Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Mushroom Manchurian

Ingredients
Fresh Mushroom 200 gm
Ajinomotto 1 pinch
Ginger Garlic paste 2 tsp
Soy Sauce 1 1/2 tsp
Vinegar 1 tsp
White pepper powder 1/2 tsp
Red chilli powder 2 tsp
Egg One
Corn flour 2 tsp
Chopped green chillies 2 tsp
Chopped garlic 2 tsp
Oil To fry
Salt According to taste
Spring onions To garnish

Method
Marinate mushrooms with soy sauce with salt, 1 tsp chilli powder, pepper powder, ajinomotto, soy sauce, vinegar and ginger garlic paste
Keep aside for 3-4 hours.
Beat the egg, add the remaining chillipowder, salt, and corn flour (the mixture should not be too thick…so add flour carefully) and mix well.
Put the marinated mushrooms in the egg mixture and mix well until all the mushrooms are well coated.
Heat the oil in a pan (high flame), and deep fry the mushrooms. Fry them for one minute.
Heat a little oil, add the chopped green chillies and garlic for a minute and add the fried mushrooms and fry for another minute.
Garnish with chopped green part of the spring onions. Goes well with fried rice or as a teatime snack.

Mushroom Biriyani

Ingredients:

Basmati Rice- 4 cups
Mushroom - 1 to 2 lbs (16-32 oz)
Oil & ghee (melted butter)-3/4 cup
Lemon -1
Chopped Ginger - 3 tsp
Garlic - 7 cloves
Green chillies - 4
Onion - 2 (cut in lengthwise)
Soy Sauce - 2 tsp (soya sauce in India)
Tomatoes -3
Chilly powder - 1 &1/2 tsp
Coriander powder - 3 tsp
Cinnamon - 3
Cardamom - 3
Cloves-3
Salt to taste
Cilantro (coriander leaves), mint leaves (pudhina) for garnishing

Method:

Soak rice for 1 hour.
Wash and cut Mushrooms into big pieces.
Cut onions, chillies, tomatoes.
Grind cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger, garlic into a paste.
In a pressure Cooker, heat the oil and ghee, fry ground masala and the onion till golden brown. To this add all other ingredients, mushrooms and stir for 10 minutes. Add 7 cups water and allow it to boil, add the soaked rice and stir when rice level and water level are the same, pressure cook (with whistle on it) in low flame for 15 minutes

Mushroom Fried Rice

Ingredients

Diced mushroom 1 cup
Diced onions 1/2 cup
Green peas 1/4 cup
Tomato 1
Chilly powder 1 spoon
Dania powder 1 spoon
Cashews 5
Coriander chopped to garnish
Cooked rice
Salt to taste
Oil as required

Method


Heat oil in tawa. Fry cashewnuts and onions. Then add mushrooms, chilly powder, salt, dania powder, green peas and tomatoes.
Add 1/4 cup of water in it. Fry till oil separates from the mixture.
Then mix cooked rice and garnish it with chopped coriander leaves.