Chicken Spaghetti with Mushroom and Peppers || SpiceUrSenses

Hello everyone hope you all are doing well. Sorry have been busy with work , so could not post much.. I’ll try to keep up with it.. today’s Dinner was yummy Chicken spaghetti with mushroom peppers . It was very delicious dinner to end a busy working saturday . Have a wonderful weekend guys.. x

Recipe Video Link

https://youtu.be/ifX6toof-qA

Onion Focaccia Bread.

Onion Focaccia Bread. This is very easy and delicious bread I have ever made and it gets ready in no time. Its a great bread to serve with Soups, stews or pasta. You can season with any ingredients or herbs and serve hot with your favourite soup or pasta.

Ingredients.

1/2 cup warm water (100 degrees to 110 degrees)

3tbsp warm milk

1/4 tsp sugar 

1+1/8 tsp active dry yeast

1+1/2cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting

1/4 tsp salt

6tbsp olive oil

1 medium onion (thinly slice)

1tbsp mixed Italian herbs

1/4 black oilves.

Baking Method.

Pour warm water and milk into a small bowl. Add sugar, and sprinkle in yeast. Using a fork, stir the mixture until yeast is dissolved. Let yeast stand until foamy, about 10 minutes. In a large mixing bowl, add flour and salt. Then add yeast mixture and 3tbsp oil. Mix until the dough comes together, adding more flour as needed until dough is smooth, Transfer to medium bowl with oil, and place the dough in the bowl, smooth side up. Cover tightly with plastic wrap, and place in a warm spot until doubled in size, about 1hour. Remove plastic wrap, and press your fist into the center of the dough to punch it down. Fold the dough back onto itself four or five times.

In a mean time pre-heat the oven to 180c for 10minutes.

Take a large baking tray and place the dough onto tray and shape the dough in to square shape. and use your fingers to make deep dimples in the focaccia, pushing them all the way through the dough to the bottom and sprinkle olives, onion and mixed herbs on top, apply the remaining oilve oil on top. and bake for 15 minutes at 180c.

Serve hot with soup, stew or pasta.

Chocolate Coated Pistachio Biscotti With Pistachio Dust!

Chocolate Coated Pistachio Biscotti With Pistachio Dust! These are my all time favourite biscotti to bake with, they are easy and last long. Make a big batch of them and store in a airtight container and your evening snacks problem is solved. Its home made, healthy and yummy snack to have anytime of the day.

Ingredient's.

2 cups of plain flour

2 large eggs

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1tsp baking powder

1tsp vanilla essence

3/4 cup Pistachio.

For Decorating.

1/2 cup melted dark chocolate

1/4 cup pistachio (grind into a course powder).

Baking Method.

Pre-heat the oven 180c for 10 minutes.

In a mixing bowl add flour and baking powder and mix them nicely. roughly chop the pistachio and mix it with flour and set it aside.

In a large mixing bowl, add butter and sugar beat until light and fluffy.

Add the eggs, vanilla essence and beat for another 2 to 3 minutes

Then mix in the dry ingredients and beat until the dry ingredients are well mixed.

On a lightly floured surface roll dough into a log about 14 inches long and 3-4 inches wide. Transfer to baking tray and bake for 35-40 mins.

Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack for 10 mins.

Then cut into slices 1/2 inch thick diagonally and arrange evenly on baking tray. Bake for 10 mins on each side (until they are firm). Remove from oven and cool.

Once they are well cooled. dip the biscotti into a melted chocolate and sprinkle the pistachio dust on top and allow them to dry for 20 to 30 minutes. 

Store them into airtight container.

Baked Pasta With Herbs And Cheese.

Baked Pasta With Herbs And Cheese. This is one of my on go dish every time when I have no time to cook or not in mood to cook. This is such an incredibly easy recipe, all you have to do is just boil the pasta of your choice, mix some herbs and salt, then top with some mozzarella cheese and bake for 10 minutes and Serve with some garlic bread for Lunch or Dinner.

Ingredient's.

250 gram Macaroni Pasta (boiled as per the instruction on the pack)

1 tsp mix Italian herbs

1/2 tsp red chilli flakes

1/2 tsp paprika

1 tbsp olive oil

Salt to taste

1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese.

Baking Method.

Pre-heat the oven to 180c for 10 minutes.

In a mean time, take a large mixing bowl, add boiled pasta, mix herbs, paprika, salt, olive oil, 1/2 cup cheese and chilli flakes.

Mix them all together and transfer the pasta to a baking dish, now sprinkle the rest of the cheese on top and bake for 10 minutes or till the cheese is melted.

Serve hot with some garlic bread and tomato soup.

Pasta Arrabiata.

