Showing posts with label snacks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label snacks. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Crispy Chicken Pakoda

chicken pakodi snacks

This is one of the delicious and best  chicken variety recipe.Especially children like to have this one as snacks.It is also take with steamed rice and sambar...Very easy and simple snack.Best one to prepare at evening snacks time...

Ingredients



boneless chicken 200grs
oil for deep fry
turmeric 1/4 spoon
red chilli powder 1 spoon
salt to taste
garam masala 1/2 spoon
coriander seed powder 1/2 spoon
curry leaves few
green chillies 5
ginger garlic paste 1 spoon
corn flour 2 spoons
besan 3 spoons
egg white 1


Preparation


Cut chicken  into 2 inche pieces and wash with plenty of water and drain completely.
Make garam masala powder.
Make coriander seed powder.
Make ginger garlic paste.
Break the egg and separate white yolk.
Wash and cut green chillies into long slit pieces.
Take a big mixing bowl add small chicken pieces,salt,turmeric,red chilli powder,ginger garlic paste,garam masala and coriander seed powder and mix all well.
Then add corn flour and besan and mix all together.
Adding corn flour and besan depends upon the moisture of the batter(chicken pieces).Add egg white(optinal) and mix well and keep to rest and marinate for 30 minutes.



Method


1.Take thick bottom pan and add oil for  deep fry.
2.Add curry leaves when oil is heated.
3.Remove from oil when curry leaves fried .
4.Add long slitted green chillies and fry .
5.Remove them when fried well.
6.Put the flame in  medium  and add chicken pieces into the oil and fry until they become to golden red colour.
7.Stir chicken pieces up and down while frying.
8.Medium flame or low flame is better to fry chicken pieces.It will take 10 to 15 minutes.
9.When chicken pieces fried well remove them from oil and put on paper napkins for absorbing excess of oil.
10.Finallly add fried curry leaves and fried green chillies to chicken pakodies.
11.Have this one with Hot tea or coffee ...Enjoy!


Keep in the mind


Cut chicken pieces into small because small pieces should fry easy and cook correctly.
Do not put the flame high because chicken is raw(not cooked) so we should fry this pieces in low or medium flame for some time.
Fried green chillies do not have spicyness.Children also like to eat.
Fried curry leaves gives restaurant style aroma.. and use for nice display.
Batter should be like tight mixture not watery like onion pakoda batter.

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Dry Paneer Potato Kofta Recipe

dry paneer potato kofta recipe

This is one of the famous paneer recipes and  very tasty snack and easy to prepare ....But high calorie food .This type  of  food prefer to eat occasionally... We can make this kofta as shallow fry also.

Ingredients


paneer 250 grs
potatoes 3
salt to taste
black pepper powder 1/4 spoon
red chilli powder 1/2 spoon
corn flour 2 spoons
coriander  leaves few
garam masala powder 1/2 spoon
cashew nuts 10
badam 10
kismis 10
milk powder 1 spoon
oil for deep fry

Preparation


Grate the paneer
boil the potatoes and peel them and mash or grate them.
Make black papper powder.
Make garam masala powder.
Wash corinader leaves and choped finely.
Make the all dry fruits into small pieces.

Method


1.Take a big mixing bowl.
2.Add grated paneer,mashed potatoes,salt,red chilli powder,pepper powder,garam masala,milk powder,finely chopped coriander leaves and corn flour.
3.Mix all well and make a small balls and flatten them slightly.
4.place the dryfruits pieces in the center and cover the  dry fruits completely and make a ball.
5.Do all balls like this.
6.Take pan and put on the flame and add oil for deep fry.
7.When oil is heated add koftas and fry till become to golden brown colour.
8.Put them in paper napkin for absourb excess of oil...
9.Dry and tasty paneer potato recipe is ready to eat....Enjoy!

