Souffle

Souffle is very well known dessert in western cuisine. It can be of any flavor of fruit or may be chocolate. Cooking souffle is not very difficult. Since it is a dessert made from dairy food, as it contains whipped cream, so it is a healthy desert. It also consists of sugar and any fruit flavor ( like strawberry fruit ) . This is a strawberry souffle recipe which is very simple and easy to prepare at home. Present it on a regular souffle dish and your guests are going to love it.

Ingredients:
500 gms strawberry yogurt
1 cup fresh cream
1 cup strawberry paste
3 tbspn gelatin powder
Sugar to taste

Preparation:

1. In a bowl mix yogurt and cream.
2. Make a paste of gelatin powder using ½ cup water.
3. Boil water in a deep pan and put the cup of gelatin paste over it make sure that the cup don’t completely dip in water otherwise boil water enter into the cup.
4. Stir continuously the gelatin paste on medium heat. When gelatin completely melts, mix it in the yogurt mixture.
5. In a blender, put strawberries according to your taste (250 gms) and add little water to it to blend.
6. Add the strawberry paste in the mixture.
7. Put the soufflé in the freezer for one hour to chill.

Chicken Corn Soup Recipe

Soups are healthy and nutritious . Cooking soups is very easy and even simple when making chicken corn soup. You can see the picture of soup above . By adding chicken to this recipe , it becomes more tasty and everyone will enjoy it .

Ingredients:
4 cup chicken stock
2 cup corns with stock
Black pepper to taste
Salt to taste
Chinese salt to taste
1 tbspn soya sauce
1 tbspn chili sauce

Preparation:

1. Boil corns with 4 cups water. Make sure corns completely cook (it will take more time approx: 45-60 minutes depending upon the corn).
2. In a deep pan add chicken stock, corn with stock, salt pepper, soya sauce and chili sauce and cook for 5-10 minutes.
3. In a bowl dissolve 3-4 tbspn corn flour in ½ cup water.
4. Slowly add corn flour paste in the stock mixture (add corn flour according to your need how much you want thick soup)
5. Beat one egg and pour very carefully in the soup so that very thin layers (strips) of egg form.

Cabbage Soup Diet Recipe

Vegetable soups are rich in vitamins and minerals and very similar is the case with cabbage soup. This is also called cabbage soup diet as it is a common thinking and understanding that cabbage soup helps in loosing weight since it aids in burning fats. You must have seen banners indicating seven day cabbage soup diet plan on something similar to this . But the fact is that it can be taken when ever you feel like and it doesn’t taste too bad either.

Ingredients:
6 large green onions
2 green peppers (chopped)
3 tomatoes (take out seed part and cut into cubes)
3 Carrots (julienne thick)
1 Container Mushrooms (diced)
½ head of cabbage (cut in medium size)
4 cups chicken stock
8 cups V8 juice
Salt as required
Pepper as required
Parsley as required
2 tspn garlic powder

Preparation:

1. Cut onions in circular shape of thick slices.
2. Put all the vegetables in a soup pot except tomatoes.
3. Now add chicken stock and V8 juice in the vegetables. Let vegetables cook on low heat.
4. When vegetables are half done, add tomatoes in it and cook for at least 40mins till all vegetables become completely tender.
5. After that add some seasoning to it according to your taste.

Best Chicken Salad Sandwich

There are lots of ways to prepare sandwich some require the use of a sandwich maker while some sandwiches are not to be toasted specially the ones with mayo filling . Its a common mayo chicken spread sandwich and is very easy to make but you can try different varieties of sandwiches and stick to the one that best suits your taste.

Ingredients:
1 cup boil chicken (shredded)
¾ cup mayonnaise
½ cup cream cheese
½ tspn black pepper freshly crushed (using a wooden pepper mill)
½ tspn white pepper
Pinch of salt
1/2 tspn sugar
1 boil egg (cut into small pieces)
½ tspn mustard paste (optional)
Bread slices as required.

Preparation:

1. Mix all the above ingredients well; mayonnaise, cream cheese, black pepper, white pepper, chicken, boil egg, mustard paste, salt and sugar.

