Almond Mushroom Chicken Soup (姬松茸鸡汤)
Here’s another quick and easy Instant Pot soup recipe. In one of my previous recipes, Instant Pot Chinese Chicken Soup & Stock, I mentioned that I would share more stewing hen soup recipe combinations that use different side ingredients. Today, I’m sharing another one that uses dried almond mushrooms. Almond mushroom (Agaricus subrufescens) has many names like almond agaricus...
Pig Heart Soup with Lotus Seeds & Dried Lily
It’s definitely true that one person’s trash is another person’s treasure. In this case, pig heart is the subject. Many people have never had pig heart. They either think it’s too weird, too exotic, or too gross. In most cases, they don’t think it’s something they can manage at home. The truth is, pig heart is actually extremely easy to cook once you get past the psychological barrier.
Salted Fish Eggplant Stew (咸鱼茄子煲)
In one of my previous posts, Chinese Salted Fish Meat Patty (咸鱼蒸肉饼), I talked about the acquired taste for Cantonese salted fish and how important it was to older generations of Cantonese. Salted fish these days are becoming more like a delicacy rather than a staple for younger Cantonese people. Today’s post, Salted Fish Eggplants Stew (咸鱼茄子煲) is another popular dish that uses Cantonese salted...
Stewing Hen Tea Tree Mushroom Soup
Stewing hens are great for making soup and they typically cost less than chickens that are raised for meat. Be warned, the meat can be tougher than your traditional meat chicken. But this doesn’t affect the taste of the chicken at all. This Stewing Hen Tea Tree Mushroom Soup (茶树菇老母鸡煲烫) uses an instant pot and is so wonderfully easy to make. It takes a little over an hour but most of that time is...
Chinese Salted Fish Meat Patty (咸鱼蒸肉饼)
Salted fish is definitely an acquired taste. Some people love it; others can’t stand it. Many countries and cultures have their own unique version of salted fish. Before modern food preservation methods, people who lived by the sea developed ways to preserve fish. Salting, pickling, fermenting, or some combination are all ways our smart ancestors developed to preserve fish. Today’s recipe...
Instant Pot Chinese Chicken Soup & Stock
The other day, I was telling my friend how I liked southern-Chinese-style soups. For those of you who are not familiar with this type of soup, southern-Chinese-style soup (煲汤) mostly uses pork bones, beef bones, and/or stewing hen for the base and takes a long time to make (over an hour) from start to finish. My friend grew up in the southern-Chinese province of Fujian. Being a foodie herself...
Seed to Plate – Growing and Cooking Baby Bok Choy (Time Lapse)
Over the cool season, I grew quite a bit of baby bok choy in my backyard garden. As I mentioned recently in my article on how to cook daikon radish leaves, the winter growing season in Texas was very nice and supportive. We had mild temperatures and the rainfall was very consistent. After sowing seeds in the garden, I basically did absolutely nothing. A few weeks later, I had a wonderful crop of...
Daikon Radish Leaves (Greens) Salad (凉拌白萝卜樱子)
I am pretty frugal, and I do not like to waste food. So when I harvested my homegrown daikon radishes a few weeks ago, I made sure the daikon leaves were also put into good use. In most grocery stores, the daikon only include the root part. Rarely do you see daikon with leaves attached. But if you are a part of CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), or you have a grocery subscription service like...
How to Clean a Fish
Cooked whole fish is commonplace in Asian and many European and Latin American cuisines. In the United States, eating a whole fish is not nearly as popular as it is in other parts of the world. Nonetheless, you can still easily find and buy whole fish at grocery stores. I have shared quite a few whole fish recipes on my website. For many Asian families, eating a whole fish used to be reserved for...
Jiu Cai He Zi (Chinese Chive Pockets)
I just realized that I’ve been sharing quite a few recipes involving flour lately. Many of the recipes relate to the festive holidays we just celebrated, like the Chinese New Year/Lunar New Year, the Chinese lantern festival, and the Beginning of Spring. Now that my kids are old enough to start remembering holidays and traditions, I try to make a point to not only celebrate American holidays but...
