You can also add chicken chunks in the following roll. I am chicken lover so I really don’t like my roll without chicken in it. So you can add whatever you like in your chapatti rolls.

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Ingredients Of Vegetable Chapatti Roll

• 4 chapattis (ready made of wheat or refined flour)
• 10 lettuce leaves
• 1 capsicum, sliced
• 1 onion, sliced
• 2 tomatoes, sliced
• 100 gm. mayonnaise

Method Of Vegetable Chapatti Roll

• Take a chapatti and place 2 lettuce leaves on it.
• spread all the sliced vegetables on top of the lettuce leaves and finally add mayonnaise over the vegetables.
• Roll the chapatti and fold first the sides. Secure with toothpick.
• Repeat the process with the other chapattis. Delicious rolls are ready to eat.

Vegetable Chapatti Roll Recipe( By Chef Tahir) is a post from: Neel's Corner

Ingredients Of Chinese Stew

• ½ kg chicken, boneless
• 1 carrot, cut in circles
• 1 spring onion, chopped
• 2 capsicums, chopped
• 2 glasses of water
• 4 tbsp. corn flour
• ½ cup oil
• ¼ cabbage, chopped
• ½ tsp. black pepper powder
• ½ tsp. white pepper powder
• 2 tbsp. ginger garlic paste
• Salt to taste

Method Of Chinese Stew

• Heat ½ cup oil and sauté 2 tbsp. ginger garlic paste. When it changes color, add ½ kg chicken and keep stirring on high flame until chicken changes color.
• Then add chopped carrot, spring onion, capsicums, ¼ cabbage, ½ tsp. black pepper powder and salt to taste and stir for 2 to 3 minutes.
• Then add 2 cups of water and cover the pan to allow cooking on medium flame for 8 to 10 minutes.
• When chicken is tender, add 4 tbsp. corn flour dissolved in water to thicken the mixture.
• Delicious Chicken Stew is ready to serve. Serve with chinese rice or boiled rice.

Chinese Stew Recipe (By Chef Zakir) is a post from: Neel's Corner

                                                                              By: Dr. Shazia Erum (Dietician and nutritionist)

Even if you eat three meals a day, you may still feel hungry. So what do you do? The simple answer would be healthy snacks. But this is easier said than done.

It is important to pay attention to what you eat. Stuffing yourself with a large order of fries may give you a temporary boost, but a snack high in fat and calories will slow you down in the long run.

To keep energy levels up and avoiding weight gain steer clear of foods with lots of simple carbohydrates (sugars) like candy bars and soda. Look for foods that contain complex carbohydrates like whole grain breads and cereals and combine them with protein and calcium rich snacks.

The general trend these days is to go for foods that are convenient, filling, taste good and if anything help in weight loss. Examples of such foods include soups, fruits, vegetables, whole grains and lean protein. At the same time there is a growing desire for simplicity and wholesome foods. Here are few healthy snacking options from various food groups.

Milk And Dairy Products

Go for low fat milk, cheese and plain yogurt. Peanut butter or low fat yogurt or cheese and a soy milk shake are good choices to balance your nutrient intake. Avoid chocolate milk, ice cream, sugary syrup based milk shakes and artificially flavored yogurt.

Bread And Cereals

Popcorn, crackers, plain toast, pretzels, multigrain bread and corn chips are all healthy choices. Avoid cakes, pies, sugar laden cookies and desserts. Oatmeal topped with raisins is a great option in colder weather. Pre-packaged packets make them potable and easy, all you need is hot water. High fiber dry cereal mixed with dried fruit is also a convenient, potable snacks option. Choose cereals that are low in sugar and high in fiber.

Fruits And Nuts

Opt for fresh fruits, nuts, peanut butter, walnuts, almonds and unsweetened and diluted juices. Nuts and seeds are convenient and offer fiber, minerals, vitamin E and healthy fats. A complete no are syrup packed canned fruit and nuts, jams,jellies and preserved and sweetened fruit drinks.

Vegetables

A healthy, low calorie and anti oxidant rich food. Baked potatoes, steamed carrots, beans, celery sticks, baby corns and peppers are ideal low calorie snacking option. There are reduced fat chips and chips made with canola oil. But chips are still the type of snack that people tend to overeat. You are better off eating a real potato. However, avoid fried potatoes chips or candied and glazed sweet potatoes.

Meat, Fish And Eggs

A healthy choice would be boiled egg salad, roasted or grilled chicken and baked fish. Some other options are protein biscuits, sugar less soft drinks and black tea and coffee. Say no to added sugar drinks, candies, sugar syrups and carbonates sugary sodas. Similarly, high salty snacks should be taken in moderation as well as sticky, sugary snacks which are particularly bad for dental health.

