Mumbai Street Food Festival @Barbeque Nation - Lido Mall, Bengaluru.

Barbeque Nation hosted me for their ongoing M.A. Road food festival. I was totally excited and looking forward to savor the best grills in town. M.A.Road (Mohammed Ali Road) is located in Mumbai.This street is most talked and visited by foodies from across the globe. 

Barbeque Nation has truly Captured the essence of Mumbai street food and is presenting lip smacking delicacies from"Mohammed Ali Road" to Namma Bengaluru. People like me who cannot travel all the way to mumbai can savor the most sort after delicacies on the spread till November 15th 2015 at all Barbeque nation outlets.

The ambiance was all decked-up with Popular Rehri Carts to Live counters and twinkly Lights creating a festive/Iftari atmosphere. The Spread consisted Zam Zam Biryani, Mutton Khichda, Tandoori Bater, Raan, Seekh Kabab, Chutney Grilled Prawns and so on...

  

The Menu

Rehri Cart

Starters..

 Chicken and Bater(Qual) Tandoori

Chicken thighs and quail were marinated in tandoori masala then grilled on coals the meats had a smoky flavor and were perfectly spiced.

Chicken Shikampuri, Chicken Baida Paratha, Seekh Kababs and Keema Kaleji

Chicken Shikampuri is a minced chicken patty filled with spicy panner then pan fried it was crispy on the out side and creamy center in the middle. 

Chicken baida paratha is again spicy minced chicken filling in a paratha this was cooked with ghee and oil was crispy...bit on the oily side. What I liked from the cart were the seekh kabab and keema Kaleji, chutney wala jhinga and raan with roti the seasoning and spice level was perfect.

Veg Options: Pav Bhaji, Paneer Bhurji, Sweet Corn Tawa Masala, Paneer paratha.

Masala Coke

Chutney Wala Jhinga, Taltali fish, Chicken Tikka and Fish Tikka

 Raan-e-Gosht

The Mains..

 Paaya Soup

Zam Zam Chicken Pulao, Nihari Gosht, Mutton Khchida, Bangda Fish Curry and Butter Naan

After a huge list of starters we started witht the mains. I enjoyed the paya soup. After scrumptious soup, I had butter naan, nihari gosht and mutton khchida. I liked the mutton khchida...the dhal spices and meat were cooked to perfection the meat was tender and almost buttery went well with naan.

Next up was the zam zam biryani I've heard quite a bit about this biryani with meats veggies and french fries its a meal on its own...here at bbq nation they had prepared it with sweet corn mutton and chicken surprisingly it was not that heavy rather very tasty.

Malpua with Rabdi, Gulab Jamun, Toffee Pastry

After a huge spread there was a good selection of desserts. We liked the malpua and toffee cake apart from this no mumbai food is complete without a kulfi I chose the kesar malai kulfi. Overall the meal is fit for a king...Stay hungry until you get here...Also try the masala coke to compliment the grills... I thoroughly enjoyed the M.A Road food festival.

Malai Kulfi

Barbeque Nation: 1/4, Ground Floor, Lido Mall, Swami Vivekananda Road, Ulsoor, Bangalore. Phone:080-49652867

 

Pepper Chicken Pizza Recipe

Pepper chicken is a south indian/tamilian household favorite side dish served with rasam rice. Pepper Chicken pizza is completely my own creation, One day I happen to reuse leftover pepper chicken for pizza we loved the combo and I personally love peppery meats the flavor and taste is something unique do give this recipe a try...

 Video Recipe to prepare Pizza Dough..

Recipe for Pizza/pasta sauce...

Video How to Prepare Pepper Chicken Pizza...

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To prepare Chicken topping take 250 grams Chicken breast wash and chop into tiny pieces or add the chicken to a coffee blender and grind to form chicken mince.

Heat a wok on medium flame add 1 Tbsp salted butter, once the butter melts add finely Chopped Garlic, 1 tbsp pepper powder and 1 tbsp chilly powder fry a bit. 

Add the chicken fry for a minute. Add salt as per taste we need to be careful with salt as we are using salted butter and if the pepper powder consists salt adjust and add the salt as per taste..

Keep stirring and cook the chicken once the chicken releases moisture cover and cook for 5 to 10 minutes or until the chicken has cooked thoroughly. Once all the moisture has evaporated from the chicken reserve in a bowl..

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Roll out the pizza dough place the pizza dough in the oven at 250 degree for 2 minutes. Smear the pizza base with pizza sauce top with grated mozzarella cheese, chicken, sliced onion, chopped bell peppers chillies...sprinkle with some pizza seasoning place back in oven at 250 degrees for 5 minutes until the cheese melts serve hot...Enjoy...:)

Dosa Pizza Recipe..

