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Thursday, January 12, 2023
French fries: Cut potatoes into thin strips, season with salt, pepper and your preferred spices. Heat oil in a pan and fry the potatoes until golden brown and crispy.
Hamburgers: Mix ground beef with salt, pepper, and any other seasonings you prefer. Form the mixture into patties and grill or pan-fry until cooked through. Serve on buns with lettuce, tomato, and your favorite toppings.
Hot dogs: Boil or grill hot dogs and serve on buns with your favorite toppings such as ketchup, mustard, and relish.
Pizza: Roll out pizza dough, add your favorite sauce and toppings, and bake in the oven until the crust is golden brown and the cheese is melted.
Fried chicken: Mix flour, salt, pepper, and your preferred spices in a shallow dish. Dredge chicken in the mixture, then deep fry until golden brown and cooked through.
Tacos: Cook ground beef or chicken with taco seasoning, and serve in warm tortillas with lettuce, tomato, cheese, and sour cream.
Fried fish: Mix flour, salt, pepper, and your preferred spices in a shallow dish. Dip fish in milk, then dredge in the flour mixture. Deep fry until golden brown and cooked through.
Grilled cheese sandwich: Spread butter on two slices of bread, add cheese in between the slices, and cook on a pan until the bread is golden brown and the cheese is melted.
Sunday, January 8, 2023
Cottage pie
This easy cottage pie recipe serves four and is a hearty meal that the whole family can enjoy together.
This comforting cottage pie is one of the best cheap family meals, packed with the goodness of onions, carrots, chestnut mushrooms, tomatoes, mince and a big dash of Worcestershire sauce for an extra kick of flavour. Rich in protein and vegetables, this cottage pie recipe makes for a wholesome, satisfying meal ready in just 50 minutes and is an ideal meal for batch cooking.
Ingredients
- 1tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 med onion, peeled and chopped
- 2 carrots, peeled and diced
- 500g minced beef
- 250g chestnut mushrooms, sliced
- 2 level tbsp plain flour
- 400g can chopped tomatoes
- 1 beef stock cube
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Dash of Worcestershire sauce
- 450g mashed potato
- Knob of butter
Method
- Heat the oil in a sautรฉ pan or large frying pan, add the onion and carrots and cook over medium heat for about 5 mins, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables have started to soften.
- Add the beef to the pan and cook for about 5-10 mins, stirring to break up the meat, until it browns. Once the meat is crumbly, stir occasionally to prevent it from sticking and burning, but don’t keep stirring it, otherwise, it just cools the mixture, rather than letting the meat brown.
- Add the mushrooms to the pan and cook for a few mins.
- Sprinkle over the flour, then mix it in well and heat for 3-4 mins to cook the flour. The flour will absorb the fat that comes out of the meat, which will then thicken the sauce.
- Pour in the can of tomatoes, sprinkle in the stock cube, and bring the mixture to a boil, stirring continually, then reduce the heat and simmer for about 10 mins, until it thickens slightly and the vegetables are tender. If the sauce seems very thick, just add a little boiling water.
- Set oven to 200°C/400°F/Gas Mark 6.
- Stir the Worcestershire sauce into mince, then spoon into a dish and level the surface.
- Beat the potato to soften it and spread over the mince. Score the surface with a fork and put butter on top.
- Bake in the center of the oven for about 20-30 mins, or until the pie is golden and the filling is bubbling. For a crisp, golden finish, sprinkle your cottage pie with lashings of cheddar cheese and pop it under the grill for a few minutes longer. Serve straight from the oven.
How do you store leftover cottage pie?
Leftovers, once cooled, can be stored in an airtight container in the fridge for up to two days. Not sure how to freeze food like this? Freeze this cottage pie recipe either in portions or as a whole meal, which will last about three months in the freezer.
Make sure you leave plenty of time for defrosting. To defrost thoroughly leave in the fridge overnight. Make sure the cottage pie is completely defrosted before reheating again. You can reheat in the oven using the same temperature and cooking times.
What can you serve with cottage pie?
Cottage pie is such a hearty meal you don’t have to serve it with anything if you’re happy with just the pie, however, if you’re looking for a side, a steaming bowl of freshly cooked greens is a good choice. Opt for Tenderstem broccoli, runner beans, or peas, of if you want something a little more decadent, try creamy spinach with cheese.
If you’re serving cottage pie in the summer months you might opt for a lighter side of a freshly prepared salad. Some people also serve bread and butter with their cottage pie to mop up leftover juices from the pies' gravy.
What is the difference between cottage pie and shepherd’s pie?
The main difference between cottage pie and shepherd’s pie is the meat. Cottage pie is traditionally made with minced beef, whereas shepherd’s pie is made with minced lamb.
Both are made with minced meat, packed with veggies like onions and carrots and both are topped with mashed potato and a sprinkling of cheese.
Friday, August 19, 2022
This recipe includes instructions for how to create a chewy crust that’s lightly crisp on the bottom using all-purpose flour or bread flour. It makes a dough that is far better (and cheaper!) than any store bought dough or restaurant pizza I have tried.
Even the tomato sauce is made from scratch! It’s wonderfully simple and flavorful, and is the perfect base for layering on lots of cheese and your choice of toppings.
