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Chicken Chhattisgarh

Chicken  Chhattisgarh

Just like the recipe the name is made up. I Googled some random India state and hoped for the best!

We had nearly a whole plate of Urad Dah left from Thursday and and half a roasted Chicken left in the fridge from Wednesday. Nothing goes to waste here unless it has taken on a second life. So made up Curry, here we go…

I’ll not even try to list a recipe for this. But basically we blitzed the cooked Urad Dah and added a tin of chopped Tomatoes the make the foundation of the sauce. With the usual fried Onion and spices this made a really robust Curry dish. Once the Curry had simmered and thickened for 45 minutes Sue added the roughly portioned Chicken so that it didn’t deconstruct!

I can at least give our Onion Bhaji recipe:-

Ingredients:-

2 Onion roughly sliced
100g Gram flour
½ tsp Baking Powder
½ tsp Chilli powder
½ tsp Turmeric
Water
Salt
Oil to fry

Method:-

(1) In a bowl mix the dry ingredients except the Onion with enough water to make a very sticky batter.
(2) Preheat your deep fat fryer to 180c.
(3) Add the sliced Onions and stir so that they are well coated.
(4) With a couple of spoons form rough balls and drop them individually into the hot oil. Shake the basket as they do tend to stick.
(5) Once the Bhajis are golden drown and floating remove and drain on kitchen paper.
(6) When your main disk is ready redunk them quickly to crisp up the protruding Onion.

A few Popadums a sprinkle of Coriander and a mound of home made Onion Bhajis and we slid quietly into a food coma! To be fair this was our only meal yesterday and it was mostly Rice bulking the plates up. Do I sound like I’m making excuses? Perhaps! 

 

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Brunch Burger

Ummm – Don’t ask! Actually there is a strange login behind these rather excessive burgers and no we didn’t eat them all in one sitting. We’ll be snacking all day I’m guessing….

We don’t throw anything away unless it’s totally dead. But this means that the freezer slowly gets clogged up with bits and bobs we’ve saved. So in the hope of clearing a bit of space we went rummaging / freezer mining. Here’s the list of (Uninspiring) ingredients we extracted…

Freezer Finds:-

1 pack of pre-made Gluten free buns.
½ a pie worth of Pork Pie filling with Beetroot juice.
A forgotten box of Potato Waffles.
A pack of Polish Smoked Ham.

Not a very promising collection of ingredients. But there was the foundation of The Brunch Burger lurking in there somewhere….

So with the addition of a bit of fresh minced Beef, fresh Salad, some grated Cheese, a couple of fried Eggs, a bit of left over Chilli sauce, some hand cut chips and a few home made Onion ring - we set to work.

The assembly! (This is hardly a recipe, as you would know it!)

(1) Sue made some Thousand Island sauce.
(2) I coated and pre-fried the Onion Rings.
(3) Sue hand pressed both the Pork and Beef burgers and put them in the fridge to rest.
(4) I Cut and pre-fried the Chips.
(5) Sue fried the burgers and put them under in the oven with the grated Cheese over the top to melt.
(6) Sue cut the Ham very thin then grilled it.
(7) Assembly commenced!
(8) Sue grilled the buns.
(9) She spread the Thousand Island sauce over the bottom half bun.
(10) Added Salad and sliced Tomatoes.
(11) Next came the fried Waffle with heated Chilli sauce.
(12) The burgers with melted Cheese were added next.
(13) Pop the fried Egg and top bun on and secure everything with a skewer.
(14) Add the Onion rings on top and server with chips and home made Coleslaw.

Sorry this reads more like a Haynes manual for a 1960s Mini. But nobody in their right mind is likely to follow this as a recipe really!


 

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