Home Fried Chicken

 

These are days when every city and village has a KFC outlet. With this recipe you can make it right at the comfort of  your home . Its cheaper and tastier.

INGREDIENTS

Chicken 1/2 kilo
oil
cornflakes

For Marinade

all purpose flour(maida),*rice flour and corn flour a handful each
ginger garlic paste 1 tbsp
Garam masala 1/2 tsp
chaat masala 1/2 tsp
chilli powder 11/2 tsp
turmeric 1/2 tsp
egg 1
lime-1
or
curd-3 tbsp
salt to taste

Method

Clean the chicken and make medium sized pieces.
Drain the water completely.
Make a marinade from the above and marinate it for atleast 1/2 an hour ! The more it marinates the better.
Grind the cornflakes coarsely( run the processor once and don't make a powder)
Heat oil till its just about to smoke.
Coat the chicken in the cornflake mixture evenly on all sides.
Shallow fry or deep fry.
Enjoy.

*rice flour gives a crispy texture but you can substitute it with maida

Eggless steamed banana cake

A friend asked me for an eggless cake made in a cooker.

I don't know if i will ever make a cake without egg!

Do check out this link.

http://www.padhuskitchen.com/2011/11/steamed-banana-cake-eggless-steamed.html

Top it up!

While I was making some mini pancakes ( otthappam /oppers ) , I decided to top it up with left over fried fish.Turned out great.