Baked whole chicken

After long time i was craving for the baked chicken. Its kinda cold at my place and continuously drizzling since 3 days. I felt like having some crispy soft chicken at this time. So i baked a chicken by incorporating both deshi and videshi ingredients. The outcome was fantastic. My husband and son enjoyed it. I am sure you will enjoy this recipe as well.

Steamed Broccoli with garlic and cashewnuts

There are times when i do not feel like looking at spices anymore. These are the times when i prefer healthy steamed vegetables. I prefer steaming rather than boiling as nutrients remain intact so that i benefit the most out of these vegetables. My family eats vegetables most of the days except on weekends. It sometimes turn boring preparing the curry every time . Moreover there are very few ways i like having broccoli, either steamed or saute. I do not like it in curry at all as i strongly feel that Broccoli has its own taste and adding too much of spices to it kind of loosen that original taste.
My kid 18 months like having it steamed too along with carrots and potatoes. So i steamed broccoli along with carrots and potatoes.
For the sauce i used olive oil instead of butter and made a kind of sweet, tangy and crunchy sauce by adding cashew nuts to it. This was perfect for our dinner and had great taste. I found this way of making everyone eat broccoli. It was very nice and i hope it works for you too.

Chicken meat balls with Spaghetti(Asian style)

I have always been fascinated by the pictures of meat balls lying over spaghetti. I never tried it with meat because of so many reason but then i realized i can simply do it with the chicken itself as chicken being low fat this would be better. I quickly went through the recipes of usual meat balls and then i knew how i was going to make it in Asian style with a little Indian touch to it.

Creamy Chicken and Mushroom pasta

My kid loves chicken dishes. Last night i decided to prepare something that's not spicy yet tasty and delicious . I have been preparing bechamel sauce  for quite a long time. So i decided using the same sauce for the chicken and mushroom. The dish came out really good and both my hubby and my son enjoyed it to the fullest. I would love to share this quick and tasty chicken recipe with you all.

Nutella and banana crepes

During December i visited Antwerp, Belgium. It was Christmas  eve and i could see lots of celebration over the streets. It was rainy and moist day but a wonderful one, one thing that i couldn't ignore was the fragnance of gluwein(Hot red wine) and crepes being prepared in the stalls. Am not a great fan of alcohol, but when its gluwein with a slice of lemon in it i just cannot ignore it. The day i tasted crepes, since then i have been preparing crepes at home with nutella inside.

You can have sweet or savory crepes depending upon your taste. I mostly prepare the sweet one because of my two sweet tooth :-) 

Spring Fritatta

The swaying little green leaves, wild flowers and all the trees in their best attire. Spring makes my world looks like heaven. Am happy for the fact that i can see some more vegetables over the racks in the groceries. My kid is going out in the park and is well enjoying with some water works that he does there. It's a great relief for me as am not use to such cold harsh weather but am use to some 40 C to 45 C. Next month i go back my home for some days. Month of may is said to be a terrible time as the sun is at its peaks in India and almost everything is fuming. People find out several ways to adapt themselves to such hot weather. In kolkata it's worse as its hot and extremely humid, you keep sweating and you go tried in just minutes. Am getting myself ready to fight with summer. But before the war begins i just want to enjoy the spring here in Germany to its fullest. Therefore i prepared some spring fritatta.  As the name suggests all colorful vegetables goes into this dish.

Banana Bread Recipe.

This is a recipe of extremely easy and very tasty banana bread loaf. After my successful baking of tutti fruity loaf bread i wanted to incorporate some fruits in my batter. This is where i found the recipe of Banana fruit bread. I must say that this came out good. The bread was extremely fluffy and moist . Within a minute me and my hubby finished half the loaf.
I am looking forward to bake more and more in coming days and would love to share all my recipe's with you.

