Date Bites

Date Bites is nothing but small sweet bread filled with date and walnut filling. You can also use other fillings like fig jam, orange marmalade and top it with chocolate.

This recipe is adapted from Arabic Bites.

Ingredients:

Dough

Plain Flour-11/2 cup

Oil- 2 tbsp

Sugar-1/4 cup

Cardamon-1/2 tsp

Baking Powder-1 tsp

Milk-1/2 cup

Water- 1 tbsp

Filling

Medjool dates-6 to 8

Walnut- 5 to 6

Cardamon- a pinch

Method:

Mix all the dough ingredients by adding milk little by little, make it into a smooth. Cover and let it rest for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile prepare the filling by mixing all the filling ingredients together and make it like a dough.

Divide the dough into 12 equal parts, make it into a ball, flatten it slightly, place some filling inside the dough, cover and make it into a ball. Flatten slightly with your palms.

Repeat it with the remaining dough.Preheat the oven to 180 degree celsius and bake it for 15 to 20 minutes, until slightly brown on top.

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Badam Kalakand

Badam Kalakand is a Indian sweet made with almonds,milk and sugar. This is a simplified version of it which can be made in minutes in microwave.

Ingredients:

Ricotta cheese- 1 cup

Sweetened condensed milk-1 cup

Ground almonds-1 tbsp

Saffron- a few strands soaked in warm milk

Ghee or butter to grease the bowl

Mixed Crushed nuts to garnish

Method:

Grease a large microwave safe bowl with butter.Combine all the ingredients and stir well. Microwave it in high for 5 minutes. Open it and stir well again. Microwave again for 5 minutes.Take it out and stir well. Microwave for 5 minutes again, this time check in the middle of every 1 minute. If it's not looking like a liquid ,pour it in a plate, garnish with nuts and cut it into squares.

Tips:

You can also make other kalakand by adding ground pistachios or cashews instead of almonds. You can also use other flavouring like cardamon or rosewater.

Chocolate kalakand can also be made by using cocoa powder.

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Southern Fried Chicken

Ingredients:

Boneless Chicken-1/2 kg

Ginger Garlic paste-2 tsp

Chilli powder- 2 tsp

Pepper powder-1 tsp

Turmeric Powder-1/2 tsp

Garam masala-1/4 tsp

Egg-1

Lemon juice-1/2 a lemon

Onion-1

Green chilli-2

Curry leaves- few spring

Oil for frying

Flour-1 tbsp

Salt-as required

Method:

Cut the chicken into bite size pieces.Marinate the chicken with spices and lemon juice for 1 hour.Just before frying mix the egg with chicken and dust each piece of chicken with flour. Fry it in hot oil until the chicken is cooked.

Now heat another pan with little bit of oil add the curry leaves, green chilli and onion fry it for a while, add the cooked chicken to this and coat it well. Serve hot with rice,bread or rotis.

Tip:

For extra kick you can add some chilli sauce when frying the onion.

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Focaccia Bread sandwhich

Serves 2
1 Focaccia Bread
1 Chicken Breast
Red Pepper-1
Green Pepper-1
2 pieces of sundried tomato soaked in warm water and sliced finely
2 slices of cheese
Chillipowder-1/2 tsp
Pepper-1 tsp
Salt as required
Breadcrumbs- 1 tbsp
Ginger garlic paste-1 tsp(optional)
Mayonaise-3tsp
Method:
First prepare the chicken by marinating the chicken in chilli powder, pepper,ginger garlic paste and salt. Leave it for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to maximum,coat the chicken strips in breadcrumbs and place it in the oven for 15 minutes on each side.
Prepare the peppers by washing them well, drizzle with oil and leave it in the oven till the skin becomes black.Allow them to cool.
Assemble the sandwhich by cutting the bread into four equal parts , apply the mayonaise on one slice arrange the slices of pepper,sundried tomato,chicken and cheese, place the other slice of bread on top of it, leave it inside the oven until the cheese melts. Serve hot with salad.
Tips:
To give some extra kick to the sandwhich add some dried italian herb to the mayonaise.

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Olive and sundried tomato Focaccia bread

Focaccia is a type of italian bread, great with salad and sandwich. It's almost like a pizza base with less toppings and no cheese.
Ingredients:
Strong White Bread Flour-300 gm
Warm water-225 ml
Active dried yeast-2 tsp
Sugar-1 tsp
Pitted Olives-25 gm
Sundried tomato-25( Soaked in warm water and sliced finely)
Olive oil-1 tbsp

Method:
Combine the flour,sugar,yeast, 1 tsp of olive oil and water to make it into smooth dough using a electric mixer or by hand. Cover the dough and leave it in a warm place to rise for about 1 hour or doubled in size.When the dough has rien punch the air back and spread it in 23 cm shallow baking tin.
Cover it and leave it to rise for another 30 minutes in a warm place.Meanwhile preheat the oven to 220 degree celsius. Take the risen dough , make dimples all over the dough, sprinkle with olives and sun-dried tomato and drizzle with olive oil.
Bake it in the preheated oven for 10 to 15 minutes.
Serve it with salad or sandwhich.
Variations:
You can also use other toppings like fried onion or herbs like thyme or rosemary.

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Tandoori Chicken

You can make this using 1 whole chicken or cut the whole chicken into four or chicken drumsticks.

Ingredients:

1 whole baby chicken

Ginger garlic paste- 1 tbsp

Chilli powder- 3 tsp

Pepper powder- 2 tsp

Garam masala- 1/2 tsp

Lemon juice- 1/2 lemon

Dried Mint- 1 tsp

Salt as required

Method:

Wash the chicken well, cut it into half, and slash it with a knife all over the chicken. Mix all the ingredients together and rub the paste over the chicken. Leave it to marinate for one whole night or 4 to 5 hours. Set the oven temperature to maximum. Grill the chicken on each sides for 20 minutes. To check the chicken is cooked or not prick it with a skewer or fork if the juice runs out clear it's done, take it out. If it's pink in colour leave it for some more time.

When the chicken is cooking serve the juices which is oozing out. Before serving heat a oil in a pan, cut slices of onion and saute it in oil, pour the juices from the chicken, add the chicken and turn it over, sprinkle some dried mint and squeeze some lemon juice on top of it.

Serve it hot.

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ShortBread Tower

This is a traditional scottish desert. If you want to make it really quick, you can even use shopbought shortbread. The cream with the biscuits and fruit balances the dish really well.

Makes about 25 biscuits.

Butter-175 gm

Caster sugar-75 gm

vanilla extract-2 drops

grated zest of 1 lemon

Caster sugar for dusting

strawberries-200 gm

Whipped cream-200 ml

Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 degree celsius. Grease and line two large baking sheet.

Cream the butter,sugar,vanilla extract and lemon zest. Sift the flour and make it into a smooth dough.Lightly flour a work surface and roll out the dough into 5 mm thickness ,cut the biscuits using a pastry cutter. Bake it for about 10 to 12 minute or until pale in colour.

To make the shortbread tower arrange the biscuits in a plate top it with cream and strawberries. Dust it with icing sugar.

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