Wednesday 9 January 2019

Makha Makha Chicken Bhuna

Ingredients:

1/4 cup oil
2 large Onion blended or finely chopped
1 tbsp Garlic paste
1 tbsp Ginger paste
2 tsp Curry Powder
1 tsp Garam Masala
1 tsp Paprika
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp all purpose seasoning (or 1/2 tsp more salt)
1 tbsp Tomato puree
1 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp Yogurt

6 large pieces of Chicken (1 kg)

Add all of the above except chicken in that order, cook the Masala for about 5 minutes on medium heat. Add the chicken and turnover few times to get them well coated, cook for 5 minutes to bring the temperature up, when the Masala starts bubbling again, turn down the heat to simmer, cover the pot and set the timer to 30 minutes. After 30 minutes check the Masala, if it's too runny for your taste, leave it uncovered for another 10 minutes.

Do not add any water (adding water will make it Chicken Curry), enough water comes out of chicken depending on the size of the pieces.

Do not cook chicken for more than 40 minutes, that's when the natural juice of chicken starts coming out and chicken will get dry and rubbery.

Monday 7 January 2019

Mango Cheesecake


It's a no-bake cheesecake with an Asian twist.
You will need a 8" cake tin.

Ingredients:

For base
Tea Biscuits 300g
Butter 100g

For cake:
Cream cheese. 300 g
Double Cream (heavy cream) 300 ml
Icing sugar. 1/2 cup sifted
Lemon juice. 1 tbsp
Gelatin 2 tbsp
Vanilla: 2 tsp
Mango puree 1/2 cup

Processes:

Gelatin
Add the gelatin powder in 1 cup of cold water and let it soak for 5 minutes, it's called 'blooming'. After 5 minutes give it a stir and bring it to boil in microwave or in a small sauce pan on heat.

Base:
Crush the biscuits either by a food processor or just put them in a plastic bag and use a rolling pin to crush them. Mix with the melted butter together into a dough, press it down at the base of a 8 inch cake tin > chill for 2 hours

Cake 
Whip the Double cream. with Icing Sugar gradually added.
Soften the Cream cheese and mix together with the whipped cream.
Add 1/4 cup Mango puree and half of the gelatin and mix together
Pour in the cake tin
Put the tin in fridge to set for 3-4 hours.

Mango glaze topping:
Add remaining half of the Gelatin and the remaining mango puree and mix well.
Bring the tin out of the fridge and pour over the cake to cover the top.
Put the tin back in the fridge to set for another 4 hours.

Serve
Loosen the sides of the tin by running a warm spatula around, or wrapping hot towel around or by a hair dryer. Slide the tin out.