Back after a long break with some Sunday special delicacies..Simple cooking, fast and easy to prepare ensures a hearty and delightful luncheon with family, yet the amount of time spent behind chopping, slicing, dicing and frying is absolutely negligible.
To start with, I started of with two very simple main courses - Prawn Manchurian and Chilly chicken, with Egg fried rice.
Prawn Machurian
Ingredients
- Prawns - medium sized 1 kg
- Onions - 1 large/2 small, finely chopped
- Ginger - 1/2 inch piece, finely chopped
- Garlic - 8-10cloves, finely chopped
- Green chillies - 8-10 finely chopped
- Corn flour
- Dark soy sauce - 2 tbsp
- Vinegar - 2 tsp
- Black pepper - 1 tbsp
- Salt
- Spring onions - optional for garnish
Method
- Devein and de-shell prawns, and marinate them in either egg whites, or cornflour. Add salt and pepper and leave for 5 mins.
- Deep fry the marinated prawns in hot oil. Drain out the excess and keep them aside.
- To make the manchurian gravy, add finely chopped ginger, garlic and onions and saute' till golden brown.
- Add dark soy sauce and vinegar, salt and simmer for 3 to 4 mins.
- In a cup make a paste of 2 tbsp cornflour and add 1/4 cup water.
- Add it to the sauce, stirring continuously, so that no lumps are formed.
- Add the prawns when the sauce starts to simmer and add a little water. Cook for a few mins, till the gravy thickens.
- Garnish with chopped spring onion greens.
Chilly Chicken
This one is a "Cheat" version of the original delicacy. Its easy to cook, and hardly takes any time. so when in hurry, this is what we make.
Ingredients
- Chicken - 1 kg
- Onions - 4 big sliced
- Bell pepper - 2 big, sliced thinly
- Dark soy sauce - 3 tbsp
- Green chillies - 7 -8 chopped
- Cornflour - for thickening
- Salt
Method
- Boil the chicken and keep the broth for using in gravy.
- Fry the sliced onions nicely, till light golden, then add the bell pepper.
- Cover for a minute and let the onions and pepper soften, then fry nicely.
- Add the boiled chicken, some salt and fry again to let the chicken turn nice and golden brown.
- Add the soy sauce, cornflour and water paste and 2 tbsps of water to make a nice and thick gravy.
- Garnish with chopped scallions.
Fried Rice
This one was just the most easy thing you can possibly do. Just cook some rice. Keep it aside and let it cool down, or you can use left over rice too.
In a wok, add eggs, as many as you like, add salt and scramble fry them. Add chopped spring onion greens, and add in the rice. Mix nicely, add some salt and you are done!!
