Crème Anglaise Healthy Recipe

Crème Anglaise

(Serves 4)

Ingredients:

• 4 egg yolks
  12 fl oz milk
  2 tbsp sugar
  ½ tsp vanilla

Method:

Whisk egg yolks and sugar until thick and light in color. Heat milk and vanilla extract until almost boiling.

Very slowly add 3/2 of the milk to the egg mixture, while whisking. Add this to the remaining milk and heat gently, stirring continuously until it thickens.

Crème Anglaise – the perfect accompaniment to Christmas puddings.

Hoppers Recipe

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Hoppers Recipe

Ingredients:

• 2 cup rice
• 1 cup grated coconut 
• 1/4 cup cooked rice
• 1 tsp yeast
• Salt, to taste
• 1 cup water
• 1 tsp sugar
• 1 tbsp oil  

Method:

Soak rice for six to eight hours in water. Drain and grind along with coconut, cooked rice, salt and water. Make a smooth batter. Soak yeast in two tbsp lukewarm water with sugar. Keep for 10 minutes. When it turns frothy, add to the rice mixture, mix well and keep aside for 8-10 hours to ferment. Heat a small deep pan. Grease it and pour three tbsp of batter, twirl the pan, so that a thin lace forms on the sides of the pancake. Cover and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Remove hopper from pan. Serve with Fish Moli Recipe.

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Hoppers Recipe
Reviewed by Food Network on April 18 2014 
Rating: 5.0

Fish Moli Recipe

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Fish Moli Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg pomfret
• 4 green chillies, thinly sliced
• 2 onions, sliced
• 1-inch piece ginger, chopped
• 5 cloves garlic, sliced
• 1 tbsp vinegar
• 3 curry leaves
• Pinch of turmeric powder
• 1 stick cinnamon, 4 cloves, 2 pods cardamom
• 1 cup coconut milk
• 2 tbsp oil 
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1/2 cup water 

Method:

Clean and cut the fish into medium-sized pieces. Marinate with pepper and salt, and keep aside for two hours. Heat oil in a shallow pan and fry cloves, cinnamon and cardamom for a minute. Remove spices from oil.
Saute onion, ginger, chilli, garlic, and curry leaves in the same pan. Add turmeric and salt. Stir for 1 minute then add water. When water begins to boil, add fish, cover and cook for 5 minutes.
Now add coconut milk. Heat for a few seconds. Just before mixture begins to boil, add vinegar and remove from fire. Garnish with slices of tomatoes and cooked macaroni. Serve with Hoppers Recipe.

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Fish Moli Recipe
Reviewed by Food Network on April 18 2014 
Rating: 5.0

Duck Roast Recipe

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Duck Roast Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 medium-sized duck
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1 tsp turmeric
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• 2 cloves
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1 cup oil 
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 potatoes, sliced
• 3 onion, sliced (for frying)
• Salt to taste  

Method:

Clean the duck. Cut into about 6 to 8 big pieces. Cook it with all the spices, chopped onion and salt. When done, remove the pieces reserving the gravy. Heat oil in a big frying pan and fry sliced onion and potatoes separately. Remove from oil. Now add the pieces of duck and fry well.
Remove the pieces and add the reserved gravy to the pan. When it simmers, add the fried duck. Mix well. Take it off the fire.
To serve, place duck in a serving dish, garnish with fried potatoes and onions. 

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Duck Roast 
Reviewed by Food Network on April 18 2014 
Rating: 5.0

Beef Mechado Recipe

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Beef Mechado Recipe

Ingredients:

• 500 grams beef sirloin, cubed
• 5 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• 1 cup of water or beef both
• 1 each, potato, carrot, green capsicum and onion, cubed
• 100 grams pineapple, cubed
• 2 tbsp pineapple juice
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• 2 tbsp oil   

Method:

In a saucepan, heat oil and saute garlic and onion. Add beef and fry till light brown. Add tomato paste and water/both.
Once it begains to boil, add the vegetables and pinapple. Now add pineapple juice and cook until beef is done.
Season with salt and pepper. 

