Cinnamon & Dried Plums Breakfast Muffins.

Cinnamon & Dried Plums Breakfast Muffins. This is best muffins to have for breakfast with a glass milk to start a day with lots of energy, since it has all the goodness of dried plums, butter, milk etc. I'm a huge fan of muffins and I really enjoy baking them more then a cake and I bake them quite often with different ingredients. This is a full proof recipe which I follow every time and I always get a best result. Do bake and enjoy..

Yeilds: 9 medium Muffins

Preparation time: 10minutes

Baking time: 20 minutes.

Ingredient's

1/2+1/4 cup all purpose flour

1/4 cup butter

1tsp vanilla essence

1tsp baking powder

1/3 cup sugar

1tsp cinnamon powder

1 egg

1/3 cup milk

1 cup mix dried plums.

Baking Method.

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Line muffins tin with liners and set aside.

In a small bowl, mix together the flour and baking powder and cinnamon powder. set aside. 

In a another mixing bowl, cream together the sugar and butter. Add the eggs, vanilla and cream together until you get a smooth mixture.

Add the dry ingredients and dried plums, mix together and slowly add the milk and just mix everything to combine. DO NOT OVERMIX! 

Make sure you give everything a good stir with a spatula from the bottom to incorporate any bit that wasn't mixed.

Scoop the batter into your lined muffins tin, make sure it's only filled ¾ of the way up because they will rise. Bake for 20 minutes and let cool for sometime.

Serve for Breakfast with your favourite drinks.

Store them in a airtight container.

Mutton Kheema Pulao. (Pressure Cooker Version)

Mutton Kheema Pulao. This dish can be called Briyani or Pulao. I always love anything which is one pot-meal and gets cooked in no time. This dish takes no time when you cook in pressure cooker all you have do just put all the ingredients together and you have delicious pulao ready in 10minutes. I do prepare many other version but some how I always like this, very soon I would be putting other recipes also for kheema briyani. Do try and enjoy..

Ingredient's.

100gram mutton/lamb kheema

1 cup normal rice

1 small onion, 1 medium tomato (cut into julienne)

2 green chillies

1tsp red chilli powder, 1/2tsp turmeric

1/2tsp garam masala, 1tsp coriander powder

1/2tsp cumin

1tsp ginger garlic paste

1tbsp lemon juice, 2tbsp curd

2tbsp green peas

2tbsp coriander leaves and mint leaves (finely chopped)

2cups water

Salt and Oil to taste.

Cooking Method.

In a pressure cooker, add oil, when oil is hot, add cumin when they splutter, add onion and whole green chillies and fry for a minute. Then add kheema, red chilli powder, turmeric, garam masala and coriander powder and fry for 2 minutes, add tomato, ginger garlic paste, lemon, curd, green peas and salt, mix them nicely.

Now add rice and water, adjust the seasoning and close the lid and cook for 3whistle (1 in high flame and 2 in low flame) allow the pressure to go before opening the cooker.

Serve hot with Onion Raita.

Chicken Gyoza/ Pan Fried Chicken Dumplings/ Fried Chicken Momos.

Gyoza is the Japanese pan fried dumpling. First it is fried on one flat side to have a crispy skin and then water is added to steam cook. I can say this was the best dumpling I have ever cooked.It was awesome in taste better then a steamed or deep fried, because this dumpling had both the ways of cooking. I like it little darker in color when I fry but you can fry as you like..

Ingredients For Dough.

2 cups flour

Salt to taste

Water

3 to 4tbsp oil for frying.

Ingredient For Filling.

1/2 kg chicken mince

1/2cup chopped spring onion

2tbsp mince ginger garlic

1cup chopped cabbage

1tsp freshly ground pepper

1tbsp soya sauce

Salt to taste

3 tbsps oil.

Cooking Method.

Mix the flour and salt to taste and add a little water at a time to make a stiff dough and set it aside for atleast 30 minutes.

In a large mixing bowl, add all the filling ingredients and mix them nicely.

Then divide the dough into equal-sized balls and roll into very thin circles of roughly 4" diameter.

Put a tablespoon-full of filling mixture in the center of each circle. Fold the edges over the mixture and pinch and twist to seal or fold the dumplings in half (into a semi-circular shape) and pinch the edges shut. Get as creative as you like with shapes, as long as you make sure to seal the edges well. 

Heat a thick frying pan and add 1tbsp oil, Place the dumplings on to frying pan and fry for 4 to 5minutes. Then add 1/2cup of water and close the lid and steam for another 7 to 8minutes or till the water is observed completely (in a low flame)

Serve hot hot with tomato sauce.

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.

Chicken Dum Pulao/ Chicken Pulao.

Chicken Dum Pulao. I cook chicken dum briyani very often and everybody loves it and this time for a change I cooked this pulao with very less ingredients and it tasted awesome like briyani only. This is very easy to cook dish and can be cooked as dum or even in pressure cooker too. Actually this pulao tastes better when it cooked 5 to 6 hours before and served with chilled onion raita..

Ingredients.

1/2 kg rice or Basmati rice 

Chicken 1/2 kg

1/2cup green peas

2 big size onion

3 green chilly (chopped) 

4 to 5tbsp of chopped coriander and mint leafs

2tbsp Ginger, garlic paste

1/2tsp turmeric, 1tbsp coriander powder, 1tbsp garam masala 

1/2cup curd, 2tbsp lemon juice

2 bay leafs, 1 cinnamon stick, 2 green cardamom

2 cloves, 1 big black cardamom, 2 star anise

1tbsp shah jeera

Salt as per taste

Oil as per your requirment.

Cooking method.

Wash and soak the rice in enough water for 20 to 30 minutes.

Heat the deep frying pan add oil, when oil is hot, add shah jeera, bay leaves, cinnamon, green cardamom, cloves, star anise and leave till it become's brown. 

Then add onion, ginger garlic paste fry for till the onion becomes lite golden brown, then add chicken, turmeric, and salt, fry it till the chicken starts leaving oil. 

After that add coriander powder and garam masala, give a quick stir, then add curd, lemon, green chilly, green peas and mix well, then add 2tbsp of mint and coriander leafs and mix it well.

Half boil the rice in a seprate pan. add water in to rice as per it required's. drain the water from rice and then add the half boiled rice into the chicken pan and give gentle stir. Then sprinkle from top left over mint and coriander leafs. (you can make as layers also like dum briyani , but I have made it together like pulao). Cover the lid and cook till the rice is completely cooked in a medium flame.

Serve hot hot with Raita.