Pasta Arrabiata is a spicy sauce for pasta made from garlic, tomatoes, and red chilli peppers cooked in olive oil. "Arrabbiata" means "angry" in Italian. Arrabiata sauce is usually accompanied with penne pasta and serve hot with Parmigiano cheese, but I have not added the cheese as I'm not a fan of cheese and I think it tasted better without cheese.. Try out the quick and easy dish and enjoy.

Ingredient's.

2tbsp extra-virgin olive oil

5 garlic clove, crushed

1tbsp red chilli flakes 

1 can of chopped tomato or 250gram chopped tomatos

1tsp dried oregano

Salt to taste

200g penne pasta.

Cooking Method.

Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic and chillies. cook for a minute. Then add tomatoes, oregano and salt. Bring to a gentle boil. Reduce heat to low and cook till all the tomatoes are nicely cooked. that would take about 15 to 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, cook pasta in a large saucepan of boiling, salted water following packet directions, until tender. Drain pasta and set it aside. Now add the pasta to sauce, toss to combine. Cover and set aside for 5 minutes (this allows pasta to absorb sauce).

Spoon into serving bowls and serve hot with some cheese.

Spaghetti With Pesto.

Spaghetti With Pesto. This is such a easy recipe which can be cooked in 10minutes, if you have a pesto ready, all you have to do is just boil the spaghetti and add pesto with some Parmesan and your lunch or dinner is ready with some fresh salad. I have used store bought pesto. But pesto can be made easily at home and store for couple of weeks and will surely post a recipe for pesto also shortly.

Ingredient's.

500g pack spaghetti

3 tbsp pesto (home made or store bought)

50g Parmesan grated or other cheese.

Cooking Method.

Boil spaghetti in a large pan according to pack instructions. Drain well, then return to the pan with the pesto and half the Parmesan. Toss well, then add it to the serving bowl and sprinkle with the remaining Parmesan.

Grilled Veggie Panini/ Grilled Vegetable Sandwich.

Grilled Veggie Panini is a grilled sandwich made from bread other than sliced bread. You can add any vegetables and salami of your choice or sausage also can be used. This will make a ideal breakfast or dinner sandwich along with some chips, as this has all the goodness of veggies, cheese and meat which will make a complete meal by itself and it is very easy to make and delicious to eat. I don't have grilled pan so I used tava and the sandwich came out well. Do try and enjoy this yummy sandwich.

Ingredient's.

4 Thick Slices of Sourdough Bread

4 slices of chicken salami

4 thinly sliced Zucchini

2 Portobello Mushrooms, cleaned and sliced on a diagonal 

1/2cup shredded cheese

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

1 Tbsp of Balsamic Vinegar

2tbsp of Pesto or garlic mayo

Salt and Pepper, to taste.

Cooking Process.

Preheat a grill pan or Tava over medium-high heat.

Drizzle the mushrooms and zucchini with some olive oil and season with salt and pepper. 

Grill the veggies for a few minutes on each side on the hot grill pan or until they develop some grill marks and have softened. Remove to a plate and drizzle some balsamic vinegar on top, set aside. 

Spread 1tbsp of pesto or garlic mayo on one piece of the bread (the bottom piece) and place some shredded cheese on top. Start layering veggies and salami on top of the cheese, and top the veggies with one more of cheese, put the top bun on.

Brush both sides of the outside of the bread with a little oil and grill them either on the grill pan or in a panini press until the cheese is fully melted and the outside is nice and crunchy.

Serve hot with some potato chips.

Almond Biscotti.

Almond Biscotti. I have tired baking this in India also many times but when I baked the same biscotti again here I don't know some how they taste better and they look better may be because of the different oven. My hubby surprised me by finishing it all in 2days even I ate more then 3 and it was tasting awesome. He was telling me that I have wasted so much of money buying cookies, biscuits from outside, this taste better then that and I would love to have this in my lunch box as a evening snacks... Omg I was on the could nine when he told me that because it is little hard to convince my H when it comes to food.. This yummy and crunchy biscotti which goes very well with tea or a coffee..

Ingredient's.

2 cups of plain flour

2 large eggs

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1tsp baking powder

1tsp vanilla essence

1tsp orange zest

3/4 cup roasted alomnds

1/2 cup black raisin.

Baking Method.

Pre-heat the oven 180c for 10 minutes.

In a mixing bowl add flour and baking powder and mix them nicely. roughly chop the alomonds and mix it with flour and set it aside.

In a large mixing bowl, add butter and sugar beat untill light and fluffy.

Add the eggs, vanilla essence and orange zest beat for another 2 to 3minutes

Then mix in the dry ingredients and beat untill the dry ingredients are well mixed.

On a lightly floured surface roll dough into a log about 14 inches long and 3-4 inches wide. Transfer to baking tray and bake for 30-40 mins. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack for 10 mins.

Then cut into slices 1/2 inch thick diagonally and arrange evenly on baking tray. Bake for 10 mins on each side (until they are firm). Remove from oven and cool.

