Chicken Ghee Roast Biryani Recipe

Ghee Roast Chicken is a very famous and delicious Mangalorean delicacy. Converting a authentic recipe and creating a biryani was really challenging for me, the out come was amazing we want to prepare this recipe again.

I had to split the recipe in 3 stages. first stage was to create a masala, then cooking the rice and chicken, finally assemble the biryani and slow cook it for 10 minutes. I've also prepared excess masala paste which can be used in stirfry recipes.

Ingredients: (Biryani rice/ Khuska)
500 Grams Basmati Rice 
1 Cup Coconut milk
2 Green Chillies
1 Bay Leaf
2 Pods Cardamom
3 Cloves
1 Inch Cinnamon
1 Star Anise
2 Fried Onions

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Chicken Ghee Roast:
500 Grams Chicken with bones/curry cut without skin
4 Kashmiri Chillies
6 Guntur Chillies
1/4 Tsp Fenugreek Seeds, 
1/2 Tsp Cumin Seeds
3 Cardamom Pods
2 Inch Cinnamon, 
4 Cloves
1/2 Tsp Fennel Seeds
1 Tbsp Black Pepper
4 Cloves
1 Inch Piece Tamarind
1 Inch Ginger
10 Pods Garlic 
1/2 Tsp Turmeric Powder
1 Tsp Coriander Powder, 
1 Tsp Garam Masala Powder or Tandoori Masala
1/4 Cup Yogurt

Ghee as required
Salt as per taste
1 Liter Warm Water
1/2 Lime Juice, Coriander, Mint for garnish...

Method:
Marinate the chicken with turmeric and yogurt for half hour.

Heat a wok on medium flame add 2 tbsp ghee, fry all the spices for ghee roast. Once all the spices splutter and reduce try to drain all the ingredients from ghee and transfer to a mixer, add ginger and garlic, coriander powder, Garam masala grind to form a coarse paste. Add splash of warm water and grind the masala to form a smooth masala paste.

Use the same wok in which spices were fried,  add 2 tbps ghee, add the marinated chicken to the ghee and fry on low flame. Add 2 green chilies and 1/2 tsp salt fry the chicken for 2 minutes.

Add 1/2 cup water to cook the chicken cover and place on medium flame cook the chicken till half done.

While the chicken cooks prepare the rice, add 1 Tbsp Ghee to a pressure cooker place on medium flame. Once the ghee is hot add bayleaf, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and star anise to the ghee allow to splutter.

Add washed basmati rice to the ghee and spices, fry the rice for a 30 seconds. Measure the rice prior in any cup or tumbler using that measure for every one cup rice add 1 cup coconut milk and 1 cup water. I have not soaked the basmati rice. add 1/2 tsp salt cover and cook for 2 to 3 Whistles.

Once the chicken is half done, add the masala paste to the chicken, I've used only 3 tbsp of the masala paste if you like it extra spicy add more, add 1/2 cup warm water and  salt as per taste cook the chicken till well done.

After 3 whistles allow the pressure to reduce open the cooker and mix the rice. Once the chicken is well done place on high flame, allow the moisture to evaporate completely the ghee should surface to the sides.

I used the same wok in which chicken was cooked to dum cook biryani. Start Layering the biryani for dum, add 1 Tbsp ghee to the chicken,  Layer with mint and coriander, spread all the ingredients in even layer, add the fried onions, add few chillies if needed, add 1/2 Lime Juice, layer the rice evenly and place on low flame.

Cover with a tight fit lid allow to cook for 10 minutes on very low flame we can also bake this biryani in oven at 250 degree for 20 minutes. After 10 minutes the biryani is done and ready to serve garnish with coriander serve hot...Enjoy!

Rustic Southindian Style Dill Leaves and Potato Curry Recipe (Urulai Sozhikeerai Varuval)

This rustic southindian style dill leaves and potato curry, is a typical Bangalorean Tamilian community recipe prepared during monsoon season. 

We normally serve this sidedish with roti or steam cooked rice and ghee. This curry is very healthy packed with iron and minerals, has perfect blend of spices, very fragarant and truly satisfies all the cravings for rich food during monsoon.

