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Chicken Chhattisgarh

Chicken  Chhattisgarh

Just like the recipe the name is made up. I Googled some random India state and hoped for the best!

We had nearly a whole plate of Urad Dah left from Thursday and and half a roasted Chicken left in the fridge from Wednesday. Nothing goes to waste here unless it has taken on a second life. So made up Curry, here we go…

I’ll not even try to list a recipe for this. But basically we blitzed the cooked Urad Dah and added a tin of chopped Tomatoes the make the foundation of the sauce. With the usual fried Onion and spices this made a really robust Curry dish. Once the Curry had simmered and thickened for 45 minutes Sue added the roughly portioned Chicken so that it didn’t deconstruct!

I can at least give our Onion Bhaji recipe:-

Ingredients:-

2 Onion roughly sliced
100g Gram flour
½ tsp Baking Powder
½ tsp Chilli powder
½ tsp Turmeric
Water
Salt
Oil to fry

Method:-

(1) In a bowl mix the dry ingredients except the Onion with enough water to make a very sticky batter.
(2) Preheat your deep fat fryer to 180c.
(3) Add the sliced Onions and stir so that they are well coated.
(4) With a couple of spoons form rough balls and drop them individually into the hot oil. Shake the basket as they do tend to stick.
(5) Once the Bhajis are golden drown and floating remove and drain on kitchen paper.
(6) When your main disk is ready redunk them quickly to crisp up the protruding Onion.

A few Popadums a sprinkle of Coriander and a mound of home made Onion Bhajis and we slid quietly into a food coma! To be fair this was our only meal yesterday and it was mostly Rice bulking the plates up. Do I sound like I’m making excuses? Perhaps! 

 

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Chicken Kiev with Mlynti recipe

Yesterday we went to Ukraine on our round the world for £4 or less virtual tour. Beetroot plays a big part in Ukrainian cuisine, so here is Sue’s take on Mlynti – Beetroot Pancakes & Chicken Kiev.

Ingredients for the Mlynti:-

320g GF flour
2 tsp Sugar
50ml Butter Milk
1 tsp of salt
375 ml milk
1 Egg
300g fresh Beetroot
Vegetable oil

Method for the Mlynti:-


(1) Boil beetroots in a large pan of water. Peel and shred them and then add the Buttermilk to the prepared beetroot.
(2) Pour into a blender and whip it at high speed.
(3) Cool to 35°C and add an egg. Mix everything carefully.
(4) Combine salt, sugar and flour in a separate bowl and whip.
(5) Combine all the ingredients into a batter.
(6) Leave the batter for 30 minutes.
(7) Heat vegetable oil in a pan. Fry the pancakes on both sides at medium heat.


Ingredients for the Kiev:-

1 Chicken Breast per person
Garlic Butter
Juice of a lemon
1 Egg, beaten
Oil to fry
(GF) Flour
(GF) Breadcrumbs
Salt & Pepper

Method for the Chicken Kievs:-
 

(1) Freeze the Garlic Butter rolled in a sausage shape in cling film.
(2) Beat the Chicken out with a rolling pin and season with Salt & Pepper.
(3) Place the Garlic butter in the centre, add a squeeze of Lemon Juice and wrap the meat around it.
(4) Place back in the fridge to stop the Garlic Butter from melting too much.
(5) Flour on all sides.
(6) Dip each Kiev in the beaten Egg and then roll in Breadcrumbs to coat evenly.
(7) Fry on all sides over a low heat to brown the Breadcrumbs.
(8) Place in a pre-heated over at 180c for about 20 minutes.

We filled our Mlynti with a little soft Blue Cheese and served with a fresh dressed salad. The  Mlynti were really good. Well to be fair the whole meal was really good. We’ll not be having issues with Vampires here today though…...

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