Hells Kitchen Series - The Cooking Misadventures - Episode 1

Cooking is adventurous. But then not always. Worst case is when you may blow up your kitchen.

One misadventure i would like to share which happened with someone i know (No, he did not blow up his kitchen) is the idly making venture.

Okay, for the newbies in cooking, a simple question. I think you can answer this easily. How will you make Idly (The south Indian delicacy, white and round)?

Well it's simple isn't it. Get the idly batter from a super market. If you don't like the idlies sour, then sprinkle a little bit of salt in the batter then take out your idly maker (the utensil with the hole, I'm not talking about Polo for gods sake newbies), pour in the batter inside the holes and place it in the pressure cooker filled with enough water, put on the cooker lid and put the VALVE (also called stone).

Did i just say put the VALVE in the pressure cooker and did you just try it even before reading the rest of my article? Hell no, don't ever try it. You are gonna break someones tooth or out of frustration someone is gonna throw this idly on someone else and he's gonna bleed to death. I'm not joking. You have made a stone out of an idly my friend if you have tried putting in the valve over your pressure cooker. And yes the person i was talking about previously did that. Luckily no one got hurt.

Keep reading and enjoy cooking.

Food for Thought...

Hi foodies, it's time for some food for thought. Imagine you preparing one of the delicacies from my menu or someone else's. You are wanting to enjoy every bit of its taste. But imagine a day in your life when circumstances have made you horribly sad. How is my delicacy tasting today? Horrible i believe. 

The point I'm trying to make is understood i suppose. Stay happy and keep everyone around you happy, you are going to lead a positive life enjoying each moment, even your food. If you are unhappy, how much ever tasty food you eat you are not gonna like it. Believe me, stay happy and cook, everything will come out tasty.

My Style Chilly Chicken

I have never tried preparing a chicken cuisine myself but i always used to wonder how people make it so tasty like a Chicken Piquant or something. So i thought i should also try out one of them, not a chicken piquant, but a chilly chicken, my kinda.

So here goes the secret ingredients for my version of Chilly Chicken for Dummies.

1) Chicken (Breast) - 500 gm

2) Garlic Paste - 2 Teaspoon

3) Vinegar - 2 Teaspoon

4) Soy Sauce - 4 Teaspoon

5) Cooking oil - 6 Teaspoon

6)  Capsicum - Big one

7) Green Chilly - i used only one coz i hate chilly, you can choose more

8) Tomato - Big one

9) Onion - One big

10) Salt - According to your taste.

11) Sugar - 1 Teaspoon.

Preparation:

Cut the Chicken into medium size cubes. Cut Onions, Tomato and Capsicum to a medium size. Slit the chilly from the middle.

Pour cooking oil in your frying pan and keep it for heating in medium/high flame. Once the oil is hot, Put all the cut chicken cubes into the oil and start frying it. Add ginger paste now and keep stirring it unitil the chicken turns light brown in color. This may happen maybe in 10 min ideally.

Add Soy Sauce and Vinegar and keep stirring for another 3 minutes. The aroma of all the blend will start filling in your kitchen now. Now add the cut Capsicum, Tomato and Onion along with 1/4 water and salt and a little sugar, cover the pan and cook the chicken for 5 min (until the time it cooks).

After the chicken is cooked nicely, boil the contents without the lid on for another 2 to 3 min.

That's it. You are done with your chilly chicken.

Serve it with Rice or Roti or Bread.