Showing posts with label side dish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label side dish. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 December 2013

Chicken Fajitas



This is one quick recipe....super easy and superhit for sure. It's very hard to fail this recipe....if you give a little love to your magic wok :)
Serve as dinner with tortillas and some guacamole or tomato salsa, as a pasta side, or as a yummy burrito filling....and enjoy as everyone slurps it off their plates.
Here's how you make it!

Need:
250 gms Chicken breast pieces - diced or sliced into 2x1" strips
Capsicum/bell peppers - 2 medium - seeded and sliced 1/2" thick lengthwise
Onions - 2 medium - diced into 1" cubes
Cherry/grape tomatoes - 5-6 - halved
1 Jalapeno pepper - sliced
Black pepper powder - 1 tbsp
Cumin powder - 1 tsp
Garlic - 1 clove - chopped finely
Olive oil - 1 tsp
Honey - 2 tsp
Salt to taste

To cook:
Marinate the chicken in the juice of 1 lime, honey, salt, cumin, and black pepper for 20 mins
On a hot wok spray on some olive oil and saute the garlic till golden brown.
Now transfer your chicken with the onions to cook on med-hi heat for 2 mins.
Keep turning your chicken and add the peppers to cook for another 6 mins.
The honey will start burning if u don't give some love to your wok :) ...so no running 5 min errands while the fahitas cook!

Serve as suggested above ....or just pop something else with these good boys ....they're super

healthy :)

Here's a snapshot of some yummy vegetarian fajitas - added soya nuggets with all my veggies....enjoy!



Tuesday, 25 June 2013

Methi Begun (Fenugreek leaves & brinjal fry – Bengali Recipe)



Take a cup of diced brinjal, smear with salt and turmeric powder and keep aside.
Dice 2-3 green chilis.
Pluck the leaves of a bunch of fenugreek (you can chop up the stalks and use in your dal some other time) – this should measure another cup.
Take 1 tsp white oil (any mild flavor white oil should do – I use extra light or pomace olive oil)
Heat it in a non-stick (‘coz we are using very little oil here) and splutter chopped green chili and nigella seeds (kalo jeere/kalonji)
Now add the diced brinjals, stir in ¼ cup warm water, cover and cook for 4-5 minutes (or until the brinjals are done half way)
Now add the methi/fenugreek leaves and ½ tsp sugar, stir, cover and cook for another 4-5 minutes, stirring occasionally to make sure that the stuff doesn’t stick to the pan.
Serve with steaming rice.


Note: This is a very Bengali preparation – can qualify as a “bheto bangali” recipe :) 

The mathi saag is what makes this dish a lactation expert (check here)! Enjoy