A Few Simple Cooking Recipes

published by Mohamed Alrayes on Jan 29, 2009

Learn to make cheese samoosa, garlic chicken and almond pudding. A tasty full course meal even a beginner could make.

Cheese Somoosa:

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups of cheese (any cheese of your choice, but feta is recommended)    375g
  • 2 cups of all purpose flour                                                                           270g
  • 3 tablespoons of corn oil                                                                             45ml
  • Half a tablespoon of salt                                                                             4g
  • Half a cup of water                                                                                      100ml

Step 1:

Place all the ingredients except for the cheese in a bowl, and mix until dough is achieved.

Step 2:

Divide the dough into roughly 18 pieces and flatten each piece into a circle, then cut the circles in half.

Step 3:

Place one tablespoon of cheese on each piece of dough. Then fold the dough into a triangular shape while sealing the corners by pressing lightly.

Step 4:

Deep frey the uncooked samoosa’s until they turn a golden colour.

Garlic Chicken:

Ingredients:

1 chicken                                                                1100g

4 Garlic cloves, each cut into 4 pieces lengthwise  20g

1 tablespoon of dry rosemary                                3g

2 tablespoons of olive oil                                       30ml

1 tablespoon of worcestershire sauce                   15ml

2 cube of chicken stock                                          22g

1 tablespoon of white pepper powder                   6g

2 tablespoons of corn flour                                    20g

Half a cup of fresh orange juice                             50ml

Quarter of a cup of water                                       20g.

Method:

Step 1:

Slice the chicken into two halves.

Step 2:

Use a sharp knife to make 16 small holes into pieces of the chicken, then fill each hole with a piece of garlic and rosemary.

Step 3:

Place the chicken in an oven dish. Surround the chicken with vegtables of your choosing (but mushrooms, potatoes and carrots are recommended). Mix all the left over ingredients and pour over the chicken and vegtables.

Step 4:

Cover Dish with aluminium foil and bake at 200 degrees C for about 1 hour.

Almond Pudding

Ingredients:

  • 5 cups of fresh milk                                             1ltr
  • 1 cup of sugar                                                     200g
  • 10 slices of bread (crust free)                             250g
  • Half a cup of chopped almond                             90g
  • A quarter of a tablespoon of almond essence      1.25ml

Method:

Step 1:

Mix the sugar, milk and almonds. Boil the mixture in a saucepan then add bread and almond essence and stir for roughly 15 minutes.

Step 2:

Put the mixture in a 20cm dish (the pudding will take the shape of the dish) and retrigerate for roughly 2 hours.

Step 3:

Garnish the pudding with almonds and create any pattern you wish.

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