White Pepper Chicken

I have a recipe for Kali Mirch Chicken (Black Pepper Chicken) in my blog but this one is different as it not only uses a different pepper (white pepper) but the procedure is also different.

Ingredients:
Chicken Breast Tenders - 250 gms

Onion - 1 medium chopped
Coriander Powder - 2 to 3 tsp
Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
White Pepper powder - 3 to 4 tsp / per taste
Black Pepper powder - 1 tsp
Salt - to taste
Any refined oil - 2 tbsp
Ginger little piece - 1/2 chopped and 1/2 julienne

 

Procedure:

1. Chop the chicken into medium pieces. Prick the pieces with the fork.
2. Marinade the chicken pieces with salt, white pepper and curd for an hour.
3. Heat the oil in kadai and cook chicken till it becomes white and is half cooked and the curd becomes a part of the chicken.
4. Heat the oil in kadai. Saute onions till they turn pink. Add coriander powder and garam masala. Blend the onions with some ginger.
5. Add onion paste in chicken.  
6. Cover and cook till the chicken is 3/4 cooked.
7. Make a paste of cashews and add it to the chicken. 
8. Add a bit of black pepper.
9.  Cover the chicken till it is completely cooked.
10. Top it with julienne ginger and serve hot.

Pudina Chicken

Pudina Chicken is very minty and very simple to make. With few ingredients, wala you have a tasty chicken.

• Chicken Breast Tenders - 250 gms
• Onion - 1 medium chopped
• Coriander Powder - 2 to 3 tsp
• Green Chillies - 3 to 4
• Garam Masala - 1/2 tsp
• Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 3 to 4 tsp / per taste
• Lemon juice - one lemon
• Salt - to taste
• Pref Mustard Oil or Any refined oil - 2 tbsp
• Mint Leaves - a bunch. Because it is pudina chicken, pudina needs to be more but make sure that its not a lot as it might become bitter and overwhelming.
• Ginger little piece
• Garlic - 2 to 3 cloves

Procedure:

1.  Chop the chicken into medium pieces. Prick the pieces with the fork.
2. Marinade the chicken pieces with salt, lemon juice, red pepper and turmeric for an hour.
3. Blend the onion, mint leaves, garam masala, coriander, green chillies,garlic, ginger to make a paste
4. Heat the oil in the kadai. Add chicken pieces and cook till the chicken becomes white in color and half cooked.
5. Add onion pudina paste to the chicken.
6. Cover and cook till the chicken is completely cooked.
7. Garnish with mint leaves and serve hot.

God and His (our) Prayers

What is a prayer?
Why people pray?
Is there just one reason or hundreds of reasons to pray?
Is there anyone in this world who has not started or ended the prayer by asking something from God?
I never thought about this till last year 2011. Somethings happen in life which forces you to ponder on. I started to reason God and what good does prayer or worshiping does to you or to God. We pray to Him for ourselves or for God? We expect something in return whenever we bend our heads in front of Him. Isn't?Just by asking and praying and sometimes even begging, we think that He is going to take our side.What I have realized is that we pray for ourselves. Its not for God. Does he listens and fulfill our prayers every time? No it doesn't happen that way.We get what is in our destiny and what ever is not destined for us, we loose it or don't get it.This doesn't mean that without our efforts and hard work, we are going to get paid off. Because its in our destiny. I am just not discussing that part. I believe in hard work and only efforts pay at the end.
My point is if our destiny decides what we get, then why pray.I think I have been able to answer that question, atleast for myself and my life.
I realized that prayer doesn't impress God and we shouldn't pray just because we need something from him. I have come to believe that prayer gives you strength and peace of mind. It doesn't fulfill what you always ask and it wouldn't, not always. This is life. Life is not a bed of roses.
While praying, ask Him to give us strength to bear what is happening in our lives. We don't even have to ask for peace of mind because it would automatically come when we pray.
Strength and peace of mind is the most important thing which we should ask from God while praying. Once you get that, everything will fall in place. Whether things are set in motion or not, whether the circumstances are for or against you, it doesn't matter.
There will always be ups and downs in life and can't curse God for everything but we can ask something very special from God which will help us during those times: STRENGTH.