Prawns Chilli

Ingredients (Serves 2)

• 250 gm king-size prawns
• 2 green onions, shredded
• 8 chillies, seeded and slitted
• 1 inch piece ginger, shredded
• 1 tbsp brandy
• 2 tbsp cornflour mixed with 2 beaten egg whites
• 1 tbsp, vinegar
• 2 tsp sugar
• Salt and pepper to taste
• A few parsley leaves
• 2 flakes garlic

Preparation :

Prawns Chilli

Mix together sugar, sauce, salt and vinegar. Mix prawns with brandy and cornflour mixture. Deep fry the prawns and remove to a plate. Heat 3 tbsp oil and fry ginger, onion, chillies and 2 flakes crushed garlic, when fragrant, put in the prawns along with vinegar mixture, heat thoroughly and serve hot.

Exotic Chicken Rice

Ingredients (Serves 5)

For Rice :

• 2 cups rice
• 4 cups chicken stock
•  50 gm onions, finely sliced
• 1 tsp minced garlic
• 1 tsp minced ginger
• Salt to taste

Besides  :

• 1 chicken, cooked and shredded
• 1 cucumber, thinly sliced
• 1 tomato, thinly sliced
• 2 green onions, thinly sliced

For Sauce :

• 4 tbsp soya sauce
• 4 tbsp minced ginger mixed with 4 tbsp water
• 4 tbsp chilli sauce

Preparation :

Chicken Rice

Chicken Rice

Mix chicken together with cucumber, tomato and onion and place in a serving dish. Heat 4 tbsp oil and fry onion, ginger and garlic to a golden color. Add rice and salt, put in the stock, bring to a boil. Reduce heat and cook till tender and dry. Put the rice in a serving dish and put chicken on top. Serve the sauce separately.

Chinese Hot Pot Soup

Ingredients (Serves 12 to 14)

• 500 gm meat without bone
• 500 gm chicken without bone
• 500 gm prawns, cleaned
• 500 gm kidney
• 500 gm liver
• 500 gm mixed shredded vegetables like cabbage, peas, carrots and french beans
• 200 gm shredded mushrooms
• 200 gm spinach
• 250 gm noodles, boiled

For the Sauce :

• 1 cup soya sauce
• 1/2 cup brandy
• 4 tbsp chilli sauce
• 1/2 cup til oil
• 4 green onions, minced
• 1 inch piece ginger, minced

Preparation :

Chinese Hot Pot Soup

Chinese Hot Pot Soup

Cut the meats into as thin slices as possible and arrange these separately in a plate. Mix sauce ingredients and place 3 to 4 dishes around the tables. Put a big pot on an electric fire on the dinning table. Fill it with water. Add half the amount of vegetables and cook for 10 minutes. to extract juices. Each guest picks up the meat of his choice with a long fork and dips it in the boiling soup for 2 to 3 minutes, then quickly dips it in the sauce and eats it while still hot. When all the meats have been eaten the vegetables and noodles are added to the soup and boiled for 5 minutes. These are served in bowls to the guests. If you like you can also serve a rice dish with the soup.

Spinach with Noodles

Ingredients (Serves 6)

• 2 cups spinach
• 1 tsp cornflour
• 1 egg white
• 1 tbsp brandy
• 15 prawns, cleaned
• 200 gm noodles cooked according to the direction on the package
• 2 tbsp brandy
• 1/2 tsp ajino motto
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 medium tomato, blanched and sliced
• 2 flakes garlic, crushed
• 1 tbsp cornflour

Preparation :

Spinach with Noodles

Cook the spinach with salt and tomato till soft. Mash and pass through sieve.Mix in 1 tbsp cornflour along with enough water to form a thick paste. Add 2 tbsp brandy and ajino motto. Mix together egg white, 1 tbsp brandy and 1 tsp cornflour. Dip the prawns in it and deep fry to a golden color. Mix the prawns into the spinach and heat well. Heat 3 tbsp oil and fry thr garlic and put over the spinach. Put the noodles in a serving dish and pour spinach on top.

Biryani - Meat Biryani

Ingredients (Serves 4)

• 3 cups boiled rice
• 1 big onion
• 6 flakes garlic
• 1 inch piece ginger
• 4 red chillies
• 500 gm boneless meat / mutton, cut into thin slivers against the grain
• 1 cup sliced mushrooms
• 50 gm sliced  tomatoes
• 1 tbsp soya sauce
• 2 tsp cornflour dissolved in 1/4 cup water
• Salt and pepper to taste

Preparation :

Biryani - Meat Biryani

Grind together onion, ginger, garlic and chillies. Heat 5 tbsp oil and fry the ground paste for 1 minute. Add meat / mutton and fry to a brown color. Add mushrooms and 1 cup hot water along with tomatoes and spices and soya sauce.  Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cook for 10 minutes. Add cornflour. When the sauce thickens, put the meat / mutton over hot rice and serve at once.

Veg Squares

Ingredients (Serves 4)

• 5 tsp olive oil
• 1 big garlic cut into very thin pieces
• Yellow, green and red bell pepper
• 2 green zucchini
• 8 white big size mushrooms
• Salt and pepper to taste
• Grill square

Preparation:

Veg Squares

 Cut bell peppers and  zucchini in eight big pieces. Cut each mushrooms in 2 pieces. Take fry pan. Add 5 tsp olive oil and heat oil on  low gas flame. Add pieces of garlic, fry it and close the gas flame. Then add salt and peeper according to taste. Keep this  mixture as such for 30 minutes. Insert above vegetables in grill squares. insert 6 pieces of bell pepper (red, green, yellow), 4 pieces of zucchini and 4 mushrooms pieces on each grill squares. Apply mixture of oil (which is kept in pan) to vegetable by brush. Keep this grill squares in oven and grill the vegetable. or you can shallow fry these vegetables on fry pan.

Veg Dessert with Almonds -Three-Sister's Dessert

Ingredients (Serves 4)

1 cup cooked peas
1 cup boiled and mashed potatoes
1 cup cooked and mashed rajma or red kidney shaped beans
Roasted and sliced almonds, cashew nuts


Preparation :

Three-Sister's Dessert

Mash peas and pass through a sieve. Mash the potatoes till creamy. Mash rajma and pass through sieve. Heat 4 tbsp oil and boil it.Then add peas and 4 tbsp sugar. Fry for 5 minutes and put in a serving dish. In the same way fry potatoes and beans and keep in the same dish.Stir so the colors will run together. Decorate with roasted and sliced almonds and cashew nuts.