Pollock Baked(Seelachfillet Baked)

First time i came to Germany, i started looking for a fish that was common to the area. After sometime i found pollock/Seelachs. I tried to cook them in several ways , sometimes i tried to fry them, sometimes i steamed them but it was best only when i baked them. I tried baking it several ways and in this post i will describe one of the easiest , quick and tasty way to treat Pollocks before they are on your plate. My son (1.5 Years old) likes it very much. Am happy for his choice since this fish is extremely light and nutritious. I am posting this on the request of my friend who is in Mauritius and wants a fish recipe.

Fish Baked

Egg salad

Majority of my friends like hard boiled egg. I love them too. When i was a kid i would hear this add on the TV saying "Sunday ho ya Monday roj khayein Andey"  , Which meant eat eggs everyday. These are rich source of protein and one should take them in their diet on regular basis. This recipe is also suitable for people on diet because its really healthy. There are several ways people consume the boiled eggs. In many parts of the world eggs are served as soft boiled or in poached form while in many other parts they are usually served in hard boiled form .

I believe that the environment, ecology and weather has a major impact on the food culture of a region and it is quite interesting to note that when you walk 40 km from a place you will find that the food culture has already taken a bent as compared to the one from where you started and as you proceed to walk on, and with each 40 km of distance you will discover a new cuisine and a new food culture,"Diversity" Isn't that amazing!!!.

Egg Salad

Chicken Pizza , Murgh Pizza

Sunday evenings are real tough time for me realizing that its ending and standing Next is the boring Monday morning . To overcome such heavy thoughts i usually rush to my kitchen to prepare an amazing dinner that would leave me with a good feeling until next day. What could be a better idea of ending your weekend eating finger licking and mouth watering Chicken pizza. Its extremely easy to prepare and tastes like heaven. Thanks to my hubby because without him saying" Nah!!! " for dinner at some utterly boring pizza restaurant that night i would have never discovered this Dish.

Here's sharing you the Recipe:

Serves- 3 Medium size Pizza

Preparation- 30 minutes

Cooking time- 3 to 5 minutes for each Pizza

Level of difficulty- Easy

Ingredients:

For the pizza base

• All purpose flour or pizza flour- 300gms. 
• Olive oil- 2 Tbsp
• Salt- 1 tsp
• sugar- 1 Tsp
• Fresh yeast or any yeast- 1 to 2 Tsp
• Luke warm water- 200 ml

For the pizza sauce

• Chicken minced- 300 gms
• Garlic cloves- 10 
• Onion- 1 large size, chopped
• Tomato puree- 100gms
• Tomato - 4 medium size , chopped
• Freshly crushed pepper and oregano
• Paprika powder- 1 Tsp
• Curry powder- 1Tbsp
• Salt as per taste
• Olive oil- 2Tbsp
• Mozerrela cheese

Preparation:

Pizza base preparation

1. Bring together flour, salt, sugar, oil and fresh yeast or(in case you are using granules yeast, place them in the luke warm water and let them dissolve, use the same water to knead the dough).
2. Now with the help of Luke warm water knead the dough.
3. cover the dough with a wet towel and let this dough rise for 15 minutes.

Pizza sauce preparation

1. Take 2 Tbsp of olive oil in a pan place the minced garlic. Now turn on the heat , once the garlic starts turning translucent add the onions and fry until translucent.
2. Now add the chicken and salt fry until chicken is cooked. Add the curry powder, tomato puree and tomatoes. Fry until tomatoes are cooked.
3. Once done adjust salt. Add the oregano and paprika give it a quick stir and turn off the heat.

Your Pizza sauce is ready now.

Pizza preparation

1. By this time your pizza dough would be ready. Knock the dough and then take handfull of it. Dust it with flour and roll it flat in round shape. Quickly run a fork through out,  making some marks here and there over the surface of the pizza base.
2. Heat a tawa or pan, Place the base and wait until just little brown spot hits one side, flip and just heat the other side for 10 seconds. Take out of the pan.
3. Preheat the oven at 220C and turn on the broilers or the grills.
4. Grease each pizza base with olive oil before applying the pizza sauce.
5. Place the mozerella cheese all over the sauce.
6. Grease the baking tray with some olive oil and place the pizza on them
7. Bake the pizza until the cheese are done. Take out and season with some pizza spices. 

