Sunday 19 February 2012

JUNKEY REMIX ICE CREAM SANDWICH HEART


ICE CREAM SANDWICH HEARTS RECIPE



Ingredients:

36 oz refrigerated Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
2 tblsp Peanut (finely chopped)
Chocolate (melted) or Chocolate Sauce
2 cup Vanilla or Chocolate Ice Cream (softened) 

How to make ice cream sandwich hearts:
  • For about 15 minutes let dough at room temperature.
  • Lubricate a jellyroll pan.
  • Put cookie dough into prepared pan sprinkle with peanuts.
  • Lightly press some nuts into it.
  • Bake it in a preheated oven to 350°f till set and golden brown, it will take about 20-25 minutes.
  • Let it cool completely in pan.
  • With the help of a heart-shaped cookie cutter cut 16 hearts.
  • Pour 1/4 cup ice cream onto 8 hearts.
  • Make top with remaining hearts.
  • Press lightly to spread ice cream to edges.
  • Pull out excess ice cream from edges.
  • decorate sandwiches on plate.
  • Sprinkle with chocolate sauce and serve.

MURG MAKHANI


Ingredients:

Chicken Marination
800 gms Chicken Pieces (boneless)
1 tsp Coriander Powder
1 tblsp sour Curd
2 tsp Ginger Paste
2 tsp Garlic Paste
1 tblsp lemon juice
1 tsp Cumin Powder
1 Onion paste
1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
Salt to taste
Few drops of orange color

Gravy 
4 large tomatoes chopped
4 tblsp Butter
1 tblsp Fresh Cream
1 tsp Coriander Powder
1 tsp Cumin Powder
1 tsp Red Chilli Powder
1 tsp Black Pepper Powder
2 tsp Ginger finely chopped
2 tsp Green Chilly finely chopped
salt to taste
sugar to taste

Garnish
Melted Butter
Fresh Cream
Coriander Leaves finely chopped


How to make murgh makhani :

  • Make small cuts in the chicken pieces.
  • Mix all the marinate ingredients. Mix the the chicken pieces and the marinate.
  • Let the chicken marinate for a few hours.
  • Take half the butter in a heavy bottom wok and put in the chicken with the marinade. Cover it and cook till the chicken is fully cooked. Stir fry the chicken for some time.
  • Now heat the remaining butter in a saucepan and add the red chilli, coriander, cumin and black pepper powders.
  • Fry for some time then add the chopped tomatoes, sugar, salt and cook on medium flame till the puree thickens and the fat separates.
  • Add the beaten cream and cook on low flame for few minutes.
  • Then add the chicken pieces along with chopped ginger and green chillies to the gravy. Cover and simmer on low heat till the curry is hot simmering hot.
  • While serving pour the melted butter and garnish with fresh cream and finely chopped coriander leaves.
  • Serve the Murgh Makhani hot with rice or naan.

KOLKATA AT ITS BEST.......


The 10 Best Kolkata Street Food Delights


1. Moong Dal Vadas

Moong Dal Vadas
These are crunchy delights made with a soft interior. Prepared using green gram lentil and assorted spices and onions, these are sure to wow any foodies. Relish them hot and fresh out of the frying pan with spicy mint chutney or chili garlic chutney.

2. Shikanji

Shikanji
A refreshing drink prepared using lemon juice, this is quite energizing and revitalizing as well. While you drink shikanji as such, adding soda to the drink lets your drift yourself into a fizzy appeal.

3. Puchkas

Puchkas
Call it pani puri or puchkas, these small, round delights will just sweep you off your feet. The mesmerizing blend of tangy mint and tamarind juice with spiced mashed potatoes just lingers on to you even after you move on.

4. Chowmin

Chowmin
It is the Kolkata version of the actual Chinese noodles. Nevertheless, it tastes yummier than the authentic chowmein, but be prepared to add those extra calories which you get as bonus with this street fare.

5. Chole Bhatura

Chole Bhatura
The blend of deep-fried refine flour puris and spicy chickpea curry is sure to be admired and adored by any food freak. Ask for a slice of lemon and few freshly cut onion pieces to enhance the flavor of chole.

6. Ghugni

Ghugni
Prepared using dried yellow peas or black gram or dried white peas, this is an authentic Bengali dish. Cooked in the typical East Indian way, this is served with puffed rice and onion bhajji as an evening snack.  

7. Luchi

Luchi
This is what the people of Bengal call Puri Subzi. Deep-fried flatbread prepared with refined flour or wheat flour, this Kolkata street food is served hot with a mixed vegetable curry or a curry made using potatoes and chickpeas.

8. Momo

Momo
Despite coming from Nepalese kitchens, Momo is one of the most reputed street foods of Kolkata. These dumplings prepared using flour and water come with fillings made of seasoned and flavored meat, vegetables, or cheese. You may even be able to find the sweet version of Momos.

9. Cutlets

Cutlets
These delicious patties make great snacks with a cup of hot, ginger tea. While the vegetable variant comes with a mixture of beetroot, potatoes, and chickpeas seasoned with assorted spices, you also get chicken cutlet. Relish them hot with tomato ketchup.

