Spicy Chicken Biryani

Spicy Chicken Biryani Recipe

Preparation Time : 30 min
Cooking Time : 45 min
Yield :4 -6 people
Ingredients:
For marinate:
Chicken - 2 lb 
Curd /Yogurt - 1 and half cup

Shan Bombay Biryani mix -2 tblspn      
Mint leaves - 1 cup
Coriander leaves -1 cup
Fried onions - 1/2 cup
Red chilli powder - 1 tspn
Turmeric powder - 1/2 tspn
Garam masala - 1/2 tspn
Salt -To taste
Lemon juice - 1 tblspn
Oil - 1tspn
For rice:
Basmati rice -4 cups
Cumin seeds - 1 tspn
Cardamom & cloves - each 3
Water - 6 cups
Salt - 1 tspn
Oil - 1/2 tspn
For Toppings:
Fried onions - half cup
Mint leaves - half cup
Coriander leaves -half cup
Butter - 1tblspn
Directions:
First, wash the chicken and marinate it with the ingredients above and put it a side for about 1-2 hours.Meanwhile cook the rice with the ingredients above and cook it for about 70% done.Now,drain the rice and put it a side.Heat the butter in a big pan and add the marinated chicken and cover it with rice.Add mint,coriander leaves and fried onions on top of the rice.Put the lid on and cook it for about 45 minutes on medium low heat.Chicken Biryani is ready.Enjoy with raita.

Wash the chicken pieces

Fried onions

Marinate with masala

Wash the rice

Add jeera,cardamom,cloves

Cook it.

Drain it.

Add butter

Add Marinated chicken

Close the curry with rice

Sprinkle with fried onion,Mint
Cilantro leaves

Close lid 

Done!!

Done!

Enjoy!!

Moong Dal Stuffed Sweet Chapathi (Bobbatlu)

                  Burelu or Polelu or Bhakshalu 
Preparation Time : 30 min.
Cooking Time : 20 min.
Yield : 20 sweet chapathis
Ingredients:
Moong Dal - 1 cup
Water - 1 cup
Cardamom powder - 1/2 tspn
For the dough: 
All purpose flour/Maida - 1 and half cup
Water - enough to make soft dough
Oil/Ghee - enough to cook the chapathi
Directions :
First, Make a soft dough with all purpose flour and water.Put it a side for rest about 1 hour.Wash the moong dal and add water and cook it until well cooked.Put it a side and cool it completely.
Now,grind the dal with sugar till it becomes paste.Don't add any water.Next, heat the pan and add moong dal paste and cook it until it becomes thick paste.If you like cardamom powder you can add it too.Mix the paste in between.Remove the pan and cool it completely.
Then,take the moong dal paste and make into a round balls.Now,take the lemon size amount of dough and spread like little poori and place the moong dal ball in the center and close it with the dough.
Now,apply little oil on a cover and place the dough covered with moong dal ball and press with your hands gently. Make it like a little chapathi.
Next,Heat 1 tspn oil in a pan and cook the sweet chapathi on medium low heat.Enjoy with Ghee!!

Take the maida

Add water

Make the dough

Wash the moong dal

Cook it with water

Still cooking

Cooking is done

Grind with sugar

Moong dal,sugar paste

Cook it

It is like thick paste

Make round balls

Place  in the dough

Ready to make sweet chapathi

Make stuffed chapathi

cook it

Turn it

Done!!

Ugadi Festival special

Fruit Pastry Cake

When I was in India I loved pineapple pastry cakes.I was wondering how they make these kind of cakes.Now I know the secret of the pastry cake recipe.I tried it and It came out very well. 

Fruit or Pineapple Pastry Cake recipe

Preparation Time : 1 hour
Cooking Time : 0 time
Yield : No value
Ingredients:
Vanilla Sponge Cake - 9 inch round(You can find the recipe here)
Pineapple juice - 3 tblspn
For cream:
Heavy cream -32 oz
Vanilla essence - 1 tblspn
Sugar -1/2 cup
For Topping (I used these.You can use any kind of fruits)
Mandarin oranges - 1 cup
Peaches - 1 cup
Strawberries - 2 cups
Kiwi - 1 cup
Pineapple -1 cup
Sliced Almonds - 1/2 cup
Directions:
First,take the heavy cream in a big mixing bowl and beat it with a electric beater for about 1 minute.
Next, add vanilla and sugar then, continue beating until it is shiny and just form soft peaks.
Then,take the cake and slice it evenly for 2 layers with a sharp edge knife.Sprinkle some juice(any kind of fruit juice, I used pineapple juice) on top of the cakes.Take the cream and apply it evenly and decorate a layer with pineapple chunks.
Now add some more cream and put the other half of the cake and apply it with cream.Next put the cake in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.
Repeat and coat the cake with the cream then put it again in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.Now take the cake and decorate it with your own style and put it into the refrigerator.After 1 hour take the cake and Enjoy!!

Heavy cream for
whipping cream

Put in mixing bowl and beat

Add sugar and vanilla

Beat  again

Continuously beat

It is form like thick cream

Cut the sponge cake into 2 pieces
with Knife and sprinkle some juice 

Apply the cream and layer
with pineapples

Put the half cake on top

Apply cream

Coat evenly  with cream

Take the fruits

Decorate with fruits

Decorated with slice almonds

Enjoy!!

Vanilla Sponge Cake

                         Vanilla Sponge Cake Recipe
Preparation Time : 15 min
Cooking Time : 35- 40 min
Yield : 7-8 people
Ingredients:
Eggs - 6
Bleached flour -1 cup
Vanilla Extract -1 tspn
Sugar - 1 cup
Lemon Zest -1/2 tspn
Milk - 2 tblspn
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. First, take the eggs and separate into the yolks and whites.
Beat the whites first until it forms soft peaks on high speed.Then,put a side.Now take the sugar and beat it with yolks until you get a creamy texture.
Add vanilla and lime zest and continue to beat.Add the flour little by little in the yolks and mix it with a spatula slowly.Take the yolk and flour mixture and mix it with the whites very gently.
Take the cake pan and apply it with some butter.
Add the cake batter into the cake pan and put it into the oven.Bake the cake for about 35- 40 min.
Take cake out put it on the cooling rack.The Sponge cake is ready.Enjoy!
Note :I got this recipe from Joy of baking.I changed the recipe a little bit here and there.It came out very well.

Beat egg whites

Soft peaks

Beat the yolks

Add lemon zest

Add vanilla essence

Beat it again

Add flour

Mix it with spatula

Mixing is done

Add the yolk mixture to egg whites

Pour it in the baking pan

Done!