Healthy Snacking is a post from: Neel's Corner

Ingredients Of Susan’s Chicken

• 6-8 chicken pieces with skin
• 2 onions
• 2 inch ginger piece
• 8 cloves garlic
• 1 1/2 tsp red chili powder
• 1 tsp dry ginger powder
• 1/2 tsp black pepper powder
• 1/4 tsp crushed black pepper
• 3 tbsp coriander powder
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 6 tomatoes
• Salt to taste
• Fresh coriander leaves as required
• 2 cups mixed vegetables
• 5 tbsp oil

Method Of Susan’s Chicken

• Fry the chicken in 4tbsp of oil. When the pieces turn golden, take them out of the pan and set them aside.
• Cut tomatoes and onions into small squares and make a paste of ginger and garlic. Fry onions till they turn golden. Add half of the ginger garlic paste and cook. Add dry ginger, red chilies, turmeric and 2 tbsp coriander powder. Cook for 2 minutes.
• Add tomatoes and salt to this mixture. Cook till the tomatoes are tender and water dries up.
• Add chicken pieces to the pan and cook till chicken is tender.
• Add 1 tbsp coriander powder and cook for 5 more minutes.
• Heat a tablespoon of oil in separate pan and put all vegetables in it. Add remaining ginger garlic paste and salt. Mix well.
• Make a layer of vegetables in a dish and top it with the chicken.
• Decorate with chopped coriander leaves and serve.

Susan’s Chicken (By Chef Shai): Recipe is a post from: Neel's Corner

As you all know that Ramzan is coming and everyone wants to have a fried snacks in Iftarey. So here is the recipe of my favorite spring rolls. You can make them before Ramzan and can also freeze them and fry them when ever you want.

Ingredients Of Spring Rolls

• 2 chicken breasts, cut into thin slices and then cut them julienne
• 1carrot, julienne cut
• 2 green onions, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, chopped
• Roll wrappers as required
• 1/4 cabbage, julienne cut
• Salt to taste
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1 capsicum, julienne cut
• 2 tbsp Oyster sauce
• 2 tbsp Worchester sauce
• 2 tbsp oil
• 1 egg, beaten
• 2tbsp flour
• Oil for frying

Method Of Spring Rolls

• Heat 2 tbsp oil in a pan and sauté garlic in it. Add chicken and fry it till it changes it color, add 1/2 egg in it and mix it. Now add all vegetables and salt, black pepper, Worchester sauce and oyster sauce. Mix it well. Let it cool down now.
• Don’t over cook it. Mix flour in remaining egg and make a paste. Take the roll sheet, Put a little of mixture on each sheet, Fold it in roll shape and seal the edges with egg mixture.
• Heat the oil in wok, and deep fry the rolls till they are golden brown. Serve them with your favorite dip and enjoy your Ramzan.

Chicken Spring Rolls (By Chef Zakir): Recipe is a post from: Neel's Corner

This is the perfect recipe of juicy and tasty chicken roast. The method is same as we used to cook turkey, but the baking time of turkey is much more than chicken. In the following method most of the ingredients are not measured, you take the spices according to size of your chicken.

Ingredients Of Turkey Style Chicken Roast

• 1 whole chicken with skin, remove the neck
• 1 carrot, chopped
• 1 capsicum, chopped
• 2 small potatoes, chopped
• 1 onion, chopped
• Honey as required
• Olive oil as required
• Salt to taste
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1/2 tsp white pepper
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon powder
• 1 tsp oregano
• 2 tbsp raisins
• 2 tbsp garlic and ginger paste

Cooking Method Of Turkey Style Chicken Roast

• Preheat oven at 200 degree.
• Place chicken on baking tray, breast side down. Rub garlic and ginger paste all over and inside the chicken. Now rub salt, black pepper, white pepper, cinnamon and oregano all over and inside the chicken with the help of your hands.
• Now rub olive oil and honey all over and inside the chicken. Sprinkle salt on vegetables. Add raisins in vegetables and stuff the vegetables inside the chicken.
• Add little water in baking tray to avoid burning. Bake it for 45 minutes to one hour or till its done. Turn it once or twice.
• Serve hot

Turkey Style Chicken Roast (by chef Zakir): Recipe is a post from: Neel's Corner

Its one of my favorite dish, it has two reasons, first it is very different in serving and in taste too. Secondly you don’t need to serve anything with it like any dip or any gravy, its a full meal in itself. Today i am posting this recipe for my lovely friend Maryam, hope that she will try it and remember me. There are lots of recipes to make this dish but i like the following one, which i learnt from a cooking center.

Ingredients Of Singaporean Rice

• 150 gm boneless chicken cubes
• 2 cup rice
• 1/2 packet boiled noodles
• 1 capsicum, cut in squares
• 1 carrot, cut in circles
• 1 green onion, chopped
• 1/2 cabbage, chopped
• 4 green chilies, chopped
• 1 tbsp crushed red chili
• 1 tbsp cumin seeds
• Salt to taste
• Oil as required
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1/2 tsp white pepper
• 2 tbsp Worcester sauce
• 2 tbsp tomato ketchup
• 2 tbsp chili garlic sauce
• 2 tbsp soya sauce
• 2 tbsp corn flour
• 4 garlic cloves chopped
• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 8-10 roll wrappers, fried and crushed (pappri)

