Cheesy potato Fries

Ingredients

2 Handful Frozen potato chips
2 slice of cheese ( cheddar)-cut into small pieces
Pinch of salt to taste
Oil to fry

Methods
Heat oil in a pan
Fry potato chips
Once ready, remove from heat add salt a mix well
Place in a serving dish add slice of cheese cut roughly into smaller pieces
Cover for a minute or so
Cheese will be melt and ready to serve

Serving suggestion

Eat very hot
Serve with chili sauce

Vegetarian Biryani-easy

Serving 4-5 persons

Ingredients
2 table spoon biryani spice
1  1/2 table spoon ginger garlic paste
2-3 cardamom
2 cloves
1 little piece cinnamon
2 cup of rice( 3&1/2 cup of water for cooking)
500 gram potato cut into large wedges or 1 potato cut into 4 pieces
1 can green peas
250 gram carrots, cut into long strips
150 gram soya bean , soak in hot water
150 gram fried onions
1 tomato finely chopped
1 small chili
3 table spoon ghee
chopped coriander and mint leaves( a handful)
Salt to taste
Yellow food colour (dissolve in 1/4 cup of water)

Method
In a rice cooker marinate all ingredients together apart from ( rice, ghee, food colour, and water)
Keep little fried onion, green peas(1/4 can) and chopped mint and coriander leaves apart- for topping
Marinate for about 30-45 minutes
Place uncooked rice on top
Then add 3 1/2 glass of water and ghee
Allow to cook
After 10 minutes cooking, check water level.
If it have reached approximately half of the ingredient add dissolve food colour
Allow to cook( it will be ready when water dries) use a long spoon to check water level
Top with fried onion, peas and mint, coriander leaves

Ready to serve
Serving suggestion: with salad, tamarind sauce and pickles

Sauteed Lamb

Serving 4-5 persons

Ingredients

750 gram lamb meat
1 large onion cut quarterly
1 table spoon garlic paste
Chinese green leaves (optional-bockchoy)
1/4 cup soy sauce
1 table spoon oyster sauce
1 table spoon oil

Methods
Cut lamb into long strips
Marinate lamb with garlic and soy and oyster sauce for 30 minutes
In frying pan add marinated lamb and steer fry for 5 to 8 minutes on high flame
Then cut onions and green leafy vegetable of your choice let cook for another 5 minutes

Ready to serve  hot

Serving suggestion: bread, plain rice or as it is with some sauce of your choice

Yoghurt Muffin

Ingredients

200 gram of self raising flour

4 cup yogurt sugarless  (it can be homemade or from market) 

110 gram unsalted butter

125 gram of sugar

4 eggs

5 g salt

50 ml milk

Methods

In a bowl mix butter and sugar until you obtain a creamy paste

Add eggs and beat on medium speed

Add yogurt and beat until all ingredients are well mix

Then add milk and flour and salt little by little while beating

until all ingredients are well mixed and it becomes homogeneous

Preheat oven at 180 degree

Grease your silicone mold or muffin mold 

Pour the muffin mixture in a muffin mold

Let cook for 10 to 20 minutes

Until golden- verify the middle of the one muffin with fork or knife to check if it is cooked

If the knife or fork comes out neat, means it ready

Remove from oven and leave to cool

Then you can serve hot or cold

Whisking the muffin ingredients

 Silicone mould

Home made yoghurt

Ingredients

1 little full cream milk

1 pot ( from the shop) yogurt without sugar

3 table spoon milk powder

Methods

Bring to boil liquid milk in a cooking pot which have a lid, on medium flame 

When you see it at boiling point add powdered milk and whisk slowly until it's well mixed

Once it is boiled turn off the heat and let it cool down-in the same cooking pot.

When it it cooled add the yogurt and whisk for 5-8 minutes with hand whisk.

Cover the milk with a lid and a dry cloth. 

Leave it over night and it will be ready in the morning. 

Then you put the yogurt int refrigerator.

When you will serve it add sugar or fruits if your choice.

Serve chilled 

Steps in pictures

Cover and let set till morning

Notice: it is best when you do it at around 18 hrs and leave it over night

It will become as smooth as the one you usually buy

You can serve it around a week or so

Serving suggestion: Add any fruit of your choice- fresh or canned and little sugar

Pad Thai Devin's style

Ingredients

1 packet   rice noodles

1 tablespoon tamarind paste

1 ½ tablespoons fish sauce

1 ½ tablespoons sugar

1 tablespoon lime juice

1 carrot, thinly sliced

½ cup oil

2 teaspoons garlic paste

1 teaspoon ginger paste

16 -18 large shrimp, peeled and deveined

2 large eggs, lightly beaten

1 cup bean sprouts

⅓ cup chopped salted peanuts

1 lime, cut into wedges

Sesame seed

1/4 cup water

Salt and pepper to taste

Methods

Place the noodles in a bowl and cover with cold water. Let sit for 1 hour. Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together the tamarind paste, fish sauce, sugar, lime juice and 1/4 cup water; set aside. Lightly steam carrot; set aside.

Drain the noodles. 
Set a wok over high heat for 1 minute, then add the oil and heat until almost smoking. 
Add the garlic and ginger; sauté for 30 seconds. Add the shrimp and sauté until almost cooked through, few minutes (4-5 minutes). 
Transfer the shrimp to a plate, leaving the oil in the pan.

Add the noodles and stir-fry for 2 minute. Pour in three-quarters of the tamarind sauce and toss to coat the noodles. Add more sauce if needed. 
Cook until the noodles are smoothen, then push them to one side of the wok and scramble the eggs in the remaining space. 
Add the shrimp,  carrot, bean sprouts and half the peanuts. Toss to mix. Divide among 4 to 5 plates and garnish with the remaining peanuts, the cilantro, lime wedges, sesame seeds and (for brave children) red pepper flakes.

Boiled noodles with chicken and mushroom

Ingredients

1 packet fresh noodle
250 gram chicken
1 small canned mushroom cut
1 medium onion chopped
1 teaspoon garlic paste
2 table spoon oyster sauce
Handful chopped spring onion
Soy sauce
Pepper and salt to taste
Oil to cook

1/4 cup of water

Methods  

For chicken 

Heat a pan and add a little oil

Pour onion, garlic paste and let fry until light golden

Add chicken, oyster sauce 1/4 cup of water and let cook for 8 minutes approximately

Add mushroom and stir for another five minutes. 

Turn down flame and add spring onion

For the noodles

Boil noodle in hot water for 5 minutes only with a little salt

 Remove from heat

Dress in a plate- noodle first and then chicken on top with little soy sauce and pepper 

Serves hot with garlic sauce and chili paste