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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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Winter Veg

We tend to get stuck in a loop with vegetables for some reason. Peas, Red Cabbage and spuds seem to have become our “Go-To” choice recently. So we thought we’d have a bit of a change yesterday. Although the Spuds are still there….

Because of the global supply network, be it a good or (more probably) bad thing the majority of regularly used vegetables are available all year round in the supermarkets and local retailers. But if you buy seasonal veg you will notice that they tend to be UK grown more often than not. This has to be a good thing surely?

So last nights veg was:-

Boiled Cabbage
Roast Parsnips
Roast Potatoes
Cauliflower

All UK grown and with a bit of slow roast Pork shoulder and home made gravy it was a meal your granny would have been proud of on a very cost effective budget.

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