Keep in the mind


You can do shallow fry also.
Adding this kofta in tomato gravy and make kofta curry also.
Heating oil is very important.Oil should be in medium heat.Low heating of oil  koftas should absorb oil excessly and become greasy..
Too hot oil makes koftas become golden colour with out proper cooking in side of the koftas..
Add more  corn flour to the mixture if koftas break down while frying them

Friday, January 27, 2017

Salt Biscuits

salt biscuits baking recipes

 This is simple and basic biscuits preparation process..salt biscuits are more enjoyable  snack item at tea time.Every one even elders also like to eat this type of  biscuits.Try this if  you have any interest...


Ingredients



Maida 2 cups
butter 1/2 cup
backing powder 1 spoon
salt 1/2 spoon
milk 3/4 cup


Preparation


Pre heat the oven to 230 degrees C.
 Take a big mixing bowl.Add maida(all purpose flour),backing powder and salt and  mix all well.
Add butter and mix well.
Add milk little by little and  make a fine dough.
Roll dough out 1/2 inch thick sheat and cut into your wishing size or round shape.

 Place the biscuits on  backing sheat and put it on the pre heated oven and bake until biscuits become to light golden colour..

Salty and tasty biscuits ready to eat....Enjoy!....


Keep in the mind

You can make this biscuits with oven also.
Use sand or salt and pressure cooker.
Place cup of salt on the bottom of the cooker and put a small plate on hot salt and  put biscuits plate or vessel on plate.put the flame sim.
Put flame high until salt or sand become too hot...

Monday, December 12, 2016

Gobi pakoda

gobi 65 pakodi

Most of the people know to  prepare  cauliflower as cauliflower tomato  gravy curry,cauliflower fry,cauliflower mixed veg curry,cauliflower pickle,cauliflower manchuria......
This is very tasty snack to prepare using cauliflower as main ingredient.Cauliflower is very healthy vegetable and we get resistance from eating it.Normally children do not like to eat cauli flower .If we prepare pakodies using cauliflower, they should like to eat like onion pakodies...


Ingredients 


cauliflower florets 200grs or big bowl
red chillies 4
ginger 1 inch
garlic 8  cloves
corn flour 1 cup
maida 1 cup
rice flour 1/4 cup
suji 3 spoons
salt to taste
red chilli powder 1/2 spoon
turmeric 1/4 spoon
garam masala 1/2 spoon
coriander leaves few
curry leaves few
oil for deep

Preparation


Wash ginger and peel the layer and cut into pieces
Remove upper layer of the garlic.
Take cauliflower florets and put them in boiling water for 5 minutes and  after that drain them from water.
Take a mixie jar and add ginger and garlic pieces and dry chillies and make a fine paste adding little bit of water.
Make garam masala  powder.
Wash curry leaves and coriander leaves and cut  them into small pieces.
Take a big mixing bowl and add all flours(corn flour,rice flour,maida),suji,salt,turmeric,red chilli powder,garam  masala,red chilli and ginger garlic paste and finely chopped coriander and curry leaves and mix all well and add water little by little and make pakodi batter consistency.
Taste it if salt and spicy is enough or not.If not add some more salt and garam masala.
Then add semi boiled cauliflower florets and mix well.Apply masala batter to cauliflower florets.


Method


1.Take a thick bottom pan and put on the flame.
2.When pan is heated add oil for deep fry.
3.When oil is hot put the flame in sim and drop cauliflower florets to oil which one is mix with batter .(Just  like pakodi making.)
4.Fry in medium flame and fry until cauliflower florets fried well then  turn them into other side and fry that side also in the  same way.
5.After that remove cauliflower pakodies from oil and put on the kitchen napkin or paper towel for absorb excess of oil.
6.Fry some curry leaves and  slit green chillies in the oil and add them to cauliflower pakodies and mix all well.
7.softy and crispy cauliflower pakodies is ready is eat ...Enjoy !

Keep in the mind


You can add fried onions also.Of course it is optional.
Add red colour for making pakodies to dark  red colour.
Better to avoid adding food colour because it may be spoils our health.so make dry chillies  paste and add it.This will gives good colour to pakodies.

