Chocolate chip cookies and a Happy 2016

Wish you a very Happy New Year 2016

Let us start the new year with some freshly baked goodies. Make some cookies at home and enjoy.

Ingredients :

• All purpose flour – 2 cups
• Baking soda – 1 tsp
• Salt – 1 tsp
• Butter – 1 cup
• Brown sugar – ¾ cup
• Sugar  - ¾ cup
• Vanilla extract – 1 tsp
• Egg – 2
• Chocolate chips – 1 cup


Method :

1. Flour, baking soda and salt in small bowl.
2. Beat butter, brown sugar ,normal sugar and vanilla extract in large mixer bowl until creamy.
3. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition
4. Gradually beat in flour mixture. Mix choco-chips
5. Drop by rounded table spoon on to under-greased baking tray .
6. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in 180 degree  Celsius until it turns golden brown .
7. Remove the rack from the oven and let it cool on baking tray for 5 mins.

Chicken Roast

Ingredients:

• Chicken – 1kg 
• Garlic paste – 4 tbsp 
• Ginger paste – 4 tbsp 
• Onion paste – 2 tbsp
• Tandoori masala – 2 tsp 
• Garam masala – 2tsp 
• Chilli powder -2 tsp or as per taste 
• Lemon – 6 tbsp 
• Curd – ½ cup 
• White oil – 6 tsp 
• Kashmiri mirch for colour and flavour
• Salt to taste

Method :

Marination
Cover the chicken well with salt, oil, curd, ginger garlic paste, onion paste, lemon juice, red chilli powder, garam masala, tandoori masala and kashmiri mirch for colour and flavour.
Use a knife to make slits on the chicken pieces which will help the marination cover the meat well on the inside as well.
Marinate at least for 12 hours but in case of a hurry, marinate for minimum 30 - 40 minutes. The longer chicken is marinated, tastier and juicy and juicy  it would be.

Roast/Grill
You can grill the chicken in an oven or roast it in a barbeque. 

If  you are using an oven, preheat at 200 deg Celsius.  You can put a piece of aluminium foil on the wire rack to save yourself from cleaning after wards. Make some perforations in the foil for gravy to seep through. Place a tray half-filled with water below the wire tray. This water helps in keeping the moisture in the chicken while it is baked and grilled. The surface of the chicken will not get hard. 

Put the chicken on the wire tray covered by perforated aluminium foil and. Bake it at 250 deg for about 45 mins. Turn over the chicken  ,  not more than 2 to 3  times.  Use a silicon brush to  oil the upper parts of the chicken , every time the chicken is turned over.  Put the oven to grill mode for 10 mins and turn both sides.

The chicken will turn red and you can check  if it is cooked using a fork.  Adjust the time accordingly.

For garnishing, one can use  lettuce leaves, onion wedges, baked potato etc. I have used baked cherry tomatoes and asparagus .

Serve hot after sprinkling some lemon juice, and garlic bread.


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Salmon Fish Cake with Parsley

A very easy and healthy party food - Salmon Fish Cake with Parsley

Ingredients

• Potato, diced in small cubes - 450gm
• salmon fillets - 350gm
• parsley - 1 bunch
• egg(beaten) - 1
• pepper powder - 2 tsp
• lemon juice - 2 tsp
• medium sized onion - 1
• olive oil/refined oil - 4 tsp
• flour - 4 tsp.

Method

• Boil potatoes and fish fillets. 
• Drain the excess water and mix them into a fine mash. 
• Add chopped onions, pepper powder, salt, 2 tsp flour and lime juice to a mash and mix it well. 
• Now shape the mixture into balls and flatten it. 
• Refrigerate for half an hour. 
• Dip the balls in beaten egg and roll it in bread crumb, then shallow fry in olive oil or refined oil .
• Serve with mayonnaise or mustard sauce.

This recipe was published in Hangla Hneshel, a Bengali Food Magazine.