It's Cooking Time

Cooking is one of the things which I love doing apart from blogging and reading.

Moreover being an Indian and a female, I do need to have a good hand in cooking. People say its the best way to make a place in a guy's heart. ;)

Before joining college, I decided to utilize my free time by improving my cooking skills. So, there I was, sitting in a cooking class with a notebook in my hand and eyes set at my teacher. She used to cook there in  front of us and told us all the basics and we were supposed to try those at home. Being a foodie, this was the best I could get. I used to get all the ingredients on my way back to home and entered kitchen with all of those and my recipe book. 

One thing I made sure was that my mom never entered the kitchen until I was working there. Thank God I was successful in doing that else you would have never had the pleasure of reading this blog. :P

Today, as I introduce you to a new side of mine, Manpreet - the cook *Blush*, I want to share the recipe of the best dish made by me. Why it was the best?  Because it looked really yummy and tasted a lot better than that.

So here it goes...

CUISINE - Chinese

CHEESE CHILLY

Serves - 2

Ingredients Required

1. Cottage Cheese (Paneer)  200gm (cut in medium sized square cubes)

For Paste

2. 2 tbsp plain white refined flour (Maida)

3. 2 tbsp Corn Flour

4. 1/2 tsp salt

5. 1/4 cup water

6. Oil (For deep frying as required)

7. 2 tbsp oil

8. 3 onions (thickly chopped)

9. 1 Capsicum (thickly chopped)

10. 1 tsp garlic + ginger (finely chopped)

11. 1/2 tsp salt

12. 1/4 tsp black pepper

13. 1/4 tsp ajino moto

14. 1 and half tbsp tomato ketchup

15. 1 tsp soya sauce

16. 2 tsp vinegar

17. A pinch of orange read color

18. 2 tsp chilli sauce

19. 1/2 cup water

20. 2 tsp corn flour

Start working now

Paste

In a bowl, mix white flour, cornflour and salt. Add water gradually. Prepare a thick mixture with this.

Here comes the real part..

Add oil in a deep frying pan. Dip the cheese in the paste and fry it on low flame. The cheese needs to be fried until it's light yellow in color.

In another frying pan, add 2 tbsp oil, finely chopped ginger- garlic and fry for two minutes. Add onion and again fry for 2 minutes.  Add capsicum and fry for 1 minute. Now, put salt, pepper, ajino moto (it's a special Chinese salt - makes food really very tasty. I use it in almost all the dishes I make O:)) and mix all of them properly. Add the fried cheese now. Put the tomato ketchup, chilli sauce, soya sauce, vinegar  and color.

Take a 1/2 cup of water and put the corn flour in it. Now add it in the frying pan.

Cook for a few minutes until the water dries a little bit.

The cheese chilly is ready. What are you waiting for now? Just serve it and eat. 

Don't forget to garnish it with spring onions.

This is the one straight from my kitchen

Or you may try something else for garnishing. Do let me know if you try out some new ideas. :)

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