Note: This dish from Manila goes well with white rice.

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Beef Mechado Recipe
Reviewed by Chef Roderick on April 18 2014 
Rating: 5.0

Apricot Parfait Recipe

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Apricot Parfait Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3 eggs plus 4 eggs yolks
• 150 grams sugar
• 3 tablespoons apricot juice
• Oil
• Salt
• 500 ml cream
• 100 grams apricot jam(sieved)
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar

Method:

Whip cream and refrigerate. In a dish, pour a generous amount of oil and cover with foil. Put eggs, egg yolks, sugar, vanilla sugar, apricot juice and a pinch of salt in a bowl, and mix together. Place over steam and beat until the mixture has a creamy consistency. Beat the mixture quickly so that lumps do not form, Remove bowl from steam and beat mixture again until it cools.
Stir in a third of the cream and mi well, then add the rest of the cream. Fill the dish with a third of the mixture. Places the jam in a piping cone and squeeze on to the mixture in stripes. Put the rest of the mixture on top, cover with foll and refrigerate, preferably overnight. Turn the parfait out of the dish and remove foil.

Note: Cut into thick slices and serve on chilled plates, decorated with chocolate flakes,apricot slices and mint.

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Apricot Parfait Recipe
Reviewed by Roderick Perdiguerra butcher on April 18 2014 
Rating: 5.0

Sweet and Spicy Fish Recipe

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Sweet and Spicy Fish Recipe

Ingredients:

• 500 grams pomfret, whole
• 10 grams each, carrots, cabbage, spring onions julienned
• 1 tsp finely-chopped garlic
• 1 tsp red-chilli paste
• 2 - 1/2 tbsp tomato ketchup
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• 2-1/2 tbsp cornflour
• Salt, white pepper, to taste
• A pinch sugar
• 50 ml fish stock
• Refined oil, for frying and sauteeing

Method:

Clean, wash and fillet pomfret so as to have two halves. Marinate fillets with salt, pepper and sugar. Roll in cornflour and deep-fry till golden brown in colour. In a pan, heat 2 tbsp oil. Saute garlic carrots and cabbage. Add stock and bring to the boil. Add tomato ketchup, lemon juice and chilli paste. Cook till vegetables are done. Season.
Thicken with remaining cornflour and finish with spring onion. Place fillets on a plate. Pour sauce over fillets and serve hot.

Note:

Have with steamed rice.

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Sweet and Spicy Fish
Reviewed by Chef Bapi Mondal on April 18 2014
Rating: 5.0

Prawn Biryani Recipe

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Prawn Biryani Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg prawns
• 1 tsp each pepper, turmeric and chilli powders
• 2 tsp each, coriander and cumin powders
• Salt, to taste
• 800 grams biryani rice
• 300 ml sunflower oil
• 250 grams potatoes, evenly-sliced
• 100 grams onion, chopped
• 4 cloves garlic, chopped
• 1/4 tsp black lemon powder
• 400 grams fresh tomatoes, chopped
• 1/2 tsp green chilli
• 10 grams cinnamon sticks

Method:

Marinate prawns with 1/2 tsp each, coriander and cumin powders, and salt. Keep aside for 30 minutes. In a deep pan, heat oil and fry prawns to light brown colour. Remove.
Boil rice with salt till three-fourth done. Remove and strain. In a pan, heat five tbsp oil and saute onion, chopped green chilli and garlic till light brown in colour. Add cinnamon, pepper powder, remaining turmeric, chilli, coriander and cumin powders, and black lemon powder, and stir. Cook till the mixture does not stick to the spoon. Add tomatoes and salt, and cook for three minutes. Remove.
Layer the bottom of a vessle with potatoes. Add a layer of fried prawns followed by the gravy and then the rice. Cook covered on very low fire for 10 minutes.

