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Traditional British Crumpets

Crumpets

Ingredients
300g flour
2 eggs (beaten)
1tsp salt
250ml water
125ml luke warm milk
5g fresh yeast
Method
Dilute yeast in luke warm milk. Keep aside for 10mn.
Mix first four ingredients (without any lumps) in a bowl .
Add milk & stir again. Keep aside for half an hour.
Heat a nonstick pan / griddle with little oil.
Pour a spoon full of batter & wait till bubbles appear.
Flip & cook the other side.
Eat with the topping of your choice. (Maple Syrup , Honey) 

 
British use steel rings to prepare crumpets. 

Chocolate Macarons

Chocolate Macarons

Ingredients
150g almond powder
1tbsp chocolate powder
210g icing sugar
3 egg whites
30g sugar
***
For Ganache
100g chocolate
10cl milk
20g butter
Method
Mix the first three ingredients & keep aside.
Whisk egg white with a spoonfull of sugar , until firm.
Add rest of the sugar gradually.
Then add almond+ chocolate mixtue & mix together with a spatula.
Keep aside for 15mn.
Prepare a pastry bag with a smooth nozzle & fill it with the mixture.
Make small blobs on the silicone macaron sheet.
Pre-heat oven to 150°C.
Then place it on a grill & bake for 13mn .
Leave to cool.
***
Melt chocolate in a microwave oven with butter.
Add milk & mix well
Using a spoon, spread ganache & stick another  macaron shell over it.
Repeat the process with the remaining shells.
These sandwich cookies are absolutely divine..

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Deep fried Fish Pathiri - Malabar Muslim Special

Mini Meen Pathiri




Ingredients
2 cups flour
50g ghee / butter
A pinch of salt
Luke warm water
* Fish - Filling *
250g salmon
1/2 tsp chilli powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
Salt to taste
***
1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
1 green chilli(chopped)
2 onions (chopped)
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp chilli powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
Salt to taste.
Coriander leaves.
Garam masala.
***
Oil for Frying
Method
Mix the first three ingredients .
Add enough water to get a firm dough.
Cover the bowl with a damp cloth & keep aside.
***
Marinate fish with chilli , turmeric & salt.
After an hour, fry them till light golden brown.
Then mince it & keep aside.
Heat oil in a pan & fry onions till light golden brown.
Add ginger- garlic paste + chopped chilli & fry again.
Add the minced fish & all the masala powders.
Add some water & cook.
When the sauce is reduced remove from fire.
Garnish with garam masala & coriander leaves.
***
Take a orange sized sized dough ball & flatten it using a roller.
Cut into 7 c.m disc using a cutter / steel glass.
Place the meat filling in the centre.
Place another disc over it & flute decoratively.
Repeat the process with other dough balls.
***
Heat plenty of oil.
Gently slip the pathiri's in oil.
Splash hot oil on the top.
Turn over & fry the other side.
Remove using a slotted spoon & drain on a kitchen paper.
Serve hot with tea / as a starter.

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Strawberry Gariguette

Strawberry Gariguette


Red dangling strawberries  from my garden :))
Gariguettes are spring strawberries.
They are elongated, sweet,  aromatic &vscarlet colored.

Kori Gassi - Mangalorean Chicken Curry

Kori Gassi 

Ingredients
1 kg chicken
1 tsp salt
1 tsp turmeric powder 
* dry roast & powder*
 1 tbsp coriander powder
2 tsp poppy seeds
1 tsp fennel seeds
 1 tsp kashmir chilli powder
4 cloves
1/2 tsp cumin seeds
1/2  tsp musturd seeds
1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
***
1 cup freshly grated coconut
 *coarsely grind*
1 onion (chopped)
3 garlic cloves
A piece of ginger
* To Temper* 
 1 tsp musturd seeds
An onion( chopped) 
A bay leaf
***
1 tomato(chopped)
Freshly ground pepper
Curry leaves
2 carrots(cut in coins)
2 potatoes(optional)
hard boiled eggs (optional)
Oil for frying
Coriander leaves / Curry leaves
Method

Marinate chicken with  salt & turmeric.
Dry roast the spices. Cool & blend into fine powder.
Fry coconut till light golden brown.
Mix it with the masala powder & grind to a fine paste.
***
Fry onions till light golden brown.
Then add chopped garlic & ginger.
Cool & grind to a fine paste.
Mix with the coconut masala & keep aside.
***
Warm the oil in a casserole & splutter musturd seeds + bay leaf.
Fry chopped onions to light golden brown.
Add the marinated chicken pieces along with chopped tomatoes & carrots.
Fry for a while & then add the masala paste.
Mix well & add two cups of water.
Cover & cook, stirring from time to time.
When the chicken is just cooked, add chopped potatoes.
When the potatoes are cooked, remove from fire.
Garnish with  pepper powder & coriander leaves/curry leaves.
Decorate with hard boiled eggs.
Serve this chicken curry with rice / any type of bread.

 

Masala Pathiri - Malabar Muslim Special

Stuffed Neyypathiri


Ingredient
2 cups roasted rice powder
21/2 cups of luke warm water
1 tsp fennel seeds 
1 tsp salt
 3 tbsp dessicated coconut / 3 tbsp freshly grated coconut
2 shallots
Curry leaves
* Fish - Filling *
250g salmon
1/2 tsp chilli powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
Salt to taste
***
1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
1 green chilli(chopped)
2 onions (chopped)
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp chilli powder
1/4 tsp turmeric powder
Salt to taste.
Coriander leaves.
Garam masala.
Oil for frying
Method
Coarsely grind coconut, shallots, curry leaves & fennel seeds in a blender. 
 Then add the blended mixture to the rice powder.
Boil water with salt & add to the rice mixture.
Mix with a wooden spatule to get a stiff dough.
Leave aside to cool.
***
Marinate fish with chilli , turmeric & salt.
After an hour, fry them till light golden brown.
Then mince it & keep aside.
 Heat oil in a pan & fry onions till light golden brown.
Add ginger- garlic paste + chopped chilli  & fry again.
Add the minced fish & all the masala powders. 
Add some water & cook.
When the sauce is reduced remove from fire. 
Garnish with  garam masala & coriander leaves.
***
Make lemon sized balls of rice dough.
Take a plastic cover/aluminium foil/banana leaf on a plate.
Take a dough ball & flatten into disc of abt 8 cm. 
Then place the the minced fish masala in the middle.
Cover with another rice disc & seal the edges.
Repeat the same with other dough balls.
***
Heat oil in a frying pan.
Cook both sides of the pathiri until light golden brown.
Remove using a slotted spoon & drain on a kitchen paper. 
Ur  stuffed Neyypathiri's  are ready to serve! . 

Tum Ho Paas Mere - Rockstar

Movie :  Rockstar (2011)
Actors : Ranbir Kapoor & Nargis Fakhri
Song : Tum Ho Paas Mere by Mohit Chauhan & Kavita Krishnamurty

Bourriol - Pancakes of Auvergne

Bourriols   


Ingredients
50cl luke warm milk
50cl water
2 tbsp oil
1 tsp sugar
15g fresh yeast
300g flour
200g buckwheat four
Salt to taste

Method

Dilute yeast in luke warm milk with  sugar. Keep aside for 10mn.
Mix both the flours.
Add milk + water & stir well .(without any lumps).
Keep aside for 3 hours.
Heat a nonstick pan / griddle with little oil.
Pour a spoon full of batter. Cook on both sides .  
Eat with the topping of your choice. ( Fried Onions, Ham & Cheese )