Tangy Tikka Chops

Ingredients:
1 kg lamb chops
30ml crush garlic paste
15ml crushed chillies
5ml whole coriander, crushed
30ml tikka spice

Sauce:
125ml apricot jam
Juice of 1 lemon
30ml Worcester sauce
20ml soy sauce
2 chillies, finely chopped
10ml peri – peri
10ml barbeque spice
Salt and pepper
Chopped dhania leave

Method:

Preheat oven to 200C.
Bring all sauce ingredients together and cook till reduced.
Rub chops with spices. Baste chops with tikka sauce and place in an oven proof dish. Bake in the oven for 20 -30 min, basting the chops after 15 min and turning.

If a saucier meal is desired, double up on the sauce ingredients.

Cup Cakes

Ingredients:
250g butter
575ml sugar
6 eggs
500g self raising flour
125ml cake flour
10ml baking powder
250ml milk

Topping:
Butter icing/ glace icing / 100’s and 1000’s.

Method:
Heat oven to 180C. Place colorful paper cups in muffin trays or small tartlet trays. Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time. Sift in flours and baking powder, alternating with milk and fold in well. Fill paper cups ½ way and bake for 10 – 12 minutes, or until lightly golden and springy to the touch. Remove to a wire rack and cool.When cool, decorate with icing and sprinkle with 100’s and 1000’s.

Stir Fry Vegetable Pasta Salad

Ingredients:
200g bowtie pasta
1 red pepper, cut in half and pips removed
1 yellow pepper, cut in half and pips removed
6-8 carrots
1 punnet mushrooms
6-8 baby marrows, washed
100g sow peas
100g walnuts halved
100g sun dried tomatoes, cut into strips oil for stir frying

Dressing:
125ml oil
60ml lemon juice
5ml dried mixed herbs
20ml crushed garlic
2 green chillies, finely chopped
Salt to taste

Method:
Prepared the dressing first by whisking all ingredients together. Check seasoning and adjusting to personal taste. Leave aside until required.

Heat oven to 180C. Cook pasta in lots of boiling water until al dente. Rinse well, and drain. Once cooled, place pasta in a large bowl and keep aside.

Rub the skin of the red pepper with a little oil and roast at 180C until skin blisters. Remove from oven and place in a plastic bag to sweat. Once cooled peel the skin off the peppers. Slice peppers into neat strips and keep aside.

Cut carrot into Julienne strips and keep aside. Cut the baby marrows in half length wise and then cut each half at an angle.

Heat a wok or fairly large pan. Add a little oil and stir fry carrots until just soft, they must still retain their shape and colour. Add to pasta and mix. Stir fry mushrooms until just browned. Add to pasta and mix. Stir fry marrows until just soft. Add to pasta and mix. Season with salt. Mix in the sliced peppers, sun dried tomatoes and nuts. Pour the dressing over the warm veggies and pasta and mix through gently.

Place in a decorative bowl and serve at room temperature.

Chinese Chilli Chicken

Ingredients:

½ kg chicken fillet cubed
1 ½ tsp chillie garlic paste
1 tablespoons pepper steak spice
2 tablespoons steers garlic sauce
1 tsp salt
¼ cup lemon juice

Tomato Sauce Mixture

1 cup tomato sauce
2 tablespoon lemon juice
3 tablespoon butter

Method

Marinate the chicken with all the ingredients and leave aside for 1 hour
Cook on low until chicken is tender
Combine sauce ingredients together and cook on low heat until sauce boils
Add tomato sauce mixture to the chicken and cook on low heat
Serve with spring onion pancakes

Cream of Tomato Soup

4 cups chicken stock or water
1 kg tomato
Salt as per taste
1 tsp white pepper powder
2 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp Chinese salt
2 Tbsp plain flour
2 Tbsp Dalda Cooking oil

Garnish:

½ cup fresh cream
Croutons as required (to make croutons, dice a bread slice and deep fry in hot cooking oil)

Method

To make the chicken stock boil ½ kg chicken bones in a pot with 8 – 10 cups of water until only four cups of stock remain. To avoid heek, add one small whole peeled onion and one small whole peeled onion and 2- 4 black pepper corns when it comes to a boil.

Make a cross cut at the back of each tomato. Keep them in boiling water for 2 -3 minutes. The peel should come of easily now. Remove the peel and blend. Add the tomato paste to the stock and boil for 15 – 20 minutes.

In a heavy based pot, heat Dalda Cooking oil on low heat for 2 – 3 minutes. Add flour and stir until fragrant. Gradually add the tomato soup, stirring continuously to avoid lumps.

In the end add salt, sugar, Chinese salt and white pepper and mix well.

Lamb Seekh Kebabs




Ingredients

1kg lamb mince
1 onion grated and drained
2 tsp garlic paste
2 tsp ground green chillies
1 ½ tsp salt
1 Tbsp ground almonds
1 Tbsp desiccated coconut
1 slice bread soaked in ¼ cup water

4 Tbsp crushed coriander seeds
1 tsp crushed cumin
1 tsp red chillies
1 Tbsp lemon juice
1 Tbsp ghee
¼ cup shallot chopped (onions)
¼ cup mint leaves chopped
¼ cup coriander leaves chopped

2 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp lemon juice
6 springs mint

Method
Place all the ingredients except the bread in a food processor.
Squeeze out water from the bread and add bread to the mince.
Process mince well.
Add remaining spices ghee and chopped greens and process once more.
Make ping pong size balls and refrigerator overnight.

Thread onto skewers and braai.
Heat butter and lemon juice and add the mint leaves.
Placed cooked seekh in butter mixture and serve.

Chicken Popcorn

Ingredients

• Chicken boneless 250 gm
• Flour 4 tbsp
• Mustard powder 1 tp
• Black pepper 1 tsp
• Salt to taste
• Sugar 1 tsp
• Onion powder or chiciken spice powder 1 tbsp
• Egg 2
• 1 bread slice

Method

1. Cut the boneless chicken into popcorn sized pieces
2. In a bowl add the chicken, mustard powder, black pepper, salt and onion powder and mix well.
3. Grind bread slice to make crumbs.
4. Take chicken roll in to flour then dip in egg then flour and again in egg.
5. Fry till golden.
6. Serve with ketchup and/ or dips of your choice.