Friday, January 31, 2014

Chimichurri Sauce

This is a South American recipe primarily made with Parsley leaves. Here we use Coriander as variation.

Ingredients:
Coriander leaves - 2 cups
Salt - 1/2 teaspoon
Garlic - 1 clove
Oilve Oil - 4 spoons
Oregano - 1/2 spoon
Parsley leaves - 1/4 cup (optional)

Preparation:
Finely chop, coriander, parsley and Garlic
Blend all the ingredients with olive oil and the sauce is ready

Cheddar Cheese Dip

Ingredients:
Butter - 2 spoons
Maida / All purpose flour - 1 spoon
Milk - 1 cup
Grated Cheddar Cheese - 3 cups
Salt - 1/2 teaspoon

Preparation:
Heat butter in a pan. Saute the flour in it for sandy consistency.
Pour milk and stir continuously until there is no lump
Add cheese and allow the content to boil for 10 mins
Sprinkle salt
Stir the content then and there, until it comes to dip consistency

Devil Vegetable Fried Rice

This is a major dish in Asian Cuisine !!

Ingredients:
Rice - 2 cups
ginger-garlic paste - 1 spoon
tomato - 1 large
Chilli Powder - 1 spoon
Lime juice - 1 spoon
Butter - 1 spoon
Broccoli - 1 stem
carrot - 2
Onion - 1
Pepper - 1/2 teaspoon
Coriander leaves
Salt - As needed

Preparation:
cook the rice, place it in large bowl to cool it down and make it seperate.

Saute ginger-garlic paste until raw smell goes off
Add tomato puree and keep it in sim for 5 mins
Add chilli powder and salt as needed. Let the mix cook for another 10 mins. once done, add lime juice.

In another pan, heat butter, saute finely chopped onion.
Add vegetables and cook foor 5 mins.
Add salt and pepper
Mix the cooked vegetables with above prepared hot sauce, rice in low flame for 2 mins

Variation:
Basic fried rice: To prepare, avoid sauce in the above recipe.

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Paruppu Rasam

Ingredients:
Tamarind concentrate - 1/4 spoon or raw tamarind - 1/2 the size of Gooseberry
water - 1 bowl
Turmeric, Hing - 1/4 tea spoon
Salt - 1 and half spoon or as needed
Tomato - 1 (optional)
Rasam powder - 2 spoons
Thoor Daal - 1/2 cup

Seasoning:
Ghee - 1 spoon
Mustard - 1 tea spoon
Curry leaves / coriander leaves

Preparation:
Dilute tamarind in water
Add turmeric and hing and boil it for 5 mins
cook daal in 2 cups of water. Once cooked, just extract the water and add it to tamrind water.
If you are using tomato, cut it into bigger pieces and add it to the boiling rasam
Add salt, Rasam powder and allow it to boil for another 5 mins
When it boils over, switch off the flame.
Temper Mustard in ghee and season it in rasam with curry / coriander leaves

Variation:
If this recipe is prepared without Daal broth, its called "Gottu Rasam". This is easy to make in just 5 mins, especially when you are hungry.

Monday, January 27, 2014

Welcome to Harin's Kitchen world !

Hi Friends,

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