Samosa Recipe

Here is a recipe to one of your favorite snacks of all times, Samosa. I know some of you would have already knew how to prepare samosa but this blog post is for those who would like to learn making popular dishes of the Indian Cuisines. Here is how it goes on how to prepare samosa.

The ingredients needed are:

• For the cover
  • A cup of plain flour (Maida)
  • 2 tablespoon warm oil
  • water (for kneading dough)
• For the Filling
  • 2 potatoes (boiled, peeled and mashed)
  • 1 onion chopped finely
  • 1/2 teaspoon of crushed garlic
  • 1/2 teaspoon of crushed ginger
  • 2 green chillies
  • 1 tablespoon finely chopped coriander
  • 1/2 lemon juice extracted
  • 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
  • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground/crushed coriander seeds
  • 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
  • Oil for deep frying
  • Salt to taste

Preparation Method

Dough preparation: Take the flour in a large bowl, make a well in it and add oil, salt and a little water. Mix them up until it turns crumbly. Add water little by little kneading the dough until its pliable. Cover up the dough with moist cloth and keep it aside for fifteen to twenty minutes. Now, beat the dough on a work-surface and knead again. Cover it again by the moist cloth.

Filling Preparation: Heat three tablespoon of oil, add garlic, ginger, coriander seeds and green chilli. Stir fry the mixture for a minute, add onion and saute it till onion turns light brown in color. Now add coriander, turmeric, salt, lemon, garam masala and red chilli powder. Stir fry the whole mixture for two minutes, add potatoes and stir for another two minutes. Let it cool and keep it aside.

Fig. How to make samosa dough

Once the above is done, you can proceed with the following:

• Make flat, thin round dough of 5 inch diameter
• Cut it into two halves
• Run a moist finger along the diameter, join and press together to make a cone (as given above in the picture)
• Put a tablespoon of filling into the cone and seal the third side
• Make five to six pieces
• Put it in hot oil and deep fry them on low to medium flame till the dough turns light brown (if fried on high flame, samosas will turn out oily and sloppy)
• Drain out oil
• Serve it hot with tomato sauce (Green and red tamarind chutney is perfect)

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Tuna With Crackers

I love Tuna, everybody loves Tuna. So this blog post for today is for those fish lovers especially Tuna lovers. Today's recipe is “Tuna With Crackers”

Below are provided the ingredients you will need in order to prepare the dish:

Ingredients for Tuna Spread

• 400 grams Tuna Fish
• 2 tablespoon Olive Oil
• 1/2 teaspoon Oregano
• Pepper as per requirement
• 3 tablespoon Fresh Thick Cream
• Salt to taste

And prawn chips or crackers for serving.

Method of Preparation

1. Cut fish into small pieces
2. Heat oil in a pan and fry fish pieces over medium heat for two to three minutes
3. Add spices and blend the whole mixture
4. Take a mixing bowl, add cream, mash the mixture with the back of a wooden spoon or blend them coarsely using a blender.
5. Now you can serve it with the crackers of prawn chips.

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Fried Rice With Mint and Egg

Since the day I started this blog, I came to know that I haven't posted a single recipe on egg. Sorry to those egg fans who'd have been waiting for it to come. Sooner or later, here it is. Today, I will be posting a recipe on how to prepare Fried Rice With Mint and Egg.

Here is the list of ingredients you would need to prepare this recipe:

• Boiled rice – 2 cups
• A bunch of mint (pudina) leaves (ground to form a paste)
• Eggs – 2
• Freshly chopped coriander
• A big onion sliced in thin and long pieces
• Five green tomatoes cut into thin long pieces
• Green chilli paste
• Salt to taste
• For Seasoning
  • Mustard
  • Half a spoon of black pepper (ground)
  • Cumin (Jeera)
  • Curry Leaves
  • Five to six spoons of vegetable oil

Method of Preparation

To begin with the preparation, start by heating the a pan on medium heat. Add oil on it and then the mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds start popping, add cumin, curry leaves and ground pepper and fry the mixture or a minute. Then, add the onions, fry for a minute thereafter, add the cut tomatoes and fry for another two minutes. After this is done, add green chilli paste and eggs. How should you add eggs is given here.

Crack the eggs into the pan (make sure that pieces of the cracked shell doesn't go into the pan) and bet them till it blends well with the tomato and onion pieces. Fry the mixture for two minutes again.

In the meantime, cook the rice in a rice cooker. Then mix the cooked rice with the mixture prepared above and fry for round about five minutes. The dish is now done.

Garnish with freshly chopped coriander and serve hot. Impress yourself and your guest.

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Spicy Tea - Recipe

What do you crave for most in winter? We always yearn for things hot and spicy. And when we talk about tea, spicy tea is what we would like to have in winter when the weather is extremely cold. Keeping this in view, I’m posting the recipe for Spicy Tea which I’m sure that you’d love.

Here are the ingredients for preparing Spicy Tea:

·         3 to 4 teaspoon tea leaves or 4 teabags

·         A small piece of dry ginger. If dry ginger isn’t in handy, you may use fresh ginger.

·         3 to 4 cardamom pods

·         3 cloves

·         A small piece of cinnamon

·         A teaspoon of fennel seeds (saunf)

·         A piece of two of black peppers (this however is an optional ingredient)

·         Sugar

·         Milk

If you’ve got the above ingredients ready, you can start preparing your Spicy Tea and the method of preparation is given below.

To begin, bring two cups of water to boil. Add the ingredients above apart from milk and sugar and boil the mixture for about fifteen seconds. Let the mixture stand for a minute and in the meantime, warm the milk in a pot. Pour tea into cups by filtering it through a sieve. Now, add milk and sugar to your liking. Your Spicy Tea is ready and you can enjoy sipping it.

If you think you are one of the lazy lots and don’t want to spend much time preparing the ingredients, you can take the above ingredients (except for milk and sugar) and grind them coarsely. Then, you just have to boil water add tea and a teaspoon of the ground spices. And the rest is as above.

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Preparing Indian Masala Tea (Chai)

Masala Chai is one popular tea in India. It is preferred by all from all corners of the country. Today, I’ll tell you (those who still don’t know how to prepare the same) how to prepare it. Here it goes.

First you have to prepare the masala (mixture of spices) and here is how you prepare the masala. Take the following things:

1.       A cup of dried ginger

2.       ½ cup of green cardamom (elaichi) pods

3.       A Tablespoon peppercorns

4.       Six or seven 2” cinnamon sticks

Now, grind the spices together and your masala is done.

For the tea, take a cup of water and put to hear. Add one and a half sugar, a quarter teaspoon of the masala you prepared two pinches of cardamom powder and a teaspoon tea leaves. Allow the mixture to simmer till the aroma emanates. Now add a cup of milk and then bring the tea to boil. Now allow it to simmer for another two minutes. Take it off from the flam an cover it. Keep it aside for two minutes. Drain the leaves from the tea and the tea is ready to be served.

Isn’t it easy?

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