Cooking Method Of Singaporean Rice

• First we will make the vegetable and chicken gravy. In a pan heat 2tbsp oil and sauté garlic and green chilies in it. Now add chicken and fry it for 2-3 minutes. Add all vegetables and salt, black and white pepper, Worchester sauce, soya sauce, chili garlic sauce and crushed red chilies. Mix it well and cook it for 2-3 minutes on high flame. Now add 1/2 cup water and cover it for 2-3 minutes.Now thickens it with corn flour( dissolved in 3tbsp water). Gravy should be thick.
• Now mix boiled noodles in chicken and vegetable gravy. Set this noodles gravy aside.
• Now in other pan heat 2 tbsp oil and sauté cumin seeds in it. Add water and salt according to your  rice quantity. Cook rice till they are done.
• Now we will make the mayonnaise sauce. In a bowl take mayonnaise and add 2 tbsp tomato ketchup and 1/2 tsp crushed red chili in it. Mix it well and set it aside.
• Take a serving rice tray and make a first layer of rice, then 2nd layer of noodles gravy. Pour mayonnaise sauce over gravy and in last add fried and crushed pappri on it.
• Serve hot and enjoy.

Singaporean Rice: Recipe is a post from: Neel's Corner

Ingredients

• 1/2 kg under cut beef piece(prick it with fork)

Marinade

• Salt to taste
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1/2 tsp white pepper
• 4 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 2 tbsp garlic ginger paste
• 2 tbsp grounded pepper
• 2 tsp French mustard
• 2 lemon juice
• 4tbsp oil

Vegetables

• 1 Capsicum
• 1 onion
• 3 green chilies
• 2 green onion, only green part
• 1 carrot
• 1 tbsp garlic ginger paste
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 2 tbsp oil
• 1 tbsp Worchester sauce

Method

• Marinate the under cut pieces for 4 hours with the ingredients given above for marinating.
• Preheat the oven at 200 degree. Set the beef on oven tray and bake them until they are done.
• Cut all vegetables in julienne shape. Heat oil and fry garlic and ginger paste in pan, Fry all veggies and season them with salt and black pepper and 1 tbsp Worchester sauce.
• Serve these vegetables with roast.

Roasted Beef With Vegetables(by chef Zakir):Recipe is a post from: Neel's Corner

There is no such thing as a single super food which contains every nutrient you will need, so only by eating a varied diet will you get all you need to stay healthy. There are 5 main food groups and ideally you should eat a good balance of each of them each day.

Fruit and Vegetables

Fresh fruit and vegetables, frozen, chilled, canned and dried fruit and juices all count here. You should try to eat at least five portions of fruit and vegetables each day. The size of portion can vary depending on what you are eating, but a good rule is that a portion will generally weigh about 100 grams.

Juice also counts as a portion, but however much you drink in a day it will only count as one portion. This is because juice does not contain as much fiber as solid fruit.

Bread, Potatoes and Cereals (including pasta, noodles and rice)

Starchy foods like these should make up half of your plate. Your body’s main source of energy and the high fiber keeps you regular in the bowel department. An average serving of potatoes also contain a healthy dollop of vitamin C and unless you have smothered them in butter, absolutely no fat.

Lean Meat, Fish, Poultry, Eggs, Nuts, Beans and Pulses

All of these provide a good source of protein, which helps your body rebuild itself. If you are vegetarian then you will not go for meat and fish but eating soya also does this and there are smaller amounts in grains and dairy products.

Milk and Dairy Products

These are a rich source of calcium, which strengthens your teeth and bones and help your muscles and nerves function properly. The best products health wise will be those classified as having lower fat. A pint of milk a day is enough to ensure you are getting the recommended daily intake of calcium.

Foods Containing Fat and Sugar

Fat is a great energy source, but fatty food don’t contain very many nutrients. Just one gram of fat contains about nine calories so unless you take a lot of exercise having eaten a lot of fatty food, your body will retain the fat and you will put on weight. But don’t avoid eating fat altogether, your body needs energy and in smaller doses fat is an important part of healthy eating.

Food You Need For Healthy Eating is a post from: Neel's Corner

Its a Korean dish and this recipe is suitable for vegetarians, as chicken is not used in it but if you like chicken then you can add like i did.

Ingredients

• 1 onion chopped
• 1 carrot chopped
• 1 capsicum chopped
• 1 tomato chopped
• 1 green onion chopped
• 2 cloves garlic chopped
• 1/2 packet glass noodles
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp black pepper
• 1/4 tsp white pepper
• Salt to taste
• 3 tbsp oil
• 2tbsp soya sauce
• 1tbsp oyster sauce
• 1/2 jug water

Method

• Boil the noodles in water, when its done, drain and put some oil in it.
• Heat the oil in pan and stir fry the garlic. Add onion, green onion, carrot and capsicum. Fry it for 2-3 minutes.
• Now add noodles, sugar, salt, black and white pepper, soya sauce and oyster sauce. Mix it well.
• At the end add tomatoes and cook it for 1-2 minutes.
• Glass noodles are ready. Serve hot.

Glass Noodles (by chef Zakir) is a post from: Neel's Corner