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Ingredients:
2 Potatoes (Washed and cubed with skin reserve in a bowl of water)
1 1/2 Cup Dill Leaves Washed and roughly chopped
1 Large Onion roughly chopped
1 1/2 Tbsp Ginger and Garlic Paste
1 Tbsp Coriander Powder
2 Tbsp Chilly Powder
1/2 Tbsp Turmeric Powder
1 Tbsp Garam Masala (Optional)
1 Tbsp Cumin Seeds
3 Tbsp Oil
Salt as per taste
1/2 Lime Juice and Coriander leaves for garnish.

Method:
Heat a wok with 3 tbsp oil on medium flame.

Add cumin seeds to the oil allow to splutter.

Add ginger and garlic paste fry for 30 seconds or until the raw flavor reduces.

Add chopped onion and fry in ginger galic paste until transparent. Add 1/2 cup water to the onions to cook and caramalize a bit. Place the onion on high flame allow the moisture to evaporate.

Add chilly powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and garam masala to the fried onions fry these masalas on low flame for 30 seconds.

Add cubed potatoes, chopped dill leaves and salt fry in the onion masala a bit.

Add 1 1/2 Cups of water to cook the potatoes cover and cook until the potato absorbs all the masala and cooked till fork tender.

If the potato has excess moisture place on high flame stir and fry to the consitency you want to serve.

Garnish with coriander leaves and lime juice mix well...serve hot with rice, roti and dhal...Enjoy 😍

Review: BEHROUZ MUTTON DUM BIRYANI

Hi Friends, I agreed to review few online food delivery brands listed on Zomato for a PR company who had contacted me. First on the list was Behrouz Biryani. 

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This is solely my views, its not fabricated or trying to sell this brand. P.S I am not paid to do this it is a straight forward and honest review for zomato viewers, I wanted to document everything and post it for my subscribers on Youtube and blog too...

Before starting my review, please dont judge and start posting harsh comments let all of us #stopcyberbullying. 

I chose to order mutton dum biryani. 

1. I liked the compact packaging.

2. To my surprise biryani was piping hot for a home delivery.

3. We get boneless mutton dum biryani with gulab jamun and raita on every order.

4. They also provide plastic spoon, biryani masala/cumin mixed with chat masala, mouth freshener, napkin and toothpick on every order.

Overall nicely prepared biryani, basmati rice used very flavorful masala with loads of fried onions layered with rice and meat pieces. After mixing the rice along with the meat and masala I served in a bowl...decent portion for a person. 

Good quality ingredients used. Meat and rice was cooked to perfection. They also provide cumin masala for the raita we can sprinkle for the biryani as well it adds to flavor and taste.

I felt the biryani was lacking ghee, otherwise flavor and taste was good for a online food delivery brand. I was satisfied with my lunch. The online customer service and delivery was on time.

Will I order again? Yes. They also have a decent selection of vegetarian biryani. I would like to try the starters and other biryani variations...

Cost for biryani starts from 200/-

Visit https://www.behrouzbiryani.com to place your order.

Barley Risotto Recipe #SUPACORN

Hi Friends, Risotto is something I order everytime at a Italian restaurant, I love the creamy combination of rice and mushy peas in it but, when it comes to preparing same at home its impossiable the quality of ingredients that we get online and speciality food stores are very costly and not worth a dime, the ingredients I'm referring was good quality arborio italian rice and parmesan cheese. I've tried to improvise and create a delicious risotto using barley making it nutritious and healthy as possible. Barley risotto tastes excellent, this risotto was served for a group of five people.

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Ingredients: 
2 Carrots
100 Grams Button Mushrooms
1 Large Onion
3 Green Chilies
5 Cloves Garlic
1 Tbsp Italian Seasoning
1 Cup Cooked Barley
1/2 Cup Cooked Rajma (Kidney Beans)
2 Tbsp Butter 
150 Grams Cheddar Cheese
1 Cup Sweet Corn
100ML Amul Fresh Cream
2 Cups Vegetable or Chicken Stock 
Salt and Pepper powder as required.

