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Sunday, May 11, 2014

SPICY CORN FRITTERS

SPICY CORN FRITTERS
I have been making this dish sometimes for an evening snack since the past year. I don’t remember from where I learnt this dish, I think it was from Epicurious. In the beginning, I prepared it according to the original dish just with ground corn, salt, and pepper but it not suit our taste buds, so I pepped it up a little our Indian style. It tasted good nonetheless. For all my dishes, the measuring is for 2 persons. The measurements can be increased or decreased accordingly.

INGREDIENTS:
Corn (Frozen or fresh off the cob), 1-1/2 cup.
Onion, small, 1.
Green chilies, 2.
Garlic, 2 cloves (optional).
Garam masala, 1 teaspoon, (optional).
Salt, as per taste.
Curry leaves and cilantro, a handful each.

PREPARATION:
If fresh corn is used, cut the corn off the cob and keep aside. It need not be cooked. I have used frozen corn here, which I microwaved for 1 min to take out the thaw. Chop the onion, chilies, cilantro, and curry leaves into small pieces. Grind the corn into a rough paste. Two cloves of garlic can also be ground with the corn. Some of the corn can even be left whole. Add the chopped onions, chilies, curry leaves, and cilantro to the ground corn. Add some salt and a teaspoon of garam masala to the mixture and mix everything well. If needed a tablespoon of rice flour or all purpose flour can be added to make it crispier. Heat a pot with a cup of oil for deep frying. When the oil is hot enough take small spoonfuls of the mixture and drop into the hot oil. When the fritters get cooked and start rising, remove them from the oil and drain excess oil in a paper towels. Serve hot with ketchup.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Spicy Paneer Masala Recipe

Spicy Paneer Masala

Ingredients

Fresh paneer- 250gms( Indian cottage cheese)

Onion large sliced- 1no

Tomato medium chopped- 3nos

Garlic cloves sliced- 4nos

Ginger and Garlic paste- 1tbsp

Red chilli powder- 1 and 1/4 tsp

Garam masala powder- 1tbsp

Cumin powder- 1tsp

Coriander powder- 1tbsp

Kasoori methi- 2tsp( slightly roasted and crushed)

Salt to taste

Oil- 3 tbsp

Chopped coriander leaves to garnish.

Spicy Paneer Recipe

Method

Cut the paneer into cubes. In a small bowl mix ginger and garlic paste, garam masala powder, 1/4 tsp red chilli powder and 1/2 tsp salt. Marinate the paneer cubes in the prepared masala for 15 mins. Heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan when hot fry the marinated paneer pieces until slightly browned. Drain the shallow fried paneer pieces and set aside. In the same pan add 1 tbsp more oil, add the sliced onion and garlic, fry on medium heat until onion turn brown. Now add the chopped tomatoes, rest of 1 tsp red chilli powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, crushed kasoori methi leaves and saute till tomatoes are cooked and tender. Add the fried paneer cubes to the tomatoes and add 1 tsp salt and few tbsp water. Cook for few mins until slightly gravy is formed. Garnish paneer masala with chopped coriander leaves, serve hot with jeera rice, nan, roti etc.

Masala Paneer

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Gluten Free Corn Muffins A Spicy New Recipe With a Secret Ingredient

Our newest gluten-free muffin recipe- grainy and tender with a hint of spicy.

Come Together

My heart is often tugged in multiple directions. Yanked this way, and pulled that way. Like one long, drunken walk of contradiction. Opposing strategies, assumptions, and intentions collide and churn and grip my emotional little pump like a fist- far more often than I care to admit. For all kinds of reasons. If I was a believer in astrology I would now confess my Gemini imprint. Which allegedly explains my dual nature and divergent tendencies. I have always pursued two paths at once, and wrangled opposites like the celestial twins I supposedly embody. But the only current subscription card I carry is not to the stars above in any connect-the-dot sense, but to the Big Kahuna. The Mother of All. That's right.

Love.

That's why this past year was so tough, Babycakes.

So much anti-love. So much devoted divisiveness. So much snide finger pointing and blame. So much snark and cynicism. So much collective denial. So much hurt and incredulity for anyone who has a heart. Or tenders a tendency to listen rather than rail. And this year's ending. Its post-hurricane holiday season bruised by glass-eyed shock and long, long heartache. Every mother in the world nested that cold pit of terror darkly inside her deepest, secret place. That place without words. The terror is clean and razor sharp. It beats, too, like a heart.

So I must write about it. In words that sting and stutter in their inadequacy.

I am tired of our culture of death. I am weary of our appetite for power and violence. I am numb from the depth of greed that poses as success.

I tell you this because I must. I have no choice, truth be told. I gotta talk about it. If you visit for the recipes only, or stop by for encouragement and celiac support, you may be raising an eyebrow right about now. You might prefer fun and perky chit chat. Not all this complicated feeling stuff. I know.

Recipes, inspiration and support- it's all here for you. My family and I knit our love of good food and gluten-free support for you. We have for seven years. And will continue to do so in the new year.

But you should know- goddess status aside- I struggle with this stuff every day- just like you. I know you do, too, because you are here right now. Reading these words.

You care.

You love.

You worry.

You are tired of the superficial, the weak reasoning, the shrugging dull acceptance that this is the way it has to be. Because you know- like I do- it doesn't.

Love can win.

Light can penetrate the darkest hour. Denial can be pinched and prodded awake. Common sense values can be sexy. Golden Rule ethics are still hot. Still small voices can be excavated. And heard.

I am turning to the new year with hope for a better one. Where not one single child is riddled with bullets (is this really too much to hope for?). Where our political process is governed by doing the right thing- and not by money, and its corporate culture of greed. Where guns are not sexy. And our appetites are hungry for knowledge, art, culture and truth.

I know, I know. My Age of Aquarius hippie artist proclivities are showing.

And if I could? I would invite you all over for cocoa and muffins. I would make you a big bowl of mulligatawny and hand you my favorite spoon, and play some Yo Yo Ma and James Taylor on the HiFi. We could watch the deer outside the kitchen window as snowflakes spin their magic just before dark. The recipe I would make would be this new corn muffin recipe spiked with spicy green chiles and golden pumpkin.

A match made in heaven.

Or hatched by a Gemini goddess wrestling with light and dark.

You decide.

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