Chicken briyani

Chicken briyani
Originally uploaded by chowen

- 1 cup of rice, cooked
- 1 onion, sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 small piece ginger, sliced
- 2 tomatos, cut into wedges
- 500g chicken breast or thigh fillet, cut into chunks

- 1-2 tbsp curry powder
- 1/4 tsp garam masala
- 1/4 tsp tumeric
- 1-2 bay leaves
- 4 cardamon pods
- saffron (small amount)
- fresh coriander (optional)

1. Fry onion in a little oil until browned, add garlic, ginger and continue stirring (3-5 mins)
2. Add chicken, mix in chili curry powder, salt, garam masala, and tomato wedges, cook on low heat (10 mins)
3. Mix in tumeric, bay leaves, cardamon and saffron into the cooked rice (2 mins)
4. Mix both the rice and chicken on an oven dish and place it in the oven for 10 mins
5. sprinkle fresh coriander and serve with natural yoghurt

tartlet light lunch

summer tarts
Originally uploaded by chowen

- 4-6 ready made savory tart case
- small pieces of sausages (using one sausage)
- baked salmon fillet (1 piece - I used left over from dinner)
- 2 eggs
- single cream, 60ml
- grana cheese, to garnish
- rocket salad or any other salad

1. Pre-heat oven 180 for 10 mins
2. Chop and sprinkle salmon / sausage in the different tart case
3. mix the eggs with cream together until thoroughly blended together
4. Pour mixture (3) into the tart cases
5. place in the oven for 10 mins
6. sprinkle grana cheese, serve with rocket on the side

Salty pork

Pork
Originally uploaded by chowen

4 thin slice escalope pork, marinate for 20 mins in
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 2 tbsp mirin (cooking sake)
- 1 tsp sugar

1. Fry 1 sliced onion in 1 tbsp walnut oil until slightly browned
2. add 2 spring onion, sliced length-ways, empty the pan and set the content aside
3. use the left over juice, place pork slices flatly in the pan
4. fry for a couple of minutes on both sides
5. when the pork is cooked, add the onion back and do a stir fry by mixing all the ingredients together