KALAKAND SWEET / MITHAI
Kalakand is a famous Pakistani sweet or methai,this easy and instant recipe required just 3 ingredients. You can make this in microwave in 60 seconds. So don’t forget to try this delicious recipe.
INGREDIENTS:
| Milk powder | 2 cups |
| Sugar | 1/2 cup or to taste |
| Cream | 200 ml |
| Nuts | as required |
METHOD:
- In a heat resistant bowl add powder milk, cream, sugar and mix well.
- Microwave it for 30 seconds and mix, again microwave it for 30 seconds and mix. Do not over cook it will become hard.
- You can cook on stove as well.
- Line a pan with cling wrap and pour in it, sprinkle nuts on top and press with hands.
- Keep it in refrigerator for 1/2 hour, cut pieces and serve.
You can watch my Video for demonstration:
ARIZONA CHICKEN STEAK
Try this delicious , juciy and creamy steak, you will definetly like it. I will dedicate this recipe to my student Naima Khalid, who gave this recipe to me.
You can check my another Steak recipe here:
INGREDIENTS:
| Chicken fillets | 2 flattened |
| Salt | to tatse |
| White pepper | 1/2 tsp |
| Black pepper | 1/2 tsp |
| Garlic paste | 1/2 tsp |
| Lemon juice | 1 tbsp |
| Worcestershire sauce | 1 tbsp |
| Oyster sauce | 1 tbsp |
| Chili sauce | 1 tbsp |
| Plain flour | as required {for coating} |
| Butter | 2 tbsp |
| Parsely | as needed |
| Garlic chopped | 1/2 tsp |
| Oil | for frying |
| White Sauce | as needed |
| Saute Vegetabels | as needed |
METHOD:
- Marinate chicken fillet with salt, pepper, mustard paste, egg, garlic and lemon juice, oyster sauce, worcestershire sauce and chili sauce for 1/2 hour.
- Coat fillets in dry flour and than dip in egg and shallow fry it.
- Fry till tender but do not over cook.
- Heat 1 tbsp butter in a pan add chopped garlic, parsely and 1/22 tsp white pepper. Stir and remove immediately and pour over chicken fillet.
- Make a white sauce.
- In a pan add 2 tsp butter and 1 tsp oil, heat and add 2 tbsp plain flour. Stir for few seconds.
- Add salt and black pepper to taste and 3/4 cup milk. Stir till thick. You can add cheese too. (optional)
- Pour a spoon full sauce on steak and serve.
- Serve steak with Fried Rice and Saute vegetables.
CHICKEN CREAMY PIE
This recipe is very simple, You can make this pie with pizza dough or puff pastry. Flaky and crispy outside creamy and tasty filling inside will give you a very yummy feelings.
INGREDIENTS:
| Chicken boiled and shredded | 1 cup |
| Onion chopped | 1 medium |
| Butter | 1 tbsp |
| Black pepper | 1/2 tsp |
| Chicken powder | 1 tsp |
| Salt | to taste |
| Red chili flakes | 1 tsp or to taste |
| Flour | 2 tbsp |
| Milk | 3/4 cup |
| Egg | 1 beaten |
| Sesame seeds | as needed |
| Puff pastry or pizza dough | as needed |
METHOD:
- In a pan add butter and onion, stir it for few seconds. Add flour and stir till raw smell remove.
- Add chicken and mix well.
- Now add chicken powder, salt, black pepper and crushed red chilies. Mix well.
- Add chicken milk and stir well. Thick mixture will form.
- Roll puff pastry or pizza dough.
- Cut in squares.
- Fold the corner and cut a strip as mentioned in pic.
- Do this on opposite sides.
- Place a spoon full of mixture in center and brush egg wash on all corners.
- Overlap both sides.
- Brush egg wash on top of pie, sprinkle sesame seeds.
- Bake at 180c till done.
- Enjoy with ketchup or ant sauce.
