Cucumber rolls with feta and chilli

Easy and delicious healthy snack. Perfect for summer BBQ.











Ingredients1 long cucumber100 g feta cheese1 red chilli, fine chopped0,5 teaspoon parsley, fine chopped0,5 fresh coriander, fine chopped1 garlic clove, very fine choppedblack pepper2 tbs mayonnaise, creme fraiche or natural yogurt1. Slice cucumber for a long pieces (the easiest way to do it is use mandolin)2. In a bowl mix

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Spicy Chilli Chicken Recipe

Need a break from everyday Indian meals? Then look no further than Indo-chinese recipes. Popular among them are Gobi manchurian, Chicken manchurian and one of my favorites Chilli Chicken. For beginners Indo-chinese cuisine is basically the usage of chinese seasoning, sauces and cooking techniques mixed in with some indian spices to suit Indian tastes.

The Chilli chicken recipe here is a dry and spicy version where marinated chicken pieces are deep fried then cooked in a mixture of green chilly, capsicum, soya sauce & red chili sauce and finally garnished with spring onion. So lets get cooking!

Ingredients for Chilli Chicken Recipe

• Boneless Chicken – 1/2 kilogram (1 inch pieces)
• Green Chilly – 15-20 (cut length-wise)
• Onion – 1 small (thin long slices or short thick cubed slices)
• Capsicum (Bell Pepper) – 1 (thin long slices or short thick cubed slices)
• Soya Sauce – 1 tablespoon
• Red Chili Sauce –  1 1/2 teaspoons
• Ajinomoto – 1/4 teaspoon (optional)
• Sugar – 1/4 teaspoon
• Garlic – 8-10 cloves(chopped finely)
• Ginger – 1 teaspoon (finely chopped pieces)
• Pepper Powder – 3/4 teaspoon
• Corn Flour – 3 tablespoon
• Egg – 1
• Spring Onion – 4 chopped
• Water – 1 1/2 cup
• Food color (red or orange) – 1 pinch
• Oil for deep frying
• Salt to taste

Prep time: 15 min

Cook time: 30 min

Serving: 4 people

Chicken Marinade

1. In a bowl take the chicken pieces and add 1/2 teaspoon salt.
2. Add 2 tablespoon corn flour, 1 egg and 1/2 teaspoon pepper powder (rest will be used later).
3. Mix the ingredients well and set the bowl aside for 10 minutes.

Cooking method for Chilly Chicken Recipe

1. In a frying pan or a heavy bottomed vessel take sufficient oil for deep frying on medium heat.
2. When the oil is hot put the marinated chicken pieces into it and deep fry them for around 8 minutes.
3. After 8 minutes take the chicken pieces out and put them on tissue paper to remove the excess oil.
4. Take another pan on medium heat and add 1 tablespoon oil.
5. When the pan is hot add chopped ginger and garlic and stir for 2 minutes.
6. Now add green chilly and mix for another minute.
7. Toss in onion and capsicum and fry for 3 more minutes.
8. Its time now to put in the soya sauce and red chilly sauce. Mix the contents well.
9. Add 1 cup water, stir the contents and wait till it starts to boil.
10. Now add food color, salt to taste and mix again. At this stage you can now taste a few drops of liquid to check for salt and also for spice level. You can add more salt or more red chilly sauce based on your taste needs. Be careful to not overdo it.
11. Add a pinch of food color and mix well.
12. Its time for the star of the the dish the chicken to go in . Add the remaining 1/4 teaspoon pepper powder, ajinomoto (optional) and sugar.
13. In a separate vessel or a cup, add 1/2 cup of water, 1 tablespoon corn flour and stir. This will be used as the thickening agent.
14. Now increase the heat from medium to high. Add the corn flour water mixture little by little and stir the contents slowly. You will see that the contents starts to thicken.
15. When there is no liquid left, the chilli chicken recipe is almost done. Take the pan off the heat and add finely chopped  fresh spring onion and mix gently.

Serve hot as a starter/appetizer or as a side dish. Enjoy!

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Polish vegetable salad

Ingredients:



Mayonnaise (try to buy Polish one from Winiary company. It tastes like home-made)

2 tablespoons mustard

3 large carrots

2 parsley-roots or parsnips

Half of celeriac

3 large hard-boiled eggs

1 can peas (or half a can of peas and half a can of corn)

Black pepper (salad must be spicy)

4 large Polish sour cucumbers (ogórki kiszone)

3 large potatoes

1 apple

1 small

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Aloo Matar Recipe with Methi

Aloo Matar (Mutter) is a popular recipe with two key ingredients potatoes and green peas. After Aloo Gobi this is my favorite potato recipe. Here Aloo and Mattar are cooked together with spices, onions, ginger garlic paste and tomatoes. There are other versions of this recipe which have curry or gravy. This is the stir fry version.

