Diet coke chicken

The search started for some Chinese chicken recipes and I was also looking to add some vegetables to the chicken. I ended up finding this recipe awesome recipe which called for Pepsi max and diet code. But all I had was the new #cokezerosugar . So I added my own little twist to the recipe and it was great


Coke Zero Chicken (Chicken cooked in coke zero)

Diet Coke Chicken

Ingredients

1. 1 lb chicken breast cut into bite size pieces
2. 1 can coke zero
3. 1 heaped teaspoon corn starch
4. 1 tablespoon each of low sodium soya sauce, rice vine vinegar
5. 2 tablespoons tomato ketchup
6. 1 chicken bouillion
7. 1 tablespoon oil
8. 1/2 teaspoon each of garlic and ginger grated, white pepper and black pepper
9. 2 cups your fav vegetables (I used broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, sliced onions)

 Marinate the chicken with half of vinegar and soya sauce and the corn starch for 20 minutes.

In a pan heat the oil and fry the chicken for 7-8 minutes. Drain and set aside. Add a little bit of oil if needed and cook the vegetables for 6-7 minutes. Add ginger garlic and fry for a minute. Add the rest of the ingredients and coke and simmer for 10 minutes. Add chicken back to the pot and simmer till the gravy thickens to your liking (around 10-12 minutes). Garnish with fresh green onions and cilantro and enjoy over a bed of white rice or with Fried rice

Green beans and Shrimp Fry With Palak Dal

French Green beans are called "Fansi" in one of the Indian languages and I am scared of searching for any recipes with "Fansi" in it. Because is "death by hanging". Pretty gruesome and I do not want to see any un-intentional pictures.

Anyway, I have few recipes with green beans and shrimp which are curries with gravy, but I wanted to make something different. SO here is my dry Green bean curry with shrimp

Green beans and Shrimp Fry

Shrimp with Green beans

Ingredients

1. 12 oz shrimp pealed and deveined
2. 1/2 lb fresh green beans chopped into 1 cm pieces
3. 1 medium small onion about 1/2 cup chopped into small pieces
4. 1 tablespoon oil
5. 1/2 teaspoon each of cumin, mustard seeds, urad dal, salt, chilly powder, turmeric, finely grated ginger, finely grated garlic
6. 1 teaspoon each of coriander powder
7. 2 dried red chillies broken
8. few curry leaves
9. coriander for garnish

In a pan heat the oil and add cumin, urad dal, mustard seeds, dried red chillies and curry leaves and fry till they start to splutter. Add green beans and onions and fry for 7-10 minutes. Add ginger and garlic and fry for a minute. Add shrimp and all the spices and mix well. Cook till the shrimp are all cooked through. Garnish with cilantro and enjoy with hot rice and Palak Masoor dal or Spinach Toor dal

Palak Toor Dal (Spinach with Split Pigeon peas)

Ingredients:

1. 1/2 cup split pigeon peas or toor dal
2. 1 cup canned spinach squeezed well or a bunch of fresh spinach washed and chopped roughly
3. 2 cups juice from a lime sized tamarind
4. 2 teaspoons oil
5. 1/2 teaspoon each of cumin, mustard seeds, turmeric, hing, finely chopped garlic
6. few dried red chillies
7. few curry leaves

Pressure cook the dal with spinach for 5-6 whistles with 2 cups of water and turmeric. Let the steam escape and mash the dal and spinach mixture. Add the tamarind juice. In another pan heat the oil fry the cumin, mustard seeds, dried chillies and curry leaves. Fry till they start to splutter. Add garlic and fry for 30 seconds and add hings and fry 30 more seconds. Add this to the dal and boil it for 10 minutes. Enjoy with hot rice