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Spicy Boondi Mixture

karam boondi snacks

This is very easy snack item to prepare.Making of this  snack is taken below 20 minutes. Children also feel happy if you add groud nuts or dry fruits and that increase the  tasty also.Adding fried curry leaves gives some nice aroma and tempts us to eat this snack immediately.If you do not like spiciness then avoid to add red chilli powder.That soft boondi also very nice in the taste. 


Ingredients


besan flour 1 cup
rice flour 1 spoon
salt to taste
red chilli powder 1/4 spoon
curry leaves few
ground nuts 1/4 cup
oil for deep fry

Preparation


Take a big mixing bowl.
Then add besan flour,rice flour,red chilli powder(optional) and salt and mix well.Then add water little by little to make boondi batter.
Batter consistency should be like thin(not watery).If you leave the batter with spoon ,batter should be feel down drop by drop.
Wash the curry leaves.

 Method



1.Take a kadai or thickened bottom vessel and add 2 spoons of oil.
2.When oil is heated add curry leaves and fry for 30 seconds and remove them and keep aside.
3.Add ground nuts and fry till they change the colour then remove from the oil.Keep aside.
4.Pour some more oil for deep fry and put the flame on high.
5.Take a boondi laddle(boondi maker)  and pour some batter on it and place it over the kadai.
6.Boondi laddle has some holes so batter feel down into the oil by drop by drop.
7.Add batter only when oil is very heated.
8.Batter drops pop up from the oil and fry for 2 minutes.
9.Remove them from the oil and do like this remaining batter also.
10.Add this boondi on kitchen paper napkins for absorb excess of oil.
11.Take a mixing bowl and add fried ground nuts,curry leaves and boondi and mix all well.
12.Easy snack item spicy boondi is ready to eat with any sweet ...Enjoy!.....


Keep in the mind


Making the batter is very important.Batter should not be like very thick or very thin.Batter should not be like watery(thin) or pakodi batter(thick).
Just like dosa batter and consistency is little bit thin than dosa batter.
Add batter when oil is very heated.  If you Add the  batter When  oil is not heated ,batter is not pop up from the oil and boondi shape is not forms properly. 

Friday, October 28, 2016

Onion Pakodi Andhra Style

onion crispy giger pakodi

This is very tasty snacks in rainy  season or when the climate become cool.Eating hot  crispy  onion pakodies while watching the beautiful climate or favourite T.V show...That enjoyment is different....This ginger onion crispy pakodi is very famous in andhra and naturally many people prepare this one on evening section when children coming back to school...Nice snacks for kids...

Ingredients

besan flour 1 cup
onion 2
green chillies 6
ginger  1 inch pieces
suji 5 spoons
salt to taste
oil for deep fry
rice flour 2 spoons

Preparation


Wash onions,green chillies and ginger and cut onions into long slices and cut green chillies into small pieces.
Peel ginger and wash once again and cut into small pieces.


 Method


1.Take a big  mixing bowl and add onions,green chilli pieces and ginger pieces and mix all well.Then add 1 spoon of oil and add suji and mix well.
2.Add besan flour,rice flour and salt and  mix well and add water little by little to make pakoda batter.
3.Taste the batter if salt is enough or not.If not add some more salt and mix well.
4.Take kadai  and put on the flame.
5.Add oil for deep fry.Put the flame on high till oil is heated.
6.When oil is heated reduce the flame and take a little portion of batter and place it in the heated oil and fry till they become to  golden colour.
7.Remove this pakodies from oil and place them on the paper napkin for absorb excess of oil.
8.This onion pakodi is good snacks and nice combination to eat with tomato sauce.....

Keep in the  mind


We can make besan flour at home.Take chana dal  and make a fine powder using mixie or blender.Sieve it to get fine flour.
Adding suji and rice flour makes the pakodi crispy and tasty too.
Add more onion pieces for  making of this pakodi.
If children donot like ginger you can add  coarse paste of ginger and green chilli pieces also.