Monday, 21 November 2016

Prawns Puff and Melon Lassi

Prawns Puff

When I was india I had done lot of R&d to prepare the Puff. I tried it couple of times but it didnt become fluffy. It was very messy too. So for a while I thought lets try to use the readily available Puff Pastry Sheets out here in the market. The outcome was amazing. But I would be happy the day I get this outcome when i can make those sheets too :)


Ingredients
1 Cup Prawns
1 Tomato
2 Onions
4 Garlic Cloves
1 Spoon Corriander Powder
1 Spoon Red Chilli Powder
1/4 Spoon Garam Masala
1/4 Spoon Jeera Powder
1/2 Spoon Black Pepper Powder
A pinch of turmeric powder
1 Egg
Salt to taste
Oil

Method
  • Take out the pastry sheets from the fridge and keep them aside to thaw.
  • In the mean time, heat the oil and add finely chopped onion to it. Cook till onion is translucent
  • Add finely chopped tomato in it and cook till tomato is almost done.
  • Add prawns and garlic to it and cook for couple of minutes.
  • Add turmeric powder, red chilli powder, garam masala, jeera powder, black pepper powder and salt to taste. Cook till oil seprates out.
  • Add corriander powder to it and again cook for a minute or two. Keep aside
  • Pre-heat the oven to 400F
  • Grease the baking tray.
  • Cut each baking sheet into 3 vertical and 2 horizonal pieces to give you 6*2 = 12 pieces. On each piece of the sheet add in the prawns mixure and fold it and keep it on the baking tray.
  • Beat the egg, dip a tissue in it and spread the egg over the puffs
  • Bake in oven at 400F/200C for 15 minutes and your puffs should be ready to serve.
Notes
I used medium sized prawns so that I dont need to cut them and neither are they too small to recognise and loose their taste in the masala.
Also I used the egg to get the golden brown effect of the puff as mentioned on the puff pastry sheet box.






 Melon Lassi

Couple of weeks back I tried this unique experiment. I had one old melon sitting in the fridge so was curd, so thats what lead to this recipe.

Melon Lassi
Ingredients
1 Melon
6 Cup Curd
5 Spoon Sugar
A pinch of Vanilla Essence
Salt to taste

Method
  • Chop the complete melon into small piece
  • Keep aside few pieces for garnishing and grind rest of them in the mixie to make the juice.
  • Strain the juice and add it to curd.
  • Add sugar, salt, vanilla essence and again mix in the mixie
  • Garnish with the melon pieces and serve chilled.

Notes
I used sweet thick curd, and didnt need to add any water because the melon juice was enough to lighten the curd to Lassi


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