Sunday, June 9, 2013

Chicken Kathi Roll made at home :-)

Hello... today I wanted to share a quick recipe of Chicken Kathi Roll to be made at home.
Below recipe is for making 4 chicken kathi rolls -
For the Chicken Filling -
2 pieces chicken breast, cut in small cubes
1 Tablespoon Oil
1 Tea-spoon Jeera
1 Cup Sliced Onions
1 Table-spoon Ginger-garlic paste
1 Cup chopped tomatoes
1 tea-spoon turmeric powder
1 tea-spoon garam-masala powder
1 tea-spoon coriander powder
1 tea-spoon jeera powder
Salt for taste
1/2-1 cup water
1. Heat Oil in a deep pan. Once hot, add jeera.
2. Add sliced onions as jeera starts spluttering. Fry till translucent.
3. Add ginger garlic paste and fry till oil separates from mixture.
4. Add tomatoes and all the spices, salt and fry till masala is cooked, and oil starts separating from the mixture.
5. Add chicken and cook covered on medium flame.
6. If mixture sticks to bottom of pan, add 1/2 cup water and cook till chicken is done.
7. Ensure the chicken mixture is not runny.. but dryish..
To Make the Square Paratha -
Use the same wheat flour (atta) dough, leveraged for making roti's.
Make 4 round-balls of the dough with approx, 4-5 cms diameter
Roll out the dough, as you would for roti. To make square paratha's follow the below steps -
1. Once you have made a round roti.. add little oil from one corner of roti to another, running from center
2. Fold opposite sides of the roti towards the center
3. Apply little oil on the folded section, and fold the other two sides of the roti towards the center.
4. Dab the square with loose atta, and roll it out into a larger square.
5. Ensure, the dough is not rolled out too thin..keep it a little thick.
Now, on a hot tawa, put the rolled out square dough. Once, you see small bubbles popping out, flip the paratha. Flip after 3-4 minutes.. you will see the surface has brown small dots. Apply a little oil on this side, and spread all over. Flip the side, and apply a oil on the other side as well. Fry till both sides are dark brownish..
Keep aside on Kitchen tissue to soak out excess Oil.
To make the Egg Paratha -
1. Beat 3 eggs in a bowl with little salt.
2. Heat pan and sprinkle little Oil.
3. Pour in little mixture of egg, and on the wet surface itself, put the paratha prepared above.
4. Let it cook for a while..till the mixture is soaked and cooked and remove the paratha from the pan.
5. Repeat the process for the other 3 parthas.
To Assemble the Chicken Kathi Roll -
Apart from the egg paratha, chicken pripared above, you'll need -
Non-stick Baking Paper
1 cup sliced Onion
Green Chutney/ Tomato Sauce
Lime juice
1/2 cup sliced green capsicum
1. Lay out a square inch of baking paper.
2. Put the Paratha on top.
3.Spread Green-chutney/ tomato sauce
4. Put chicken in center of the paratha
5. top it with onion, capsicum and little lime juice
6. Roll the paratha and wrap ti in the baking paper..
Enjoy with chutney.. :-)

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Weekend Breakfast Idea....

Don't you just love weekend... I bet it would be practically impossible to find someone who doesn't enjoys waking up to a lazy weekend..full of one golden promise..a relaxing no pressure day. In making the morning of such a lovely day more treasured, a wonderful lay of breakfast plays a critical role.
I am sharing here one of the weekend breakfast ideas, which I love to dabble with..it isn't that difficult..so you sure will enjoy it...
Pancakes...with Spanish Omelette and bread with Rasberry Jam...
For the Pancake -
I use Betty Crocker mix...easily available in all super markets.
100 gms of pancake mix
150 ml of milk
45 ml of water
1 egg
Oil to fry
1. Mix all the ingredients into a smooth batter
2. Heat oil in a small non-stick pan
3. add 1-2 serving spoon amount of batter and let it cook on medium/ low flame.
4. Once the top is not runny any more, flip the pancake and cook the other side.
5. Cook each side till they have a brownish/ dark-brownish tinge as on cover of Betty crocker pancake mix.
Above measurements - make 8 pancakes...half it if you'r cooking for just two..
For the Spanish Omelette -
Okay..now here, what you put into your omelette is totally your call.. I mean, from Mushrooms, to colorful capsicum, onion, boiled potato, chicken salami, tomato, cheese.. you can choose your filling and go with it.
In recipe below, I will be using filling of colored capsicum (coz I so love them), mushrooms, chicken salami and cheese..
3 Eggs
1/2 cup finely chopped yellow & red capsicum
4-5 small mushrooms chopped finely
3-4 chicken salami ( I use Zorabian brand)
1 small cube of cheese (go by your desire for cheese)
Salt
Pepper
1. Mix all the above ingredients with the eggs.
2. heat Oil in a small span and pour in the mixture.
3. Let the mixture cook for 4-5 minutes in low to medium flame.
4. Use a flat spoon to release the omelette sticking to the pan.
5. Once yo see the base of the omelette is firm.. use a plate to cover the pan.
6. Keeping the plate firmly on top of the pan.. flip the pan on the plate.
7. Slide the omelette back to the pan..with the gooey side now down and firm side up.
8. Cook for 5-10 minutes more..or till down.
Remove from pan..
You can check this flipping the omelette trick on the web.. it's really helpful..search for how to make perfect spanish omelette and you'll get many links..
Toast the bread and serve with your favorite jam.. enjoy :-)