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

Egg Roll

Ingredients:

For Roll:
Wheat flour - 3/4 cup

For Stuffing:
Eggs -    4
Cucumber thin sliced - 1
Chopped onion -    1/2 cup
Fried Peanut - 20 pieces
Chopped green chilly -    1
Red chilly powder - 1/2 tsp.
Garam Masala Powder - 1 tsp.
Thinly sliced tomato -    1
Vegetable oil-     5 tbsp.


To Garnish:
Ketchup
Salt to taste    
Finely chopped green coriander leaves.   
OR
Sour Tamarind - 4 pieces
Sugar - 3 tbsp
Green Chillies - 3 no
Fresh Lemon juice

Instruction:
Step 1:
Make dough by mixing wheat flour with water and kneading it.
wait for 20 minutes and then knead once again by sprinkling just few drps of water to get smooth dough.
Step 2:
Make 4 small round balls out of the dough and prepare thin chapati by rolling it.
Step 3:
Beat eggs in a bowl. Add salt and red chilly powder.
Take a kadai. Add 1 tbsp of oil. Add green chilly and onions , fry till golden brown in color. Remove from the gas. Add this to the beaten eggs.
Step 4:
Take a tawa, let it heat and cook a single chapati. Keep aside.
Step 5:
Take non-stick frying pan(to avoid more oil) or tawa, Add 1 tbsp oil.
Pour the beaten egg and mixture On the Pan. Quickly place the cooked chapati on top of it so that the raw egg gets attached to the chapati.
Don't pour the entire amount of egg mixture since u have to prepare 3 more rolls.
Cook it for about 2 minutes.
Step 6:
Now turn the chapati upside down, so that u can see the egg covered part of the chapati. sprinkle garam-masala and chilly powder.
Place the thin sliced tomato and cucumber on this part.Also add 4 -5 pieces of fried peanuts now.
Put a line of ketchup along the length of the cylindrical roll which you r going to do.
Roll the chapati in cylindrical shape.
Step 7:
Garnish with coriander leaves and ketchup.

Serve hot with chilly sauce..

Garnish:
Step 1:
Clean the tamarind . Remove the seeds.
Smash the tamarind and make a paste.
Step 2:
Add water to make it as think as a ketchup.
Step 3:
Cut the green chillies in small pieces.
Add them to the tamarind paste.
Step 4:
Finally add few drops of lemon to it.

Dim Posto (Egg in poppy seed )

A recipe with poppy seeds (or posto as known in Bengali). Well..dim posto (egg in the poppy paste curry) is a mouth watering recipe. Its one of my favourite posto recipes . Here is the recipe of Dim Posto (Boiled Eggs cooked in poppy seeds paste).

Ingredients:

• Hard boiled eggs - 4 nos
• poppy seeds / posto / khuskhus - 50 gms / 4 tbsp
• Medium Large Onions - 1 no
• turmeric- 1 tsp
• red chilli powder - ½ tsp
• green chillis - 3-4
• water - ½ cup
• mustard oil - 2 tbsp
• (salt to taste) - 1-½ tsp
  
  
  

Dimer Cutlet (Egg Cutlet)

Egg Cutlet is a very mouth watering easily made evening  snacks. Made from Eggs mainly, is very appealing to kids.
Ingredients:

For Cutlet Mixture:
Hard boiled eggs - 4 nos
Potatoes(medium) - 2 nos
Onion(big) - 1 no
(finely chopped)
Green chillies - 6 - 8 nos
Garlic paste - 2 tsp
Ginger - A small piece
Pepper - 1/2 tsp
Salt - As reqd

Veggy Eggy Crunchy

Veggy Eggy Crunchy is fried egg with added values of various vegetables. when we r bored with the same old egg fry, it works like a charm.

For Mixture:
Eggs- 4
Yoghurt -few spoons
Pepper Powder
Olive Oil
Salt

For Toppings:
Capsicum-1
Mushroom medium 8 pieces
Potato medium – 1

To garnish:
Coriander leaves
Onion
Soy sauce

Dim Bhapa (Steamed Egg)

Not Boiled, Not Fried.. its steamed egg.. U can taste a whole new level of egg..

For Mixture:
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
a dash of white pepper
a tsp of sesame oil
1 tsp of soya sauce
200 ml water

To Granish:
chopped spring onions
Ketchup

Quick Egg Dosa Roll

For Roll:
Dosa Mixture - 1 Cup
Egg – 2

For Stuffing:
Onion/small onions – 2
Green Chilli – 2
Pepper Powder – a pinch
Ginger Garlic paste – 1/4 tsp
Turmeric – a pinch
garam masala – a pinch
Oil – little
Salt – to taste

To Granish:
Tomato ketchup
Raw chopped onions
Chopped Coriander leaves


Instruction:

Step 1.
Add little oil in a pan, fry green chilli and onion and make it to a fine paste.
Add pepper powder, ginger garlic paste, turmeric, salt, garam masala and mix well.
Step 2.
Beat 2 eggs and add that to the above mixture.
Step 3.
Now take a flat pan, add little oil and spread the dosa mixture and allow it to cook.
Step 4.
Spread the egg mixture on to the dosa
Step 5.
Roll the dosa and serve hot, Garnish with tomato sauce.

Today's tips..

How to cut an onion without crying?
One can adopt any of these methods to cut onion without crying - peel and cut onions under running water. Chop onions near a gas flame. Or refrigerating onions before chopping.

Dimer Jhol (Egg curry Recipe in Bengali style)

Dimer Jhol (Egg curry and peas in Bengali style)

For Curry:
2 hard boiled eggs-shelled.
1 medium-large sized potato, peeled and cut into cubes
1/2 cup of green peas

For Masala:
3 green chillies slit
3 tbsp of mustard oil
1 tsp of turmeric,
3 tsp of Chili powder
1 large onion sliced
1 tsp of cumin seeds
1 bay leaf
2-3 cloves of garlic, finely sliced
1 tsp of ginger garlic paste
1 tsp sugar
2 tbsp of tomato ketchup
1 tsp of Dhania-jeera powder
½ tsp of garam masala
Salt to taste

To Garnish:
Coriander leaves to garnish


Instruction:
Step 1:
Take the hard boiled eggs and make slits on them.
Cover them in a mixture of turmeric, salt and red chili powder.
Fry them in 1 tsp of oil. Keep aside.
Step 2:
Next add the turmeric, chilli, salt mixture to the cubed potatoes and fry them in this oil. When 3/4th fried, keep aside.
Step 3:
In a kadai, take 2 tbsps of mustard oil. Heat it, then add a bay leaf, and a tsp of cumin seeds.
Once the cumin seeds splutter, add the sliced garlic and fry for a min.
Add a tsp of sugar in the oil.
Next add the sliced onions and keep on frying till they change color and become light brownish. Next add the slit chilies.
Add a pinch of turmeric powder, ginger-garlic paste and the tomato ketchup
Next add 2 tsps of chilly powder
Add 1 tsp of Dhania-jeera powder and fry well, adding a little water and fry till oil starts to separate.
Step 4:
Once oil starts to separate, put in the fried eggs and potatoes and mix.
Add little Water for gravy, and salt to taste.
Add the green Peas now.
Once it boils, and potatoes are cooked, add ½ a tsp of garam masala.
Step 5:
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot. Enjoy.