Hai guys I basically created this blog to promote the sales of my next book waiting to be published . A recipe book on Indian and Malaysian cuisines. Do try the recipes I post here. I have only written recipes I have tried over the span of 18 years. Cooking is my passion, I regularly learn and try out new recipes. And as a result I have also written my first book which is to be published in the United States very soon...

MALAYSIAN CHICKEN CURRY

RECIPE ORIGINAL - DISCOVERY COOKING SHOWS!

 

INGREDIENTS

·         Chicken – 1k.g.

·         Lemon grass – 3 bulbs

·         Spring onions – 8 bulbs

·         Slit green chilli – 2

·         Soya sauce – 1tsp.

·         Cider vinegar – 1tsp.

·         Ginger – 1 inch.

·         Garlic – 4 bulbs.

·         Lemon leaves – 3

·         Tamarind paste – 1 tsp.

·         Coconut milk – 1 cup.

·         Kalanga (atharai in tamil or use regular ginger as I do) – 1 inch.

·         Leaf of a saffron plant for originality of the recipe.

·         Tiny dried prawns – 2tsp.

·         Red onion – 1 small in number.

·         12 red chilli soaked in warm water for 20 minutes.

·         Palm sugar – 1tsp.

·         Red chilli powder – 1/2tsp.

·         Salt – 1tsp.

·         Coriander powder – 1/2tsp.

·         Cumin powder – ½ tsp.

·         Garam masala powder – 1/2tsp.

·         Sunflower oil – 1 cup.

PREPARATION

1.   Take 4 spring onion bulb, along with the ginger, garlic, kalanga(thai ginger), prawns, 1 bulb of spring onion, and soaked red chilli. Grind it to a paste.

2.      Finely chop the spring onions, lemon grass, the leaves of lemon plant, the saffron plant, and also the leaf of spring onions and lemon grass. Just take a ¼ cup of spring onion and lemon grass leaves. Too much could spoil the dish. Save the rest for other cuisines.

3.      In a pan add the sunflower oil, followed by the finely chopped spring onion and lemon grass bulbs, the spring onion and lemon grass leaves, the red onion and sauté it till brown.

4.      Next add the paste and sauté it till brown.

5.   Add the salt, the red chilli powder, coriander powder, cummin powder, and the garam masala powder. And stir well for 2 minutes.

6.      Now add the skinned chicken to the gravy and mix well for 5 minutes. Let the gravy pierce through the chicken. Now add the palm sugar and tamarind paste to the chicken.

7.      Cook the chicken for 20 minutes. Now add the coconut milk and stir the chicken well.  Let it cook for another 10 minutes. While adding the coconut milk also add the lemon leaves and the saffron plant leaves, finely chopped.

8.      The finely cooked chicken is ready for serve.

Hai Guys,


 


All women out there tips for a great skin. Just follow this simple routine twice a week on Tuesday morning before 10a.m and Friday morning before 10a.m (Indian ayurveda determined planet timings as best for a woman to bathe herself).

step 1 - Scrub yourself with a mixture made from a tsp. of ground oats, wheat kernels, green gram, almonds, and whole sugar. Add yoghurt to it and make a paste. Scrub it all over your body especially the elbows, knees, and buttocks where dead cells deposit most.

step 2-Apply rosemary oil homemade from equal portions of almond oil, olive oil, sesame oil, coconut oil and castor oil warmed for 12 minutes with few strands of dried rosemary. Rosemary improves blood circulation causing fading of dark spots, wrinkles, and thus enhancing a good complexion. Castor oil enhances breast lifts! even dissolves tumours, prevents breast cancer.

step 3- Soak for 20 minutes and later wash it away with bath powder bought from ayurvedic stores. They contain sandalwood, rose petals, and other ayurvedic herbs.

So much for a good glowing skin for this week. Meet u tomorrow with a new recipe or a new post of beauty tips. As for now check out http://sbpra.com/sophie/ and get a copy of my book Bluebells for a cost of 13$.

CHOCOLATE CAKE

 

INGREDIENTS

Flour – 2 cups

Sodabicarbonate – 1tsp.

Salt – ¼ tsp.

Milk – ¾ cup

Vanilla essence – 1 tsp.

Cocoa – 5 tsp.

Egg – 1

Powdered sugar – 11/4 cup

Butter – 1/3 cup

Curd – ½ cup

METHOD

   Sift the flour and soda bicarbonate together.  Cream the butter, sugar and the salt till light and fluffy. Add the egg and continue beating it. Mix the cocoa in a little milk and add the cocoa and curds to it beating well. Mix the flour and the rest of the milk. Put the mixture in a cake tin lined with greased paper and bake at 350 F.

poem

Withered and torn I walked along the banks of life

Along its shore were pebbles, stones, thorns, and dust!

As I crossed each I felt I belonged to each within me?

However the dear lord only said 

"See yourself the way I see you?"

As what I asked him again and again

He said "Look within you and be strong."