Note:

Just before serving, garnish with chopped coriander leaves.

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Prawn Biryani
Reviewed by Chef Eugene Reginald Dias on April 18 2014
Rating: 5.0

Green Masala Biryani Recipe

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Green Masala Biryani Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kg mutton, cut into pieces
• 1 kg onions, sliced
• 12 green chillies, ground
• 10 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 big piece ginger, crushed
• 1/2 cup oil
• 2 tbsp ghee
• 4 cups basmati rice, soaked in water for 10 minutes
• 8 cups hot water
• Salt to taste
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 2 pods cardamom
• 2 cloves 
• 1 stick cinnamon

Green Masala

• 1 bunch coriander leaves
• 2 tbsp grated coconut
• 12 almonds
• 2 tsp garam masala
• 2 tbsp yoghurt
• 1 tsp lemon

Method:

Heat oil in a heavy-based pan or pressure cooker and saute three-fourths of the onion. When onion turns glassy, add ginger, garlic and ground chilli. Stir for one minutes. Add mutton and salt. Cook for 30 minutes on a low flame. If you cook in a pressure cooker, you don't need to add water, otherwise ensure there is enough water for the mutton to cook. Meanwhile, grind all.

Note: Pappadoms and yoghurt raita make great accompaniments.

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Green Masala Biryani
Reviewed by Food Network on April 18 2014
Rating: 5.0

Apple Strudel Wrap Recipe

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Apple Strudel Wrap Recipe
(Serves 4)

Ingredients:

• 3 cooking apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
• 4 tbsp brown sugar
• 2 tbsp water
• 4 tbsp raisins
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp allspice
• Almond sliver to decorate

Method:

Melt the butter in a large frying pan (over a medium heat). Add apples and raisins. Mix well and saute for a few minutes. Add water, sugar, cinnamon and allspice. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes, until the apples are tender but not over-cooked. Add sugar or seasoning to taste. If the apples appear too dry add a little water. If too moist cook for a few minutes without cover. Remove from the pan and allow to cool slightly.
Server inside a warmed sweet crepe, with a serving of creme anglais and decorate with lightly toasted almond slivers.

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Apple Strudel Wrap
Reviewed by Food Network on April 18 2014
Rating: 5.0

Beef, Tomato and Coriander Tagine Recipes

Beef, Tomato and Coriander Tagine Recipes
A classic dish of Kofta (meatballs), aromatic herbs and tomatoes, slow cooked until it's full of flavour.

Ingredients:

• 450  grams minced beef
• 2 tbsp coriander (with stalks), chopped
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• A pinch of coriander
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
• 1 tsp crushed dried chilli
• 1 tsp salt
• Little vegetable or olive oil for frying
• For the sauce
• 1 onion
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 medium tin chopped
• 3 tbsp parsley, roughly chopped
• 1 tbsp parsley, roughly chopped
• 1 tbsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• A pinch ground cinnamon
• 2 tbsp oil

Method:

Put all the ingredients for the meatballs in a large bowl and, using your hands give it a thorough mixing before dividing into 16 balls.
Heat oil in a frying pan and brown the kefta a few at a time. Set to one side. Finely-chop the onion and garlic and gently soften in the oil for 10-12 minutes.
Add all the other sauce ingredients and cook for 30 minutes. Place the meatballs in the sauce, cover and cook gently for a further 10 minutes.

Note:

Serve with couscous and a fresh green salad.

