Egg 65

Ingredients:
2 hard boiled eggs
3 tbsp chopped garlic
2 tsp mustard seeds
10-12 curry leaves
1 tsp Asafoetida
1/2 cup Tomato sauce
3 tbsp red chilli sauce
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tbsp soya sauce
few drops of Tabasco sauce
1 Capsicum diced
1 onion diced
2 tbsp corn flour
Red food colouring
Oil
Salt
Sugar
Pinch of garam masala
Freshly Ground Black Pepper


Preparation:

• Heat oil in a pan. Add mustard seeds. When it starts crackling, add asafoetida. Add chopped garlic and diced onion. Saute for 2-3 min. Add the curry leaves.
• Add the Tomato sauce, red chilli sauce, tabasco sauce, soya sauce, & vinegar.
• Add little water if required and cook the sauce for 5min. Add red food colour.
• Add corn flour paste to thick the sauce. Add diced capsicum.
• Add salt and sugar as per taste.
• Sprinkle some garam masala and finally add the boiled eggs cut in half.
• Garnish using some spring onion.

(To make a gravy, you may use chicken or veg stock or just normal water and then thicken it slightly using corn flour paste.)

Chicken Manchurian

Ingredients:
Boneless chicken 300 gm
2 tbsp garlic chopped
1.5 tbsp ginger chopped
1 big onion sliced
1 tsp white pepper powder
1 egg
Vinegar 3 tbsp
Corn flour 4 tbsp
Soya sauce 2 tbsp
Green chilli sauce 1 tbsp
Ajinomoto/ Maggie magic cube
1 small green chilli finely chopped
2 cups Chicken stock
Freshly ground black pepper
Salt
Sugar-a pinch
Oil


Preparation:

• Marinate the chicken with little salt, 2 tbsp corn flour,egg and 2 tbsp vinegar
• In a pan, heat oil. Add chopped ginger and garlic.
• Add the green chillies n sauté for 2 min.
• Add the sliced onion and saute till it cooks. Add the sauces(Green chilli and Soya) one after other. Add the remaining vinegar.
• Add ajinomoto or Maggie magic cube powder and white pepper powder.
• Add Chicken stock and let it boil. Once it starts boiling, release the marinated chicken pieces in it.
• Let chicken cook perfectly. Thicken the sauce with corn flour paste. Add salt if necessary and a pinch of sugar.
• Garnish with some spring onion and freshly ground black pepper.
• Serve hot with fried rice.

(For making chicken manchurian dry, do not add lot of chicken stock. Add very little (about half or one cup). Thicken it nicely using cornflour paste)

Pan Noodles

Ingredients:
1 pack of flat noodles
half cup wine
4-5 button mushroom sliced
2 tbsp garlic chopped
1 cup sprouts(moong sprouts)
2 tbsp soya sauce
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tbsp green chilli sauce
ajinomoto(optional)
sugar to taste
salt to taste
chopped spring onion -1 spring
oil

Preparation:

• Boil and cook the noodles. Hold them under cold water so that they do not stick to eachother.
• Heat oil on a flat pan. Add garlic and moong sprouts. Add wine and cook till the sprouts become soft.
• Then add the soya sauce,vinegar, green chilli sauce and mushrooms. Cook for 2-3 min.
• Add salt and sugar as per taste. To this sauce add the noodles and toss them well so that sauces mixes with noodles evenly. Cook for another 3 min and turn off the burner.
• Garnish with fresh spring onion.

(Along with mushrooms you may add other veggies of your choice like carrots, pok choi etc. Not Capsicum. You may add egg, chicken or prawns as well.)

Jacket Potato

Baked Potato is known as Jacket Potato in UK.
It has a very soft and tender interior and a crispy skin. The outer crispy skin is like a jacket for the soft interior and hence the name, Jacket Potato.