Supa Corn is oxy packed remains fresh until 9 months without refrigeration. No preservatives added. What I like about supacorn is their option to serve the corn as it is or we can add to any dish, corn kernels cooks fast under 2 minutes. Supa corn comes with chipotle, peri peri, and achari flavor apart from the classic plain corn kernels and corn on cob priced between 34/- to 70/- per pack.

Method:
I have pre soaked the barley and kidney beans over night, pressure cooked barley and kiney beans seprately with 2 cups water and reserved.

Heat a heavy bottom base pan on medium flame I used a pressure pan, add 2 1/2 Tbsp butter. Add chopped garlic, onion, chillies and carrots fry for a minute.

Once the onion turns transparent and carrots soften a bit add chopped mushrooms and italian seasoning stir and allow to cook for another quick minute.

Add cooked kidney beans, barley and corn, add2 cups vegetable stock or water stir and place on low to medium flame cook for 10 minutes.

Once all the ingredients have cooked for 10 minutes add salt and fresh cream, reduce excess moisture on high flame keep stirring.

Add grated cheddar or parmesan cheese. Once the cheese is added stir and switch off the flame allow the cheese to melt and serve hot...Enjoy 😊

Banh Mi & Wok - Pan Asian Gourmet QSR @Indiranagar, Bengaluru

Banh Mi & Wok is a funky new Pan Asian quick service restaurant with fine dine gourmet food which recently opened at, Indiranagar - Bengaluru. I was hosted for a tasting session. 

Being an asian food fanatic, I absolutely enjoyed all the dishes on the menu. "It's refreshing to have a variety of Asian cuisine on one menu" and "it's perfect for work lunches". The menu is a well-crafted mélange of various oriental flavours like Malaysian, Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese. 

As a southindian I enjoy fish and coconut the two dishes, that kept me hooked, was the crispy salt and pepper prawns and coconut based dessert Tab Tim Krob.

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Ambience

Refreshing Drinks

 Bubble Tea

 Vietnamese Iced Coffee

Mango Bubble Smoothie

Starters

 Crispy Salt and Pepper Prawns 

No frozen fish here its all fresh prawns fried in tempura batter and wok tossed with salt and pepper..

 Wok Tossed Crispy Lamb with Cumin

Crunchy, chewy and perfectly spiced...crispy shredded lamb can be served as a starter or can compliment noodles or fried rice... 

Mains

 Chicken Bao with garlic mayo

Feather light steam cooked bao buns stuffed with spicy melt in your mouth chicken and veggies was perfect...

 Sloppy Viet

This might be the ultimate combo, the American Sloppy Joe and the Vietnamese banh mi are blended to result in this show-stopper of a sandwich.Well constructed sloppy bun with minced chicken cooked in thai curry and layered with pickled vegetables, julienne cucumber and carrots in a baguette...

 Shanghai Noon (Chicken Noodles)

A classic asian takeout comfort meal. Combination of Kung Pao chicken, noodles and sauce.  This dish has great spicy/savory flavors, once you try this Asian fusion style noodles, your sure to fall in love with this meal.

 Nasi Lemak

Short grain rice cooked in coconut milk, topped with spicy sambal, crispy anchovies, fried chicken wings, shrimp crackers and cucumber worth a try...

Desserts

 Fried Banana with Ice cream

Tab Tim Krob

Overall I loved everything...food, ambience and location. My picks from the tasting are salt and pepper prawns, sloppy viet, shanghai noon (Chicken Noodles), mango bubble smoothie, tab tim krob and fried banana with icecream.  All dishes are priced between 200/- to 300/-, Must visit if you love oriental cuisine.

Maggi Noodles Quiche Recipe

A no fuss, no base quiche, this recipe was so easy and quick to prepare. If your family loves maggi, surprise them with a nutritious and tasty quiche for lunch. Maggi is no longer maida its 100% wheat now.