Serve hot and enjoy finger licking Chicken Pizza. Yummy yum yum.

Happy cooking

By- Sushmita pandit

I have customized this Recipe. Original Recipe by Sanjeev Kapoor's cook book.

Macaroni Cheese Au-Gratin

Macaroni Cheese Au Gratin

Am fond of macaroni. The first time i tasted the spicy macaroni prepared by my friend. It was awesome  What i liked about it ,is its simplicity, the ease with which it easily gets blended with anything.
I had been preparing the masala macaroni for long, but it was only this year i learnt how to do it "Au-Gratin".  I loved the cheese and the bechamel sauce combination. These casserole recipe is quite filling.

This recipe will serve- 4
Preparation time- 10 minutes
Cooking time- 30 minutes

Ingredients:

• Macaroni- 250 gms(Boil until al-dante )
• Oil
• Salt

Bechamal sauce

• Cheese- 100 gms(combination of whatever variety you like)
• All purpose flour- 1 Tbsp
• Butter- 1 Tbsp
• Salt- as per taste
• Paprika powder- 1 Tsp
• Pepper- Freshly crushed- 1 Tsp
• Milk- 300 ml

For Au-Gratin

• Cheese- 100gms
• Herbs of your choice
• Cherry Tomato-4 (optional)

Method of Preaparation

• Boil 1 ltr of water in a pan and place Macaroni with little salt and oil. Boil until al dante.
• For preparing Bechamal Sauce Heat butter in a pan, Add the flour and fry until slight brown in colour. To this add salt , Paprika and Pepper. Now add the milk and let it come to boil. Once it comes to boil add 100gms of cheese. Stir until cheese melts and gets blended well in the milk. Turn off the heat. Your Bechamal sauce is ready.
• Preheat the oven at 220F for 5 minutes.
• Quickly Layer the baking  tray with a layer of macaroni, Pour in half of the Bechamal sauce. Layer out rest of the macaroni and again pour the rest of the bechamal sauce. Now at the top, layer it with rest of the cheese and tomato. Sprinkle herbs of your choice.
• Now at the bottom most area of your oven place the tray and bake it at 220F for 10 minutes. After that for 5 minutes grill it until you see a golden crust at the top of your baking tray.
• Take out of oven and serve it hot.  

Your Mac cheese is absoultely ready to be served. Enjoy :-) Happy Cooking.

By -Sushmita Pandit.

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Chicken noodle soup, The Classic style

The snow c laded land , constant low temperature ,Kind of relaxed mood and old sad song in the background,  What do you prefer to have in this situation. I definitely enjoy hot chicken noodle soup , that do make your senses and belly happy while helping you to carry on your classic way of celebrating cold.

No doubt, Its chicken soup for the soul. I say so  because its simple, no complication. Its just chicken , noodles and veggies cooked in a clear soup. Enjoy your cold wintry days with this recipe.

Preparation time :10 mins

Cooking time: 45 mins

Serves- 4    

The classic chicken Noodle soup

Ingredients:

• Chicken - 500 gms, boiled and chopped, or the leftovers will also do.
• Carrots- 4 chopped
• Onion- 1 chopped
• celery- 4 sticks chopped
• Egg Noodles- 400 gms
• Pepper- freshly crushed
• Salt as per taste
• Oil for cooking
• Vegetable bullion
• Chicken stock - 700 Ml

Preparation:

• If you do not have boiled chicken , boil it by adding the chicken in 1Ltr of water. Add salt while boiling. Strain the chicken stock and reserve it once chicken gets cooked. Let the chicken cool of , then chop it.
• Heat oil in a soup pot.
• Add in the onion , celery, carrot. Saute until they are soft , add salt to this.
• Add  the chicken stock or vegetable stock, boil. Add the vegetable bullion or any other bullion cube of your choice.
• Add the egg noodles once the vegetable stock is hot . Cook Noodle until it is la dent...cooked.
• Add in the chopped chicken pieces, season with pepper and simmer for 2 minutes. 