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Paneer Lababdar Recipe
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Thursday, August 18, 2022
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| Ingredients: |
| 100 gms (3 oz) Paneer (cottage cheese) |
| 2 large Onion |
| 1 Green Chilli, seeded and chopped |
| 1 teaspoon Kasuri Methi (dried fenugreek leaves) |
| 3 medium Tomatoes |
| 1/2 teaspoon grated Ginger |
| 2-3 cloves Garlic, crushed |
| 1/2 teaspoon Cumin Seeds |
| 1 Green Cardamom |
| 1 small piece of Bay Leaf |
| 1/8 teaspoon Turmeric Powder |
| 1/2 teaspoon Red Chilli Powder |
| 1 teaspoon Coriander Powder |
| 1/2 teaspoon Garam Masala Powder |
| 1/2 teaspoon Sugar (optional) |
| 1 tablespoon + 2 tablespoons Oil |
| 1 tablespoon Fresh Cream |
| 1 tablespoon Coriander Leaves, finely chopped |
| Salt to taste |
| 1/2 cup Water |
- Cut paneer into 1-inch cubes. Finely chop 1 tomato and crush remaining 2 tomatoes into puree.
Finely chop 1 onion. Cut remaining onion into 4 equal parts and separate its layers. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a normal or non-stick pan and shallow fry onion layers until light brown. Transfer them to a plate.
Heat 2 tablespoons oil in the same pan. Add cumin seeds, green cardamom and bay leaf, when they begin to sizzle, add chopped onion and sautรฉ until light brown.
Add grated ginger, crushed garlic and green chilli; sautรฉ for a minute.
Add crushed tomato puree and chopped tomato; sautรฉ until oil starts to separate.
Add kasuri methi, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder, sugar and salt; mix well and cook for 1 minute.
Add paneer cubes, shallow fried onions, 1/2 cup water and cook for 3-4 minutes.
Add fresh cream, mix well and turn off the flame.
Transfer prepared sabzi to serving bowl. Garnish paneer do pyaza with fresh coriander leaves and serve hot.
- Adjust amount of red chilli powder and green chilli to make it as spicy as you like it.
- Paneer do pyaza, one of the easy paneer dishes recipe, uses sugar to balance out the sour taste of tomato. You can avoid it if you do not like even a mildest hint of sweet taste in curry.
- If you would like to have larger pieces of onion, then cut it into 4 parts and separate its individual layers (instead of slicing the onion) before sautรฉing.
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| Ingredients: |
| 1 cup chopped Methi Leaves(fresh fenugreek leaves) |
| 1/2 cup Paneer, cubed into 1 inch pieces |
| 1/2 teaspoon Cumin Seeds, optional |
| 1 small Onion, finely chopped (approx. 1/3 cup) |
| 1 small Tomato, finely chopped (approx. 1/3 cup) |
| 6 Garlic Cloves, chopped (approx. 1½ tablespoons)(or to taste) |
| 1 teaspoon Ginger, chopped |
| 2 tablespoons chopped Cashew Nuts or Almonds (approx. 6) |
| 1/8 teaspoon Turmeric Powder |
| 3/4 teaspoon Red Chilli Powder |
| 1 teaspoon Coriander Powder |
| 3/4 cup Water |
| 1/4 cup Milk |
| 3 tablespoons Oil |
| Salt to taste |
Heat 1-tablespoon oil in a non-stick pan (kadai) over medium flame. Add cumin seeds. When they start to turn light brown, add finely chopped onion, garlic and ginger.
Stir and cook until onion turns light pink.
Add chopped tomato, cashew nuts and salt.
Sautรฉ until tomatoes turn soft. Transfer the mixture to a medium bowl and let it cool at room temperature for 5-6 minutes. Transfer the mixture to the small chutney jar of a mixer grinder and grind to a smooth paste.
Meanwhile, heat 1/2 tablespoon oil in the same pan. Add paneer cubes and stir fry until they turn light golden brown on all sides. Transfer them to a plate. Use non-stick pan to prevent sticking of paneer.
Heat 1½ tablespoons oil in the same pan over medium flame. Add chopped methi leaves.
Stir and cook for 2-minutes. Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder and coriander powder.
Mix well and cook for a minute.
Add onion-tomato-cashew-nut paste (prepared in step-4).
Stir and cook for 2-minutes.
Add 3/4 cup water, mix well and cook for 2-minutes.
Add shallow fried paneer cubes and 1/4 cup milk.
Mix well and cook for around 3-4 minutes or until you get the desired consistency of gravy. Turn off flame and transfer prepared curry to a serving bowl.
- If you don’t like garlic flavor, add only 1-2 cloves of garlic.
- If you are using frozen paneer cubes, then soak them in hot water for 10 minutes and drain before using.
- Shallow fried paneer cubes are used in this curry to get richer experience of paneer methi. However, you can add paneer cubes without shallow frying.
- Use non-stick pan to prevent sticking while shallow frying paneer cubes.
- For simple change, use boiled and cubes potatoes in place of paneer.
- Add 1/3 cup boiled matar (peas) in step-12 to make yet another heavenly and healthy variation.