                                             

Ingredients:
2 large potatoes
1 tbsp olive oil
Rock salt

Preparation:

• Pre-heat the oven at 210 deg cel. 
• Wash the potatoes very well and dry them by rubbing against a dry and rough cloth. Prick all over using a fork or a knife.
• Apply oil all over the potato and rub rock salt on its skin.
• Keep aside for 15min.
• Then bake these potatoes in oven for 1.5 to 2 hours till the interior is cooked and the skin has become crispy.
• Remove from the oven and make a slit lengthwise. You may also put two more slits perpendicular to this slit. Then press the potato inwards from the two ends of the lengthwise slit so that the soft interior spurts out. Then using a spoon or a fork, stuff it back into the potato and make some room for extra stuffing. You may add your choice of stuffing.
• Serve hot. Make sure that once potatoes are removed from oven, all other activities are performed quickly as the skin will lose its crispness and soon become soggy.  

Stuffing: 

• You may add cheese or combination of 2 or more cheese and make the potatoes again so that the cheese melts.
• Baked beans with some cheese also will taste good.
• You may use mayonnaise with some herbs or cheese with herbs.
• Butter and garlic powder
• Garlic (finely chopped) and cheese
• Noodles
• Some exotic vegetables cooked in a spicy sauce
•  Chicken or ham with herbs

      etc.

( I have used butter and garlic as a stuffing in first picture. And in second picture, I used fresh thyme and some onion powder)

Continental

Veg:

•  Jacket Potato

Non Veg:

• Grilled Chicken

Garlic Prawns Rice

Ingredients:

7-8 Jumbo prawns

200 gm rice (basmati preferred)

1 tbsp giner-garlic paste

3 tbsp chopped garlic

1 onion (sliced)

1 tbsp vinegar

2 tbsp soya sauce

1 tbsp tomato ketchup 

1 tbsp green chilli sauce

2 tsp freshly ground pepper

2 tsp ajinomoto(optional)

1 tbsp garlic powder

Spring onion chopped (1 spring)

1 tbsp cornflour (make a paste in water)

Oil

Salt

Preparation:

• Marinate the prawns with gineger-garlic paste and salt. Keep aside for 30 min. Then, place them in microwave and cook for about 15 min.
• Prepare rice: Wash the rice grains properly-add double quantity of water-add 1 tbsp vinegar-little salt.  Cook on a low flame. Once cooked, remover the rice from vessel into another container.Let it cool. 
• In a wok, add oil. Add chopped garlic. When garlic becomes slightly red or pinkish, add onion. Sauté.
• Add soya sauce, vinegar, green chilli sauce, tomato ketchup, and freshly ground black pepper. Add half cup water and let the sauce cook for 3-4 min. Add salt if required. 
• Add ajinomoto(optional). Thicken it with corn flour paste.
• Add the cooked prawns to this mixture and cook for another 3-4 minutes.
• To this mixture, now add cooked rice. Mix well. Add garlic powder & again mix well.
• Heat it for 3-4 minutes  and den garnish with chopped spring onion.
• Serve hot.

Bread Pudding

Ingredients:
1. 4 Bread slices cut in cubes
2. 4 cups of milk
3. 3/4th cup milkmaid
4. 4 tbsp Caster sugar
5. 2 tsp baking powder
6. 1 egg
7. 1 tbsp Sultanas 
8. 3-4 Cashew nuts
9. Butter
10. Cinnamon powder -a pinch
11. Nutmeg powder- a pinch
12. Vanilla essence

Method:
1. Take milk, milkmaid, caster sugar and baking powder in a large mixing bowl. Blend these ingredients using a hand blender.
2. Add one egg & vanilla essence to this mixture and then blend again.
3. Cut the sides of bread slices and divide then into smaller cubes.
4. Soak the bread cubes in the above prepared mixture for 15 min. Add sultanas and cashew nuts and cinnamon powder as well.
5. Grease a baking tray with butter. Preheat the over at 200 deg cel.
6. Pour the mixture of milk n bread cubes and bake for 15-20 min.
7. Check by inserting a knife.
8. Remove from the oven, let it cool. After it cools down completely, refrigerate for 2 hours minimum.
9. Serve with chocolate sauce or caramel.