10. Aloo Kabli


The name itself points out to the ingredients present in this street fare. Potatoes and chickpeas are mixed along with assorted salts, spices, and tamarind paste, giving rise to a tasty tangy and spicy snack.

The discussion about the mesmerizing Kolkata street food delights is never ending. One has to taste them personally to know how vast the range is and how good they taste.

KOLKATA- CHEAP STREET EXPERIENCE


Like several other metropolises, Calcutta has been witnessing an unprecedented and sudden urban growth that has resulted in the increase of the labor force and working professionals in the city. Service related activities have witnessed a surge. This coupled with the increase in population, has made many people to settle down in distant areas and the suburbs. Daily commuting has become apart of people’s lives. This has directly or indirectly brought a change in the attitudes, schedules and tastes of people when it comes to food consumption.
The eating habits of people in Kolkata and of course West Bengal, has changed to great extent. The cheap eating places or houses that could be seen in large numbers in Old Calcutta, thirty years ago, can hardly be seen today. The street sellers, who were into selling raw commodities earlier, are presently selling prepared food items. Transportable stands have now replaced the small shops.Street food in Kolkata have now come into picture and are being adopted hugely and gladly by people because they are cheap, tastes good and are conveniently sold anywhere and everywhere where people wherever people gather together as for instance offices, market places, schools, railway stations etc.
The street food in Calcutta has managed to shed off its disorganized image, thereby making itself more viable and important for the people. The activity is also a source of income for many. Talk about street foods and you cannot just miss out on Kolkata! Instead of the fact that there has always been an increase in the number of food courts and restaurants in India, yet a huge section of the urban population in Kolkata depends largely on the street delicacies to pamper their taste buds and at the same time meet their daily eating needs as well. The reason for this could be anything from cheap price, fast service, and scarcity of time to variety of eateries!
Streets vendors with their assortment of lip-smacking delicacies can be found easily at any place in Kolkata, where people gather. While the school students enjoy the phuchkas, jhaal muri, crispy bhelpuri etc, the office-goers on the other, feed themselves with chowmin, ghoogni, Puri Sabji, chop and many more.
For the foodies, Kolkata comes with a wide variety of amazing delights at almost every corner of the city. Offering an unending buffet, the Kolkata Street food would tempt you to the core and leave asking for more!
When it comes to food, name it and you would get it in the streets of the City of Joy! Be it phuchka, snacks, jhalmuri or chat, Chinese items like chowmein and chili chicken, Tibetan eateries such as momo, thupka or south Indian food like idli, dosa etc, you would get it all in Kolkata. We bet, you would keep coming back for more! Street Food in Kolkata is high on taste yet low on cost!
Some of the popular streets and areas in Kolkata where you would get street food at its best are:
The street just outside the AC Market is a wonderful place to hangout with family or friends. After a tiring shopping spree at the AC Market, you would surely feel hungry! All you need to do is step out of the market and find a suitable food stall for yourself, by the road side. Have a bite of the pav bhaji or taste the phuchkas, jhaal muri, papri chat or bhel puri. You can find here things like “chana garam” as the vendors bawl for it! The chana mixture is served in the typical Mumbai-style, with lime and chili powder. There is also the soda shikanji or the masala Thumps Up to add to the taste! Give this amazing start of yours, a perfect ending, with the famous Kulfi!
For the food lovers, Camac Street is the place to be in, while in Kolkata. You would hardly be able to resist yourself from having the moong dal vadas served with chilli garlic or pudina chutney. Other specialties in the region are batata puri and papri chat. If you move towards the Vardan Market, you would get to see people waiting in long queues to get hold of their share of food at the food stalls. The tangy taste and the flavor of a variety of chats found along the foot paths at Camac Street would surely catch hold of your attention. The puffed rice, pappri chat, batata puri and the phuchka found here are surely worth your wait. The variety of chats that one can get here are many. It ranges from chats made of different fruits or chats with papris and potatoes. The chats are garnished with curd, spices, two types chutneys made of pudina, chili, salt, lime and coriander and the other one with tamarind, dates and jaggery. They would leave you craving for more!
At a stone throw distance from Park Street, Russell Street is among the popular places in the City of Joy, where you explore the street foods more! The place is well-known for the chat and phuchka stalls. You would also get vegetable rolls, egg rolls and chops. Go out with your friends and try out the ghugni there served with spiced, shredded ginger, chilies and lime! Russell Street is there to lure you with an assortment of palate teasing items.
Along the very popular place in East Calcutta, BBD Bagh, you would find a cluster of street hawkers along the road from Lal Bazaar to The Great Eastern Hotel. They make amazing food items cooked in front of you. And if you are worried about the quality of food on the streets and afraid of falling sick, then let us tell u that since a large number of people come to meet their eating needs, on a regular basis here, so the sellers take in that extra effort and care to make sure that no one gets sick because otherwise there business and livelihood is also at stake. This is something that they cannot let happen!
If you happen to be in busy places such as Chowringhee and Esplanade, in Central Kolkata, then you must visit ” Dacres Lane” near the Peerless Head Office, at least once!  Some of the better street side food stalls can be found here!
Take on the EM bypass and as you cross the Ultadanga Hudco Crossing there are a group of food stalls along the roadside, where one can catch hold of a variety of delicacies!