Garlic Chicken

Today I am going to post the recipe for Garlic Chicken… I love this recipe a lot and even my hubby…  While in Chennai I use to go out to restaurants to relish on this particular dish but never did I ever think that  I would make this one day at home…  I loved cooking but I dint have time to do so in Chennai but here in Kuwait I have so much of time to try different recipes… Well I was supposed to post this recipe a long time ago as my dearest friend – Jensy asked me to do so… So here I am jensy to give you the recipe…  One thing that I like about Kuwait is that we get all sorts of vegetables over here… especially fresh spring onions which I like to add to all of my recipes as a final garnish…  Let’s have a look at the recipe… J

Ingredients:

Boneless Chicken – ½ kg

Spring onion  - 2 stalks

Soya Sauce – 1 tablespoon

Chicken Stock – ½ cup or 1 cube

Onion – 2 medium

Red Chilli paste – 2 tablespoons

Garlic – 20 cloves

Corn flour – 2 tablespoon

Tomato ketchup – 2 tablespoon

Oil – 1 ½  tablespoon

Salt  to taste

First clean the chicken and cut into medium size pieces. Finely chop the Spring Onions. Take an onion and cut it into 4 pieces and then slice it again in the center thus you will get big pieces of onions. Chop the garlic into small pieces.

Chilli paste: for chilli paste take 10 red chillies and put them in half a cup of hot water. Leave it for around 15 minutes then put it in grinder and make a paste of it or you can even buy chilli paste from the store.

Take a pan pour the oil. Put the garlic into it and fry it. The colour of the Garlic should become light brown then add the onions and sauté it well. Once the onion turns to light pink put the chicken pieces into it. Now add salt according to taste. Mix it well. Add tomato ketchup, red chilli paste and mix it well. Let it cook for some time. Add soya sauce. Meanwhile in a bowl mix the corn flour with the chicken stalk. Mix the chicken stock and corn flour mix with the chicken. Cook the chicken until it’s done or till the sauce starts to thicken. Finally garnish the Garlic Chicken with Spring onion and serve it hot with Chapathi , Naan or any other Indian bread.

Pinwheel Cookies

After a long time I am posting a recipe again… it doesn’t mean that I was not cooking all these days but I was very lazy to type it and post it… L  Anyhow I am here once again with my recipes and this time I am going to post the recipe for Pinwheel Cookies…  I tried these cookies as the colour and the taste attracted me to try it out… My neighbor’s kids loved it so much that every day the younger one asks me for chocolate cookies…  but before trying the recipe I would like to tell you that you need to have patience to try out this recipe… it take long time for the cookies to bind hence it would take two days for the process to be over and you can have your cookies… The recipe is mentioned below :

Butter –

Sugar – 1 cup

Salt – a pinch

All purpose Flour (Maida) – 3 cups

Baking powder – 1 tablespoon

Egg yolks – 2

Vanilla essence – 2 teaspoons

Instant Espresso powder – 1 tsp

Cocoa Powder – 3 tablespoons

Bitter chocolate – 50 grams

Milk – ½ cup

Sift the flour, salt and baking soda. In a mixer  cream the butter on medium speed until smooth. Add the sugar and mix it well. Add the egg , milk and vanilla and mix it properly.  Now divide the dough in two portions.

In one portion you can add crushed almonds or cashew and mix it properly or you can leave it as it is so that you get the taste of vanilla. Once mixed properly keep it aside.

For the second portion of dough first melt the bitter chocolate. Add the instant espresso powder and cocoa powder in it and mix it with the dough.

Keep both the dough in refrigerator for half an hour. Now take it out and roll out the 1^st portion of the dough (Vanilla) into a rectangle shape on a waxed paper. Do the same with the second portion of dough (Chocolate)

Now carefully place the chocolate dough on top of the vanilla dough.  Peel off the waxed paper. Now press the dough and roll the dough like a swiss roll and now wrap the roll in a cling film and keep it refrigerated for 12 hours.

Once its done take off the cling film and with a sharp knife slice the roll into thin slices.  Heat the oven to 180C for 15 to 20 minutes. The cookies will expand a bit… Do try it out and let me know your feedback