Mouth Watering Fish Pie Recipe

Some of you may not know that you can do a lot with your fish pie, which does not have to be cooked in the same boring monotonous way.

For those who find cooking rather tedious, this fish pie recipe would be easy to prepare and interesting to eat too.


Ingredients

• 500g cod or any other fish such as salmon, trout etc, skinned
• 150g smoked haddock
• 200g medium-sized prawns
• 5 large potatoes
• 1 large onion finely chopped
• 2 carrots finely diced
• 200g fresh peas
• 1 cup milk
• 250ml double cream
• 50g butter
• 1 bay leaf
• 150g grated mature cheddar cheese
• A handful of fresh herbs such as parsley, thyme and tarragon
• Sea salt
• Freshly ground pepper
  
  

Procedure


Peel and cube the potatoes and drop into a colander of boiling salted water and allow to boil for 20 minutes or until the potatoes are soft. In another pan of salted water, boil the shelled peas until soft but not overcooked. Next, take a sauce pan and put in the fish, except for the smoked haddock that can be prepared earlier or bought ready from the supermarket. Pour in the milk and add the bay leaf and cook over the hob until the fish is tender.


In the meantime, preheat the oven to 220 C or 425 F. In yet another saucepan, heat half the butter and add the chopped onion and carrots and sauté till the vegetables are soft. Add the cream and bring to a boil and at the same time add the fresh herbs, salt and pepper according to taste. Cook allowing the sauce to reduce to a thick consistency before removing it from the gas.


By now the peas would be ready and so would the fish. Drain the peas and allow to stand. Remove the fish fillets from the pan, but do not throw the milk that has remained in the sauce pan, however, you may discard the bay leaf that had been added to give flavour. Chop the fish fillets into small pieces and set aside. The potatoes would have boiled to a soft texture by now. Drain and allow to stand for a while so that the excess water in the potatoes dries out.


Once the potatoes are cool, mash them along with the milk that you have left over from the fish pan and some of the remaining butter, a little salt and pepper. Add the milk a little at a time so that the potatoes do not get too soft. Once this is done, add the peas and mix, but do not mash. Now prepare a casserole and grease it with some butter and put in the cooked fish, the smoked haddock and the prawns and cover with the prepared white sauce.


Layer the fish with the mashed potatoes and peas and level the casserole to make the top smooth. Sprinkle with the grated cheddar cheese and pop into the oven, baking the fish pie for 20 minutes. Serve hot with a crunchy spinach salad.

Classic Nutty - Dates Cake Recipe

Dates are good source of energy. Dates are very rich source of vitamin C and Iron as well as it dates provides supplies magnesium, niacin and copper

In the series of cake recipe, today will will learn how to make Classic nutty- dates cake at home.


Ingredients

• 2 1/2 cups all purpose floor
• 2 1/2 cups water
• 1 1/2 cups dates (pitted and chopped finely)
• 2 cups raisins
• 1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts and almonds
• 1 1/3 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup butter + 5 tbsp butter
• 3 large eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/3 tea spoon salt
• 1 cup sugar
• 3/4 cups brown sugar
• 3 tbsp cream (thick and heavy)
• 2 cups brown sugar

Directions

First preheat oven at 350 deg F, boil water raisins together in a greased pan and when and once boiled cook it for additional 5-7 minutes. Take out the pan from heat and now add chopped dates into it. now keep it aside and take another medium sized bowl and mix one cup of butter and 1 cup white sugar together until mixture turns fluffy and creamy. now add eggs gradually one by one by beating it well. After adding all the eggs, now add vanilla extract again mix it then add floor and salt and again beat it well to form a smooth mixture now scoop in prepared dates and raisin mixture into it and mix it well to form a smooth lump free cake batter.

Take a baking pan, grease it and cover the bottom with wax paper. now pour in the batter into baking pan uniformly. Put the baking pan into the preheated oven and cook it for 45- 50 minutes. check the cake after 42-45 minutes by inserting a knife or tooth-pic at the centre, if it comes out clean that indicates that cake is cooked well. now take out the cake pan from the oven and keep it aside to get cool.

