Shawarma kabab roll

Sometimes, holiday meals are so heavy that you can’t take that out of your mind. But there is still space in your stomach to eat. So, I wonder what to eat at that moment???

Near my house a small restaurant named kebab magic opened some time back . Some of my students recommended me Shawarma kebab from its menu . So, I decided to see how they were preparing it. It was prepared the same way, using a large rotating meat cone; the meat was shaved off the cone and dropped to a circular tray below to be retrieved. However, it is similar to  doner kebab, which is more well known . The shaved meat was then placed inside romali rotti . And was served with lot of mayonnaise + one slice of carrot + one slice of cucumber. They wrapped with tissue paper and packed it. When I reached home my bag was full of aroma which made me more hungry than I actually was. When I opened the parcel I saw mayo was oozing out , making me crave for it. Even after eating it I wanted more.

I got the Second chance soon when my sister came to my place. We were really hungry that day shopping and the magical shawarma kebab  was perfect! You will not believe she ate hers and mine and still wanted more !!

She even mailed me some recipes from internet to practice at home so I could  to prepare the dish when I went to her. How crazy?

When I reached , the first thing she asked me was if I had practiced  shawarma at home or not. What to answer her? Anyway, I can’t escape by giving excuses. Now the big question was how to prepare without practice and that too at one go. So I smuggled some recipes tips from various sites and giving it Indian tadka prepared it. This is how it follows:-

Ingredients: For marinating

·         Boneless  chicken  or you can chop to small pieces

·         1 cup hung yogurt

·         2 Tsp ginger and  garlic paste or grated

·         1 teaspoon pepper

·         1/2 teaspoon salt

·         1 teaspoon  all spice powder

·         juice from 1 lemon

For the sauce:

100g white til

·         2 cloves garlic, crushed

·         2 tablespoons hung yogurt

·         Parsley dried powder

·         black salt

·         black pepper

Romali rotti

·         ½ cup maida

·         ½ cup wheat flour

For fillings

·         thinly sliced onions

·         thinly sliced tomatoes

·         1/2 cup fresh coriander , finely chopped

·         Mayo , for paste

Preparation:

·         Combine all ingredients to make marinade. You can add oil is desired.

·         Add chicken, cover and refrigerate at least 8 hours, preferably overnight.

·         In a large saucepan, cook chicken over medium heat for 45 minutes or until done. If chicken becomes a little dry, add a few tablespoons of water throughout cooking duration. Cover it and cook.

·         While chicken is cooking, prepare the sauce. Combine sauce ingredients and mix well. Set aside.

·         Take the onions, tomatoes, cucumbers and sprinkle. Add other filling ingredients in a large bowl and combine well.

·         In the mean time prepare rotis from above mixture.

  I asked my husband to help me for making perfect circle rotis.

When the chicken is done, spread it on one roti with filling + sauce.

· Serve it hot with sauce and remaining filling.

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Second recipe- Chicken Brest Barbecue

Hi, everyone as i promised to give some of my old recipes. This is one which is quite old. This can be taken in account as diet recipe also. I eagerly want to eat chicken barbecue (The Brest portion). Earlier i have prepared chicken barbecue many a time to know about the timing and taste. When i have collected enough knowledge to try the same thing on chicken breast. 

Now this dish is our family favorite dish. I have prepared the same thing many a time for my family and friends whenever i call them for dinner. Interesting thing about this dish is it can be merged in different flavors and you can enjoy with different kind of sauces or soup or wine. It taste best with red wine, but it become quite bit heavy for me. So i like it with chicken soup and broccoli sauce.

Now the time to share the recipe:-

As some of my readers asked to write about preparation time , serving and nutrition value. So i will try to be more accurate about the above thing. So lets start.

Serving:- 2 (for 2 pieces you can increase the number)

Preparation time:- For chicken  barbecue ,marinating time (3-4 hrs), Cooking time (5-10 min)

                               For chicken Soup            15 min

Nutrition value:- Near about 200-250 cal + broccoli sauce  30 cal + chicken soup (30-45cal). So total calories 260-325. Not bad.

Ingredients:- For barbecue                        For Soup                             For Broccoli sauce

                     Chicken Brest- 2                   Chicken Stock                          broccoli steamed

                     garlic paste 1 tsp                     butter 1/2 tsp                            butter 1/2 tsp

                     ginger paste 1 tsp                    cornflour 1/2 cup                       Salt

                     curd 1/2 cup                          dried rosemary                           Black pepper

                     tomato or tamarind                 Salt                                             Chili flakes

                     paste 1 tsp                              Chili flakes

                     onion paste 2 tsp                     Black pepper

                     salt

                     chili powder

How to cook                       

First soup :-

1. Boil chicken pieces in 2 cup of water to make stock for at-least 10-15 min.
2. Than take out the chicken from the stock add cornflour to it.
3. Take out from the flame add salt, black pepper, chili according to your taste .

Second Barbecue :-

1. Place the chicken pieces in a tray which can easily go inside the freeze.
2. Mix all the ingredients mentioned for the barbecue and cover it with cling film for four hours.
3. after four hours heat the barbecue.
4. Place the chicken pieces over barbecue for 5-6 min.
5. Brush the other side with butter.
6. Than turn the other side keep it until it turn red 
7. Repeat on other side if required

Note:- It will be quite fast so be prepared for proper equipment and you can reduce the butter spreading. Personally i will suggest not to use , you can sprinkle after it is done, just for smell. No one can found out.

Third and last Broccoli sauce :-

1. Mash the broccoli.
2. add butter and all other ingredients.

Finished the dish with family and friends.

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rice pasta

 Hi,
After a long time. Frankly speaking i don't know how to use blogger yet. Now i have to use it for more practice. This is the place where i can share my creativity.
 Basically i love to cook new recipes. This is the latest thing i have done. When i was in Thailand i  indulged myself in street food. I enjoyed different dishes over there. I was most interested in noodles dishes , sesa noodles, mama noodles...... and so on. I searched a lot in my nearby places. I also tried some of the available noodles in India. But it was not like that. Then I watched TLC where the same cooking was done but they din't mention the name of noodles or pasta so i don't rememberexactly. So i tried with new instructions and got the dish as the picture i posted above.
I got a good picture out of it but now it has to go for the taste and calories test. I passed the dish in decorative bowl to my parent, sister and husband , so that they concentrate more in presentation rather than the taste. And guess what ,it was amazing. The dish was so tasty that i forced to make it once again.
It was simple and nutritious. Thats what is interesting . It looks colourful as it has a lot of vegetables and that too steamed. Now i will also share how to cook it. You can also prepare it at home .

First ingredients:-

• Flat Rice pasta(Boiled in salt water and then drained, washed in cold water the basic step )

• all kind of vegetables (choose the colourful one like carrot, beans , peas,cabbage, cauliflower, red and yellow capsicum etc all boiled )

• oregano

• any kind of green leafy vegetable (spinach is best or any green leaf )

• spring onion

• oil to cook

How to cook:-

1.  First place an wide open mouth pan and heat it maximum.
2. Put little bit of oil, add little palm sugar to it
3. Than add spring onion, after that spinach with salt.Let it fry for little time don't overcook.
4. After that add all boiled vegetable 
5. Pasta will go after that.
6. In separate bowl mix all the sauces .
7. Do it cautiously. Don't break the strands.
8. turn Off the flame add oregano, chili flakes, black salt and black pepper according to your taste 

That's  all enjoy the pasta with wine or coffee your choice...........

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