Saturday 21 June 2008

Yummy Moorish Salad

2 Tomatos
2 small red onions (or normal onions)
1 Lemon
1 Tin of Chick Peas (optional)
1/2 of a Yellow Pepper
1/4 Cucumber
Handful of fresh or frozen Coriander.

Salt and Pepper

Step 1: Chop up onions into small pieces, and place in a bowl. Fill bowl with cold water and leave to sit.
Step 2: Chop up tomato's, yellow pepper, and Cucumber into small pieces.
Step 3: mix in bowl, drain and add chick peas.
Step 4: squeeze in the juice of the lemon, and add half teaspoon salt, half teaspoon pepper.
Step 5: Add the coriander and onion, stir and serve :)

Friday 23 May 2008

Simple Daal (lentils) recipe



This is a quick and easy recipe for a filling but light meal.
you can make it as soup (add more water) or on top of rice, or with naan/roti.

1 Cup of Daal (lentil) (any will do)
3 Cup Water
1 tsp Chili Powder
1 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder
1 tsp Gram masala
2 cloves of garlic (chopped)
small chunk of ginger (chopped)
1 medium tomato (chopped)

1 tsp cumin seeds
1 cinnamon stick (optional)
1 black cardomon (optional)
half a onion (chopped)

some oil
fresh coriander to garnish

Right, bring the 3 cups of water to the boil, then Add Lentils, garlic, ginger, tomato, gram masala, turmeric powder and chili powder.
Mix for a few min, then leave to simmer for 20min or until lentils are done.
For a more creamy soup, add more water and cook for longer.
Now chop up the onion and fry with the cumin seeds, until onions are brown. Then add it to the Daal.
Add coriander.

serve and enjoy :)

Saturday 5 April 2008

easy philipino chicken soup

1 chicken in pieces
1/2 cup vinegar
1/4 soy sauce
5 cloves of garlic (minced or mashed)
1/2 cup water
2 bay leaves
1 tsp of black peppercorns
1/2 tbsp brown sugar

Step 1: in a pan, combine the meat, garlic, bay leaves and peppercorns. Pour in vinegar - Do Not Stir.
Step 2: bring to boil, stir and turn meat, simmer for about 10 mins.
Step 3: stir in soy sauce, sugar and water. simmer till meat is tender, add more water if it is drying out or you want more sauce.

4: (Optional) Pan fry meat very breifly, just to brown the outside, and then put back in to the sauce/soup.
5: (Optional) Add some thickener like cornstarch (or porridge oats) dissolved in water. then add in to the sauce.
6: (Optional) Add carrots, peas, sweetcorn.

Tuesday 1 January 2008

Intro.

Hello Everyone!
Welcome to my blog of recipes! Have fun, enjoy them and don't hesitate to ask any questions!