Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Sausage Puffs



Sausage Puffs

Ingredients

1) 3 sheets frozen puff pastry

2) Sausage - 03 nos. halved

3) 1 egg, beaten (Optional - I dint use).


Method


Preheat oven to 180 degrees C.

Roll out pastry sheets with sausage pieces according to desired shapes.

Brush tops with egg (optional) then bake in preheated oven for about 2o-25 minutes or until golden brown.

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Moist Banana Cake


Moist Banana Cake

















Moist Banana Cake

1)      1 ½ cups self-raising flour
2)      1 ½ Granulated Sugar
3)      2 Banana’s
4)      2 Eggs
5)      ¼ cup- Water.
6)      1 teaspoon – Baking Powder
7)      ½ Teaspoon – Baking Soda
8)      ½ teaspoon- salt.
9)      1 teaspoon vanilla essence.
10)   180 ml – Milk/buttermilk
11)   1 teaspoon- vinegar.
12)   125 gm. butter.( softened)

Method

Blend the banana with water in a blender. In a separate vessel beat the sugar and eggs. (Add eggs one by one), then add softened butter and vanilla essence and mix well. Then add Milk with vinegar again beat the mixture, finally add the flour to the wet ingredient using a spatula and mix well. (Add baking soda, baking powder & salt in to the flour and sieve well before adding to the wet mixture.)
Preheat oven to 180C. Meanwhile grease the baking tray/ loaf tin using butter and dust some flour over it and keep aside. Pour batter into prepared pan and bake it for 30 to 35 mins at 180° C.
Test by inserting a skewer/toothpick in the middle and it should come out clean. The sides should come away from the pan slightly. Allow cake to cool in the pan for 10-15 minutes. Then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Turkey pathri












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Turkey Pathiri

Ingredients

For the pathri

1) Wheat flour - 2 cups
2) Water as needed
3) Salt to taste
4) Oil - for frying

For the 1st filling

Use any filling according to your taste . I used vegetables with scrambled egg stir fry.

For 2nd filling

I used potato mash. ( chicken stir fry / beef filling is also good for non -vegetarians)

Method

Mix flour, salt and water togather to make a soft dough like chappathy dough. Make one pathri and place the boiled egg in the center and spread your first filling around the boiled egg ( see my picture- stage 2) then fold the pathiri upward from one side and make a pleat like a sari to close the filling, remove the excess portion from the top (See picture-stage -3)

Then deep fry the pleated dough in oil and set aside, mean while make a bigger chappathy than the previous one and place the fried dough in the centre and pour the next filling around it then close the filling used the pleat method and fry it once again till it attains a crispy golden stage ( if you wish and have patience you can make 2 more layers like this) cut the fried pathri once it is cool using a sharp knife and serve with ketch up or chilli sauce .

Monday, July 8, 2013

Sausage Stir Fry


How to make sausage –vegetable stir fry

Ingredients

1) Chicken sausage- 6 nos.
2) Onion – 2 nos. 
3) Carrot – 1 no- 
4) Capsicum – 1 no.- 
5) Green chilly- 4 nos. 
6) Beans- 5-6 nos.- 
7) Ginger- 1 ½” – 
8) Garlic- 5 nos. 
9) Spring Onion- 
10) Pepper powder – 2 teaspoon.
11) Kashmiri chilly powder- 1 teaspoon.
12) Soya sauce- 1 teaspoon.( Optional)
13) Tomato ketchup- 2 teaspoon.

Method

Chop all the vegetables lengthwise including sausage. (You can even use your choice of other vegetables also in this dish like, broccoli, cabbage etc.)
Boil the chicken sausage in a pan of water till they become soft and tender for about 6-7 minutes. Then Drain off the water and keep aside.

Heat oil in a pan and add ginger, garlic and green chilly one by one and sauté for 01 minute. Then put onion and sauté till golden brown and then add 10- 13 ingredients and sauté for few seconds finally add chopped sausages & vegetables and stir fry until it turns slightly brown and well cooked.