Meanwhile now put oven to broil. take a pan, put 4-5 tbsp butter into it melt the butter and put nuts (almonds and walnuts), brown sugar and heavy cream mix them all together and spread this topping mix uniformly over the hot cake and keep the cake into the broiler for 2.5 minutes until it turns little brown. now let the cake get cooled enough before serving it to your family and friends.

Try out this easy cake recipe and enjoy this delicious home made dessert.

Chicken soup ‘n’ Orange Juice Recipe

Orange juice is known to contain a high percentage of Vitamin C, which is helpful in boosting the immune system. So, you will be less likely to catch various illnesses, such as colds or the flu. Orange juice is thought to be very high in antioxidants. Fairly large amounts of potassium, which is an essential nutrient for the body, can be found in orange juice.
The chicken soup diet is one of the most popular diets that exist. The success behind the chicken soup diet is that it involves a drastic reduction in of calories from your diet. Chicken soup contains all the proteins, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins and minerals that your body needs.
This is one of the easiest to make chicken recipes
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Ingredients

• 500 gm chicken
• 100 gm cottage cheese (paneer)
• ½ tsp salt- according to taste
• Red chili powder- a pinch
• 20-25 gm oil
• 20-25 gm ghee/ butter
• 425 ml orange juice
• 10-12 gm corn flour
• Black pepper- to taste
• 20-25 gm sugar
• 10-12 gm coriander greens

Method
Wash the chicken pieces well. Drain water and dry the chicken pieces. Rub on salt, black pepper and red chili powder. Marinate for 5 minutes.

Heat oil in a pan and fry it well till it gets brown. Add 200 ml water to orange juice and put it in pan. Mix the fried sugar and orange juice well. Cook for 10 minutes. Add corn flour and stir it fast. Don’t let any lumps to form. When the soup becomes thick, remove it from stove.

Heat ghee in a pan. Fry marinated chicken pieces till it turns light brown in color. Add orange juice gravy. When it is boiled well, add cottage cheese (paneer) cut in cubes. Mix it well. Cook for 5-6 minutes. Remove it from stove. Garnish it with finely chopped coriander leaves.

A delicious Chicken soup ‘n’ Orange Juice Recipe is ready!

Breakfast Pancake Recipe - Tasty Apricot Pancakes

In this fast moving age, with people obsessed with their diets, it is very difficult to cook a pancake breakfast. These recipes for Apricot pancakes allows you to cook and serve pancakes that are healthy, chunky and fluffy. The Apricot pancakes recipe is much tastier, if it is served with maple syrup and butter. The making of Apricot pancakes is similar to any ordinary pancake batter; the only difference is that in this recipe you can add variations to make it better. For instance, you can add chocolate chips to the batter before cooking or as a topping.

Ingredients

• 1 cup flour
• 1 egg
• 1 cup milk
• ½ can apricot
• Butter for cooking
• ½ cup chocolate chips
  

To serve 

• Maple syrup
• Butter
• Chocolate chips
  
  

Cooking Process

The first step to making your tasty breakfast pancake is to prepare the batter for the Apricot pancakes. For this, you sift flour in a large bowl to which egg has to be added. On adding the egg, whisk lightly with a fork so that the egg and flour mixture combine properly and do not form lumps. Next, pour in the milk and continue blending till the batter is fine to touch. Put in the apricots and chocolate chips to the batter. Now, blend the batter in a blender for a minute until the apricots and chocolate chips merge with the batter. At this point, the batter should be soft.

When the batter is ready, warm a skillet or frying pan over medium heat. When the heat is just right, brush it with melted butter using a pastry brush. Scoop the required quantity of the pancake batter onto the skillet or frying pan and flatten the mixture so that the pancake is even.

Cook the Apricot pancake till bubbles appear and the color of the top surface is light brown. Flip the pancake and cook till this side also becomes brown in color. When the pancake is ready, remove from the pan and make another one. In between each pancake, brush the pan with melted butter. The buttermilk pancake can be served hot along with butter and maple syrup or chocolate chips on top of it.