2 INGREDIENTS CHOCOLATE MOUSSE
Just 2 ingredients super easy and delicious Chocolate Mousse. No egg or no gelatin is required in this recipe, just whip cream and fold in melted chocolate to make a stunning desert for your special occasions.
Ingredients:
| Cooking Chocolate / Milk chocolate | 200g |
| Whipping cream | 2 cups |
Method:
- Add 1/2 cup cream in chocolate and microwave it. You can melt chocolate on double boiler too. Melt chocolate and mix well.
- Now whip cream(in my cream vanilla and sugar was added). Whip cream till peaks form.
- Fold chocolate in cream.
- Fill in pipping bag and make small servings.
- Dust cocoa and serve chill.
KARACHI FAMOUS STUDENT BIRYANI
Student Biryani is famous Birayni in Karachi. You can get similar taste at home too, if you are away from Karachi. This Recipe is inspired by Chef Shahid’s recipe.
INGREDIENTS:
| Rice Basmati | 1/2 kg |
| Chicken | 1/2 kg |
| Red chili powder | 1 tbsp |
| Black pepper | 1 tsp |
| White pepper | 1 tsp |
| Turmeric powder | 1 tsp |
| Chopped green chilies | 1 tbsp |
| Whole Spices Mix | 2 tbsp |
| Dhania powder | 1 -1/2 tbsp |
| Jaifal / Javtri powder | 1/4 tsp |
| Ajino moto (optional) | 1 tbsp |
| All spice powder | 1 tbsp |
| Cumin powder | 1 tbsp |
| Ginger garlic paste | 1 -1/2 tbsp |
| Zarda / orange food colour | 1/2 tsp |
| Kewra water | 1 tsp |
| Tomato paste | 4 tomatoes |
| Brown onion | 1 cup |
| Yogurt | 1 cup |
| Green chillies | 3-4 |
| Green coriander | 1/2 cup |
| Min leaves | 1/2 cup |
| Biryani essence | 1/2 tsp |
METHOD:
- Soak rice for 20 minutes.
- Boil rice and add salt, biryani essence, whole spices, Oil 2tbsp and vinegar 1 tbsp. Add rice and cook till half done . Now run cold water from rice to stop cooking process of rice.
- Set aside.
- You can cook Chicken gravy and than boil rice. Its up to you.
- In a pot add 1 cup oil and add ginger garlic paste, saute for few minutes and add tomato paste.
- Stir for few minutes and add chicken, stir.
- Add salt to taste, Yogurt, red chili powder, ajino moto, cumin powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder, black pepper, white pepper, green chilli chopped, jaifal javitri, kewra essence, zarda colour, mix all well. let it cook for 5 minutes.
- Add coriander and mint leaves and 1 cup water. Cook on high flame and add brown onion.
- Cook till gravy become thick. Let water dry and add all spice powder and green chilies. Mix well. Do not over cook chicken.
- Spread Boiled rice on top of gravy and cover with lid for 10-15 minutes.
- Let it simmer on low flame.
- Mix and serve with Raita and salad.
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GUR KA SHARBAT / JAGGERY SUMMER DRINK
Gur ka Sharbat is one of a very famous drink here in Punjab. You can enjoy this anytime and quench your thrust. I am grateful to my two friends Alvina and Sadia , who told me this recipe. Try this in this hot Iftars.
INGREDIENTS:
- Gur / Jaggery / shakar 1 cup
- Water 1 cup
- Lemon 1-2
- Tukh Malanga/ Basil seeds as needed
METHOD:
- Add water in jaggery. Leave it for few minutes and dissolve it.
- Strain this solution. You can keep this in freezer for longer period of time.
- Now add water according to your requirements and taste.
- Soak basil seeds in water and leave it swell.
- Add lemon juice and basil seeds in sharbat and serve chill with a lot of crushed ice.
KURKURAY CHANA CHAT/ BHEL
Kurkuray chaat is an Instant hit recipe. If you want something Chatpata and mazedar than try this recipe. You can use any flavor of Kurkuray and give a surprise to your guests.
INGREDIENTS:
- Kurkuray (any flavor) 2 large packets.