2. Cut the sides of bread slices and make triangle shapes.
3. Now take one triangle piece and coat the chicken mixture on it,put a salad leaf, and tomato slice if you like and cover it with other triangle piece.
4. Similarly, make other sandwich like this.

Servings:
Serve the delicious and healthy chicken salad sandwich with ketchup.

 

Fried Rice Recipe

It’s very famous vegetable fried rice ,very healthy rice food, full of nutrition, originated from Chinese Cuisine and its also called Chinese Rice.There are lots of ways to prepare fried rice, this is one of the methods to cook it with little spices and can serve as a rice meal. Choose the best rice available for this recipe.

Ingredients:

½ Kg rice
½ cup cabbage chopped
½ cup carrot chopped
½ cup capsicum chopped
½ cup spring onion
½ cup boil shredded chicken (optional)
Salt to taste
1 tspn black pepper freshly crushed using a pepper mill
1 tspn white pepper
1 tbpsn soya sauce
1 tbspn chili sauce
1 tbspn Worcestershire sauce
1 tpsn oyster sauce
1 tspn Chinese salt
3 tbspn oil

 

Preparation:

1. In a deep pan heat oil and add cabbage, carrot and capsicum in it. Stir for 2-3 minute on high heat
2. Add all spices in it (salt, pepper and sauces) and cook for 5-10 minutes until all spices are mix well and water has been dried.
3. Then add spring onion and chicken and stir. Remove pan from stove.
4. Boil rice (you can also use chicken stock to boil rice it will be more tasty) and let it cool so that all the steam took out (evaporate) from the rice.
5. Add rice to the vegetable mixture on high heat and stir well for 5 minutes. Serving:

Dish out fried rice and serve with any curry like beef curry.

KFC Chicken Recipe

Fried chicken is a popular item specially at fast food restaurants and when we talk about KFC food , the first thing that comes in mind is their yummy chicken . All age people like this crispy fried chicken. It is very easy to cook at home because it requires very little spices. To make this exactly like KFC’s chicken , we can coat the chicken pieces in flour and then fry the chicken . Detailed instructions and list of ingredients are below

Ingredients:
1 Chicken breast (make 4 thin slices of it)
1 cup rice flour
1 cup corn flour
½ cup plane flour
1 tspn mustard powder
1 tspn black pepper
1 tspn salt
½ tspn Chinese salt
1 tspn chicken powder
1 tspn baking powder
2 eggs
Oil for deep frying

Preparation:

1. In a bowl mix well rice flour, plane flour, corn flour, mustard powder, salt, pepper, Chinese salt, baking powder and chicken powder ( best way is to cover the bowl and shake it well).
2. Marinate the chicken slices in vinegar pepper and salt and leave for 10 minutes.
3. In a separate bowl beat eggs, now fold the chicken slice in flour mixture, then in egg and again in flour mixture and leave for 2 minutes so that all the flour dust settle on the chicken slice.
4. Heat the oil gently in deep frying pan and fry the chicken slices till it become golden brown and crust forms on it.

Serving:
Present it with tomato ketchup and chili garlic sauce and fries. You can also try my KFC cole slaw recipe and it tastes really nice with this recipe .

Tip: Double coating with flour is necessary to make crust on the chicken.

French Bread Pizza

Bread can be used to make quick and easy pizza since pizza (with dough) takes too much time when baked at home. Bread pizza also tastes like baked pizza as pizza topping remains same according to your flavor and taste. You can also make changes in this french bread pizza recipe as you like .

Ingredients: 

2 green bell pepper(s) de-seeded and finely chopped
1 onion(s) finely chopped
2 green chillies finely chopped (optional)
8 slices of bread
8 tablespoons tomato sauce
8 tablespoons grated cheese
Salt to taste
Butter to grease the pan

Preparation:

1. Make a mixture of all the vegetables; green bell pepper,onions, green chilies and boiled chicken.
2. Put the mixture on the bread slices, add some tomato sauce and grated cheese on it.
3. Grease the pan with butter, place the sandwich on the pan and cook it till its both sides become light brown and cheese starts to melt.
4. You can also bake it in the oven for few minutes (no need to use the second bread for top layer) until all the cheese melts and become light golden.