Paneer Tikka Pizza Recipe..

Pizza Dough Recipe

This is a Basic Pizza dough recipe.  We can also add dried herbs, garlic or chilli flakes to create flavourful pizza base. We can create many dishes using this dough recipe.

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To Prepare the pizza dough we will require 4 Cups All purpose Flour(Maida), 1 Tsp Sugar, 2 Tsp Yeast, 1 Tsp Salt, 1 Tbsp Oil, 1 Cup Lukewarm water and water to knead the dough.

Add Sugar to Lukewarm water stir. Add the yeast allow to activate. Sift flour twice add to a mixing bowl add salt combine the salt and flour. Add the activated yeast start to knead sprinkle water little by little and create a semi tight dough. 

Add oil and knead for 10 to 15 minutes until the dough is elastic cover allow the dough to raise in a dark place. Once the dough doubles in size take a large dough ball dip into flour roll thin rotis. 

Heat oven at 250 for 5 minutes dust a baking sheet with flour and place the rolled pizza base at 250 degree for 2 minutes. After 2 minutes top with cheese and desired topping bake until pizza is done serve hot...Enjoy..:)

Pepper Chicken Pizza Recipe..

Dosa Pizza Recipe..

Paneer Tikka Pizza Recipe..

Pizza Sauce Recipe..

The Christmas Preparations @Sheraton Grand Bengaluru

I was Invited for the Christmas fruit mixing event held at Sheraton Grand-Bangalore. Finely chopped nuts almonds, walnuts, cashews, dates, apricots, cherry, raisins were decorated on a 12 foot table. The chefs then added old monk rum, Cinnamon, clove and nutmeg powder along with candied orange peels and the mixing began. We thoroughly enjoyed the 1 hour mixing competition. Once the fruits were mixed the chefs took buckets of mixed fruits to be stored carefully...For a months time, these mixed fruits will marinate well and will be ready for Soft fudgy rich fruit cakes.

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Come Taste this yummy rich fruit cake at Sheraton Grand on 25/12/2015

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Review-RedCooker Food Ordering App

RedCooker is a handy little food ordering app which was launched recently. They hosted us at their Kitchen/industrial venue which is located at whitefield-Bengaluru, for food tasting session. It was quite an experience for me getting to see the chefs in action and the delivery team rushing against time to deliver the food. The company has both home-made and gourmet offerings, on the same platform at an affordable price.

Rohan Patnaik,Amol Patil,Raghunandan B, Founders of Redcooker Food Ordering App. 

The idea came about early this year, when the trio started aggregating housewives and started supplying meals to their friends (where the consumer had to pay for each meal everyday) and got insights into what is a“WOW” meal in the homemade food space. 

After a lot of research and feed-back, consumer one-on-ones, the team realized that the consumers, along with homemade food, wanted to experiment with exotic gourmet cuisines as well and hence built a kitchen in Whitefield. RedCooker is now a skilled team of 25 members. 

Along with supplying great food to consumers, RedCooker gives a platform to the home-cooks to discover themselves as entrepreneurs. The RedCooker app focuses on engaging with consumers and indicates to them nutritional content of each offering.The love for food and the passion of bringing great food, great packaging & great delivery under one roof drove the trio to come up with the concept Redcooker Food Ordering App.. 

Real time tracking of orders and personalization of food are two features that the RedCooker team is currently working on building. One can place an order by clicking on their website https://www.redcooker.com/Or downloading their app from bit.ly/get-rc . The app is available for download on Google Play for Android platform and will be soon available on the ios platform. Headquartered in Bangalore, the company plans to expand its operations to all the Metros and tier 1 cities in the next six months.

I got to taste a range of dishes from their menu...Chicken Salad, Crispy Fish Fingers with tartar sauce, herb roasted potatoes, pesto grilled basa fish, Chicken roll, Penne pasta, biryani, rogan josh and mattar malai with roti..They served us whatever was listed on the menu for the day... From this menu I will recommend the pesto fish, fish fingers and chicken salad. Its great they have given good thought and added healthy snacking, salads and so on, However I would like to see more snack options and desserts. Over all the dishes served to us tasted great.  

 Fish Fingers..

Chicken Salad..

 Herb Roasted Potatoes..

Pesto Basa Fish..

 Chicken Roll with mint chutney..

 Chicken Biryani...

 Mutton Rogan Josh..

Paneer Methi Mattar Malai..

Penne Arrabiata Vegetarian..

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