Store them into airtight container.

Mushroom Pasta With Mint And Tomato Sauce.

Mushroom Pasta With Mint And Tomato Sauce. This is my new innovation to pasta. Pasta is something like can be cooked with any kind of sauce and with almost any ingredients, that is the most important thing I like while cooking pasta, the more you play with ingredients the tastier the pasta is. It has happened with me many time that I plan to cook some other recipe and I end up cooking something else and I don't know how it turns out to be the best dish, specially in Italian food.

Yesterday I had a plan to cook just plain tomato sauce paste, but I added mint and mushroom to and it was quite a delicious pasta, with fresh mint flavour in it.. I have just added the mint leaves, if you want to grind the mint leaves with tomato go head and try and do let me know the taste... You don't need any side dish for this, it has everything in it. So cook and enjoy.

Ingredient's.

1 cup paste (any shape pasta)

3 button mushroom (roughly chopped)

1 medium onion (roughly chopped)

1 cup tomato puree

2 green chilli

1tsp cruched ginger and garlic

Hand full of fresh mint leaves

Pinch of black pepper

Pinch of red chilli flakes

1/4tsp mixed herbs or Oregano

1tbsp butter

Salt to taste.

Cooking Method.

Boil the pasta as per the instruction on the pack and keep it aside.

In a wok, add butter, when butter melts, add crushed ginger and garlic, sautee to light brown, add onion and green chilli, sautee for a minutes. Then add mushroom and mint leaves, fry for another 2 minutes, add tomato puree, black pepper powder, mixed herbs, chilli flakes and salt, cook till the tomato has changed color to red, that will take about 2 to 3 minutes.

Now add boiled paste and mix everything nicely and sautee for another 2 to 3 minutes.. Then sprinkle some more mint leaves on top.

Serve hot hot...

Baby Corn Pizza.. (Home-made Pizza)

Baby Corn Pizza.. I had made this pizza for my friends on Monday, they liked it so much and we finished the large pizza in just 5 to 10 minutes. We three were eating like as if we have not eaten pizza for ages. The best part was, one of my friend was not at all allowing me to take the pictures also. I have hardly taken 4 to 5 pictures only. The moment I finished taking pics, she was the first one to jump on it and by seeing her I din't even bother to look at the pics and started eating... Some how the pizza also had come out very very tasty and awesome looking... Making pizza at home is so easy if you have pizza sauce ready and I always make pizza sauce and keep it. So when ever we feel like eating then I just make it. Making pizza at home is healthier then store bought... I want to suggest everyone start baking pizza at home and you'll really enjoy..

Ingredients For The Pizza Base

Makes 1 Large Pizza Base

1/2 cup warm water (100 degrees to 110 degrees)

3tbsp warm milk

1/4 tsp sugar 

1+1/8 tsp active dry yeast

1+1/2cups all-purpose flour, plus more for dusting

1/4 tsp salt

2tbsp oil, plus more for bowl.

Ingredient's For The Topping.

Pizza Sauce ( recipe follows)

10 black olives (cut into circles)

1/2cup baby corn, 1 large tomato, 1 medium onion, (thinly sliced)

12 ounces fresh mozzarella cheese, (grated).

Ingredients For The Pizza Sauce

Make For 2 Large Pizza

2 tsp oil 

6 large tomato's

3tbsp tomato puree

1tbsp chopped ginger and garlic

3/4 tsp Italian seasoning

3/4 tsp dried oregano 

1 1/2 tsp salt or to taste

1/8 tsp freshly ground black pepper.

Directions For The Pizza Base

Pour warm water and milk into a small bowl. Add sugar, and sprinkle in yeast. Using a fork, stir the mixture until yeast is dissolved and water has turned a tan color. Let yeast stand until foamy, about 10 minutes. In a large mixing bowl, add flour and salt. Then add yeast mixture and oil. Mix until the dough comes together, adding more flour as needed until dough is smooth, not tacky, when squeezed. Transfer to clean surface; knead for 5 to 10 minutes.

Brush the inside of a medium bowl with oil, and place the dough in the bowl, smooth side up. Cover tightly with plastic wrap, and place in a warm spot until doubled in size, about 1hour. Remove plastic wrap, and press your fist into the center of the dough to punch it down. Fold the dough back onto itself four or five times. Turn dough over, folded-side down, cover with plastic wrap, and return to the warm spot to rise again until the dough has doubled in size, about 30 minutes.

Punch down the dough, and transfer to a clean surface. Knead the dough four or five turns into a ball. Lightly flour a clean surface, place the dough pat into a flattened circle, cover lightly with plastic wrap, and let rest 5 minutes. Using your fingers, begin to flatten and push the dough evenly out from the center until it measures about 7 to 8 inches in diameter. Do not press the dough all the way to the edges. Leave a slightly raised border, about a half-inch wide, around entire circumference of pizza dough.

