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TheBofh

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Bhaturas - Indian fried breads.

1 cup plain flour
1 cup semolina or rice flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 cup warm water
2 tbsp natural yoghurt
2 tbsp ghee or oil.

Oil for deep frying.

Mix flour, semolina, salt & baking powder in a large mixing bowl & make a well in the centre.
Combine water, sugar & yoghurt and stir into mixture.
Mix to a fairly soft dough, adding more water if needed, knead & cover with tea towel & leave for 30 minutes.
Knead in ghee or oil & cover & leave for another 30 minutes.
Knead again & divide into about 10 - 15 pieces. These should be rolled out to a circle about the size of your hand.
Use a slotted spoon to lower each bread into the oil, fry until golden brown on each side, turning only once.

Serve with your favourite curry. These are also very nice stuffed with a vegetarian curry filling.
 

Plow King

Little bit.
Ingredients.

Thin cut chicken breast
2 slices of bread
A piece of Edam cheese
Butter
And mayonaise.

Method

1/ Grill the chicken breast...
2/ Whilst waiting for the chicken to cook grill 2 pieces of bread, once grilled place a slice of Edam cheese on the bread, butter the other piece of bread, add mayonaise.
3/ Once done place the hot chicken on the bread.
4/ Open mouth
5/ Chew
6/ Swallow
7/ Repeat steps 4-5-6 till there is no more sandwhich.
 

Cave Dweller

Eats Squid
Im not a fan of blue cheese but this pasta is quick and easy, and tastes really good for something so simple.

1 Eggplant
1 Zucchini.
Garlic
Onion
Chicken or beef
150 grams blue cheese
150 ml light cream
Pasta

Steam eggplant and zucchini.
Fry onion & garlic
Add beef or chicken
Add steamed vegies
Pour in cream and add cheese, heat until melted
Add a bit of flour if you need to thicken the sauce
Put on top of pasta.

15 mins tops if you know how to cook.
 
Most of it stays in there, unless there is too much pressure from the cooker. Flatpie ends up a larger diameter than regular pie.
 

TheBofh

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Chicken, grape & fetta salad

Chicken tenders.
Sumac spice.
Pack of baby spinach leaves.
Cup of black grapes.
1/2 red onion.
Pack of fetta cheese.
Olive oil.
Red wine vinegar.
Salt to tast.

Coat the chicken tenders with a decent amount of the sumac spice & fry on a medium/high heat until cooked through.
Cut the grapes in half.
Cut the fetta into bite size cubes.
Thinly slice the onion.

Mix 1/4 cup olive oil, 2 tbsp red wine vinegar, 1 tbsp sumac spice & 1/4 tsp salt to make the dressing.

Layer all the ingredients on the baby spinach leaves & toss with the dressing.
 

brisneyland

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About to cook up a storm in practice for thursday night.

Entree: Rocket, peach slices wrapped in prosciutto and a sweet balsamic dressing

Main: lemon, ricotta and pea pasta

Dessert: fresh berries with a lemon syrup, served over lemon sorbet.
 
Yum!!

Hearty Beef and Guinness pie!!

I made this recipe the other week and it was 'great success'. Also very easy for those of you with kitchen dyslexia.

Ingredients (3-4 people)

1kg diced chuck steak (stewing steak)
2 diced onions
2 cloves of garlic (or more depending on preference)
olive oil
worcestershire sauce (HP also works, or use both ;))
tbl spoon tomato paste
parsley
pepper
1/3 cup of flour
200 ml Guinness
1 cup of beef stock
puff pastry
1 beaten egg

Brown steak in hot oil in batches (must be very hot so that meat seals and does not stew) remove from pot and set aside.
Cook onions and crushed garlic cloves in more oil till golden. Add a touch of stock and then sprinkle in flour and add tomato paste then cook for a minute or so.

Return meat to pan. Add guinness, stock, worcestershire sauce, handful of chopped parsley and cracked pepper. Bring to boil and simmer for around 1 hour (or until sauce has thickened and meat is melt-in-your-mouth)

Preheat oven to 200 degrees C. Spoon mixture into baking dish. Cut pastry into appropriate size (so that it folds over the edges). Brush pastry with beaten egg and shove in the oven. Bake for about 25 mins, until pastry is golden.

Eat the shit out of it. :D

edit: you can also add carrots, mushrooms etc to the mixture if you feel like it.
 
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brisneyland

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Hmmm capers could go alright actually. I wish I had some on hand to experiment with. I think I'll leave it with just peas for thursday though.

The entree was pretty good, nice combination of flavours . I reduced the balsamic glaze a bit too much though.
 

gravelclimber

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Here's what I'm cooking at the moment (Good for when your povo - GF's Brithdays last week):

Slow-cooked Lamb Curry

8 Lamb BBQ chops cut in half
1 Onion
3 cloves chopped garlic
1 tbs chopped ginger
2 chopped chillies (seeds removed if don't like too hot)
2 tomatoes chopped
ground cumin
ground coriander seeds
ground turmeric
8 cardamon pods
200g natural yoghurt

1. Brown chops with high heat in a frypan - set aside
2. Fry up the onion, garlic, chili and ginger for a minute or two
3. Add chopped tomatoes and spices (except for cardamon pods), lower heat and fry for 5 mins.
4. Place in blender with youghurt - blend to just smooth then add 200ml water
5. Put chops and cardamon pods in a casserole dish and pour over blended curry mixture
6. Bake for 2+ hours as 150C - add water if need.

What you get --> beautiful ,aromatic, tender lamb curry.
 
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brisneyland

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Juice of one lemon
big dash of nice olive oil
some shredded mint
peas

Toss it all with pasta of your choice, then stir in a bit of ricotta.

Serve pasta, sprinkle a bit of extra shredded mint and shaved parmesan over the top. Cracked pepper to taste.
 

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Rik

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Oh, ok. I think your serving utensils are broken too, they're always dripping/dropping food around the edge of the plate instead of just the centre.
 

NH_

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well i dont know how long to cook these but my god my mum makes em good

chicken minyons

1 (more if you want more, personally i eat 2 per meal)rash of bacon
1 (same as above) chicken breast
crushed garlic
butters

1)cook bacon
2)make garlic butter out of the crushed garlic and butter
3)lather the chicken in the garlic butter
4)cook chicken in the oven
5)wrap the bacon around the chicken and stick a skewer through the middle
6)eat
 
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