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Ingredients:
2 Cups Spinach 
4 Chicken Sausages
1 Large Onion (Finely Chopped)
1 Cup Mixed Vegetables (Frozen veggies)

3 Green Chillies (Finely Chopped)
5 Eggs
1 Cup Grated Cheese
(Mix of mozzarella and Cheddar Cheese)

1 1/2 Tbsp Green Chilly Masala Paste (Please click here for recipe)
1 1/2 Tbsp Chilly Powder
2 Packs Maggi Noodles of choice (I have used Maggi Mumbaiya Chataka)
2 Tbsp Oil or Ghee
3 Cups Water
Salt as per taste
Mint, Coriander, Paprika powder and Lime wedges for garnish...

Method:
Heat a pan with 2 tbsp oil on medium flame.
Add chilly masala paste fry until raw flavor reduces.
Add chopped onion, chillies and mixed vegetables, fry for a minute. Add 1/4 cup water and salt to cook the vegetables.
cover and cook the veggies for 2 minutes.

Once the veggies have cooked add chopped sausages and cook on high flame for 2 minutes, add chilly powder and Maggi Masala powder to the sausages and cook for a minute. Add chopped spinach to the sausages and cook for 30 seconds. Once all the ingredients are well combined and cooked remove from flame and reserve.

Boil 2 cups water in a pot to cook noodles, cook the noodles till half done, drain excess water and reserve the noodles in a mixing bowl.

Combine the sausage masala and eggs in the noodles, check and add salt and pepper if needed. Grease a 9 inch baking dish with oil, transfer the noodles in the baking dish spread evenly, sprinkle cheese and bake at 250 degree for 30 minutes.

If you dont use a oven, this quiche can be steam cooked in a pressure cooker. Once baked garnish with chopped mint and coriander...serve hot...Enjoy😋

Nutmeg Infused Cold Pressed Coffee Recipe (Coffee Juice)

If you haven’t tried cold brew or cold pressed coffee yet, you’re missing out. The flavor is delightfully smooth compared to the taste of your usual cup, and it packs more than enough of a caffeinated kick to get you going in the morning. I have come across many articles and recipes for cold pressed coffee but never really got to taste it before, until my trip to The Serai Chikmangalur. 

My day at, The Serai started with a refreshing nutmeg infused cold brew coffee. So what was on my to do list for blog, I had to recreate the recipe and share it with my lovely readers...

Lets start with, what is cold brewed Coffee? It’s a way of brewing coffee in cold water rather than the traditional method of using hot water. 

Cold brew has a longer extraction process which gives it a few advantages over your typical cup of coffee. For one, it tastes a lot smoother. The familiar bite of hot brewed coffee is caused by fatty acids, which are left behind during the cold brewing process. This means it’s not only easier on your taste buds but on your stomach as well.

After brewing coffee grounds in cold water for a set amount of time (more on the ideal schedule later) you’re left with a tasty cold brew.

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Your brew can be used as a base for many different drinks: hot, cold, iced, or in a cocktail! The versatility of cold brew is a true game-changer in how you consume your daily dose of coffee. cold brew can be stored in the fridge for up to 2 weeks.

We can always dilute the coffee as per taste preference and use accordingly. Since we do not use sugar at home regularly, I've used date syrup and honey, we can also use diet sugar or palm sugar as per preference.

To prepare this cold brewed coffee I've used 100% coffee by coffeeday. Mysore Royal: a premium coffee powder with flavors of bitter chocolate and caramel with whisper of rich fruit, with flecks of sweetness makes you feel like royalty .This is not an instant coffee. 

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Ingredients To Prepare Cold Pressed Coffee:
10 Tbsp 100% Coffee
1/4 Cup Honey or Date Syrup or 10 Tbsp Sugar or Diet Sugar.
1 Tbsp Grated Nutmeg
2 Litre Cold Water 

We also need a glass jug or glass bottle for brewing...

Method:
Measure 10 Tbsp Coffee reserve.
Grate the nutmeg using a cheese grater reserve.
In a glass jug pour the coffee and nutmeg top with cold water close with tight lid and refrigerate for 18 hours.
After 18 hours strain the coffee using a sieve.
Mix 1/4 cup honey or dates syrup in the coffee stir well...Serve chilled...Enjoy.

We can also use this cold brew coffee to prepare coffee based cocktails 😉

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