Sunday, March 7, 2010

Cinnamon flavoured Shortbread Cookies

 
Ingredients:
  • All purpose flour – 3 cup
  • Unsalted butter – 1 cup
  • Sugar – 1 cup
  • Salt – pinch
  • Vanilla essence – 1 Tea spoon
  • Cinnamon – 1 Tea spoon
 Method:
  • Grind sugar with cinnamon and keep it aside.
  • In a large bowl mix ground sugar, butter, salt and vanilla essence.
  • Add all purpose flour to this mixture.
  • By using our hands mix well and make the dough into disc shape.
  • Don’t work too hard with the dough.
  • Wrap the dough with a plastic cover and keep it in refrigerator for about an hour.
  • Then by using a roller roll out the dough into 1/4 inch thick.
  • Cut into small rounds with a cookie cutter and place them in a non stick backing dish.
  • Again refrigerate them for about 15 mins to retain their shapes while baking.
  • Pre-heat oven at 325 degree F and bake in the middle rack until the cookies are golden brown. 

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Fried Mini-chicken Balls


Ingredients:
  • Lean ground chicken – 50 g
  • Chopped onion – ½ cup
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 Tea spoon
  • Curry masala powder – 1 Tea spoon
  • Turmeric powder – ¼ Tea spoon
  • Coriander leaves – ¼ cup
  • Potato - 1
  • Grated Carrot – ¼ cup
  • Canola oil for frying
  • Salt to taste
  • Egg – 1
  • Bread crumbs
  • Mustard seeds
 Method:
  • Cook potato with its skin on. Then peel the skin and mash potato with a masher.
  • Heat a table spoon of oil in a pan and add mustard seeds. When they pop up add chopped onion and a pinch of salt. Sauté till onion is slightly brown.
  • Add grated carrot, ground chicken, ginger and garlic paste, turmeric powder, curry masala powder and salt. Cook until it is done.
  • To this add coriander leaves and mashed potato then mix thoroughly.
  • Make small balls and keep them aside.
  • Beat the egg and soak balls in the egg and coat them with bread crumbs.
  • Then keep the coated chicken balls in the refrigerator for half an hour.
  • Fry chicken balls in a medium hot oil.