I have added in Methi (Fenugreek) leaves for added nutritional benefit. Methi is rich in Iron, Potassium, Vitamin C and K and is also known to lower blood sugar. Only half bunch of Methi leaves are used so that the bitter taste does not overpower the other flavors. Aloo Mattar sabzi goes very well with all Indian breads including chapathi and poori or you can enjoy it along with rice dishes.

Aloo Matar Recipe Ingredients

• Aloo (Potato) - 4 medium sized
• Matar (Green Peas) - 1/2 cup
• Onion - 1/2 medium) sized
• Methi (Fenugreek) leaves - 1/2 bunch [may sound a lot but they wilt during cooking & reduce by more than half]
• Tomato - 2 medium sized
• Ginger paste - 1 tsp
• Garlic paste - 1 tsp
• Red Chilly powder - 1 tsp
• Cinnamon Clove powder - 1/4 tsp
• Mustard seed - 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
• Few Curry leaves
• Coriander (Cilantro) leaves - 1 tbsp
• Oil - 2 tbsp
• Water - 1 cup
• Salt to taste

Prep time: 15 minutes
Cook time: 30 minutes

Preparation:

• Cook the aloo (Potatoes) in a pressure cooker for 2 whistles. Let the aloo cool down a little and then while they are still warm peel the skin and cut them into small cubes and set aside.
• Peel and chop the onion finely.
• Wash and chop the tomatoes finely as well.
• Wash both Methi (Fenugreek) and Coriander leaves under water to remove any dirt. Chop them fine. Note that with fenugreek, you need to pluck and use the leaves and discard the stem.
• If you don't have the Cinnamon Clove powder you can make it fresh by grinding 1/2 inch cinnamon and 4 cloves in a mixer grinder
• If you don't have the ginger garlic paste, you can use a blender to grind a medium piece of ginger and a few cloves of garlic into a paste.

Aloo Matar Cooking method

1. Take a pan on medium heat and add the oil.
2. When it is hot add mustard seeds.
3. Once they start popping add onion and curry leaves.
4. Sauté the onions until they are translucent.
5. Put ginger garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes.
6. Put methi leaves and mattar (green peas) and mix well. Keep stirring the mixture for 3 minutes.
7. Now add the chopped tomatoes and turmeric. Cook till tomatoes turn mushy.
8. Now add salt, chilly powder and 1 cup water and bring it to boil.
9. At this stage you can do a taste test and if required add salt, chilly powder and cinnamon-clove powder accordingly. Note that since you are cooking with potatoes, you will need to use more salt than you're accustomed to in order to bring out the flavors in this recipe. Potatoes tend to absorb salt more than other foods. But don't overdo it.
10. Now add the aloo and mix well  Close the lid and cook for 10 minutes. In between you need to stir the mixture a couple of times.
11. After 10 minutes the water should have evaporated completely. If not cook for additional 2 minutes if required.
12. Turn off the heat and garnish the Aloo Matar with coriander leaves.

Aloo Mattar recipe with Methi is now ready to serve!

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Secrets to cat training, all you need to know to train your cat

Cat training is quite a problematic topic, so please have no illusions, training a cat is not an easy job! At least, it's not as easy as training a dog, cats have definitely less learning abilities than many other domestic animals.

However, we're cat lovers out there, right? so why not do the best that we can about it? today's challenge for you is to try to push your cat to the maximum of it's learning abilities and train them do do things that 99% of the cats out there will never learn to do.

All the information that you'll need for this task are made available to you today in the form of an instantly downloadable electronic book.

Simply click on the link below (or above, it's the same) to claim your copy of the needed material to start amazing your friends with the new skills of your cat ;)

Here's the link once again: http://tinyurl.com/blfa8fm

Be good,

Solom,

PS: I am being told that the price for this product is likely to go higher soon because of the tremendous success that it's encountering on the moment, so I think it would be better if you go grab it immediately even if you're planning on using it later, just so you know. 

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Nigella Lawson's Chocolate peanut butter cheesecake

If you like peanut butter this cheesecake is a must to try!



Ingredients for a 23 cm springform tin:

for the base:

200 g digestive biscuits
50 g salted peanuts
100 g dark chocolate chips
50 g softed unsalted butter

for the filling:

500 g cream cheese
3 eggs
3 eggs yolks
200 g caster sugar
125 ml sour cream
250 g peanut butter (I have gave crunchy one)

for the topping:

250 ml sour

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Lemon Drizzle Cake with Lemon Icing and candied cherries

The Daring Baker's February 2012 host was - Lis! Lisa stepped in last minute and challenged us to create a quick bread we could call our own. She supplied us with a base recipe and shared some recipes she loves from various websites and encouraged us to build upon them and create new flavor profiles.









Ingredients for cake:





180g melted and cooled butter
180g plain flour
160g

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