Buttermilk Pancakes

One of the tasty pancakes recipes with buttermilk and vanilla.


Ingredients

• 1.5 cups (350ml) buttermilk
• 1 egg
• 3 tablespoons (50g) melted butter
• 2 teaspoons (10ml) Vanilla
• 1 cup (125g) white flour
• 3 tablespoon (40g) sugar
• ½ teaspoons (3g) baking soda
• ½ teaspoons (2g) baking powder
• ½ teaspoon (4g) salt
  

Method

To make the buttermilk pancakes; you need to first mix all the dry ingredients, such as flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Use a wire whisk to mix the ingredients well so that no lumps remain. After you have mixed the dry ingredients, you have to blend together the liquid ingredients, such as buttermilk, egg, vanilla and melted butter in another bowl. Add half the amount of dry ingredient into the bowl containing the liquid ingredients. Keep whisking the batter while adding the dry ingredients. When the batter blends in well, add the remaining dry ingredients. Continue whisking the batter till it is quite thick and smooth. The batter should be such that it pours easily onto a frying pan.

Next heat a non-stick frying pan. When the frying pan is ready, add a few drops of oil and wipe it around with a paper towel. Pour ¼ cup of the batter onto the pan. Care needs to be taken that the frying pan is not too hot as big bubbles can form in the pancakes, if the heat is too high. The pancakes have to be cooked slowly, around 90-120 seconds on each side. The pancake must be cooked until small bubbles form at the top of the pancake and it is brown from below and dry around the edges. When this happens, flip and cook on the other side till brown in color. This buttermilk pancakes recipe is for 8 servings.

Fish Finger Recipe

Fish is one of the very healthy foods that can be given to the baby. Fish has many beneficial nutrients in it and it is also very important as animal protein is good for babies. This is a healthy alternative to the vegetables. There are many fish recipes that can be tried, but the fish finger recipe is one that is loved by babies all over the world than any other food.


Fish finger is also a simple dish that can be easily prepared by the mother to feed the child. The recipe should be one that contains the right amount of various ingredients for the child to have a healthy life as it grows. It is a wonderful supplement to the regular diet consumed by the baby.


Ingredients:

• 200 grams of Boneless fish
• Lemon juice
• Salt to taste
• Pepper to taste
• Bread crumbs from 2 slices
• 100 grams all purpose flour
• Oil to fry the fish

The fish is cut into small and long pieces like a finger. Once this is done, the fish pieces are marinated in pepper, salt and the lemon juice. The marinated fish is kept in the refrigerator for a time of about 20 minutes. This marinated fish is then taken out and the coating is given. The coating is with the all purpose flour. Then also coat it in the bread crumbs.


The coated fish is then fried in pre heated oil till the fish is golden brown in color. The finger fish is ready to eat. Your baby will love sucking into the finger fish and draining all the juice from it.

Pancake Recipe

This is one of the tasty pancake recipes made with eggs.

Ingredients

• 2 cups all-purpose flour, stirred and sifted before measuring
• 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 1 ½ to 1 ¾ cups milk
• 2 tablespoons melted butter
  

Procedure

You need to first sift the flour along with baking powder, sugar, and salt in a bowl. After you have done this, you need to whisk together the eggs and 1 ½ cups of milk in another bowl. The next step is to add the eggs and milk mixture to the flour. Care needs to be taken while adding the two mixtures together. Keep on stirring the batter till the mixture becomes soft and even. Next, add melted butter to the mixture until the butter blends in. At this point if the mixture seems too thick to pour, then add a small amount of milk.

To cook pancakes, you need about ¼ cup of the mixture. This mixture is to be poured onto a hot greased griddle or frying pan and has to be cooked until it is soft in the middle and a little dry around the edges. The pancakes also needs to be light brown on both sides. To brown both sides, first cook on one side then the other. The pancakes can be served along with butter and syrup to increase their flavor. This pancake recipe is for 4 servings. If you want a larger serving then the ingredients for the pancakes recipe needs to be proportionately increased.