Thai Vegetable Curry

Ingredients:

• 3 medium size onion (julienne)
• 3-4 garlic cloves (finely chopped)
• 1/2 cup capsicum (cut in small cubes)
• 1/4 cup peas
• 1/2 cup potato (cut in small cubes)
• 1/2 cup carrot (julienne)
• 1/4 cup cabbage (julienne)
• 1/2 cup thai curry paste
• 1 tspn crushed red chili powder
• 1 tspn crushed black pepper
• Salt to taste
• 2 cup chicken stock
• 3 tbspn cornstarch
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil

Ingredinets for thai curry paste:

• 4 tbspn tomato paste
• 1 tspn mustard paste
• 1/2 tspn red chili powder
• 1/2 tspn coriander powder

Method thai curry paste:

Mix all the above ingredients in a mixing bowl and put in a bottle. Keep this curry paste in fridge and can be used within a week. You may also add preservative to keep it for long time.

Method:

1. In a large sauce pan, fry onions in the given quantity of oil on medium flame. Fry for at least 8 minutes until become light golden in color.
2. Now add garlic, curry paste and quarter cup water and let them cook for 4-5 minutes on low heat.
3. After that add veggies including capsicum, peas, potato, carrots and cabbage with black pepper, salt, stock and red pepper. Cook them together for at least 15 minutes so that they become tender.
4. In the end, add cornstarch to make gravy little denser. The quantity of cornstarch depends upon how much dense gravy you want. Cook veggies with corn starch for just 2 minutes.
   
5. Turn off the flame, and it is better to serve the delicious Thai curry in a sizzling dish with fried rice.

Orange Chicken

For Chicken:

• 2 chicken breast (boneless and make small pieces)
• 1 cup rice flour
• 1 cup corn flour
• ½ cup plane flour
• 1 tspn mustard powder
• 1 tspn black pepper
• 1 tspn salt
• ½ tspn Chinese salt
• 1 tspn chicken powder
• 1 tspn baking powder
• 2 eggs
• Oil for deep frying

For Sauce:

• 1 tbspn orange zest
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/4 tspn crushed red pepper
• 2 cups water
• 2 tbspn orange juice
• 3 tbspn soy sauce
• 1/4 cup lemon juice
• 1/3 cup white vinegar
• 1/2 tspn ginger (finely chopped)
• 1/2 tspn garlic (finely chopped)
• 2 tblspn green onion (chopped)
• 3 tablespoons cornstarch

Method:

1. Take a sauce pan of good quality, pour water and all the sauces including soya sauce, vinegar, orange juices and lemon juice. Let the sauce mixture to cook for 5-8 mins on medium heat.
2. After that add orange zest, crushed red chili, ginger garlic and brown sugar to the mixture, mix them together and cook for 5-10 mins so that brown sugar dissolves in the mixture completely. After that cool the mixture to room temperature.
3. To cook chicken follow the recipe of KFC chicken as mentioned in blog.
4. Now in a sauce pan,pour the prepared sauce and when it boils add cornstarch mixture (mix corn flour in 1/4 cup water) to the sauce and when the sauce gets the desire thickness add all the chicken pieces. Cover the pan and let them cook together on slow heat for at least 5 minutes so that chicken pieces absorb the flavor of sauce. Delicious orange chicken is ready to serve.

Badami Chicken

Ingredients :

• 1 whole chicken,cut into small pieces
• 1 cup yogurt
• 6 onions, chopped
• 1 ginger
• 10 cloves of garlic
• 6 cloves
• 2 cinnamon
• cardamoms
• 10 cashewnuts
• 10 almonds
• 1 cup coconut milk
• ½ cup oil
• Salt to taste
• ½ tsp turmeric
• chilli powder to taste

Method :

1. Make a paste of the ginger, garlic, cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, cashews and almonds.
2. Heat oil in a big vessel, add the chopped onions. Fry them till they turn golden. Then put the ground masala and fry very well.
3. While frying this paste, add 3-4 tbsp of water you will notice that oil floats on top.
4. Now add the yogurt and the chicken.
5. Season it well with salt, haldi and chilli powder.
6. Cook for 10 mins, then add the coconut milk.
7. Cook till done, garnish with coriander leaves.