Zucchini Salad with Goat Cheese

Ingredients:

3 zucchini
Salt
3 tbsp Olive oil
1/2 clove garlic - minced
1 tbsp lemon juice
10-12 cherry tomatoes
Goat Cheese
1 tsp oregano
6 leaves freash basil

Steps:

1. Trim ends of the zucchini and thinly cut the zucchini along the length. Sprinkle with salt generously and keep it aside for draining. Need to keep it for about 30 mins till its softens.
2. Mix olive oil, minced garlic and lemon juice together and keep it aside.
3. Cut the cherry tomatoes in half, sprinkle salt and keep it aside.
4. Once zucchini is ready, wash, pat and dry, and weave into a mat form.
5. Pour 1/2 of the olive oil mix and pour over the zucchini
6. mix goat cheese, oregano and some olive mixture
7. Pour the goat cheese mixture at the centre of the woven zucchini
8. scatter the cherry tomatoes over the zucchini mat
9. tear the basil leaves and sprinkle over the salad.

Pizza dough - bread machine

 

Ingredients:

 

Flat beer - 1 cup - I used heineken :)

Roasted garlic - 2 cloves

Olive oil- 2 Tbsp

Sugar - 2 Tbsp

Salt - 1 tsp

All purpose flour - 2 1/2 cup

Yeast - 2 1/4 tsp

 

Cheese : Asiago, Romano, Parmesan, Monterey Jack, Mozarella and Feta.

Toppings: Artichoke, Cooked spinach, Jalapeno pickle, Cherry tomatoes, Onions, Basil

 

Directions:

 

1. Mix roasted garlic and olive oil and set it aside for 20 mins to infuse the flavour.
2. Add all the ingredients till cheese to the bread machine
3. select dough cycle and let it finish the cycle
4. brush the sides of a bowl with olive oil, transfer the dough to the bowl and coat the dough with olive oil. Cover the bowl with air tight lid and let it stand for an hr or till you are ready to make the pizza
5. preheat oven to 400 degree F.
6. cook the spinach
7. add some semolina or flour to the pan and spread the pizza dough.
8. brush it with olive oil.
9. spread pizza sauce.
10. add spinach before adding the cheese- this is to ensure that spinach doesnt get dried out while cooking.
11. add the cheese and the toppings.
12. Cook for about 24 mins till the sides are crispy and golden brown.
13. Enjoy the pizza..
 

 

 

 

 

Badam Kulfi

Ingredients:

1/2 and 1/2 - 1 cartoon.
sweetened condensed milk - 8 oz can
evaporated milk - 8 oz can
Almond - 1 cup or more as per your liking.
Cardamom - 4 powdered

steps:

1. Soak and make the almond paste 
2. mix all other ingredients  other than cardamom to a sauce pan and bring it to a boil
3. add cardamom and the almond paste
4. once its cool, pour into popsicle makers or bowl and freeze and enjoy :)

 

Ratatouille

Ratatouille  :

1/2 onion, finely chopped

2 garlic cloves, very thinly sliced

6 tomatoes puree

2 tablespoons olive oil, divided

1 Italian eggplant

1  zucchini

1 yellow squash

1 red bell pepper

10 sprigs fresh thyme

Salt

pepper

soft goat cheese, for serving

Steps:

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
2. Pour tomato puree into bottom of the 2L baking dish. Drop the sliced garlic cloves and chopped onion into the sauce, stir in one tablespoon of the olive oil and season the sauce generously with salt and pepper.
3. Trim the ends off the eggplant, zucchini and yellow squash. Remove core from the red pepper 
4. cut the eggplant, zucchini, yellow squash and red pepper into very thin slices, approximately 1/16-inch thick.
5. on top of the tomato sauce, arrange slices of the sliced vegetables alternating the order.
6. Drizzle the remaining tablespoon olive oil over the vegetables and season them generously with salt and pepper. sprinkle thyme leaves on top of the vegetables.
7. Cover with aluminium foil and Bake for approximately 45 to 55 minutes, until vegetables have released their liquid and are clearly cooked, but with some structure left so they are not totally limp. They should not be brown at the edges, and you should see that the tomato sauce is bubbling up around them.
8. Serve with a dab of soft goat cheese with your choice of grain or pasta.

