Monday, April 21, 2014

Roasted fingerling potatoes with yogurt sauce

Ingredients:

8-10 medium size fingerling potatoes
2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp English prime rub spice mix
1 tbsp chilly powder
2 tbsp yogurt
chopped coriander for garnish

Method:

1. Cut the fingerling potatoes in half length-wise.
2. Mix potatoes with oil, spice mix and chilly powder.
3. Bake the potatoes in a pre-heated oven at 400 F for 35 minutes.

Yogurt sauce:
1. Remove the potatoes from the baking dish and put the yogurt in the baking dish. Mix with coriander, remaining oil and spices left in the dish.
2. Scope this sauce over the roasted potatoes and serve with chicken curry.

Enjoy! :)

Curry chicken with mushrooms



Ingredients:

1 chicken breast cut in small 1" pieces
2 green chilly
2 cloves of garlic
1" piece of ginger
2 tsp red chilly powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp roasted clove powder
2 tsp roasted cumin powder
1 medium onion(cut into julians)
1 cup sliced mushrooms
1 tbsp of peanut oil
salt to taste

Method:

1. Make a paste of chillies, garlic and ginger.
2. Heat the oil in a pan. Once the oil is warm, put in the ginger-garlic-chillies paste and saute for about half a minute.
3. Add the onions and saute for 2 minutes.
4. Now add chicken, salt, red chilly powder, cumin powder, clove powder and turmeric and mix well.
Cover chicken and cook for 10 minutes.
5. After 10 minutes, remove the lid, mix the mushrooms and stir the chicken. Again cover and cook for 10-15 minutes till the chicken is cooked.
6. Finally garnish with some chopped coriander. 

All the cooking to be done on medium flame.

You can serve this with roasted fingerling potatoes with yogurt sauce(check out my next recipe).


Enjoy! :)