Your chicken Noodle soup is ready to be served, serve it hot.  Enjoy Winter :-)

By-Sushmita Pandit

Tortellini Salad

There are times when i have little patience to cook a dish that takes a long time. That's when i look for easy to cook, healthy and filling meals.

Today i just opened my cupboard and found a packet of tortellini. That's when i decided of making a quick tortellini salad. Being a tortellini fan i would use it here and there every now and then.

I would also like to share my experience from the time i included salad in my daily diet, i have been benefited a lot health wise . Here's sharing you the healthy recipe, Hope you like it.

Preparation- 10 minutes

Cooking - 8 minutes.

Serves- 4

Tortellini Pasta Salad

Ingredients:

• Carrot- 4 , large in size , Washed peeled and chopped.
• Tomato- 4, Medium in size, cut into cubes.
• Lettuce leaves- Washed , Dried with kitchen towel, and gently tore with hand into small chunks.
• Corn - 1/2 cup boiled and salted.
• Lime juice- 2 Tbsp
• Tofu- 100 gms, cut into cubes
• Tortellini Pasta- 250 gms.
• Pepper cons- Freshly crushed
• Salt as per taste.
• Butter- 1 Tbsp.
• Olive oil

Preparation:

• Boil 1 liters of water, by adding salt to it. Once the water gets boiled, add the tortellini to it and cook it for 8 minutes. After 8 minutes turn off the heat and drain the water. Transfer the tortellini in a large bowl. Add 1 tbsp of butter to it and simply toss it.
• In the same bowl bring together all the other ingredients, mix well by adding lime juice and olive oil.
• Season with salt and pepper.

Your quick and healthy tortellini salad is now ready to be served.

if you want to eat them cold you can cover it and refrigerate it . This way tortellini absorbs all the flavors of lime and pepper and make our salad more mouth watering.

Enjoy and Happy cooking.

By-Sushmita Pandit.

Baked Potatoes,Nice and Crunchy

Hi ,In this Post i will tell you how to prepare mouth watering Crunchy baked Potatoes. This recipie will serve Four.

Ingredients:

• Potato - 4 Medium in size ( Slice as shown in the Image)
• Olive oil 
• Garlic cloves- 3(Chopped minutely)
• Green Chilli- 1(Chopped minutely)
• Pepper powder or freshly crushed Pepper
• Salt As per taste

Method:

• Wash and cut the potatoes.
• Place these potatoes in the baking tray and bake it for two minutes.
• By this time in a bowl mix all the other ingredients .
• Now take out the potatoes and mix it well in the mixture, keep it aside for 1 minute
• again pour the whole thing on the baking tray, separate all the potato slices such that they dont overlap.
• Bake them for next 5 to 8 minutes at 180Degree C

Baked Potatoes are ready to be served. Garnish it with mint leaves and Tomamto ketchup.

Enjoy ...And keep cooking :-)

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By: Sushmita Pandit

Vegetable Pasta Noodle-Indian Style

Hi, in this post we will learn how to prepare  Linguine Pasta Noodles. It s easy to prepare and quite good in taste.

Ingredients 

• Linguina pasta noodles-200gms
• oil
• carrot-2 finely sliced
• bell pepper- 1 finely chopped
• onion- 1 sliced into quarters
• ginger- 1 TSP finely chopped
• garlic - 1 TSP finely chopped
• french beans- sliced in length
• spring onion
• broccoli-1/2 cup
• Fried eggs,optional
• soy sauce, tomato sauce, oyster sauce
• Green Chillies-3
• Pepper powder-1 TSP
• Salt As per tatse

Method

• Boil pasta in water .(heat the water, add oil and salt to it, followed by adding pasta)
• In a pan heat oil,add green chillies,onion and fry for 1 min at high flame .
• Add all other vegetables fry for 2 minutes until vegetables get cooked.
• Add salt and pepper powder
• Add pasta and fry for 1 min 
• to this add all the sauce
• lastly add fried eggs and sprinkle spring onions.

Your pasta is ready to serve,

Enjoy and keep cooking :-)

By: Sushmita Pandit