Indian Chicken Recipe - Tandoori Chicken

TANDOORI CHICKEN

Ingredients:

1.Chicken legs 

2. Lemon

3.Oil

4.Salt to taste.

Marination:

1.Tandoori masala

2. Ginger/Garlic paste

3.Pepper powder

4.Curd

5.Pinch of turmeric 

6.Chili powder - 2 tablespoons

Procedure:

Make some slits on the chicken legs and put it into a bowl.Now add salt ,pepper powder and thick curd into it and mix nicely for almost 1 mnt. Once this is done keep it for marination for almost 5-6 hrs.   

I avoid deep frying and prefers shallowing frying only. Now lets start cooking, take the cooker and put this marinated Chicken into it and cook it, 3 whistles will be sufficient.Once its done take out the chicken and drain it so that if any water is there it will go.

    

Now lets make the tandoori marination.Take a bowl add Tandoori masala, pinch of turmeric, chili powder,Ginger n garlic paste,Salt and make it into a fine paste. Squeeze lemon(lemon juice will make tandoori more tastier) also into this paste and mix. Now take the chickens one by one and dip it into this tandoori paste throughly, make sure this masalas gets into the slits also. Again marinate it for sometime, longer its marinated it will taste good. 

     

Once its marinated , time to  fry it. Take a non-stick pan and pour little oil, now take the chicken one by one and put it into the pan and shallow fry it.Turn on each side 2-3 mnts it will be done. Since the Chicken is already cooked, it wont take much time,as just the tandoori masala have to get cooked a bit. Once frying is over take Aluminium foil and cut it into small  rectangular pieces and wrap it to the lower bone part of the chicken thighs,which makes it easy to hold the Chicken. Garnsih with Cilantro/Mint leaves.

Source : Ashitha Sreejesh & Sulekha

Indian Dessert Recipe - Strawberry & Basil Sundae

Strawberry & Basil Sundae

Ingredients :

2 scoops strawberry ice-cream

200 gm fresh strawberry

1 tbsp basil leaves (finely chopped)

20 gm caster sugar

whipped cream for garnish

Method :

Dice the strawberries into fours.

Mix them with sugar and basil leaves.

Thaw the ice-cream and layer the bottom of a tall glass with it.

Add it fresh strawberries.

Keep repeating the layering process till the glass is full.

Top it up with whipped cream and serve.

Source : TOI

Christmas Recipes - Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies

Chocolate Covered Cherry Cookies

Ingredients :

1 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour

1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder

1/4 teaspoon of salt

1/4 teaspoon of baking soda

1/4 teaspoon of baking powder

1/2 cup of butter or margarine softened

1 cup of granulated sugar

1 egg

1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla

1 -10 ounce jar of maraschino cherries, drained, reserve juice

1 - 6 ounce package of semisweet chocolate chips

1/2 cup of sweetened condensed milk

Method :

In large bowl, stir together flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and soda. 

In mixer bowl, beat together butter or margarine and sugar on low speed until fluffy. 

Add egg and vanilla; beat well. 

Gradually add dry ingredients to creamed mixture; beat until well blended. 

Shape dough into 1" balls; place on ungreased cookie sheet. 

Press down center of dough with thumb. 

Drain Maraschino cherries, reserving juice. 

Place a cherry in the center indention of each cookie. 

In small saucepan combine chocolate pieces and sweetened condensed milk; heat over low heat until chocolate is melted. 

Stir in 4 teaspoons of the reserved cherry juice. 

Spoon about 1 teaspoon frosting over each cherry spreading to cover cherry. 

(frosting may be thinned with additional cherry juice if necessary). 

Bake at 350 degrees or until done. 

Remove to wire rack to cool.