Chicken

Tawa Chicken

Ingredients:
1kg Chicken
4 tbsp butter or ghee
1 cup onion minced
1 tbsp ginger paste
1 tbsp garlic paste
2 tbsp lime juice
1tsp red chilli powder
1/2 tsp black pepper
3 tbsp tandoori spice mix
1 tsp garam masala
Salt to taste
Green chillies (for garnishing)
Chopped coriander

Method:
1. Clean and cut chicken into pieces. Place all ingredients minus butter, chillies and coriander saved for garnishing into a bowl. Mix well and leave to marinate in the fridge for at least 2 hours.
2. Heat butter in a large flat pan (tawee). Add marinated chicken and stir fry for a few minutes.
3. Then reduce the heat to low and cook for 15-20 minutes and keep stirring till chicken is tender.
4. Sprinkle garam masala over it and garnish with chillies and chopped coriander.

Enjoy x

Love from Foodie Afifa Batan

Quick Chicken Balti

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Ingredients:
Oil
Chicken breast
Salt
Cayenne pepper
Crushes gaQuickrlic
Basaar
Vinegar
Green peppers
Ketchup
Mayonaise
Spring onions
Shallots

Method:
1. Put oil and boneless chicken in a pan. Add 1 and 1/2 tsp salt, 1/2 tspn black pepper, crushed garlic,1 tsp cayenne pepper, 1 to 2 tsp basaar (Pakistani curry powder).
2. Mix and let it cook in its own juices and vinegar for 5 mins.
3.  When chicken is almost cooked, add green capsicum pepper cut into small pieces and 1 heaped tsp of paprika.
4. Mix thoroughly and then add 1 and 1/2 tsp of cornflour to the side of the pot ans gradually stir in.
5. Add 2 squeezes of tomatoe ketchup, a generous tbsp of mayonnaise and add quartered shallots or/and spring onions if u have.
6. Once onions have sauteed garnish with coriander. Serve with roti, naan or stuff into a pitta bread pockets with mint & cucumber coleslaw and green salad.

Enjoy x

Love from Foodie Hajra Bhayat

Chicken Chow Mein

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Ingredients:
Chicken breast cubed
2tsp monosodium glutamate
1tsp paprika
1tsp ginger powder
1tsp crushed garlic
1tsp chilli flakes (more if you like it spicy)
1tsp sugar
1tsp aromat
1tsp corn flour mixed in little water
Vinegar
Soya sauce
Salt
Oil
Julienne carrots and red peppers
Beansprouts (optional)
Egg/stir-fry noodles

Method:
1. Leave some finely sliced chillies to soak in vinegar. This will be your concoction served with the chow mein.
2. Marinate the chicken in all the ingredients above up to and including the salt for at least 15 minutes
3. Cook the chicken in a wok with 2 tblspn oil till brownish in colour. Then take it out and set aside.
4. Add julienne carrots, bean-sprouts and red peppers to the wok. Then sauté for a few mins till the vegetables soften and are cooked. Meanwhile boil the egg noodles (pre-cooked noodles are a quicker option).
5. Then add both the noodles and the cooked chicken to the vegetables mix. Mix and let it cook for a few minutes so the flavours can be fully incorporated into the noodles.

Garnish with chopped spring onions and serve with a splash of the vinegar concoction.

Enjoy x

 

Pakistani Brown Rice

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Ingredients:
1 & 1/2 lbs meat or 1 whole chicken
2 &1/2 cups rice
3-4 cups water
1/2 cup butter
1 & 1/2 Onions
Crushed ginger and garlic
Red chilli powder
2 whole green chilies,
Whole cumin
Bay leaves
Cardamon pods
1& 1/2 handfuls whole masala mix
Salt

Method:
1. Boil meat with masala mix, ginger and garlic and 1 chopped onion.
2. Soak 1 & 1/2 tsp whole jeeru, 2 fresh green chillies, 2 bay leaves, 2 big cardamon pods and a pinch of whole pepper on the side in some water.
3. Once meat is cooked sieve out the masala mix and leave the water as stock for the rice later. Put the meat aside also.
4. Wash the rice and leave to soak in cold water.
5. Meanwhile slice the rest of the onions thickly and cook in melted butter in a pot until brown.
6. Sieve and add the soaked whole jeera and accompanying spices to the onions (from step 2) discarding of the water. Put the lid on the pot and let it sizzle for two minutes.
7. Then add the meat, red chillies, green chillies, salt and 2tbsp ginger and garlic.
8. Once it is brown add the stock from the meat according to the rice (2:1 ratio in cups) and salt to taste. Stir once and let it cook on low heat till rice is cooked.

Note:
When cooking with chicken cook the chicken with the onions (at step 5). Boil water with the masala mix separately to create the stock for the rice.

Enjoy x

Love from Foodie Hajra Bhayat

Chicken Nimbali

Ingredients:
Oil
Chicken breast cubed
Crushed garlic
Salt
Cumin powder
Double cream
Baby potatoes
Cherry tomatoes
Mozerella cheese

Method:
1. Marinate chicken breast in garlic, green chillies, salt, cumin powder and some double cream.
2. Then fry chicken in a little oil but not for too long so it dries out.
3. Then put the fried chicken in a rectangle pyrex dish, adding some par boiled baby potatoes which have been halved or thickly sliced on top.
4. You can then add sliced cherry tomatoes on top and then sprinkle salt and pour over some cream or white sauce. Cover with mozzarella cheese and bake in the oven.

Enjoy x

Love from Foodie Shereen Bham