Easy Chicken Fry Recipe | Chicken Recipes | Nonveg Side dish | Flavour Diary

Today's recipe is simple easy and tastes delicious and is best with Rice, sambar or rasam. If you are lazy cook like me then you always find something or other on net to cook in no time and tastes delicious. Few months back Rafeeda from Bigsweettooth posted a easiest chicken fry, by seeing the word easiest i thought that is my type of recipe and someday i should give it a try. So here is the recipe for easiest and simple chicken fry.

Level: Easy
Total Time: 30
Serves: 2-4

1 cup: 250ml
1 tablespoon: 15ml
1 teaspoon: 5 ml
Adapted from here

Ingredients

500gm chicken, cut into medium pieces
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
½ tsp red chilli powder (to taste)
½ tsp garam masala powder
2 tbsp oil
1 large onions, thinly sliced
1 tsp ghee/ butter
Salt to taste

Directions

Wash and pat dry the chicken. Rub in the powders and salt and allow to marinate for 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat oil in a pan and saute the onions with a pinch of salt till golden brown.
Add in the chicken and toss well.
Cook on low flame for around 15 minutes or till the chicken is almost cooked, stirring occasionally.
Add in the ghee/ butter and fry till dry.
Serve hot with rice

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Eggless Butter less Chocolate Cake Recipe | Flavour Diary

Easy and Simple to make Chocolate Cake with No Eggs and No Butter going in and needs no special equipment for making it. Check out ingredients and procedure in written below or simple click on the video below.

I adapted this recipe from my blogger friend Sujata dee blogging at BatterupwithSujata  . She has got whole lot of wonderful healthy recipes in her blog ...if you are health conscious or want to include some healthy ingredients in your diet then do check out her blog.

You might be interested in other Chocolate recipes like
Whole wheat Chocolate Banana Bread
Chickpea Chocolate Cake
Chocolate Sponge Cake
Eggless Whole Wheat Ragi Chocolate Cake
Butterless Chocolate Cake

Serves: 12
Level: Moderate

Prep time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 40-50

Ingredients

For Cake.....

All-purpose flour/Maida  - 360gms

Sugar  - 280gms

Unsweetened cocoa powder   - 30 gms

Warm Milk  - 500ml

Oil  - 250 ml
Vinegar - 2 tablespoons

Baking powder - 1  teaspoon

Baking soda  - 1 teaspoon

Vanilla essence  - 2 teaspoons

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350°F / 180°C .Grease and flour 9 inch, round, cake pan; cover bottoms with waxed paper.
• Sift together the dry ingredients ;flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder and salt and set aside. 
• Mix Milk and Vinegar and keep a side.
• In a large bowl, whisk in Oil and sugar.
•  Add Flour and Milk mixture alternatively and vanilla essence to the Oil sugar mixture and beat until well incorporated.
• Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in Center comes out clean.
• Cool pan on wire racks for 10 minutes. Loosen edges, and remove cakes to cool completely.

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Prawn Veg Pulao | Jhinga pulao | royyala Pulao | Rice Recipes

Looking for some easy,quick and one pot meal for lazy days then this Prawn veg pulao is one good option to opt for. This pulao has goodnees of both veggies and non veg and some spices which completely flavours up the rice. Prawn Veg pulao is completely different in taste compared to Prawn Biryani. You can also try my Hyderabadi style Prawn Parda dum Biryani.Prawn Veg pulao can be served  raita or with less spicy curry. Dig into the ingredients and steps for making a yummy rice dish.
This recipe is adapted and changed a bit to taste from my blogger friend Alka dee who blogs at culinaryxpress . If you want to explore odia cuisine then surely  her page has lot of mouthwatering recipes to look up for, which she has beautifully presented. 

You might be interested in other rice recipes like

Jeera/Cumin Rice
Ginger Lime/lemon Rice
Dry fruit Fried Rice
Hyderabadi Mutton Tahari
Chicken Fried Rice
Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani

Level: Easy
Prep Time: 15min

Cook time: 30 mins
Serves: 3-4 people
1 cup = 250ml

Adapted from here

Ingredients

Basmati Rice: 1 1/2 cup
Water: 2 1/4 cups

Prawns: 400gm
Mixed Veggies: 1/2 cup ( i used carrots, peas, corn)
Tomato: 1 medium
Onion: 1 medium
Ginger Garlic Paste: 1 tablespoon
Green Chillies split: 2
Lemon Juice : 2 tablespoons
Salt to taste
Oil/Ghee: 3 tablespoons
Fresh Coriander/kotimir chopped: 1/4th cup
Fresh Mint: 20 leaves

Powdered Spices:

Coriander/Dhaniya Powder: 1 teaspoon

Cumin/Jeera Powder: 1 teaspoon

Garam Masala Powder:  1 teaspoon

Turmeric: 1/2 teaspoon

Red Chilli Powder: 1/2 teaspoon

Whole spices:

Cumin seeds/Shahi jeera: 

Cinnanom stick: 1 inch

Cardamom pods / Elachi: 3

Cloves/Laung: 4

Directions

Wash and soak the rice for 20-30 mins.
Wash and Chop up the veggies and keep a side.
Wash and clean the prawns and marinate it with salt and turmeric.