In a mean time pre-heat the oven for 20 minutes at 250c. 

Arrange the pizza dough into a circle on top of the baking flat tray. Leaving the raised edge uncovered, pour 8 to 9 tsp of the pizza sauce onto the dough. Using the back of a tablespoon, evenly spread the sauce leaving a half-inch border of dough uncovered. Arrange half of the mozzarella slices on top of the sauce and arrange all the veggie's on top, then cover with left over mozzarella slices.

Bake until the crust is golden brown and crisp on the edges and the bottom, 7 to 8 minutes, turning the pizza halfway through baking. Using a pizza wheel, slice the pizza into eight pieces, and serve immediately.

Directions For The Pizza Sauce

Pour oil into a large skillet, and place over medium heat. Using your hands, squeeze tomatoes to crush them. Add to the warm oil, along with the remaining ingredients. Cook over medium-low heat, breaking up tomatoes with a wooden spoon, until the sauce is thick, 40 to 50 minutes. Allow it to cool and grind it to a smooth paste...

Sauce is ready to use, after using the sauce to pizza you can store the remaining sauce in a fridge for the next time use..

Pull-Apart Bread With Spicy Herbs And Pizza Sauce!!!

Pull-Apart Bread. Last week i was seeing this bread post in almost every blog, and i was very tempted to bake this bread. When ever i bake i have problem with yeast and which ever brand i buy. Actually i knew that gloripan yeast is good, i had read lot's of review about gloripan yeast, but i was not sure where do we get it. Then i started searching on net to buy Gloripan yeast near by my house, i got one in mission road which is pretty far from my house, and i asked my hubby should i go, as always he said will go on weekends and it is very sunny outside. Even i thought the same and kept quite for some time but my heart din't agree with me, without telling him i just took my bike and went searching the address. GUESS WHAT!!! I got the address and i rush to shop and bought the yeast.. After coming back home i started preparing to bake fast fast and finely my bread came out so yummy and perfect.. He also love it.

I should thank to Divya Kudua from EasyCooking for her very useful post and step by step pictures which made my work easy. I have followed her same steps but different ingredient's, This was my first attempt to bake bread a perfect bread and i'm very happy with the way bread was looking and tasting.. Thanks everybody for baking so many different types of Pull-Apart Bread and making me to start baking.. I'm sending this recipe to We Knead To Bake#1 event hosted by Aparna of My Diverse Kitchen.

Ingredients.

For the dough

1/2cup Warm milk

1/2tsp Sugar

1tsp Active dry yeast(I used Gloripan Yeast)

1 1/2cup All purpose flour

1/2tsp Salt

1tbsp Butter(soft at room temperature)

1tsp Ginger Garlic Paste

2tbsp Milk + a couple of tbsp to brush over the bread

For the filling

2tsp Melted butter 

1tbsp Mixed Italian herbs

1/2tsp Chilli flakes

2tbsp Grated Mozzarella cheese

1tbsp Pizza Sauce

1/2tsp Black Sesame Seeds.

Baking Method

In a small bowl, dissolve the sugar and the yeast in the 1/2 cup of warm milk. Keep aside for about 5 minutes till the yeast mixture bubbles up.

Put flour, salt, softened butter, and ginger garlic paste in a large bowl mix.
Then add the yeast mixture and the 2tbsp of milk and knead till you have a soft, smooth and elastic/ pliable dough which is not sticky. Add a little extra flour if your dough is sticking, but only just as much as is necessary.

Shape the dough into a ball and place it in a well-oiled bowl, turning the dough to coat it completely with oil. Cover and let it rise for about 1 1/2 hours or until almost double in volume.

Dust your work surface lightly with flour. Deflate the dough, shape it into a square and roll the dough out into a larger square that is about 12’ by 12”. Brush the surface of the square with the melted butter. Evenly sprinkle the herbs, chilli flakes, pizza sauce and then the grated cheese.

Use a rolling pin to very lightly press the topping into the dough to ensure the topping doesn’t fall off when you are stacking the strips.Using a pizza cutter, slice the dough from top to bottom into 6 long and even strips. Lay each strip on top of the next, with the topping facing upwards, until you have a stack of the strips.

Using a sharp knife, cut straight down through the stack dividing it into 6 equal pieces (6 square stacks).

Grease and lightly flour a loaf tin. Layer the square slices, cut sides down into the loaf tin.

Cover the loaf tin dough with a towel and allow the dough to rise for an hour. Lightly brush some milk over the top of the loaf and sprinkle the black sesame seeds from top.

Bake the dough at 180C (350F) for about 30 to 40 minutes until it is done and the top is golden brown.

Pull-Apart Bread is ready. Serve Warm.