Minced Fish - Kid's Special


A fish dish in a comfortable format for your kids






Ingredients:King Fish : 200 gms fillet (Mandatorily boneless piece)
Common Mushroom : 5-6 pieces
Cut Broccoli  : 50-60 gms
Minced Carrot : 1 medium
Potato : 1 medium
Small Onion : Chooped

ground coriander - 2 teaspoons
mayonnaise
Refined Oil : As required
Lemon juice: 2-3 spoons
Butter: a scoop
Salt:


Instructions:

Marination at room temperature:
Marinate the Fish in few spoons and lemon juice mixture. Add few pinches of salt. Keep aside for 10-15 mins.


Step 1:
Fry the fish fillet in shallow oil and keep aside.
Step 2:
Boil the Mushrooms and keep aside
Step 3:
Boil Potato, Carrot, Broccoli and Keep aside.
Step 4:
Mash boiled vegetables but not too smooth. Leave some lumps of veggies. Add salt and mix the mash.
Step 5:
Take the fried fish fillet. Carefully check for any bones, debone if needed.
Shred the fish in small pieces. and mash gently
Step 6:

Take a frying pan. Heat 2 teaspoons oil over medium-high heat. Add the chopped onions.
Add the shredded fish, mashed up vegetables.
Step 7:
Fry the mixture for 2-3 minutes. Add a spoon of butter. You can add coriander if you like.
Step 8:
Serve it with mayonnaise.

Sweet Bitter Gourd (karela)

I have always seen moms fight with their kids with karela(bitter gourd). Cant blame the kids. The  vegetable is indeed bitter. Here is an attempt to make it little less bitter.
Dedicated to the kids!

Ingredients:

Two medium sized bitter gourds.
Few spoons of ghee
Black pepper powder - 1 teaspoon
Cumin - a pinch
Fenugreek - a pinch
SUgar
Salt



Step 1:  Wash the bitter gourd and then cut them in small thin  round shapes (like a 50pc coin).

Step 2:  Take a 1 teaspoon of black pepper, a pinch of salt, a  pinch of sugar, few drops of ghee. And mix the  vegetables well.  Keep aside for 5 minutes.

Step 3 : Take a kadai. Heat 3 teaspoons ghee over medium-high heat. Add a pinch of cumin seed and fenugreek to it. Add a  spoonfull of suger and stir.

Step 4:  Add the cut vegetables.

Step 5.  Fry in medium to slow flame.

This can be served with hot rice, or also can be teamed with chapathi - sabji.

Ginger Chicken with Almonds Recipe

This is a simple tasty chicken recipe good enough to satisfy your chicken desire. Could be used as a snack or an appetiser. Its a very healthy dish
as the cooking involves the use of ginger.It can be combined with rice,
as a side dish to it.

Ingredients
Boneless, skinless chicken Pieces (medium large) - 4 nos
To Marinate:
ground coriander - 2 teaspoons
grated fresh ginger - 1 teaspoon
white-wine vinegar - 2 teaspoons
freshly ground pepper - 1/4 teaspoon
oil - 4 teaspoons
For masala mixture:
spring onion(or 6 small), trimmed - 4 large
mango chutney, large pieces chopped - 1/2 cup
chicken stock- 1/4 cup
minced garlic - 1 teaspoon
julienned fresh ginger - ¼ cup
kosher salt - 1/2 teaspoond
sliced almonds, toasted - 1/4 cup

Instruction:
Marination at room temperature:
Step 1:
Take a medium sized bowl. Place the chicken pieces.Toss with ground coriander,
grated ginger, 2 teaspoons oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper.
Marinate at room temperature 15 minutes.
Preparation of the masala mixture:
Step 2:
Thinly slice white parts(flower bud like) of spring onion.
Julienne the green stem like part. Set aside.
Step 3:
Take a vessel. Add the chicken stock,chutney,and garlic.
Stir together.
Step 4:
Take a kadai. Heat 2 teaspoons oil over medium-high heat.
Add only the whites of the spring onion and julienned ginger.
stir-fry 30 seconds.
Add chicken and stir-fry until thoroughly cooked.
Now add spring onion greens and chutney mixture. Cook, stirring until boiled.
Transfer to shallow bowls.
Sprinkle the toasted almond slice.

Serve hot with hot rice.

Chicken Rezala

Ingredients:

Chicken - 1Whole,
Wheat flour - 1 tbsp
Ginger paste - 2 tsp
Garlic paste - 3 tsp
Garam masala - 2 tsp
keora water - 1/2 Cup
Sour curd - 200 gm
Finely Chopped Red chili - 8
Ghee - 2 tsp
Finely chopped Onions - 4
Bay leaves - 2
Peppercorns - 10
White oil - 4 tbsp
Salt to taste
Water as needed

Instruction:

Step 1:
Wash and cut chicken into pieces.
Step 2
Take a bowl,add curd, salt and flour to it, mix well.
Add keora water to it.
Step 3:
Take a kadai. Add oil. Let it heat.Add peepercorns, bay leaf, and garam masala to the heated oil.Add the chicken pieces now. Fry chicken with the spices, keep stirring.
Step 4:
After sometime, the gravy in chicken gets dry. Then add chopped onion, ginger and garlic paste to it and cook well.
Step 5:
Add the curd,salt flour mixture to the chicken.
Steam them with 2 cups of water in a pressure cooker for about 10 minutes.
Step 6:
Heat ghee in a serving spoon with red chili and mix it with the chicken.