 

Hamburger buns - for bread machine

Makes 6 large buns.

Ingredients:
1 1/4 cups milk, slightly warmed

1 beaten egg

2 tablespoons butter

1/4 cup white sugar

3/4 teaspoon salt

3 3/4 cups bread flour

1 1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast

1 egg, 1/2 tsp milk, 1/2 tsp water for egg wash

sesame for decorating the top

Directions:

1. Place all ingredients in pan of bread machine, add liquids first, then dry ingredients, butter cubed and in corners, salt in the corners, yeast in the middle (make a small dip hole with a knife in the center and add yeast).
2. Select dough setting.
3. When cycle is complete, turn out onto floured surface.
4. make rolls and pat them to form abt 3" circle buns, .75" thick.
5. Place on greased baking sheet far apart
6. beat the egg wash ingredients together and brush with egg wash.
7. sprinkle with sesame seeds on top.
8. Bake at 350° for 14 minutes. keep checking if bun is done by checking for your perfect color :)

Indo chinese Chilli Chicken

For marinating:

Chicken - 1.5 lbs boneless.

Soy sauce - 2 Tbs

Corn flour or corn starch - 2 Tbs

Egg - 1

Salt -1/8 tsp

Rest of the ingrediants:

Soy sauce - 1 Tbs

black pepper - 1/2 tsp

green chillies - 14 nos -- less or more as per spice level

garlic - 6 cloves

spring onions - 2 sprigs

corn flour or starch - 1 tsp

peanut oil for stir fry

Directions

1. Marinate the boneless chicken pieces (one inch cubes) with ingredients for marinating for ten minutes.
2. stir fry chicken in hot oil till light brown and keep it aside
3. In the same wok used to fry chicken, add chopped garlic and chopped green chilies
   and toss for 15 seconds.
4. Add 1/2 cup water. Bring it to a boil.
5. add pepper powder, salt and rest of the Soya sauce and corn flour.
6. Add fried chicken pieces and cook for 2 minutes.
7. Garnish with chopped spring onions.

Enjoy it with Fried rice :)

Cashew nut cookies

210g butter
100g powder sugar
1 egg yolk
1/2 tsp vanilla essence
250g plain flour
60g corn flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
200g ground cashew nuts
1 egg (beaten for eggwash)
some exra cashew nuts for decoration

1. Pre-heat oven to 350 degree F. Sift all the dry ingredients and set aside.
2. Cream butter with powder sugar until light. Add in egg yolk and vanilla essence. Mix well.
3. Stir in the dry ingredients and ground cashew nuts. Mix well. Chill dough in fridge for 40 minutes.
4. Shape the dough into small balls or roll it out and cut into desire shapes. Arrange on a lined baking tray. Brush with beaten egg and place half cashew nut on top of cookies and press slightly to flatten it.
5. Bake for 15 minutes or until it is nicely brown. Cool and keep in airtight container.

Pie crust

Pie crust:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup Butter, chilled
3 tablespoons ice water

In a large bowl, combine flour and salt. Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in water, a tablespoon at a time, until mixture forms a ball. Wrap in plastic and refrigerate for 4 hours or overnight.
Roll dough out to fit a 9 inch pie plate. Place crust in pie plate. Press the dough evenly into the bottom and sides of the pie plate

Gingerbread Cookies

For 2 dozen cookies:

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons ground ginger
1 teaspoon baking soda
3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup Butter, softened
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1 tablespoon water
1/4 cup molasses
2 tablespoons white sugar


Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Sift together the flour, ginger, baking soda, cinnamon, cloves, and salt. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the margarine and 1 cup sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the egg, then stir in the water and molasses. Gradually stir the sifted ingredients into the molasses mixture. Shape dough into walnut sized balls, and roll them in the remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar. Place the cookies 2 inches apart onto an ungreased cookie sheet, and flatten slightly.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before removing to a wire rack to cool completely. Store in an airtight container.