Pepper chicken fry

This is a simple Chicken fry which i tried for my husband . I prepared this fry with out adding water & tomato.It came out really good.Everybody enjoyed at my home.It tastes good with rice & roti.



Ingredients:
Chicken - 250g (bone less)
Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp
Pepper powder - 1/2 tsp (freshly ground)
Ginger garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
Chicken masala - 1/2 tsp
Curd - 2 tsp
Salt - To taste

For seasoning:
Whole black pepper - 1/2 tsp
Curry leaves
Onion - 1
Garlic - 15 flakes

Preparation method:
1. Mix all the ingredients along with chicken & Marinate for 30 min.
2. In heavy bottom pan,heat the oil,add curry leaves,chopped onion , garlic & Pepper corns.
3. Saute for 1 min,add Marinated chicken pieces,saute well.
4. Close with lid & allow it to cook,mix well in middle.
5. Saute well until it turn golden brown color & serve hot.

Potato Pie Pockets

Pie has always been on my Must try List. Once tried making apple pie and it was a Flop. Got this Potato Pie recipe from Menu Rani Chellam's Tiffen Ready Cookbook. Made some simple changes to the Filling and instead of making it as Single Big Pie made it as pie pockets in Muffin tin. Easy to Share and Portion Control too!!!

Ingredients
For the Pie Crust
200gms All Purpose Flour
2 tsp baking powder
100gms Cold Butter
1/2 cup Ice Cold Water
Salt to taste.

Method

Sieve together All Purpose flour and Baking powder , add salt and Cut the butter and work it thru the flour using a pastry blender or a fork. When the flour resemebles a coarse meal add required amount of water and make soft dough. Cling wrap and keep it in the refrigerator, let it sit for an hour.

Filling

3 medium size potatoes

1 bunch of spinach

1 medium sized tomato, finely chopped

1 medium sized onion, finely chopped

2 tsp red chilli powder

1 tsp ginger-garlic paste

Salt to taste.

Wash, peel and cube potatoes and cook until soft, Chop the spinach and cook separtely. In a Kadai, heat oil, splutter mustard seeds when they crackle add onions, saute until translucent. add tomatoes and ginger-garlic paste and saute for a minute or two. Add potatoes and spinach and saute for 5 minutes. Adjust salt and Keep it off the flame.

Grease the Muffin Tin. Take out the Dough from the refrigerator and Roll out small discs to fit in your muffin tin, Put the 1 or 2 tbsp of filling in each and Cover it using thin strips of the dough. Preheat the Oven 180C and bake for 35-40 minutes. When the top turns golden brown, it is done.

You can also find this @ LYRO#Potato Happening @ Sindhi Rasoi

My Baking Adventure

I Love Baking, Every Wednesday/Thursday i try to bake something new. Normally i dont move an inch from the recipe (courtesy: My Blogger Buddies!!!), but this time i jus want to try changing some ingredients on the recipe. Here, i got Madhuji's Blueberry Muffins using Apple cider Vinegar, I dared to change 2/3 ingredients of it, oolalah got great tasting muffin, but dont ask about the shape!!! Muffin Top had some cracks and was a bit crusty!!!! But the taste was great, the muffin was super soft, spongy and with the melted choco chips inbetween it was heavenly!!!  Thank god, didnt go waste!!! I was just praying that it shud come out like a Muffin :)

My Ingredients List

3/4 Cup All purpose flour

1/4 Cup Ragi flour 

3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt 

1/2 Cup sugar 

1/2 Cup milk

1/4 Cup Melted Butter
1/2 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar

3/4 Cup finely grated Carrot

2 tbsp Choco chips

Method (Same as the Original Recipe)

Preheat the oven to 375F for 15 minutes. Lightlygrease a muffin tin. In a medium bowl, combine together flour, baking soda, salt. In a large bowl, combine the sugar, milk, Butter and vinegar. Mix well. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients, stir until just combined. Add the grated Carrots and Mix. Fill the muffin tins about 2/3rds full. Bake until a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean, about 22 minutes. Remove from the oven and let it cool for 5 minutes. After that remove the muffins from the tins and cool on a wire rack

The taste was heavenly, Happy it came out OK! :) But will surely check out what went wrong and may be get it perfect next time!!!