Garlic Bread Recipe

Almost every bread has the same recipe but their different shapes and use of different flour make every bread different from each other like French bread, brown bread, white bread, etc. Garlic bread is just made by adding fresh garlic flavor to a bread. It can be used as breakfast bread but usually served with soups or with butter.

Ingredients:

4 tablespoons melted butter
4 garlic flakes finely chopped and crushed
1 teaspoon(s) dried oregano leaves
8 French loaf slices

 

Preparation:

1. Make a mixture of chopped garlic, butter and oregano.
2. Coat each side of the French loaf with the mixture and place the slices in the oven for 6 minutes at 200oC/390oF to become crispy and light golden in color.

Fried Bread Recipe

Fried bread are of different types; some are shallow fried bread also called “paratha” and some are deep fried. In south Asian cuisine deep fried bread are called “kachori”. It can also be made by using different filling like spicy lentils filling, meat filling, potato filling etc.

Ingredients:

3 cup plain flour
1 tbspn melted butter (ghee)
Salt to taste
2 tbspn yogurt
Water as required
Oil for deep frying

Preparation:

1. Mix flour, salt and butter in a bowl so that little crumbs of flour are formed.
2. Add yogurt in the flour and mix.
3. Knead the flour using water to make dough, make sure the dough is quite hard as compare to normal dough (if you press finger on it would not easily go inside to make hole otherwise your bread will not rise).
4. Make small balls of around 2-3 cm size and make it bigger (approx. 3 times the size of ball) by rolling with wooden bread roller, make sure that bread should not be very thin.
5. In deep pan heat oil for deep frying on very high flame, put the rolled bread into it and stir it. Take out from the oil after turning it little brown.

Piri-Piri Chicken

Piri-piri chicken is a spicy dish with roots in both Africa and Portugal. The dish was created in Angola and Mozambique when Portuguese settlers arrived with chile peppers (known as piri-piri in Swahili). Timing note: The chicken needs to marinate for at least four hours before being grilled.

Ingredients:

Glaze:

3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro
2 garlic cloves, minced
2 tablespoons piri-piri sauce or other hot pepper sauce
2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
Chicken:
1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 2-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled, thinly sliced
1 large shallot, peeled, quartered
3 garlic cloves, peeled
1/2 cup piri-piri sauce or other hot pepper sauce
1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil plus additional for brushing
1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 3 1/2- to 4-pound chicken, backbone removed, opened flat
1 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 x 1 1/4-inch disposable aluminum baking pan (to catch drips)
Ingredient info: Bottled piri-piri sauce is available at specialty foods stores and online from africantradingco.com. Choose the heat level that suits you, keeping in mind that the mild version still has a nice kick to it.

Preparation: 

For glaze:
Melt butter in small saucepan over medium-high heat. Add cilantro and garlic; cook until garlic begins to brown, about 2 minutes. Add piri-piri sauce and lemon juice. Reduce heat to medium-low; simmer 2 minutes. DO AHEAD: Glaze can be made up to 1 day ahead. Cover and chill. Rewarm before using.

For chicken:
Finely chop cilantro, ginger, shallot, and garlic in processor. Add piri-piri sauce, 1/4 cup oil, lemon juice, coarse salt, and pepper; process marinade to blend.

Place chicken, skin side up, on work surface. Using palm of hand, press on breastbone to flatten chicken. Tuck wing tips under. Pour half of marinade into 11x7x2-inch glass baking dish. Open chicken like book; place skin side down in single layer in dish. Pour remaining marinade over. Cover; chill at least 4 hours or overnight, turning chicken occasionally.

Remove top rack from barbecue. Prepare barbecue (medium heat). If using 2-burner gas grill, light 1 burner. If using 3-burner gas grill, do not light center burner. If using charcoal grill, light briquettes in chimney and pour onto 1 side of lower grill rack. Place disposable aluminum pan on unlit part of grill. Place upper grill rack on barbecue; brush with oil.

Remove chicken from marinade. Arrange skin side up on grill rack above drip pan. Cover barbecue; grill until skin is browned and instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 165°F, turning often, about 40 minutes. Transfer to platter. Pour warm glaze over.