In a pan add 1 tablespoon of oil/ghee and saute the prawns for 10 secs on each side and keep prawns aside.
In the same pan add 2 tablespoons of oil/ghee and add all the whole spices under the whole spice list and saute for 20secs.
Now add green chillies, onion cut length wise and saute until it turn light brown and then add ginger garlic paste and fry until raw smell is gone from ginger garlic.
Add finely chopped veggies, tomato ,salt, spices under powder spices list and fry for 2 or 3 minutes.
Add water,lemon juice chopped coriander,mint and bring to boil. Do the taste test and adjust salt and spice level and then add rice.
Cover and cook on low flame 10 to 12 mins until water is nearly disappearing then add fried prawns and cook the rice when completely done.
Serve hot along with raita or some less spice curry.

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Whole Wheat Chocolate Banana Bread recipe | Flavour Diary | Baking

Few days back we went for Glamping along with 4 other families and it was too much fun. Glamping is like camping with luxurious accommodation with your kitchen in between the nature...far from city. Glamping in scotland is always a worth try if you are on visit to scotland, even though we are in scotlan from past 3 yrs we never got a chance to have this experience. 
Usually glamping sites are far from city and we have to prepack  some snacks, cooking items before we reach there.... its fun to cook along with your friends and feed the family in between the woods. When we were back we had lot of left over snacks and some fruits and few of my bananas were fully ripen. You know best ripen bananas are best for baking and have you checked my Super Moist Whole Wheat Banana bread and this time my over ripen bananas are flavoured with chocolate.
Todays recipe is adapted from blogger friend  Rafeeda who blogs at "Big Sweet tooth", she has recently crossed 1000 recipes in her blog and yes seriously 1000 in quite small period of span and this is really inspiring. So here is her Chocolate banana bread recipe which i tweaked a bit to taste.
You might be interested in other cake recipes like
Eggless Vanilla Cake

Custard Powder Lava Cake
Mango Mousse Chocolate Cake
Moist Orange Cake With Orange Syrup
Eggless Whole Wheat Finger Millet Chocolate Cake(Healthy Ragi Chocolate Cake)
Madeira loaf cake
Whole Wheat Cornbread
Chocolate Sponge Cake with Ganache Toppings

Level: Easy
Prep Time: 15min

Bake time: 50-60 mins
Make: 1 loaf
1 cup = 250ml

Adapted from here

Ingredients

Whole Wheat Flour (chapatti atta): 1 3/4 cups
Cocoa Powder: 1/4 cup
Overripe Banana: 3
Large Eggs: 2
Brown Sugar: 1/2 cup (add according to taste)
Cinnamon powder: 1 teaspoon
Baking Powder: 1 teaspoon
Baking Soda: 1/4 teaspoon
Vanilla Extract : 1 teaspoons
Butter: 110gm (Melted)
Salt a pinch

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Optional Toppings:
Nutella: 3 tablespoons
Chopped Nuts( I used Cashews)

Directions

Preheat oven to 375º F (180º C). Grease the loaf pan with butter and line pan with parchment paper and butter it again the parchment. 
In a bowl mash the bananas, then mix butter,eggs, and vanilla together until well combined. 
In another bowl add whole wheat flour, sugar, cocoa powder,baking soda, baking powder and cinnamon powder.
 in banana mix and carefully mix it until well combined.
Pour the banana batter into the loaf pan and add your favourite toppings. 
Either added Nutella on top and swirled around with butter knife.and add chopped floured nuts on top.
Now bake the bread for about 40 mins and cover with foil and bake for more 10-15 minutes or until a toothpick pricked it should come out clean.
Let the bread cools down completely then slice and serve.

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Gawar palli Gosht ki sabji | Cluster Beans Mutton Curry | Goruchikkudu Mamusam Kura | Non veg recipes | Indian Food

Today's recipe is simple easy and tastes delicious and is best with Roti and Rice. I love adding lamb to variety of veggies to give extra kick to veg curries and different taste to regular ones. But i add lamb to veg curries once in a while as family is not found of nonveg that much.
Check out the simple ingredients and easy steps for cooking this deliciousness.Video for this is coming very soon...

Level: Easy
Total Time: 40
Serves: 2-4

1 cup: 250ml
1 tablespoon: 15ml
1 teaspoon: 5 ml

Ingredients

Lamb : 250 gm(boneless)
Cluster Beans /Gawar ki palli /Goruchikkudu: 250 gm
Onion: 1 medium( 100gm)
Tomatoes: 1 (100gm)
Oil: 2 tablespoons
Fenugreek Leaves/Meethi : 1/4th cup
Chilli Powder: 1 teaspoon
Turmeric Powder: 1/4th teaspoon
Garam Masala Powder: 1/2 teaspoon
Ginger Garlic Paste: 1 tablespoon
Salt to taste
Chopped coriander for garnish

Directions

In pressure cooker add lamb, chopped onion, ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, chilli powder, salt,oil and 1/2 cup of water and pressure cook for 4 to 5 whistles. Set aside and let it cool completely. 
Now add tomato , fenugreek leaves to lamb and cook until tomatoes are mushy and then add cluster beans mix well and cover the lid and cook for 10-15 mins until beans are cook completely.
 Stir in between, add water if required (i added 1/2 cup) and cook until beans are cooked. 
Now add garam masala powder and chopped corainder leaves and cook for another 2 to 3 mins. 
Serve hot with roti/rice

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