Tuesday, 8 December 2015

Spicy Mutton Tortilla Roll with Green Veggies..

Spicy Mutton Tortilla Roll with Green Veggies..
Very easy to make... Healthy and delicious... I always make Mutton roast and keep... It serves my purpose of making quick sandwiches and rolls.. Take a big chunk of boneless mutton. Boil the mutton piece with garlic, onion, ginger, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves and salt. Once done, take the mutton piece, baste it with butter and roast it for 30 minutes at 200 degrees celcius, till brown on both the sides. Once cool, cut it into strips or shred  it and use it. Make whole wheat tortilla. For the roll, add the mutton roast and vegetables with any sauce of your choice. 
Ingredients
6 Whole wheat Tortilla
1 1/2 cup Mutton Roast shredded
1 Onion chopped
1 Tomato cut into thin stripes
2 Green chillies minced
Few Lettuce leaves
Few Kale leaves
1/2 cup Carrot shredded
1/4 cup Radish shredded
1/2 tsp Lime juice
1/4 cup Chilli sauce 
Salt to taste
Method
Take a bowl. Add tomato, onion, chopped chillies, shredded carrots, radish, salt and lime juice. Mix the salad. Take a tortilla, spread little chilli sauce in the center of the tortilla, add mutton roast stripes, lettuce leaves, Kale leaves and vegetable salad.  Roll the tortilla and enjoy.

Tuna and Egg Green Scramble....

Tuna and Egg Green Scramble....
"Better Go Green" is my latest mantra. With increasing number of man made disaster in our environment as well as increasing number of health issues... We better go green... Grow more plants and tree in the surrounding.... Plant some in your house.. Try to grow few green veggies in the pot..... Eat more green..... Leafy green vegetables have full of vitamins, minerals and fights diseases. They are a good source of fiber and provides nutrition to the body. It manages weight loss. Leafy vegetables also contains water to keep you hydrated. 
Every day  have 4 cups of Vegetables in the whole day... That includes leafy as well as other vegetables... In the form of cooked and raw..
Ingredients
1 cup of fresh Tuna boiled and made in to flakes
6 Eggs beaten
1 Onion finely chopped
3 Green chillies chopped
4 Garlic cloves Minced
1/4 cup Spring Onion chopped
1 cup Spinach chopped and blanched
4 tbsp Coriander leaves paste
Salt to taste
1/2 tsp Pepper powder
1/2 cup Mozzarella and Cheddar grated mix
2 tbsp Olive Oil

Method
Take a pan. Add the oil. Add onion, garlic and chillies. Sauté till light brown. Add the tuna flakes. Sauté for 2 minutes. Add the beaten eggs. Stir continuously, add the spring onions, spinach leaves and coriander paste. Stir and cook for 3 minutes.  Add salt, pepper and cheese. Cook for another 2 minutes. Serve hot with bread.
P.S. Dill leaves, bokchoy, green peas, Shrimps etc can be added..

Raw Papaya Salad

Raw Papaya Salad

For the Salad Dressing
Ingredients
1 tbsp Lime juice
2 to 3 Thai Bird Chillies seeded and finely chopped
2 garlic minced
1 tbsp Thai Fish sauce
1 tbsp Brown Sugar
Salt to taste

Method
In a blender combine the lime juice, fish sauce, chillies, garlic, sugar and salt,  blend it. Set aside for 10 minutes.

For the Raw Papaya Salad
Ingredients
2 cups Raw Papaya shredded
1 Carrot shredded
1 Tomato cut into small strips
1 Onion finely chopped
2 tbsp Coriander leaves chopped
2 tbsp Mint leaves roughly chopped
3 tbsp Roasted Penuts crushed
Salad Dressing

Method
In a mixing bowl, combine the papaya, carrot, onion, tomato, mint leaves and 1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves. Add the dressing and toss to combine thoroughly. Garnish with the remaining coriander leaves and crushed peanuts. Serve immediately.

