Mocha Brownies :)

This is among the most awaited recipe which I'm finally posting on my blog:)

This was my first attempt of baking brownies:)


Ingredients:

• 250gm unsalted butter
• 250gm dark,unsweetened cooking chocolate, chopped (just see to it that the local variety of cooking chocolate already has sugar added, so before getting diabetes amend the sugar quantity accordingly:P)
• 3/4 cup castor sugar (table sugar ground finely at home or better get confectioner's sugar available in market)
• 1 Tablespoon dry instant coffee
• 1 tablespoon hot water
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 cup plain flour

Procedure:

• Take a shallow square cake pan and cover its base with butter paper and grease it.
• Melt chocolate and butterin pan over low heat, stir until smooth.
• Remove from heat and stir in sugar and combined coffee and water (mocha instant coffee dissolved in 1 tablespoon hot water)
• Add into it eggs 1 at a time.
• Stir in sifted flour with constant mixing. Take care to prevent formation of lumps of flour into the mixture.
• Keep mixing with a wooden spatula till smooth mixture is formed.
• Pour the mixture into prepared pan.
• Preheat oven at 200 C for at least 45 minutes.
• Bake in the brownies for about 35 minutes or until firm. (best way to check whether brownies cooked or not is to poke the brownie mixture with a knife. If the knife comes out without any mixture particles, it indicates proper cooking)
• After being baked, cool the pan. Carefully detach the paper from the pan and dish out the brownie cake:D
• Cut to squares and dust it with sifted icing sugar before serving:)

TIPS:

• Do not try at higher temperatures you will burn the base of the brownies:P
• Keep checking your pan after few minutes.
• If its your first baking attempt do not panic (most importantly:P) if something goes out of the way as practice makes perfect brownies :)

Enjoy home made Mocha brownies with tea:)

Baked Pasta :)

Ingredients:

• Pasta 1/2 pack
• milk 1/2 liter
• flour 4 Tablespoon (maida :P)
• 4 cheese slices
• salt 1/4 teaspoon
• capsicum 2 medium sized cut in squares
• red onion 1 medium sized cut in squares
• Carrot 1 cut in small cubes
• spring onion 2 roughly chopped
• sugar 1/4 teaspoon
• black pepper 1/2 teaspoon

Procedure:

• Boil pasta and strain it. Pour on tap water to prevent from clinging.
• Take non stick pan and saute 4 tablespoons of flour in it for 5 minutes.
• Boil milk and add the cooked flour to milk slowly. As the milk thickens, add salt, black pepper and sugar in it.
• Pour 2 tablespoons of oil and saute the vegetables in it. Now add  the cut vegetables i.e. capsicum, carrots, red onions and spring onions to the milk.Mix well.
• add the boiled pasta and mix all the vegetables and pasta well.
• Take an oven safe glass dish. Add the pasta and vegetables cooked in milk to the dish. Spread cheese over it.
• Preheat oven at 150 C for half an hour.
• Cook the pasta in oven for 2-12 minutes (just let the cheese melt and get mixed with the pasta and veges)
• Take it from oven and serve with chili garlic sauce:)

The Scientific collection :P

when not in a mood to work, borrow someone's jewelry and try it for yourself how does it goes with you :D  

the fog blues!

Awesome day of February 2011 at Remington Pharma's Plant parking lot :)

The Pakistani style pasta:D

Tired of everyday chicken menu???? want to try pasta in mutton and Pakistani spice:D 
here it goes!


Ingredients:
1 medium sized onion chopped
garlic and ginger paste 3 table spoons
1 cup mutton mince (previously boiled)
1/2 packet pasta (previously boiled)
olive oil 2 to 3 tablespoons
salt to taste
red pepper 1/2 teaspoon
black pepper 1/2 teaspoon
mace 1piece (jawatri, A pakistani spice:P)
cinnamon 1 piece (daarcheni)
nutmeg 1 piece ( jaefal)
coriander powder 1/2 teaspoon
cardamom 1 piece 


Procedure:

• Grind together mace, nutmeg, cardamom and cinnamom to turn it into powdered form.

