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Sunday, February 6, 2011

Chana Masala

This recipe was given to me by a colleague at work on our way back home in the cab while wondering what to do with my leftover soaked chickpeas (from the hommous and falafel I made the other day). Its very simple to prepare and oh so tasty! Ingredients: Chana/chickpeas - 1 cup soaked in water overnight for 10-12 hrs. Onion - 1 medium / Shallots - 5 or 6 Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp Tomato - 1 large Cumin powder - 1 tsp Coriander powder - 1 tsp Red chilli powder - 1 tsp Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp Water - 1 cup Coriander leaves - 2 tbsp chopped Lime...

Buttered fish fry in white sauce - The Julia Child Way

My sister was craving to eat fish fillets the French style. So we looked for a recipe in the great Julia Child's cookbook "Mastering the art of French cooking" and the video from her show "The whole fish story". Its very easy to make and my mom made this for us during our vacation in Riyadh and it tasted like restaurant food! Simply awesome! Ingredients: For the buttered fish fry: Fish fillets: 4 Salt All purpose flour Flour to sprinkle Butter - 5-6 tbsp For the white sauce (Bechamel sauce): Butter: 4 tbsp Flour: 2 tbsp Milk: 1 cup Pepper...

Fluffy Omelette

I tried this recipe from the Kairali channel's Magic Kitchen show. I like Lekshmi Nair because of her presentation skills and enthusiasm for cooking on this show. She does a good attempt at bringing modern cooking to the typical malayalee. Its amazing how she cooks with so much of jewellery on her lol! Especially those bangles and rings.  And shez got lovely manicured polished long nails. Simply amazing! All the same, shez sweet and chirpy! Ingredients: Ingredients (for 1 large omelette): For the omelette: Eggs -...