Saturday, 25 October 2025

Easy Butter Chicken


For Chicken Marinade:
Cut 1kg Chicken into cubes and Marinate with the following ingredients:
3 tblsp ginger garlic
3 tblsp aminas butter chicken masala 
⅓ tsp salt
½ cup yogurt
Marinate for 2 hours and fry until golden brown

Butter Chicken Sauce: 

Ingredients 
1 onion
5 tbsp aminas butter chicken masala
2 chillies
⅓ cup cashew nuts 
1 can desert cream
250ml fresh milk
50g tomato paste
4 tomatoes 
4 tbsp butter 
½ tsp egg yellow powder
2 tsp crushed garlic

Method
fry onion with 2 tbsp butter and crushed garlic until golden brown
add the aminas butter chicken masala, chillies,egg yellow powder and ⅓ cup cashews
Mix well.
add tomato paste and tomatoes and allow to cook until tomatoes are soft
transfer mixture to a blender and blend on high speed for 2 minutes 
return mixture to pot and simmer
add 2 tbsps butter
add fried chicken, desert cream and fresh cream
simmer on low heat
garnish with 2 tablespoon desert cream and coriander.
Serve with Naan and enjoy !😉 

Wednesday, 8 October 2025

Eggless Hungarian Tart

 


Ingredients

250g butter

1/2 cup sugar

2 tsp vanilla essence

2 cups self raising flour 

225g jam

Method

  • mix butter and sugar together in a mixing bowl
  • mix in the vanilla essence
  • add flour and mix until you form a soft dough
  • press 3/4 of the dough into a lined baking tray (27cm x 23cm)
  • make some holes in the dough usig a fork so jam gets in the dough
  • layer jam over the dough
  • grate the remaining dough on top
  • bake at 180° for 25 minutes or until slightly brown on the edges 
* you can also add in 1 egg when mixing butter and sugar together if you prefer hungarian tart with an egg. the eggless version makes a shortbread kind of texture jam biscuit
* if you are using an egg add ½ cup more flour to mixture

Eggless Sponge Cake


 Ingredients

2 cups cake flour

4 tsp baking powder

1 cup castor sugar

1 cup milk

1/2 cup melted butter

1 tsp vanilla essence

3/4 cup oil


Method

  • mix castor sugar, milk, butter,  oil and vanilla essence in  a bowl until sugar is dissolved
  • in another bowl sift cake flour and baking powder
  • add milk mixture to flour and beat until everything is combined
  • pour batter into greased oven tray
  • bake in a preheated oven at 180° for 20 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean when testing cake