Tuesday, 18 December 2012

More Meat Dishes


Beef-Chicken/veal/ Chilly fry 

Ingredients

Stew beef/veal/chicken breast – 1 Kg
Onions – 3 cut thin elongated
Tomato paste – 1 can
Chili powder – ½ or 1 tablespoon
Grated ginger – 1 teaspoon
Oil - 2 or 3 tbs
Apple cider vinegar – 1 ½ tbs
Salt ¾ teaspoon
Cloves - 2
Cardamom - 2 with seeds taken out and crushed
Cinnamon powder - pinch

Method:
  • Cut the meat or chicken into thin strips of about 2” long mix with apple cider vinegar and set aside
  • In a pan fry the onions till light brown.
  • Add tomato paste, salt, grated ginger and chili powder and fry for 5 minutes stirring constantly on medium heat.
  • Add cloves, cardamom and cinnamon and fry for another 3 minutes
  • Add the meat or chicken and cook till it is tender on minimum heat.
  • Taste and add salt if needed. Eat with the vegetable rice, nan or brown pita bread.

Thursday, 13 December 2012

Spicy pork

Spicy Pork:

Boneless Pork – ½ kg
Garlic – ½ cup chopped
Ginger – ½ cup chopped finely
Green chillies – 4 chopped finely
Paprika – 1 teaspoon
Salt – ½ teaspoon
Tomato paste – 1 can
Apple cider vinegar – 2 tablespoons

Method:
·         Wash and boil the pork in 1 cup of water for 10 minutes.
·         Take out the meat and cut it into small pieces (1") and strain the liquid in which pork was boiled.
·         Put the meat back into the same pot with the strained water and all the ingredients except the tomato paste and cook for half an hour on medium flame.
·         Add the tomato paste, mix thoroughly and cook for another 10 minutes.
·         Taste and add salt or vinegar according to your taste.
·         You can eat it with rice or crusty brown bread

Monday, 10 December 2012

Pork Dishes

Pork Chops:

Ingredients:
Pork chops - 6
Egg – 1
Ginger garlic paste ½ teaspoon
Bread crumbs
Chilly powder a pinch
Salt – ¼ teaspoon
Garam masals (mixture of ground cinnamon, cloves and cardamom) - 1/4 tesp
Olive oil as needed

Method:
  • Marinate the pork chops with salt, chilly powder and ginger/garlic paste for ½ an hour
  • Dip each chop in the beaten egg and then roll in the bread crumbs and fry on a non-stick pan with some oil on medium heat
  • Turn when the bottom is brown and continue to fry till both sides are golden brown
Eat with tossed garden salad, steamed vegetables and multigrain bread

Monday, 3 December 2012

Prawns and Mussels

Prawns and mussels in wine sauce

Ingredients:
Prawns – ½ cup
Muscles – ½ cup
White wine – 1/2 cup
Butter – ½ tablespoon
Lemon – juice of ½ lemon
Pepper and salt to taste
Small onion – ½ (Chopped very fine)

  • Wash and dry the prawns and mussels and set them aside
  • Fry the onion in the butter till light brown
  • Add lemon, wine, salt and pepper and give it a boil. Add the prawns and muscles and boil till the liquid becomes about ¼ cup. 
  • Eat with multigrain bread and salad
It is better to eat butter in moderation than any other substitute as butter is natural and therefore easy to digest. The same goes for yogurts. It is better to eat 2% yogurt than the ones with 1%, as 1% milk is made thick with corn starch. It is hard to form yogurt with thin milk. A good yogurt should have only milk and bacterial cultures as its ingredients.