LEMON WEEK

 Have a lot of fresh Lemons in your garden!?

My backyard has 2 lime trees and this season they gave me an abundance of lemons ! So I decided to store the lime juice ! It has no added preservatives and has a long shelf life in the freezer !

My new video is about how to store freshly squeezed out lime juice for long time. And how much more healthier it is than store bought lemon juice concentrates!

How to store fresh lemon juice for long periods of time (for almost up to a year) and also for weeks.

New quick and easy video up on channel!

,Please do open and see the detailed procedure. This time didn't share the direct link.

Video link: https://youtu.be/lHvb--_6Fj8

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Honey lemon chicken with sesame seeds

Hi friends another yummy dish for you all which you can have with schezwan fried rice or steaming hot white rice too. I got the impetus to make it again when one of my school friends asked me for this recipe. I realised that it's been long time since I made this, As it needs frying. These days we are all health conscious (we must consider our lifestyles) that we get worried over deep fried snacks or fritters. 

But trust me this dish, tastes delicious only when you dip the chicken pieces in batter and deep fry it and coat it with the rich & savoury sauce.

Ingredients

• Boneless chicken(cut into 1 inch pieces): 500 grams

    

• Sesame oil for cooking
• White sunflower oil for frying
• Cloves of Garlic

• 4-5 dry red chilli
• Roasted sesame seeds: 3 tbsp
• 2 lemons

For frying Batter

• 3/4th cup of all purpose flour 
• 1 egg (if you want better results use egg white only)

• 1/2 cup of cornflour
• 1/2 cup of cold water
• 1/2 tsp of baking powder
• 1 tbsp of sesame oil
• 1/2 tsp of salt

For Sauce

• 1 cup of honey
• 1 tbsp of chilly vinegar
• 1 tsp of tomato ketchup
• 2 tsp of lemon juice
• 1 tbsp of sesame oil
• 1 tsp of cornflour 
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tsp of salt

Method:

1.  Marinate the chicken pieces with salt, pepper and lemon juice for an hour.

 

  2. Whisk the batter with all the batter ingredients (mentioned above) until it is neither too runny or too thick.

  

   

3. Heat enough sesame oil in a wok (for deep frying chicken)

4.When the oil is hot, dip the marinated chicken pieces one by one into the batter and then drop them in the oil for deep frying. While frying just keep it mind that you spread the chicken pieces properly to prevent them from sticking together.

5. Dish out the fried chicken and drain the excess oil on paper towels.

6. Mix all the ingredients for the sauce as mentioned above and keep it ready.

7. Now the final part:

• Take another pan or wok and heat 2 tbsp of sesame oi.

• Stir fry the garlic pieces and the red chilly pieces.

 

• Once a nice aroma starts coming add the sauce which you have prepared and kept ready.
  

 

• Stir it properly and cook in low flame till the sauce gets thickened.

 

• Now add the fried chicken to the sauce and stir fry for another few minutes till all the chicken are covered with the sauce.

 

• Turn off the stove/gas and add the roasted sesame seeds and stir it nicely.

~Serve hot with Chinese fried rice~

Enjoy.

PS: Recipe for fried Rice: http://aspectflife.blogspot.in/2015/08/schezwan-fried-rice.html

Lime pickle

Lemon pickle is the best side accompaniment during summer. Lime is rich in Vitamin C, Which has many health benefits like boosting our body's immune system, skin anti wrinkling, cure for common cold, eye diseases and more. Lemons grow beautifully in ample on our trees during summer. The lemon tree in my backyard is full of limes, So I thought of making a pickle out of all of them.

               

Recipe:

Lemons (Green/Yellow Lime) -500 grams i.e. 1/2 Kg

Salt - 100 gms

1 pinch of Turmeric
Cut each lemon into 8 pieces and mix well with salt and turmeric and leave it out it in hot sun for 20 days in a closed glass jar.

Note:
(1) You will Notice that the lemons have reduced in size considerably and have become softer and mushy as the pickle will have some fluid in it because the lemon juices are released from the lemons.

(2) If you don't like spices, you can eat the pickle this way itself (non-spicy tangy taste). But I like my pickle to be a little spicy, as it tastes even better.


So I have dry roasted the following spices for adding into the pickle:

-1 tsp of cumin seeds
-1 tsp of carom seeds (ajwain)
-Cinnamon - 2 long sticks
-1tsp of cumin seeds
-1tsp of fenugreek seeds
-10-12 cloves
-5-6 dry red chillies (or chilli flakes)
-1 tsp of black pepper

After dry roasting these spices, grind them well in a mixer grinder. 

Then you have to mix it with the lemon pickle you prepared above ( after 20 days when it has soaked up a good amount of sun ). While mixing do not forget to add 2 tablespoons of black salt in it along with the spices 

This is how it looks after adding the spices into the pickle.

        The pickle is ready! You can keep it for almost an year.

If you feel the pickle is getting slightly dry, squeeze more lemon juice and add the juice from top and shake the jar ( you can add the juice of 2-3 medium sized lemons).

You will notice the the pickle gets tastier with the passage of time!! :D

~Enjoy~

Lemon chicken

Hi friends. The temperature is continuing to soar outside. To beat the heat you must drink a lot of fluids and try using a lot of fresh lemon juice in your diet to keep the body hydrated. 

So here is my 'LEMON CHICKEN" Recipe for summer.

This dish is also called "Gondhoraj Lebu Chicken" 

INGREDIENTS:

• 500 gms of chicken breast (cut into pieces)
• Lime juice:3 Tbsp
• Onion paste:1 Tbsp
• Garlic paste:1Tbsp
• Ginger paste:1tsp 
• Curd: 2 Tbsp
• Green chilly paste:1 Tbsp
• Green chilly: 2-3 slit into two pieces
• Coriander powder: 1Tbsp
• Small cardamom: 4
• Lemon peel: 1 tsp 
• Lemon leaves: 7
• 1 tsp of oil for marination
• 2 Tbsp of oil for cooking
• Salt and sugar according to your taste

Those who wants it more spicy can add more chillies as per need.

PROCEDURE:

• Marinate the chicken with Ginger, garlic, onion, chilly paste (mentioned above), 3-4 lemon leaves and lemon juice, Add 1 tsp of oil for binding and salt according to your taste, add lemon peel for achieving a strong lemon flavor (but not much otherwise it will become bitter) Marinate for 2-5 hours
• Note: Before cooking please remove the the lemon leaves, as they will become bitter during cooking.
•  Now heat 2 Tablespoons of oil in a pan and add the cardamom into the oil.
• After 2 minutes add the marinated chicken and cover the pan and cook in medium flame.
• When the chicken starts releasing water then add the yogurt (hung curd), salt and 1 tsp of sugar to it.
• Place the lid and cover the pan and let the chicken cook thoroughly.
• When the chicken has boiled thoroughly and it has started becoming dry, you can add 2-3 fresh green lemon leaves and the slit green chillies to the dish. 
• Cook for 3-5 mins and serve hot.

Can be served with fried rice / white rice

PS: For Bengalis residing at Kolkata and others who can get "gondhoraj lebu" (a special type of lemon that's bigger in size and has a strong fragrance) please do use that instead of the small lime.

             

                                  Gondhoraj lemon (India)