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Chilli Con Carne Recipe

Chilli Con Carne Recipe

Ingredients:

• 60 ml oil
• 2 onions, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 300 grams lean beef mince
• 1 can chopped tomatoes
• 5 ml brown sugar
• 5 dried oregano
• 3 ml Worcestershire sauce
• 250 ml beef stock
• 100 grams soya mince
• 1 can red kidney beans, drained
• 2 tomatoes, chopped

Method:

Heat oil in a large saucepan and saute onions and garlic until soft. Add beef mince and stir over high heat to brown. Add canned tomatoes, sugar, oregano, cumin, Worcestershire sauce, stock and soya mince. Stir well to combine and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer for 40 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add beans and chopped tomatoes and simmer for a further five minutes. Season to taste and server wrapped in with spoonfuls of guacamole, cheese and sour cream

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Fried Steak and Potatoes (Rice) (Lomo Saltado) Recipe

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Fried Steak and Potatoes (Rice) (Lomo Saltado) Recipe

Ingredients:

• 15 medium potatoes, peeled and cubed
• Oil for frying potatoes
• 50 ml oil
• 1 onion, sliced
• 3 cloves garlic, crushed
• 500 grams sirloin or fillet steak, sliced
• 1 red pepper, cubed
• 1 chilli, chopped
• 2 tomatoes, skinned and chopped
• 7 ml vinegar
• 5 ml freshly chopped origanum 
• 15 ml freshly chopped parsley
• Boiled rice, to serve

Method:

Deep-fry potato cubes until crisp. Place on paper towel and keep warm.
Heat 30 ml oil in a frying pan and saute onion and garlic for 30 seconds. Add meat and cook over high heat for 1-2 minutes until meat is cooked. Remove from the apan.
Add remaining oil to the pan and saute red pepper and chilli for onse minute. Add tomatoes, vinegar and herbs and return meat to the pan. Add fried potatoes to the pan and cook, stirring for 30 seconds. Season to taste, then remove from the heat and server with rice.

Note:

You can server this with rice as says above.

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Baked Bananas Recipe Healthy

Baked Bananas Recipe Healthy

Ingredients:

• 8bananas, sliced
• 1 litre orange juice
• 1 tsp cinnamon powder
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 scoop ice-cream
• 1 tsp caramel syrup
• 4 almonds, crushed

Method:

Take an oven-proof dish. Pour orange juice mixed with cinnamon powder and brown sugar into this. Ararnge bananas in the dish and bake in a preheated (175C) oven for 20 to 25 minutes.

Note:

Serve hot with ice-cream topped with caramel syrup and nuts.

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Green Loaf with Yoghurt Recipe

Green Loaf with Yoghurt Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1-1/2 cups hoghurt or labneh
• 1 bunch coriander leaves, for garnish
• 1 loaf bread

For chutney

•  1 bunch coriander leaves
• 1/2 bunch mint leaves
• 1 tbsp lime juice
• 1 small piece ginger
• 2 green chillies
• 1 tsp sugar    
• 1 tsp cocunut, grated
• 1 1/2 cups yoghurt or labneh
• 1 tbsp grated coconut

Method:

Grind chutney ingredients to a smooth paste. Trim edges of the bread. Spread chutney on each slice. Make a sandwich. Cut into half. Arrange it in a platter. Cover with labneh or hung yoghurt, (yoghurt hung in a muslin cloth to drain it of water). Garnish with coriander leaves.

Note:

This dish should be had the day it is made.

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Oriental Prawns Harra Recipe Method

Oriental Prawns Harra Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1kg medium prawns, cleaned, with tail on
• 1 tbsp pine seeds
• 500 grams tomatoes, peeled, deseeded and chopped
• 3 large, green capsicums, seeded
• 1 tsp garlic paste
• 2 chillies, chopped
• 1 bunch coriander, chopped
• 2 onions, chopped
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• 1 cup olive oil

Method:

Heat the olive oil in a pan and fry the onion, garlic paste chillies. Then add the prawns (with tails on) and cook until half done. Then add the chopped tomatoes and cook till the prawns are fully done. Season with salt and pepper, and add the chopped coriander leaves.

Note:

Serve with saffron rice.

