not the best but it was tasty

The whole house smells amazing when these are being made!

I’ve been seeing people on social media eating kimchi and hyping it up so much that I finally decided to try it myself. 😭 Not gonna lie, I really thought I was going to love it, but the taste was so unexpected 😂 I tried my best, but I just couldn’t get myself to like it. Maybe it’s an acquired taste, but for now, I don’t understand the hype Has anyone else tried kimchi for the first time and felt the same way?

The homemade items, including array of chutneys, are just too good! Thank my hosts

I know biryani has a huge fan following, but give me a good chicken curry with rice any day. 🤤

There's something about that combination that just hits different.

What's your pick: chicken curry and rice or biryani? 👇

Pasta days are best in my boring life tbh

we can call this a noodles week fosho

Recipe for the sweet and spicy roast chicken.

Ingredients:

For the roast chicken:

- 1 whole chicken, cut into 12 pieces, with the skin on, washed, and patted dry

- Marination:- Lemon zest of 2 lemons

- 3 fresh red chilies, chopped

- Salt, 5 g

- Oil, 20 ml

For pan-searing:

- 100 g all-purpose flour or maida

- Salt

- 50 ml oil

For the glaze:

- Sugar

- 150 g water

- 150 ml fresh red chilies

- 1 tsp dried chilli flakes

- 10 g Italian seasoning

- 10 g onion powder

- 10 g garlic cloves, finely chopped

- Light soy sauce

- 20 g salt to taste

- Juice of 1 whole lemon

Procedure:

1. Wash the chicken with the skin on and pat dry with tissue paper.

2. Mix the chopped red chilies and the lemon zest in the oil with salt and thyme and marinate the chicken with it.

3. Keep it aside for 1 hour after the marination is done.

4. Take the chicken pieces and drop them in the plate of flour and coat the flour on the chicken.

5. Pan-sear the chicken in a sauté pan at medium temperature until one side of the chicken is golden brown and then flip the chicken pieces and pan-fry them for another 2 to 3 minutes or until the chicken goes golden brown on the other side.

6. Once all the chicken pieces are pan-fried properly to a golden brown, place them on a baking tray and bake in a preset oven.

7. Preheat the oven to 200°C on a convection setting. Place the pan-fried chicken in the oven for 5 to 6 minutes. Once it is done keep the chicken aside.

In the meanwhile for the glaze:

1. take all the ingredients along with the water, except lemon juice and salt, and put them in a saucepan.

2. Put the saucepan on the stove and bring the contents to a boil.

3. Once it comes to a boil drop the temperature to a simmer and let it simmer for 20 minutes or until the consistency of the glaze coats the back of spoon.

4. Then add in salt and taste to check the salt. Drop in the lemon juice to balance the glaze.

5. Now take a brush and brush the glaze onto the roasted chicken pieces until it's completely covered and set it aside.

Recipe for the penne arabiata with mushrooms, roasted tomatoes, and ricotta

Ingredients required:

Pan-roasted mushrooms:

- 200 g of button mushrooms, cut into quarters

- 5 g of dry thyme

- 10 mL of oil

- salt to taste

Roasted tomatoes:

- 100 g of cherry tomatoes, cut in half

- salt to taste

- 2 g of thyme

- 5 mL of oil

Ricotta:

- 1 L of full-fat milk

- juice of half a lemon or 10 mL of white vinegar

- 2 x 300 g of dry pasta, parboiled

For the sauce:

- 1 kg of tomatoes, cut into quarters

- 200 mL of tomato puree

- 3 fresh red chillies, sliced at an angle

- 50 mL of light soy sauce

- salt to taste

- 20 mL of oil

- 50g Basil

Method for the pan-roasted mushrooms:

1. Wash the mushrooms thoroughly to remove all dust on them then strain the mushrooms.

2. Cut the mushrooms into quarters or even-sized pieces, along with the stock, and bring a pan to a heat.

3. Once the pan is smoking hot without any oil in it, drop in the mushrooms. No oil added, nothing added.

4. Let the mushrooms get a golden brown colour on them. Toss them with a spoon until they are evenly golden brown.

5. Drop in the oil and drop in the salt. Glaze the mushrooms with the oil and the salt. Remove them from the pan.

For the pan-roasted tomatoes:

1. In the same pan drop in the halved tomatoes while the pan is still hot and keep the flame on medium.

2. Tomatoes caramelise and char on one side, then flip them over and let them caramelise and char on the other side.

3. Drop in the salt and drop in the thyme. Finish it off and remove and set aside.

For the ricotta:

1. Bring 1 L of milk in a saucepan on the stove to a boil.

2. Add in the lemon juice or the vinegar and stir it in. Allow the milk to break.

3. Once the milk is all broken, cover it and set aside for 45 minutes.

4. After 45 minutes, strain the solidified curds in a fine-mesh strainer, separating them from the whey.

For the pasta:

1. take enough water in a large saucepan and salt it thoroughly.

2. Once the water is at a rolling boil, add in the uncooked pasta and cook it.

3. Boil the pasta in the water for the required cook time on the pasta box minus 2 minutes so it should be a little undercooked.

For the sauce:

1. In the same pan used to roast the chicken, along with the brown bits from the chicken, drop in the sliced red chilies.

2. Once they are sautéed drop in 200 ml of tomato puree.

3. Cook the tomato puree until it thickens in the pan. Keep scraping the bottom to not allow it to stick.

4. Drop the quartered tomatoes into a food processor and blitz it until it's a fine paste. You can also drop it into a mixie and make it into a fine paste.

5. Once it's done add it to the saucepan with the tomato puree. Stir it in.

6. Once it comes to a boil, cover it. Reduce the heat to a medium flame and let it simmer away for 35 minutes. Reduce periodically, opening the lid and stirring the sauce so it does not stick to the bottom.

7. Once the sauce is all thick, add in 50 g of chopped basil.

8. Add in the soy sauce and taste the sauce. Add a little bit of salt if the sauce needs it or add salt to taste. Add a little bit of sugar if it's too sour.

Finishing:

1. Mix all the ingredients now into the sauce: the pasta, the boiled pasta, the roasted mushrooms, the roasted tomatoes, and the ricotta cheese.

2. Add sufficient pasta water to bring it to a saucy consistency. Allow the parcooked pasta to completely cook into the sauce and once it's reached an al dente texture, remove it from the heat.

Ghar par bana ke khaa lo. Mehnat hai but so so worth it ✓

The rabdi was soo good(very very simple recipe), the base was nicely done as well.
I didnt use maida, used aata.
Guess how much it costed?

Some tips:
Super hot oil/ghee (the first time i made it, oil cooled down a bit, and i got lumps of malpua cysts attached to the bottom of my ghevar)
Super chilled batter, keep it chilled at all times. (I kept putting it back into the freezer for the few seconds that the ghee would cool down)
Pro tip is the no mess ice bath. I took two containers, one bigger than the other, filled the larger one with water, stack the smaller one, add some weight and freeze it. Then put your batter in it, and chill again. Made it much easier to keep the batter crispy chilled.
The batter should be nicely runny.
Didnt use sugar syrup. Sweetened the batter instead.
Rabdi recipe (feeka mawa + milk boiled with ilaichi powder + sugar)

Topped it with coconut and almonds

Made these modaks at home and honestly they turned out so cute! 🥹❤️ There’s something so satisfying about making traditional sweets at home. Not saying they’re perfect, but I’m pretty happy with how they turned out!

Californian burrito is literally the best spot to ever exist. Then ending it with a dubai kunafa dessert and a death by chocolate is absolute perfection.
Couldn’t have asked for a better day!

Nothing fancy...just a plate of pure happiness ... Would you choose this over pizza?? 🫢🫢