Showing posts with label #indian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #indian. Show all posts

Sunday, 7 February 2016

Tandoori Marinade




Ingrediants:

Tandoori spice
Fat free yoghurt
Lemon Juice

Mix a couple of table spoons of yoghurt and lemon juice together, add a good amount of the tandoori spice.

Once all mixed add the meat of your choice and leave for at least of couple of hours before cooking.

Bombay Bhajis


Ingredients

  • Low calorie cooking spray
  • 1 medium onion, chopped
  • 175g potato, cooked & chopped
  • 225g canned chickpeas, drained
  • 1 egg beaten
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp dried Bombay mixed spice
  • 1 tsp dried mixed herbs
  • Salt & ground black pepper

Raita

  • ½ cucumber, chopped
  • Salt
  • 115g fat-free natural yogurt
  • 4 spring onions, chopped

Method

  1. To make the raita place the cucumber in a colander, sprinkle with salt and leave for 30 minutes. Dry well and transfer into a bowl. Stir in the yogurt and spring onions and chill until ready to serve.
  2. To make the bhajis spray a non-stick frying pan with low calorie cooking spray and cook the onion for approximately 5 minutes until tender. Transfer to a bowl, add the potato and chick peas and mash together. Stir in the remaining ingredients and form into small balls. 
  3. Arrange the bhajis on a baking tray that has been sprayed with low calorie cooking spray. Bake in a preheated oven at 220°C/200°C Fan/Gas Mark 7 for approximately 15 minutes until golden. Serve immediately with the cucumber rait

I didn't have bombay spice so just used normal curry powder .

Sunday, 29 November 2015

beef and veg curry




Ok so I used;

beef brisket
onion
pepper
butternut squash
turmeric
Garam masala
cumin
coriander
medium curry powder
tin of tomatoes
fresh tomatoes
salt, pepper
garlic


I put everything in to the slow cooker and cooked on low for about 6 hours.

Sunday, 18 October 2015

samosa

I love these, tey are easy to make and only one syn.



Ingredients

  • Low calorie cooking spray
  • 1 tbsp mild curry powder
  • 1 tsp amchoor (dried mango powder)*
  • 400g potatoes, peeled, boiled and mashed
  • 110g frozen peas
  • 4 tbsp finely chopped coriander
  • 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
  • Salt


Method

  1. Place all the chutney ingredients in a food processor with 70ml of water and blend until smooth. Set aside until needed.
  2. Spray a large non-stick frying pan with low calorie cooking spray and place over a medium heat. Add the curry powder, amchoor, potatoes and peas and stir-fry for 4-5 minutes. Remove from the heat and add the chopped coriander and red chilli, season well with salt and set aside.
  3. Preheat the oven to 190°C/170°C Fan/Gas 5. Line a large baking sheet with baking parchment. Working swiftly, place the three filo sheets on top of each other and cut them in half widthways. Then cut each half into three even strips lengthways to give you a total of six strips of filo per sheet (18 strips in total).
  4. Lay the strips on a clean work surface and lightly spray with low calorie cooking spray. Place a teaspoon of the potato filling at the bottom of each strip and fold the pastry diagonally to enclose the filling and form a triangle. Press down on the pastry and fold again until you reach the end of the strip leaving you with a triangular pastry parcel. Repeat with the remaining strips and filling to make 18 parcels.
  5. Place the parcels in a single layer on the prepared baking sheet, spray with low calorie cooking spray and bake for 15-20 minutes or until golden and crisp. Remove from the oven and serve warm with the hara chutney.
Tip: In Hindi, amchoor translates simply as 'mango powder'. The mango is picked before it ripens, peeled and cut into thin slices and sun dried. This is then ground into a powder. It's used to give a tangy flavour to Indian recipes. You can buy it from large supermarkets and Asian greengrocers.