Lemon mint Cooler

Lemon mint Cooler

Ingredients

Lemons 4
Green chili 1
Salt to taste
Black salt to taste
Fresh mint leaves 10-12
Caster sugar 2 tbsp
Ice cubes as required
Fresh mint sprigs 4
Soda as required

Method 

Quarter three lemons and halve the remaining one. Squeeze the juice from the lemon halves into a stainless steel glass. Put the lemon pieces in it.
Add green chili, salt, black salt, mint leaves and blend. Add powdered sugar, half a cup of water and mix. Add ice cubes and mix well. 
Put a mint sprig in a serving glass, add ice cubes and strain the mixture through a strainer into the glass. Top it up with soda and mix. Serve immediately.

Hariyali Aloo Tikka - Grilled Potatoes

Hariyali Aloo Tikka - Grilled Potatoes

Hariyali Aloo Tikka - Grilled Potatoes

Ingredients:
1 cup Coriander Leaves
1/2 cup Mint Leaves
1 small Garlic Clove
2 chopped Green Chillies
1 inch piece of Ginger
1/2 Lemon Juice
Salt
1/2 tsp Cumin Seed Powder
1 tbsp Gram Flour
Boiled Baby Potatoes
Onions chopped into big pieces
Bell Peppers chopped into big pieces

Method:
- Grind coriander leaves, mint leaves, garlic clove, green chillies, ginger, lemon juice, salt, cumin seed powder into a fine paste.
- Mix roasted gram to the coriander paste and coat the potatoes, onions, bell pepper with the coriander marinade
- Place the vegetable in skewers and grill it in a pre heated oven at 180c 
- Keep rotating the skewers in between till it gets slight black edges.
- The Hariyali Aloo Tikki is ready to be served hot.

Recipe By Ruchi Bharani 

Chapli Kebab

Chapli Kebab

Ingredients:
Meat, lamb/beef - 1lb minced 
Red Chillies - 4, crushed 
Black Pepper - 1/2 tsp, coarsely ground 
Coriander seeds - 1 tsp, roasted and coarsely ground 
Cumin Seeds - 1tsp, roasted and ground 
Green Chillies - 4, finely chopped 
Onion - 1, finely chopped 
Tomatoes - 2, finely chopped 
Mint - 2 tbsp finely chopped 
Cilantro - 2 tbsp finely chopped
Pomogranate seeds/ anar dana - 1 tbsp
Besan - 3 tbsp
Salt 
Egg - 1 
Oil for pan frying

Method:

Mix all of the above ingredients with minced meat and knead well. Set aside for 15 to 20 minutes. 

Take the meat mixture ,roll it to form a smooth ball. Flatten the ball by pressing firmly between your palms. ( dip your hands in water, so it don't stick to the hands).  The size of the kebab should be almost the size of your palm when pressed or slightly bigger.

Heat oil in frying pan. When oil gets hot, lower the heat and fry kebabs until well done.

Simple Spicy Oven Baked Chicken Legs

Simple Spicy Oven Baked Chicken Legs

Ingredients

4 kg chicken legs

87g of garlic {peeled}

3 scotch bonnet

1 tablespoon salt

6 chicken knorr cubes

2 tablespoon seaseme oil

1 tablespoon olive oil

4 tablespoon dark soy sauce 

1 tablespoon barbecue sauce

1 tablespoon dry rosemary 

1 tablespoon dry powdered garlic 

229g of ginger {peel and cut into smaller chunks} 

3 bell pepper  - red, yellow and green {cored and roughly chopped}

Procedures

Add all the ingredients into a food processor except for the powdered garlic. Blend until

 combined properly.

Make 3 large incisions on each chicken leg. Put all of them into a big bowl or a big 

pot, sprinkle the powdered garlic on them and rub them into each leg.

Empty the content of the food processor on the chicken legs, turn the legs just to ensure 

that the marinade gets to all of them.

Cover with a cling film, leave in the fridge over night but if you want to bake immediately

, leave in the fridge for atleast 2 hours.

Baking Process

Turn on the oven to 160 degrees

Arrange the marinated legs on a baking tray, sprinkle a tablespoon of hot liquid seasoning 

{maggi brand} on the legs.

Cover with a foil, pop into the oven. Bake 45 minutes to an hour.

 Check on the chicken, remove the foil and then turn up the gas to 200 degrees.

Bake for 15-20 minutes, so as to achieve that crispy dry burnt chicken skin.

Serve Hot!

**NOTE: You can always reduce the quantity of each ingredient used, if you are making 

this to serve for 2-3 people. But if you are having visitors over, these quantities are just 

perfect***

recipe sources http://labelleacestyle.blogspot.com/

Dum pukht chicken tikka

Dum pukht chicken tikka

Ingredients
Chicken 1 kg made into 4 tikka pieces
White vinegar ¼ cup
Salt 2 tsp
Alu Bukhara 10 soaked in ¼ cup water
Green chilies 6 grinded
Yogurt 1 cup
Allspice 1 tsp
Chili powder 2 tsp
Ginger garlic 1 tbsp heaped
Coriander powder 1 tsp
Cumin 1 tsp
Method
Give cuts on tikka pieces, marinate with vinegar and salt for 4 hours, discard the water which comes out, deep fry chicken pieces for 10 minutes, mix yogurt with ginger garlic paste, grinded green chilies, salt 1 tsp, chili powder, allspice, coriander, cumin, mix well and add this mixture in a wok with half cup oil add in the fried chicken, cook on low flame, covered for 20 minutes, when chicken tender oil comes on top, add the soaked alu Bukhara, give dum of coal.