White chocolate butterscotch roll at Awfully Chocolate

Last time when we went to star vista mall at buona vista for a date lunch, after the heavy lunch at Nandos, we went to "awfully chocolate" to have a sweet ending for our lunch. Awfully chocolate is a small eatery where they provide chocolates in different forms. We bought white chocolate butterscotch roll. It has dark chocolate cake roll with white chocolate cream topped with sweet salty butterscotch sauce.
Pros: yummy yummy yummy
Cons: high price, butterscotch sauce was a bit too salty for my taste.
Website:http://www.awfullychocolate.com

Onion tomato Raitha

Most of the restaurants provide this raitha or salad with biryani. For me this salad is a prerequisite for any biryani.. It is so easy to make and goes very well with biryani or pulav.
Here in Singapore, there are many non Indian colleagues who likes to have biryani, thandoori chicken and other Indian food but they were all surprised to hear that Indians eat yogurt with rice. For most of them yogurt is something which is supposed to be flavoured, like strawberry yogurt or mango yogurt.
Anyways according to my Phillipeno friend the yogurt salad helps to balance out the spicy biryani.

Ingredients

1. Onion sliced
2. Tomato chopped
3. Green chilli sliced
4. Salt
5. Yogurt beaten

Direction
Mix all the ingredients and raitha is ready :)

Chicken Dum Biryani

Be it a special occasion or a normal Sunday lunch, this chicken Dum Biryani can make your day special.. Here at home we usually make chicken biryani on Sunday. But the one we make is Malabar chicken biryani. The below recipe for chicken dum biryani is different from that.

Ingredients:
For Rice

1. Kyma/ jeera/basmati rice - 2cups
2. Cinnamon stick -1inch piece
3. Cloves - 5
4. Star anise -1
5. Cardamon - 3
6. Ghee -1tbs
7. Salt to taste

For Chicken

1. Cut chicken - 1/2kg
2. Chopped ginger - 1tbs
3. Chopped garlic - 1tbs
4. Green chilli - 1
5. Turmeric powder - 1tsp
6. Chilli powder - 1tbs
7. Pepper powder -1/2tsp
8. Biryani masala - 1tbs
9. Mint leaves chopped - 2tbs
10. Coriander leaves chopped - 1cup
11. Yogurt - 2tbs
12. Tomato sliced - 3medium
13. Onion sliced - 1
14. Oil - 2tbs
15. Salt to taste

Direction

1. Soak washed rice in water for 20min and drain it
2. Boil 3.5 cups of water, add ingredients under "For Rice" from 2 to 5.
3. Add drained rice, salt and ghee and cook with closed lid until rice 95 % cooked. There wouldn't be any left out water to drain from rice at this point.
4. Using a fork fluff up the rice so that it doesn't stick to each other
5. Clean the cut chicken and marinate using ingredients under "For Chicken" from 2 to 11 for 30 minute.
6. heat the oil in a bottom thick pan and sauté onion.
7. Once onion is golden brown, add tomatoes and marinated chicken and cook in high flame  with closed lid.
8. After 10 minutes reduce the flame to low-medium, and add the rice on top of chicken masala
9. Close the lid and cook for 15 more minutes and switch off the stove.
10. Open the lid only after 30minutes to fill your house with aromas of the spicy Dum Biryani!

Kadai vegetable

Kadai vegetable/chicken/paneer is one of our favourite restaurant dish. This semi gravy dish tastes great with rotis or pulav rice.
This recipe yields you restaurant style kadai vegetable curry. Use the same recipe for kadai chicken or kadai panner by replacing vegetables with chicken or paneer. I will soon give you a new post on how to make paneer at home :)

Ingredients:

1. Onion chopped - 1 medium size
2. Mixed vegetable cut into cubes - 2.5 cups ( I used cauliflower, carrots, beans, fried paneer and green peas)
3. Capsicum cut into cubes - 1
4. Coriander seeds, coarse grinded - 1 tsp
5. Fennel powder - 1/2 tsp
6. Turmeric powder - 1/4 tsp
7. Chilli powder - 1 tsp
8. Kasuri methi - 1 tsp
9. Oil - 1 tbs
10. Salt - to taste
11. Coriander leaves chopped - 2 tbs
12. Kadai gravy masala - 1 recipe

Direction:

1. Sauté chopped onion till golden brown using the oil in a hot Kadai.
2. Add Kadai gravy masala recipe and saute for 5 more minutes
3. Add  ingredients from 4 to 7 and saute for 2 more minutes
4. Add salt, vegetables, capsicum and saute for 3 more minutes
5. Add 1/2 a cup of water, Close the lid and cook until the vegetables are almost cooked
6. Add crushed Kasuri methi leaves and cook for few more minutes until the gravy is thick enough.
7. Add coriander leaves and take off from the flame.

Try this recipe and do let me know how it comes out for you.

Kadai Gravy Masala

Below recipe gives you an easy way to make  kadai gravy masala which you can store in fridge for future use to make any kadai masala dish like kadai paneer, kadai vegetable or kadai chicken. Make it during the weekend and prepare yummy kadai dishes during weekdays in less than 30 minutes..  :)

Ingredients:

1. Dried red chilli, deseeded - 8nos
2. Coriander seeds - 1tbs
3. Chopped garlic - 2tbs
4. Green chilli - 2nos
5. Kasuri methi leaves - 1tbs
6. Garam masala - 1tsp
7. Chopped ripe tomato - 3cups
8. Vegetable oil - 2tbs

Directions:

1. Dry roast red chilli and coriander seeds in a pan for 30 seconds to 1 min and powder it in a blender
2. Heat vegetable oil in a pan. Once hot, sauté garlic in it for 30 seconds. Add green chillies and sauté for another 30 seconds in low-medium flame.
3. Add chilli-coriander powder and sauté for another 30 seconds
4. Add chopped tomatoes, stir and close the pan for 10 minutes or till tomatoes are cooked and can be mashed.
5. Rub dry methi leaves between your palm and add to tomato mix.
6. Add garam masala and cook for 1 minute more and take off the pan from stove.
7. Once masala is cool, you can store it in a closed lid container in fridge for future use.

Here you go with the Kadai vegetable recipe