Chinese kebab with vegetable by Chef Rida Aftab

Ingredients:

Chicken mince                               1/2 kg

Bread (soaked)                              2 slices

Capsicums (cut in cubes)            2

Onion (cut in cubes)                      2

Green chilli (cut in long strips)     4

Tomato ketchup                             1 cup

Soya sauce                                     1 tbsp + 1/2 cup

Crushed black pepper                  1 1/2 tsp

Ginger garlic paste                        1 tsp

Vinegar                                            1 tbsp

Salt                                                   1/2 tsp

Oil                                                    4 tbsp

Method:

-         Blend mince and bread in blender. Add ginger garlic paste, 1 tsp black pepper, 1 tbsp soya sauce and salt and mix.

-         Wet your palms and make small, long kebabs and set aside.

-         Heat oil in a wok and fry kebabs till golden. Add vegetables and cook for 1 minute on high flame.

-         Add remaining black pepper, salt, 1/2 cup soya sauce, vinegar, and tomato ketchup, and stir it. Remove from flame after 1 minute.

Chicken Dumplings in Ginger Sauce by Chef Shireen Anwar

Ingredients
Chicken                                   250gm or 3 boneless breast piece (cut into small 1/4 inch cubes)
Cabbage finely chopped            1/2 cup
Carrots finely chopped              1/2 cup 
Egg                                         1
Ginger finely chopped                1 tsp
Soya sauce                              1 tbsp
Sugar                                       1/2 tsp
White pepper                            1/2 tsp
Salt                                          1/2 tsp
Corn flour                                  2 tbsp heaped
Spring onion leaves                    2 tbsp (finely chopped)
Flour (Maida)                             3 tbsp

Ingredients for Ginger Sauce
Oil                                            1/4 cup

Chicken stock                            1 cup
Capsicum                                  1 (cut in thin strips)
Onion                                        1 (sliced)
Sugar                                        2 tsp
Salt                                           1/2 tsp
White pepper                             1/4 tsp
Soya sauce                               2 tbsp
Ginger                                       1 tbsp heaped (cut thin slices)
White vinegar                             4 tbsp

Method for Dumplings

-         Marinate tiny cubes of chicken with salt, white pepper, sugar, corn flour, flour,  egg,  chopped cabbage, carrot, spring onion, finely chopped ginger and soya sauce

-         Mix all well and make small balls of it (like pakora) and deep fry for 10 minutes till golden brown.

Method for Ginger Sauce

-         Heat ¼ cup oil, fry ginger, then add  sliced onion, then fry for 2 minutes and add capsicum.

-         Add salt,  white pepper, sugar,  white vinegar, then add soya sauce and chicken stock,

-         Cook till it stats boiling, then add corn flour paste to make sauce thick,

-         Now add in your dumplings and serve immediately.

Chicken shashlik with gravy by Chef Shireen Anwar

4 servings

Ingredients:

Chicken boneless                     1/2 kg ( cut1.5 inch cubes)

Capsicum (cut in big cubes)       2

Tomatoes (cut in big cubes)       2

Spring onion bulbs                     8

Oil                                           1/4 cup

Chili powder (pissi lal mirch)       1 tsp

Garlic paste                              1 tsp

Mustard paste                           1 tsp

Salt                                          1 tsp

Wooster sauce                          1 tbsp

Soya sauce                               1 tbsp

Chili sauce                                1 tbsp

Ketchup                                    4 tbsp

Boiled rice                                to serve

Ingredients for chicken gravy

Chicken                                                 3 breast pieces (cut tiny cubes)

Capsicum                                              1

Wooster sauce                                      1 tsp

Soya sauce                                           1 tsp

Tomato paste                                        1 tbsp

Chili sauce                                            1 tbsp

Garlic paste                                          1/2 tsp

Mustard powder                                     1/2 tsp

Salt                                                      1/2 tsp

All spices (garam masala)                      1/4 tsp

Oil                                                        2 tbsp

Ketchup                                                4 tbsp

Ingredients for BBQ sauce

Apple (grated)                                       1/2

Banana (grated)                                    1/2

White vinegar                                        1/2 cup

Ketchup                                               1/4 cup

Salt                                                     1/2 tsp

Chili sauce                                           2 tbsp

Sugar                                                   2 tbsp

Method:

Marinate the chicken with salt, chili powder, mustard paste, soya sauce, garlic paste, Wooster sauce and keep it aside for about 1/2 an hour,

Heat oil and put this marinated chicken and cook it for about 5 minutes. When it is half done add ketchup and chili sauce and stir fry it for some time

Method of BBQ sauce:

Add white vinegar, ketchup, sugar, apple, banana, salt and chili sauce and cook it until it is thick, now blend it in blender. Then again cook it for 2 minutes, then place the coal on onion peel (chilka), in middle of the sauce, then put 2,3 drops of water on it, cover the lid. It will give very good smoked smell.BBQ sauce is ready

Now take wooden skewers, start by adding spring onion bulb, then capsicum , then tomato and then cooked chicken cube,  repeat the process 2 times more, ending with spring onion bulb. Your shashlik tick is ready

Method of Chicken gravy:

Now heat oil in a pan, add garlic paste and chicken and sauté it then add salt, Wooster sauce, soya sauce, mustard powder, tomato paste, 1/4 water, chili sauce and tomato ketchup and all spices (garam masala) and cook it for some time so that chicken gets tender and thick gravy is left. Lastly add 1 finely chopped capsicum Your gravy is ready

Now grill shahshlik stick in frying pan for 5 minutes, put some oil and place the shashlik sticks on it adding BBQ sauce while grilling so that chicken gets saucy and get well cooked.

Now for serving, first place boiled rice in a dish, put chicken gravy on it and in the end place shashlik sticks on it

Chicken Jalfrezi

Ingredients:

Chicken                        1 kg (in cubes)

Ginger                           1 tsp (sliced)

Tomato                         2 (chopped)

Onion                            2 (small size) (chopped)

Red chilli powder            1/2 tsp

Green chillies                2 to 3

Black pepper                 1/2 tsp

Salt                              1 tsp

Ketchup                        2 tbsp

Soya sauce                   1 tbsp

Chinese salt                  1 tsp

Oil                                1/2 cup

Worcestershire sauce    2 tbsp

Method:

Heat oil in a frying pan, and fry onion and ginger for 2 minutes. Then add all the ingredients including chicken and cook it on medium flame until chicken gets soft.

When it gets ready server it with rice.

Chicken Chow mien

Ingredients:

Serves 6

Spaghetti                                  1 packet

Chicken cubes                           2 cup

Capsicum (cut in cubes)             ½ cup

Garlic (chopped)                        2 tsp

Chicken stock                           1 cup

Salt                                          as required

Black pepper                             as per taste

Soya sauce                               1/4 cup

Chilli sauce                               1/4 cup

Method:

-          Boil the spaghetti and allow it to cool. Then take some oil and fry the spaghetti, and while frying keep separating the spaghetti with the help of fork.

-          For Sauce: mix chicken stock, salt, black pepper, soya sauce, chilli sauce and keep it aside.

-          heat oil in a pan, and fry garlic fro 30 sec, then add chicken, and fry for 3- 5 minutes and then place this chicken in a separate bowl.

-          Then stir-fry all the vegetables in a pan. After that cook that sauce for 2 minutes on slow flame. Add chicken in it and mix it well and cook for some time.

-          Then pour the sauce on noodles.

Chicken Manchurian Recipe

Ingredients:

Chicken cubes               200 gms

Chicken stock (yakhni)   1 ½ cup

Tomato ketchup             3 tbsp

Vinegar                         2 tbsp

Soya sauce                   1 tbsp

Salt                              ½ tsp

Red chilli powder            ½ tsp

Sugar                            ½ tsp

Corn flour                      3 tsp

Egg                              1

Tomato                         1

Onion                            1

Oil                                ½ cup and 1 cup for frying

Green chilli                    2

Ginger and garlic            as required

Method:

-          Marinate the chicken cubes with 2 tsp corn flour, oil, egg, salt and keep aside.

-          Finely chop the onion, tomato, green chilli, garlic and ginger.

-          Pout oil in a wok, and deep fry the chicken fro a little while and strain it.

-          Then in a pan fry ginger, garlic, then add onion and chilli and cook it further.

-          Add tomato, chicken stock and let it boil.

-          Then add tomato ketchup, soya sauce, vinegar, red chilli powder.

-          Dissolve corn flour in water. Add this mixture in the gravy to make it thick, serve hot with rice