A Few Simple Cooking Recipes
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.
