I have been cooking a lot of chicken these days. At my native, chicken is available in big portions and usually they cannot finish it on their own. So aayi cooks it very rarely. Since pappa loves it, I wanted to prepare some of my favorite dishes for him. Last week I prepared this chilli-ginger chicken. A very simple, yet delicious dish. For best results, make this on a high heat. I made it quite spicy, reduce the spice if you cannot take that much heat.
Ingredients: 1 lb tender chicken breasts 1 cup sliced onions 1/4 cup capsicum 4 green chillies A pinch turmeric 1/4 tea spn pepper powder 1 tea spn chilli powder 1 tbl spn ginger-garlic paste 1 tbl spn julienne ginger (ie, ginger cut into thin strips) Oil 1 tbl spn thick yogurt 2 tbl spns lemon juice 1/2 tea spn garam masala Salt
Method: Add all the ingredients (except oil and lemon juice) to chicken pieces and keep it aside for about 30mins. On a high heat, heat oil in a thick bottomed pan (or wok) and add chicken mixture. Keep stirring till the chicken is cooked. Switch off the heat and mix lemon juice. Serve hot.
Serves : 3-4 Preparation time : 20mins
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Today this blog turns 5 . Thanks to all of you who supported this venture.
We had started this place, 5 years ago as a place to save our home-made food recipes and also some new trials by us. In the beginning, I had no clue about blogs, let alone food blogs. I only discovered them about 4 months after I had gotten started. I was really happy to find so many like minded people. The day I received the first comment on the blog, I was ecstatic. I cannot believe this has lasted so long and the amount of love and admiration I have received from you all. So to sum it up, Aayi’s Recipes is a place with the following purposes 1. Preserve and document food recipes that my family enjoy and grew up with 2. Log the experience and preparation of new learnings spanning across a variety of cuisines 3. Connect with like minded food lover readers, friends and bloggers
– Why don’t you post your family pictures? At this point, I like to keep this place, focused on food. Occasionally you might find some personal posts, as you always have. I may think otherwise in future, but at this point, I like to keep it that way. I hope you all respect my decision.
– I asked for a recipe many times and it did not get posted yet. As I said before, I post what I cook here. Many a times, when I get a request, I try to find the recipe and prepare it. But it is not always possible. Sometimes I don’t know the recipe, sometimes I cannot prepare it here for various reasons. I don’t post anything unless I try it myself.
– Post some videos I know it would be incredibly helpful for some people. But videos take a lot more time and equipment, which I do not have at this point.
– I like xyz feature from another site/blog, please provide it here. I would love to make this site better, but as I said earlier, because of time constraints, I am unable to work on many things that I would like to. But I will definitely try.
– Why do you post Konkani recipes or why do you post non-Konkani recipes? I get this all the time. My non-Konkani readers don’t want to read the Konkani names and the recipes with coconut(most of the Konkani recipes have coconut). Please ignore the recipes with coconut and read the others. My Konkani readers want to read ONLY Konkani recipes. Well, that is not why I started this blog. I want to share all the recipes that I try. If you don’t like non-Konkani recipes, then ignore them and read the Konkani recipes. I have posted so many of them and I try my best to post more in this category.
– I want to post some recipes on this blog. How can I? At this point, there is no option to post reader’s recipes. In future I may provide this. In the past, I asked some people to help me out with recipes. I don’t say it always worked well. So I decided to keep it to my family’s and my recipes only.
Once again, Thank you so much for all your encouragement. I hope you continue to like this place.