Recipe by Chef Zeitouni, Nova Park Hotel, Sharjah

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Masala Grilled Prawns Recipe

Masala Grilled Prawns Recipe

Ingredients:

• 250 grams jumbo prawns
• 2 tbsp red chilli powder
• 2 tbsp pepper powder
• 1/2 tbsp turmeric powder
• 1-inch piece ginger, sliced
• 5 curry leaves
• 3 cloves garlic, sliced
• Salt, to taste
• 2 tsp lemon juice
• Oil

For the marinade

• 2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
• 1 tsp lemon juice
• Salt to taste  

Method:

Shell the prawns, devein and wash. Pat the prawns gently with kitchen paper and marinate in lime juice, ginger-garlic paste and salt. 
 In a bowl, mix the chilli, pepper and turmeric powders, salt and 2 tsp lemon juice. Coat the prawns well with this mixture and leave aside for 10 minutes. Grill them on a hot pan till done. Garnish with sliced garlic, ginger and curry leaves. 

Recipe by Chef T. N. Shaji, Palm Grove Restaurant, Marco Polo Hotel, Dubai 
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Grilled Veal Escalopes Recipe

Grilled Veal Escalopes Recipe

Ingredients:

• 8 small veal escalopes
• 1 bunch tarragon, chopped 
• Oil, for frying
• 200 grams butter
• 2 eggs yolks
• Salt and pepper, to taste

Method:

Heat the butter over a low flame until it is clear, then carefully pour it off into a bowl leaving the white deposit behind. Season the egg yolks and cook in a double saucepan, whisking all the time, until thick and creamy. Remove from the heat and slowly pour in the clarified butter, stirring all the time. Mix in the tarragon.
Preheat the oven grill and grease a baking sheet with a little butter. Put the escalopes between two sheets of foil and carefully beat flat. Season with salt and pepper and fry in a little oil on both sides for a total of about a minute. Remove from the pan and place on the prepared baking sheet. Cover with the tarragon sauce. Grill in the preheated oven on the top shelf until golden.

Note:

Serve with potatoes or rice.

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Roly-Poly Pudding Recipe

Roly-Poly Pudding Recipe

Ingredients:

• 100 grams self-raising flour
• 50 grams prepared suet (Atora) 
• A pinch of salt
• 225 grams raspberry of strawberry jam

Method:

Mix the flour, suet and salt in a bowl. Stir in just enough water to bind the mixture, and form a light dough. Roll the dough out on a floured surface into a 1-cm thick oblong shape.
Spread the centre generously with jam, leaving a 3-cm border without jam on three sides. Roll up loosely starting with the end which has jam right to the edge. Enclose the roll in foil, forming pleats in the foil to allow the roll to rise. Place the roll in a steamer or on the rack of a roasting pan. Fill the bottom half with water. Cover the pan and steam for 2 hours adding more water if necessary. 
Serve hot or cold.

Note:

The rolls can be served for evening tea or as a dessert with custard.

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Nasi Goreng Recipe

Nasi Goreng Recipe

Ingredients:

• 750 grams cooked rice
• 350 grams beef fillet srips
• 2 onions, chopped
• 250 grams prawns
• 4 eggs
• 1 tsp crushed dried chilli
• 7 tbsp groundnut oil
• 100 grams each of beef and chicken, cubed
• 3 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 cucumber, julienned
• 1 carrot, julienned
• 125 grams cabbage, shredded
• 2 tbsp soya sauce
• 4 spring onions, sliced
• 4 tbsp fried onion flakes
• Salt, to taste

Method:

Pan-fry the beef strips until they are half done, and set aside. Fry the chopped onions and prawns separately, and set them aside. Beat the eggs. Add the chilli and salt to it and make a thin omelette. Cut it into fine strips.
Heat the oil in the wok and add the cubed chicken and beef and peas.
When it turns brown, add the garlic and then the prawns, beef strips and fried onions. Toss in the carrot, cucumber, peas and cabbage, and add the soya sauce.
Add rice, mix, and sprinkle a little water if necessary to create the necessary steam. Top it with spring onion, omelette and onion flakes.

Note:

Serve with prawn crackers, beef and chicken satay, topped with peanut sauce.

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