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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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DIY Brown Sauce - Gluten Free

There is logic in this madness. Almost all Brown Sauces have Wheat Gluten in them. That’s a serious no-no for Sue. There is actually no need and as far as we can tell so far this version tastes much better anyway. We’re supposed to give it 10 days to mature. Well, we’ll see how that goes!!!!

Ingredients:-

4 Apples, cores and chopped
300g of Prunes, chopped
1 Large Onion, diced
375g of Brown Sugar
72G of Salt
900ml of Malt Vinegar
1 Tsp of dried Ginger
½ Tsp of Allspice
½ Tsp Cayenne Pepper
¼ Tsp Grated Nutmeg

Method:-

(1) Open all the windows!
(2) Bung it all in a really big pan and bring to the boil.
(3) Stand outside as the Vinegar fumes will be making you gasp by now!
(4) Reduce the heat and simmer until everything has reduced by 1/3, stirring regularly.
(5) Remove from the heat.
(6) Use a hand blender (Food processor will be fine) and wuzz everything up.
(7) Once cool pour into a clip top jar.
(8) Set aside for 10 days!!!!!

We recycled an existing plastic squeezey which we’ll top up as required.
 

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