• warm oil in pan and add to it sliced onions and cook it till light brown.

• add to it garlic and ginger paste and mix and cook well both.

• now add the boiled mutton mince into the pan and cook it till the water dries. Cook till the aroma of ginger n garlic blends well with the onions and mutton mince.

• after the water dries, the mutton and onions would look like this

• add the ground spices, salt, red pepper & black pepper to the mutton mince and saute the ingredients well.

•  Add the boiled pasta to the pan and mix all the ingredients well.

• the pasta after being mixed and cooked well with the rest ingredients:)

• The dish after being served and garnished:)

• Garnish it with tomato and diamond shaped cut green chilies:) 
• Enjoy with tomato sauce:)

14th August 2011:)

LOVE U PAKISTAN :)

Some of the best pictures of Pakistan I've come through:)

 

The very simple chicken roast :D

If your'e not in a mood to engulf large amounts of oil in fried chicken, this one is a must try:D


Okay the ingredients you would need for this recipe is:

Chicken 1/2 kg cut in medium sized pieces

half a pack of Chicken roast masala available in the market of different brands(do read out the quantity of meat it could marinate before you ruin your dish:P)

vinegar 3-4 Tablespoons

Lemon juice 1 tablespoon

yogurt 1/2 kg ( use it for marination plus mint chutni)

cooking oil 2 tablespoon

salt to taste (if the prepared masala doesn't have salt to your taste, although it won't be required)

FOR MINT CHUTNI:

1 green chili

few leaves of mint

Salt to taste

black pepper a pinch of it

PROCEDURE:

• Take the chicken pieces and poke it with a fork so that the masala penetrates into it well.
• Put the chicken pieces in bowl and add to it 2/3rd of the yogurt. Mix it well.
• Now to this add the roast masala packet.
• Pour in the vinegar, lemon juice and oil..Mix all the ingredients well and marinate the chicken for at 2 hours.
• Preheat your oven at 200 C, 30-45 minutes before placing your chicken into it.
• Grease the dish with cooking oil and and place the chicken pieces on it. Carefully pour the left over material to the chicken pieces so that it is completely covered.
• Cook the chicken in oven for 45minutes to 1 hour. Keep rotating the sides of the pieces so it gets cooked from both the sides well.
• Use a knife to check whether chicken is cooked properly or not.

Now the chutni:

Blend the yogurt with mint leaves and green chilies. Add salt and black pepper.

Serve the chicken with the chutni!

My chicken roast was not properly garnished due to the aftari rush:(

The Ramazan cooking:)

Yesterday I planned to have some experimental fun with the Aftar Menu because I was so bored of the same Fruit Chaat and Dahi bhalaz daily:P
Trying your own innovative ideas with same old ingredients is really fun! You don't have to follow some one's recipe like dumb counting every grain of spice to make sure the meal doesn't gets ruined! 
The food was spaghetti with chicken meat balls and vegetables and Chicken roast! 

The Recipe was very easy and is as follows:D

INGREDIENTS:
1/4 pack of spaghetti
1 medium sized capsicum
few leaves of cabbage
1 medium sized red onion
1 medium sized carrot
salt to taste
black pepper 1/2 teaspoon
olive oil to saute fry the vegetables
ketchup 1 tablespoon
soy sauce 1 teaspoon
dried round red pepper 2-3 pcs
chicken meat balls (prepared and frozen available in the market)


PROCEDURE:

• Fry the meat balls until golden brown and tender.
• Cut cabbage, Capsicum, Onions and carrots in Julianne form (long style of cutting)
• Saute the vegetables at low flame in olive oil and do its seasoning with salt and pepper.

• Boil the spaghetti and rinse it with tap water to prevent it from clinging together.
• Warm 1 tablespoon of olive oil and add to it the boiled spaghetti. Add salt and pepper to it. Now pour into it ketchup and soy sauce. Mix all very well and then add the dry red peppers to it.
• Take your serving dish and place the spaghetti on it first and spread it evenly on it. Now place the vegetables neatly over the spahgetti and top it with the fried meat balls!
• Serve it hot with Chilli Garlic sauce and ENJOY:)

Chicken roast coming next:)