Thursday, October 15, 2009

Golden fried prawns

This one’s a healthy dish (read lots of fat) as we use oil and butter. But simple nevertheless.

Ingredients:
15 pieces of tiger prawns (big ones) de-veined and cleaned.
2 tsps of cooking butter.
Sea salt or Rock salt (as per taste or 1 tsp).
1 cup corn flour.
Salt as needed.
4 full green chilli sliced lengthwise.
Oil for cooking.
Fresh chopped coriander leaves.

Preparation:
1. Make a thin batter of corn flour with a little salt.
2. In a Kadai, heat oil. Dip the prawns one by one in the batter and fry in the heated oil till a slight golden brown.
3. Remove from oil and allow the excess oil to drain from the prawns..
4. In a pan, melt two tsps of butter, and fry green chillies, add the cooked prawns and sea salt. Fry in high flame for 1 minute (or you eyes start watering)
5. Remove, garnish with coriander and eat hot with mayonnaise or tomato sauce. Simply delicious…….

Mixed Noodles

This ones adapted to Indian taste buds. Its easy to make and highly customizable. We do not require all those ready made sauces for making this one.

Ingredients:
100 gms veg noodles.
250 gms boneless fried chicken. (Veggies can replace with Mushrooms).
1 egg.
1 cup Cabbage (sliced) .
1 cup carrots and beans (sliced into 1 inch slender strips).
½ cup chopped spring onions.
½ cup sliced capsicum.
2 onions sliced.
Salt as needed.
1 full green chilli.
2 tsp of soya sauce.
Crushed pepper as per taste.
Oil for cooking.

Preparation:
1. Shred the fried chicken into small pieces and keep aside.
2. In a big kadai, heat 2 tsp of oil, add the egg and fry, after half done, add all the vegetables (onions, carrots, beans, cabbage, capsicum and green chilli in that order) and stir fry till done (sprinkle water if required).
3. Boil water in a big vessel. When water comes to a boil, add the noodles and 1 tsp of oil. Cook for 5 mins or as per instruction in the noodles packet.
4. Strain and allow to cool in a plate.
5. When the vegetables are almost done, add the shredded chicken and stir cook for a minute.
6. Add the noodles to the vegetable, add the soya sauce, salt and pepper and stir for 1 minute.
7. Add oil if required and remove from flame.
8. Stir one more time and sprinkle spring onions and coriander.

Note: The vegetables are all your choice, modify them as per your wish, but don’t add tomatoes. If you want a spicier version.
Use this sauce.
In ½ cup tomato puree, add 1 chopped green chilli, ½ ich chopped ginger, 4 chopped garlic pods.
Add this sauce at the stage of adding soya sauce, This tastes good only in vegetable noodles.