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Aloo Chop

Posted on April 19, 2012 | 8 comments

Aloo means potatoes in Nepali and this is a simple Nepali vegetarian dish.

Ingredients

  • 5 medium-sized potatoes
  • 2 onions, finely chopped
  • 2 cups gram flour (besan)
  • 3-4 green chillies finely chopped
  • 1 teaspoon of ginger paste
  • 2 teaspoons of  garlic paste
  • 1 lemon (squeezed)
  • 1 teaspoon mustard seeds
  • 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder
  • 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
  • A pinch of  baking soda
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for deep frying

Method:

  • Boil the potatoes (use pressure cooker if you have one) and make a mash after peeling off the skin.
  • Add chopped onion, chillies, ginger, garlic, lime and salt and mix well. Make sure the mixture is a bit lumpy and not too smooth like a paste.
  • Heat two spoon oil and add the mustard seeds and curry leaves. When the mustard crackles, remove from heat and add to the potato mixture and mix well.

  • In one bowl, make a batter from gram flour and baking soda.
  • Add salt to taste, cumin seeds, red chilli powder and turmeric powder.
  • The batter should not be runny and should remain a bit thick.
  • Divide the potato mixture into equal sized portions, in the size of small egg.  and make a flat disc shape.

  • Dip each disc in the batter and deep fry till golden brown in colour.
  • Serve hot with achar/ketchup

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Yumcha

Posted on March 27, 2012 | 12 comments

Living in Sydney, we get access to all type of the food from around the world. It feels really good to choose from hundreds of options when we decide to go out for lunch or dinner.

Last weekend, it was very wet and windy so we decided to go for some nice and warm Yumcha lunch at Dragon Boat Restaurant in Darling harbour.

Yum cha also know as Ban ming  is a Chinese style morning or afternoon tea, which involves drinking Chinese tea and eating dim sum dishes. Yum cha in Cantonese literally means “drink tea”, while ban ming is a more poetic “tasting of tea”.

To start of with, the place has an amazing view of the Darling harbour. It is one of the most happening places in Sydney so even on a wet day, the atmosphere was great. As we had gone there around mid day, the place was not busy but as the lunch time had started the place filled up quickly and most of the people were having warm food, probably due to the weather.

The place was excellently furnished with Chinese red wood furniture and we had an amazing view as we were given a window seat.

The place was a bit pricy for Yumcha compared to other places but we loved the Peking duck. We also had meat spring roll, Pancake, prawn dim sim, mixed fried dumpling, chicken leg, fried prawns and pork belly. I was very disappointed by dumplings and the worst part was, the waiters are so unfriendly. They try not to look at you as much as possible. We had to wait a long time for a glass of water.

Apart from that,I had a great time with my husband.I was happy to enjoy good company with nice food. I still love my Yumcha and will go back again but may be to a different restaurant.

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How to make Puri/Swari

Posted on February 9, 2012 | 12 comments

Ingredient

  • 2 cup of  Flour
  • 1  cup of Water
  • Ghee to deep fry

Method

  • Mix flour and water to make dough. Knead well till you get uniform dough. Dough should be soft so we can make thin puri.
  • Cover the dough with a plate and leave it for a few hours.
  • Take a small amount of dough and roll with a rolling pin to make a circle about 2 mm thick and 10 – 12 cm in diameter.
  • Roll a few of them first before heating the oil as it doesn’t take too long to cook the puri.
  • Heat the oil in a deep pan. There should be enough oil in the pan so the puri will sink. To check if the temperature of the oil is right, put a small amount of dough in the oil. If it raises immediately to the top, it is ready for the puri
  • Put the puri in the hot oil and use a basting spoon to press the puri slightly. It will help puri to puff up.
  • Once it is cooked put them on a kitchen towel to take out the excess ghee.
  • If you want hard crunchy puri, do not stack then on top of each other.
  • If you want soft Swari (a type of soft Nepali puri), then stack them on top of each other.
  • Server with with any curry or it can be enjoyed with tea.


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Healthy oat and almond balls

Posted on January 16, 2012 | 8 comments

Post Christmas, I am trying my best to eat healthy and looking for easy and healthy recipes. One of the worst things when you are trying to eat healthy is the urge to snack. I found this oat ball recipe which is easy to make and healthy to eat so I am sharing the recipe here. I tried it and it turned out yummy. It is a very healthy snack which can be stored for days.

 Ingredients 

  • Oat meal – 100gm
  • Almond meal – 200gm
  • Baking powder – 3 teaspoon
  • Honey- 4 tablespoon
  • Oil- 4 tablespoon
  • Carrot -200 gm
  • Crushed almond -100 gm

Procedure

  • Cook the carrot so it becomes soft and mash it.
  • In a bowl, mix oatmeal, almond meal, honey, oil and baking powder.
  • Then add the carrot mash into the bowl and mix everything together and make consistent dough of it.
  • Now take a small amount of dough in your hand and make a ball.
  • Roll the ball in crushed almonds so the ball is fully covered with almond pieces.
  • Make balls out of all the dough and put them in a baking tray.
  • Place the tray in the oven for 25 minutes on 180 degree C.
  • When the balls turn brownish, it is ready to be taken out of the oven.
  • Leave it to cool for 10-15 minutes to harden.
  • Enjoy a healthy snack.

 

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Indulgence

Posted on January 5, 2012 | 6 comments

One of the good things while on holiday is that you don’t have to think about what you are eating. First of all, you don’t have to cook and on top of that you can order whatever you want from the menu. No dieting and no stress.  I just want to share some photos of food that I loved while on my last holiday.

 

While in Vanuatu, we found out that coconut crab and lobster were really cheap there compared to Sydney. The crab was $40 and lobster $20. You would never get that here so we enjoyed it all in Vanuatu.

And then after coming back to Sydney, we went for a big lunch to Pancake On The Rocks and indulged on pork ribs and chicken crepes followed by chocolate and orange pancake.  We had ice tea and cold mocha as well. I really don’t know how we ate it all but I remember it was very yummy 🙂

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