Chilli Crab

Bonjour,

One of the thing that I remember cooking by myself as a child are chilli crab. I made chilli crab or chilli prawns many times since then. In fact, I love the thick savoury sauce and it was so tasty and so good to eat with rice or bread. Since the crab season has just begun, this is the time to cook chilli crab rather than just boiled it.

We had a big crab here in Brittany, so most of the crabs needs to be boiled first but if using a normal small blue crabs, just cook it directly with the sauce until they are cooked, as simple as that.

CHILLI CRAB

Ingredients;

1-2 crabs, depends on the size
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 red chilli
2 shallot
2 cloves garlic
1cm ginger
2 tablespoon ketchup
2 tablespoon chilli sauce
Salt, pepper and sugar to taste

METHOD;

- Clean and boil the crab until it cooked through. Set aside.
- Blend the chilli, shallot, garlic, and ginger into a fine paste.
- Heat up some oil in a wok or large saucepan and fry chilli garlic paste until fragrant.
- Add in a cup of water and allow it to boil.
- Add ketchup, chilli sauce and season with salt, pepper and sugar.
- Once the sauce are slightly thickens, add in beaten egg, stirring and cook for another couple of minutes.
- Throw in the crabs and stir until all crabs are well coated.
- Dish out and serve with hot rice or bread.

Bon appétit!

Fruit Custard

Hello,

Whenever I want to make a dessert, I'm always looking for something I can make as simple as possible and when it comes to dessert, homemade is always better. Fruit custard are one of the easiest dessert to put together and some of the custard or pudding recipe can be made one day ahead. This easy fruit custard recipe can be made with canned fruits or any other fresh fruits like banana, apple, kiwi, strawberry and etc.

For those who love fruits and custard, this dessert are perfect, it's so good and so simple!

FRUIT CUSTARD

Ingredients;

500ml milk
2 tablespoon vanilla pudding powder
2 tablespoon sugar
1 can mix fruit or any fresh fruits of your choice

METHOD;

- Mix vanilla pudding powder with 2 tablespoon milk to make a paste. Set aside.
- Heat up the milk in a saucepan over medium heat and add sugar.
- Add in vanilla pudding paste and keep stirring until the mixture slightly thickens and reach the desired consistency.
- Turn off the heat and let the custard warm before refrigerate for few hours or over night.
- Prepare the mix fruit in individual bowl or glass and pour the cold custard all over the fruits.

Enjoy the fruit custard!

Masala Chai

Namaste,

Winter is coming and masala chai is a perfect drink for a cold winter day especially at night. I'm pretty sure almost everyone loves tea and get easily fell in love with the Indian spiced chai. Masala chai was so easy to make, with a basic spices that we normally have it at home and with any kind of black tea, masala chai was a great drinks indeed.

I often make chai and I was glad that mon mari loves it too. I am so excited to serve chai to our friends during our Indian dinner soon.

MASALA CHAI

Ingredients;

2 cups water
1 tablespoon tea/ 2 black tea bags
1/2 cup milk, as per taste
2 tablespoons sugar, as per taste
2 cardamoms
2 cloves
1 cinnamon powder
1 star anise
2cm ginger, sliced

METHOD;

- In a large saucepan, bring water and all the spices to boil.
- Add in the tea and sugar, let it boil for a couple of minutes.
- Add milk and continue to boil for a few minute.
- Strain tea through a fine strainer into a cup or pot, serve hot.

Enjoy the masala chai!

Vegetable Pakora

Hello,

Our kitchen smells so much Indian cuisine lately and it will smells more when we are having dinner with friends next saturday because we would cook Indian food that night. I've made vegetable pakora recently for our tea time and it was so good to eat this kind of snack once in a while. Vegetable pakora made with variety of vegetables and the original recipe ask for gram or besan flour but since I don't have gram flour at home, I used normal flour instead.

Most of the Indian food recipe is all over pinterest and I get all of them from there. I just substitude some ingredients with what I had at home. Some recipe are so simple and easy to follow.

VEGETABLE PAKORA

Ingredients;

1 cup shredded cabbage
1 onion, shredded
1 carrot, grated
1 potato, grated
1/2 cup flour
1/4 cup rice flour
1/2 teaspoon garam masala powder
1/2 teaspoon ginger garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/4 cup water (more or less)
Salt to taste

METHOD;

- Combine all vegetables in a mixing bowl together with all the powder spices and salt.
- Add in flour, rice flour and add water little by little, mix well until it reached the desired consistency.
- Heat oil for deep frying and drop a spoonful of the batter into the hot oil.
- Fry the pakoras on a medium heat until pakoras are crisp and golden brown.
- Serve with any sauce of your choice!

Bon appétit!

Masala Fried Fish

Namaste,

Unlike Chinese cuisine, Indian cuisine used a variety of aromatic spices. Many dishes are spicy in Indian food but still, certain food are not fiery hot and after all, everything is depends on the individual preferences, but personally, I prefer the spicy food though. Spicy and tasty, just the way I like it!

Diwali or Deepavali is approaching us and we are few days away from the celebrations which falls on October 19. I would posts more Indian food this month and at the same time we are planning for a small Indian dinner with friends next weekend. For now, let's have a look at this easy-peasy recipe of masala fried fish.

MASALA FRIED FISH

Ingredients;

2-3 mackerels
1 teaspoon masala powder
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1 teaspoon ginger garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/2 lemon juice

METHOD;

- Mix the masala, chilli, ginger, turmeric powder and lemon juice.
- Marinate the fish in masala paste for 1 hour before frying.
- Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry marinated fish until cooked through and brown on the both side.

Bon appétit!