Monday, January 19, 2009

Chicken Honey Roast - Desi Ishtyle.

Atlast, I have a recipe to post here.
There were two things that was keeping me from posting.
1. I had photos of dishes which I got right but the recipe was just pick and throw.
2. I had recipes but no photos. (this problem I could solve, but I did not find anything sooo interesting in my kitty)

Now atlast today, my husband told me at 10:30 am that he will have some friends over for lunch!! that too 6 people.I thought of a simple menu and I pushed him off to the supermarket to get me stuff, with a list so that he would not forget anything(but there were many things that I forgot to put on the list). SO my menu was:
1. Ghee Rice
2. Mutton Curry
3. Full Chicken Roast
4. Salad
5. Rasmalai

That is all I could manage, that too with a valuable help form my mother.

First of all what I did was, go to
www.malluspice.blogspot.com and checked the recipes for ghee rice and the full chicken roast or kozhi nirachathu (as we say in malayalalm).
My mother got down to the chore of cutting up the onions. She cut a batch for the mutton, then she got another batch for the ghee rice. Then I thought that, she has to go through all this again for the chicken. By this time I had marinated 2 chicken and put it in my microwave. Then suddenly, I remembered the other day I had watched Anjum Anand's cooking show, Indian Food Made Easy and in that she had roasted a marinated lamb leg and poured a sauce made with youghurt, badam and honey once the lamb was half done. I did this with my chicken. It works well with chicken also. Its a nice combination of sweetness, sourness, hotness, spicyness and all the ness's. The best part of it was there wsa no more cutting onions..
So, to make the loooong story short – I got a recipe and a photo(yes I managed to take a photo in all the maddness!!!! Yippppeee!!).You guys might think i have gone crazy, but I am just plain happy that at last I will have a post to put on my blog (WITH A PHOTO). Yes now I sound a wee bit crazy. Let me get down to the recipe.




You will need:


All these ingredients are for marinating the chicken. Time for marination depends on how much time you have. I made it with just 15 min of marination. But longer the better.


Chicken – 1,100 gms (smaller the better)
Chilli powder – 3 tsp
Turmeric Powder – 1 tsp
Corriander Powder – 1 ½ tsp
Pepper Powder – 1 tsp
Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp
Juice of 1 lime


For the sauce
Yoghurt – 2tbps
Almonds – around 5 or 6
Honey – 2 tsps





Now that you have all the ingredients proceed as follows:
Mix all the marinating ingredients in a big bowl and marinate the chicken, which has been incised deeply.
Now, for some tips -

1. Try to keep the skin on, you can always remove the skin while eating. Keeping the skin on makes the meat tender and juicy.
2. Keep the chicken in the marinade as long as you can. Put the marinade all the way inside the chicken.





Next the baking, is the tricky part. I browsed through the site www.allrecipes.com and I came accross this method of baking and it works fine for me. If you guys have some other method, go ahead and try it. The thing we have to be careful is that, the chicken should be cooked and it should not burn. So the baking steps are as follows:





1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Bake uncovered 1 hour and 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Remove from heat, and baste with the drippings.

These are the steps I adopted from http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Juicy-Roasted-Chicken/Detail.aspx
So go ahead and make this one... a real twist to our koyi nirachathu.



Friday, January 9, 2009

Yippppeeee!!!! OUR BLOG

Hello world.

We are Faby and Zerin. Room mates, Class mates, Bench mates, from MES College Of Engineering.

Yes, that is right we are "engineers"..... We passed out in the year 2000. Since then, the most dangerously engineering stuff that we have done is operating our stove.

After college, we married our college sweethearts and settled down to have a "wonderful" life. Did I mention that we are computer engineers?? no i guess not. Yes we are!

In our domestic lives, we have developed a new passion.... that is food.

We don't particularly love cooking it, but yes we have managed to get our Guinea pigs (husbands) rave about our cooking skills. We love eating it!!!!

We just love reading anything, but cookery blogs are our favorite. All our recipes come from the blogs that we read regularly. There are quite a few blogs that we visit regularly.

This blog will be hosted by the two of us:

Host 1

Name: Zerin
Age: 30
Born On: 22.10.1978
Living In: UAE
Marital Status: Married
Children: 3

Host 2

Name: Faby
Age: 30
Born On: 25.10.1978
Living In: Qatar
Marital Status: Married
Children: 1