Ripe Papaya and Carrot Soup

Ripe Papaya and Carrot Soup
Ingredients
1/2 cup  Papaya peeled and chopped
1 Carrot peeled and chopped
1 Onion chopped
2 Garlic Clove chopped
1 small stick Cinnamon
2 Cloves
4 Pepper corn
1/4 cup Milk
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
1 tsp Olive oil

Method:
Heat the oil in a pot. Add the onion, garlic, cloves, pepper corn and cinnamon,  saute it for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the Papaya and carrot and saute for 2 more minutes. Add 2 to 3 cups of water. Cook for 10 minutes until the carrot and papaya are tender. Let it cool. Add the mixture into a  blender and puree until it is smooth. Pour the soup back to the pot. Add milk and salt,  stir well to combine, and simmer on  low flame for  5 minutes. Garnish with pepper powder and a spoon of milk. Serve immediately.

Sunday, 6 December 2015

Mutton Raan Roast with Saffron Pulao Su's Style

Mutton Raan Roast with Saffron Pulao Su's Style
I love the Raan Rice at Persian Darbaar at Bandra... After I shifted from Bandra, I did not get a chance to go there. I had it in mind for many days to make it at home... So finally made it at home... though this is a completely different recipe, an experiment from my kitchen...


For the Mutton Raan Roast
For Marinating the Mutton leg Stage 1
Ingredients
1 Mutton leg
1 Lime juice
Salt to taste

Method
Make deep slits on the mutton leg with a sharp knife on both the sides. Rub the lime juice and salt on the mutton leg and marinate it for 30 minutes.

For Marinating the Mutton leg Stage 2
Ingredients
Marinated Mutton
8 Garlic cloves
4 Green Chillies
1 cup Mint leaves
2 tsp Arabic Spice Powder
Salt to taste
2 tbsp Oil

Method
Corsley grind the garlic, chillies and mint leaves. Mix oil, Arabic spice masala and salt. Rub the masala paste on the mutton leg.  Wrap it up in the foil paper and refrigerate it. Marinate it overnight.


For Roasting the Mutton leg
Ingredients
Marinated Mutton leg
2 tbsp Melted Butter
Handful of Bay leaves or All Spice leaves

Method
Roast the leg in a  pre-heat oven at 200 degrees Celsius for 2 hours. The first 30 minutes roast it covered with foil paper and keep a tray of water on the lower shelf with bay leaves or all spice leaves. After 30 minutes take the mutton leg out of the oven and  baste it with butter on both the sides. Cook it open in the foil for 1 hour 30 minutes, turning it after 15 minutes and cooking it again. If the water in the below shelf tray evaporates then add more water. This will keep the meat moist. Now baste it again with butter on both the sides. Continue roasting. Last 10 minutes take the mutton leg out of the foil and put it on the wire rack and roast it turning after 5 minutes, cook till done.  When done, serve it with Saffron Palau and Salad.



P. S. Don't discard the juices collected in the foil... use it for the Pulao.

For the Saffron Pulao
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups Basmati Rice washed and soaked for 30 minutes
2 Onion  Slice
6 Garlic crushed
2 Green Chillies chopped
2 Dry Red Chillies chopped
2 Bay leaves
8 Black Pepper Corn
1 Stick Cinnamon
4 Cloves
2 Green Cardomon
1 Star Anise
5 Alu Bukhara
1 tbsp Raisin
2 tbsp Almond and Pistachio flakes
1/2 cup Milk
Juice retained from Mutton leg roast
3 Pinch of Saffron
Salt to taste
1 tbsp Sugar
1 tbsp Oil
1 tbsp Butter

Method
Take a pot, add oil and 1/2 tbsp butter. Add the bay leaf, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, star anise,  garlic, green and red chillies and  onion. Fry the onion till translucent. Add the raisins, Alu Bukhara,
1 1/2 tbsp Almond and Pistachio flakes. Sauté it for 2 minutes. Add sugar,  salt, juice from the roast, milk,  2 pinch of saffron and 2 cup water. Let it simmer for 5 minutes. Add the rice and cook till done. Add the remaining butter.  Garnish with remaining saffron, almond and pistachio flakes. Serve it with the mutton leg roast and salad.


Arabic Spice Powder
Ingredients
2 tbsp Peppercorns
2 big sticks of Cinnamon
1 tbsp Cloves
1/2 tbsp Cardomon seeds
6 Red Dry Chillies
1 small Nutmeg
1/4 cup Coriander seeds
1/4 cup Cumin seeds
1/2 tbsp Turmeric powder

Method
Blend the above ingredients together in a blender and make it into a powder