Serve Hot.

Misti Crunchy Chicken

A quick to prepare chicken snack, which is entirely different from traditional chicken item.
Sweetish in taste. Prepared with honey and almonds. A perfect time-pass snacks.

Ingredients:

For the Chicken:
Whole boneless, skinless chicken breasts, halved - 2 nos
Maida - 2 tablespoons
Eggs - 2
Soy sauce - 2 teaspoons
Black pepper - 1/2 teaspoon
Finely ground almonds - 3/4 cup
Corn flakes crumbs, crushed - 3/4 cup
Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon

For Custom Sauce:
Apple juice - 1/2 cup
Lime, juiced - 1
Corn flour - 2 teaspoons
Honey - 1/4 cup



Instructions:

Step 1:
Tryt to flatten the chicken by placing chicken breasts between a sheet of plastic.
Step 2:
Now dip the flattened chicken in Maida and powder off the extra maida.
Set aside.
Step 3:
Take a shallow bottomed dish. Mix the egg, soy sauce and pepper.
set aside.
Step 4:
Take another shallow dish mix ground almonds and corn flakes crumbs.
Step 5:
Dip chicken in egg mixture to coat. Then pour almond mixture all over the
egg covered chicken.
Ocassionaly press it, so the coating adheres to both sides.
Step 6:
Take a non-stick frying tawa(so that it has a shallow bottom). Add  oil.
Heat it in medium-high heat.You will see that the chicken is no longer pink
and juices run clear when cut with a knife. Take out chicken; set aside.

Garnish:
Take a sauce pan. Add apple juice, lime juice and corn flour and few spoons of water and honey.
Cook and stir until thickened and bubbly.

Serve chicken with sauce.

Tips:
 The health benefits of lime  include weight loss, skin care, good digestion, relief from constipation, eye care, and treatment of scurvy, piles, peptic ulcer, respiratory disorders, gout, gums, urinary disorders, etc.
So for kids and elderly, as snacks this item serves as a health tonic.

Chicken With curd

Ingredients:

Chicken - 1kg
Garlic Ginger paste - 1 tsp each
Salt to taste
Bay leaves - 4-5 pieces
cinnomon stick (dar chini)
Green chillies - 1 tsp
Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
yougurt - 1/2 cup
Sliced Tomato - 2 small tomatoes
Tomato puree - 1/2 cup
[Boil in water for few min till it become tender now remove the skin and blend it.]

Instruction:
Step 1:
Take a kadai.Heat oil. Add garlic to it. Fry for a while and put chicken ,cook for some time
until the chicken takes a golden brown colour.
Take it out. keep aside.
Step 2:
Take a kadai. Add some more oil and put yougurt and cook till it
becomes grainy. Now Add bay leaves and cinnomon
stick in it till gives fragrance. Put ginger ,turmeric,
salt, and sliced tomato.
Cook for some time till the oil starts separating.
Step 3:
Now add chicken to it and put green chillies and put 1 cup of
water and cook for some time till the chicken is soft and tender.
cook in slimmer.
Step 4:
Now garnish with coriander and serve with chapati or rice.

Tips:
Yoghurt is rich in potassium, calcium, protein and B vitamins, including B-12.
Research shows yoghurt strengthens and stabilizes the immune system.
The lactobacillus in yoghurt feeds the intestines, maximizes nutrients you can absorb into your body, insures the digestive system stays healthy, and stabilizes the immune system.
Since chicken is high on protein, it proves to be little hazardous to be digested. Hence when paired with curd
it becomes easily digestible.

Chicken Soup

Ingredients
Whole chicken – 300gm
Carrots, halved – 4
Small Tomato – 2
Small Potato - 1
Large onion, halved – 1
Garlic  - few pieces
Slice of ginger
Water to cover
Salt and pepper to taste

Instruction:
Step 1:
Cut all the vegetables into small pieces. Keep aside.
Step 2:
Take a medium large vessel. Add the chicken, carrots,potato, onion, garlic pieces and ginger and cover with cold water. Heat and simmer.Do not use lid to cover the vessel. Continue  until the chicken meat are properly boiled falls off of the bones.
Step 3:
Take off the foam that’s being formed and dispose it  continuously.
Step 4:
Transfer the entire mixture into a pressure cooker.
Add the tomato pieces now. Let it whistle twice.
Step 5:
Take everything out of the Pressure cooker. Strain the broth.
Step 6:
Season the broth with salt, pepper to taste. Add carrots ,onion to the Soup, stir together, and serve.
You can serve hot or cold. It works great when u have caught cold.

Tips
Check this link about the usefulness of chicken soup.
Chicken soup is medicine, U.S. scientists confirm