- Chickpeas Boiled 1 cup
- Yogurt beaten 1 cup
- Tomato cut in small cubes 1
- Onion rings
- Coriander leaves 2-3 tbsp
- Green chilies 1-2 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Chat masala as required
- Tamarind Sweet sauce as required
METHOD:
- Add salt in yogurt and mix well.
- In a bowl add chickpeas , kurkure and toss them. Now pour yogurt on it.
- Add onion rings, tomato, coriander, green chilies , sauce and chat masala.
- Serve immediately, kurkure will become soggy with time.
- Enjoy tasty Chat with family or friends.
CHEESE STICKS WITH GARLIC MAYO SAUCE
Crispy sticks with cheesy flavor you can add in your iftar menus or give your kids in lunch boxes. Make and store in freezer for a long time. Recipe is inspired by chef Shahid.
INGREDIENTS:
- Bread slices as needed or 8 slices
- Mozzarella cheese , grate it.
- Black pepper 1/2 tsp
- Green chili crushed 1 tsp
- Coriander leaves 1 tsp
- Chicken powder 1/2 tsp
- Eggs 2 beaten
- Bread crumbs as needed.
- Make a paste of flour and water for sealing bread.
- Ketchup for serving
METHOD:
- Take fresh bread and with pin roll press it and remove edges.
- Now in a bowl add all ingredients. and mix with light hands.
- Beat eggs.
- Place filling on bread and roll it. Seal with paste of flour and dip in egg. Coat crumbs and deep fry.
- Do not fry on high flame.
- Serve hot with Sauce.
GARLIC MAYO SAUCE:
INGREDIENTS:
- Mayonnaise 2-3 tbsp
- Vinegar 1 tsp
- Freshly grind ginger garlic paste 1/2 tsp
- Icing sugar 1/2 tsp
- Mustard powder 1/2 tsp
METHOD:
- Mix all ingredients and serve with sticks.
KATHIAWARI CHOLAY/ CHAT
This recipe of chat is one of the famous recipe of chat in Karachi. Last year I have tried it very first time. Now sharing this recipe in this Ramazan to add some flavor in your iftar. This recipe is taught by chef Shahid.
INGREDIENTS:
- Chickpeas 1 cup
- Mint leaves 2 tbsp
- Coriander leaves 2 tbsp
- Green chilies 1 tbsp
- Yogurt 1 cup
- Cumin seeds 1/4 tsp
- Garlic 1 clove
- Bread crumbs 4 tbsp
- Tamarind 3/4 cup
- Chat masala 1 tsp
- Black salt 1tsp
- Corn flour 4-5 tbsp.
- Oil 2-3 tbsp
- Salt to taste
- Red chili powder 1 tsp
- Turmeric powder 1/2 tsp
- Cumin powder 1 tsp
- Coriander powder 1 tsp
- Ajino moto/ chicken powder/ chicken cube 1 tbsp
- Yellow food color/ zarda color 1/4 tsp
- Onion Rings
- Papri
METHOD:
- Boil chickpeas by adding salt and ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp in water. Cook till soft and tender. Leave 1-2 cups of water of boiled chickpeas.
- Make Raita first. Add yogurt, green chilies, mint leaves, coriander, Cumin seeds 1/2 tsp, salt, garlic clove 1, bread crumbs in a grinder and make smooth paste. Set aside. Bread crumbs will give thickness to your raita.
- Now Tamarind/Imli Chutney. Soak Tamarind in 4 glass water and remove seeds, strain and separate pulp. Now add chat masala and black salt. Mix well. Set aside. You can make this and keep it in freezer for a month.
- In a pot add oil , cumin powder, turmeric, salt, red chili powder, coriander powder and ajinomoto. Stir well add few drops of water too. Now add chickpeas with 1 cup water. Add food color.
- Mix food color in water and mix in chickpeas. Cook till become thick.
- Now pour in serving dish, sprinkle onion rings, Raita, Chutney, Papri, Chat masala and serve it.
- Yummmm.
- Chat lovers you should try as soon as possible
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