is cooked well, increase the flame and try to dry the dish. By the time chicken will start removing oil. Be careful, it might get burnt if not stir frequently.

At last, add 2 tbsp of tomato sauce in the chicken and mix properly. It will look spicy and juicy. Awesome.

Serve hot with onion slices.

Gobi Manchurian (Crispy Cauliflower florets in spicy sauce)

I love chineese dishes, specially indo-chineese fusion recipes. Generally typical chineese dishes does not use that much spices. But we indians love to make our food spicy. Here comes the fusion recipes. Today I ll share a very popular indo-chineese fusion recipe, Gobi Manchurian. Its really a vey good starter. A best time pass whle watching matches. crispy & saucy gobi manchurian is favourite of everybody.

But I never tried this recipe earlier, thinking chinees dishes are really hard to prepare. But I was wrong. Its so easy t prepare and tastes really really good. Now we can eat a lot chineese food whenevr we want.

Lets exlore this wonderfull sarter....

Preparation Time : 30 min
Ingredients:
Gobi or Cauliflower(Cut them into small cubes/florets)
5-6 tbsp corn flour
2-3 green chillis chopped
1/2 tbsp Ginger paste
1/2 tbsp Garlic paste
1 big Onion finely chpped
1 capsicum chopped
2 tbsp Soya sauce
2 tbsp Vinegar
1 tbsp chilli sauce
1/2 tbsp baking powder
Chopped spring onions for garnishing
Little Sugar(Every chineese recipe required sugar)
3-4 Maida
Salt to taste

How to Cook:
First wash the gobi pieces and boil them for 5 min. Add little salt also. Just need to make little soft.Drain the water and keep them aside so that they dried up properly.

Now we need to make a batter with corn flour,maida,salt,baking powder,ginger garlic paste. Need to make a thick batter.

Heat oil in a depe pan. Now dip the gobi pieces into the batter and leave them in the hot oil. Fry the gobi pieces till golden brown. Soak the oil and keep them aside.

Now we ll prepare our sauce. Add oil in a pan and add the chopped onions. Add little salt to it. Stire them well and the add capcicum pieces & green chillis. Stir all of them in a high flame. Ned to take care so that vegitables dont burn here. We will not fry or cook them till full cook. We will fry them half, so that they can be in their own shape and texture. It actually tastes well in case of chineese dishes.

Now in a small bowl add all the sauces,ginger garlic paste & water and mix them. Add gobi pieces in the pan and stire well.

Finally we will add the sauce mixure over the gobi,onion & capsicum mixer and mix them well. Finally spread the spring onion over it. Cook for 5 min and serve hot.

Its just awsome & crspy. You can hold yourself till done.

Try it and have fun.

Chilli Paneer

I know its a long gap for the next post.Actually its festival time in bengal, so its very tough to find out some time during these days.We are all enjoying Durga Puja and many wonderfull dishes & sweets during this puja.

Today I ll share a very well known recipe CHILLI PANEER. This is my first paneer as well as chinese recipe post.
I know many people,not only many most people like chinese food.But definately not the actual chinese flavour. In india we have our own way of cooking Chinese dish.

Chinese dishes are as tasty as tough to cook also.....This is how most of us thinking. Even I also thought like that. But practically its very to prepare to Chinese dish. By few practice you can master these recipes.

So lets explore this wonderfull preparation of PANEER which I really enjoyed whilke preparaing.

Preparation Time: 25 Min
Ingredients:
PANEER (Cut them in cubical shape)
3 green chilli (Dont chop them)
1 big onion finely chopped
5-6 garlic chopped finely
Ginger chopped finely
1 capcicum chopped
1 onion cut in big size shape
1 tbsp Malt vinegar
1 tbsp dark Soy sauce
1 tbsp tomato ketchup
1 tbsp hot chilli sauce
Salt to taste
litle sugar

Marination:
1 tbsp ginger paste
1 tbsp garlic paste
2 tbsp corn flour
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
salt

Mix these ingredients with paneer cubes properly and keep them for refrigeration for 30 min.Do these marination first and then enter into kitchen for final preparation.

How to Cook:


First of all take oil in deep pan and deep fry the marinated paneer.Fry them till they turn dark/golden color.

Now in a separate pan heat oil and add the chopped ginger garlic and then the chopped onion.Fry them till golden brown.Now its time to add the Chinese look and feel.Add the capcicum and rest of the chopped onion(cut in big size).Add salt and sugar.

Increase the heat and fry them well. Our target is to keep the capsicum and onions in shape.So carefull when cooking ,they should not overcooked.

Add the paneer cubes. Now add tomato sauce, vineger & soya sauce and mix them altogether.Stire them properly.Check the taste if salt/sugar is required.

Chinese dishes generally required little sugar to minimise the bitter taste of other sauces.

Now you add water to make it gravy or else serve it as a starter also.

Hope you like these preparation. I ll post some wonderfull recipes in my coming posts...so keep visiting.

Happy Durgapuja........