Tandoori Chicken, Rice-A-Roni, Mini YouChoy

I know it was a weird combo to have for dinner but it was gooood and it was so easy to make.

Tandoori Chicken

Ingredients:

Chicken breast - 2 lbs (bonesless and skinless cut into thick strips)

Tandoori Masala - 3 Tbsp. (I bought priya brand but you can use any brand you like)

Red food color - 2 drops

Curd/yogurt - 1/2 cup

Lemon Juice - 2 Tbsp.

Salt - to taste

Oil - 2 Tbsp.

Procedure:

- Mix food color, masala , lemon juice and salt to the curd.

- In a ziplock bag, add the chicken and the marinade and mix well till all the chicken pieces are coated.

- Leave the ziplock in the fridge for 2 to 4 hours.

- Now, you can cook this in different ways, you can either bake them or pan fry them or do what I did.

- Pressure cook the chicken for 2 whistles (no need to add any water).

- Heat oil in a saute pan. Add the cooked chicken pieces and pan fry them till they form a thin golden crust on all sides.

- Do it in batches so you don't over crowd the pan.

Rice-A-Roni

Rice-A-Roni is nothing but rice and vermicelli cooked together. Instead of Vermicelli I used angel hair pasta.

Ingredients:

Rice - 2 cups uncooked

Angel hair pasta - 1/4 cup cut into small pieces

Salt - to taste

Water - 5 cups

I have a microwave rice cooker, so I just added all the ingredients and cooked them for 200 minute sin the microwave. However you can use the electric cooker or even do stove-top method too.

Mini YouChoy with garlic and soy sauce

YouChoy I think is also called Chinese broccoli. You can get this in any asian store. I became a fan of it few years ago when my then manager introduced me to this vegetable.

Ingredients:

You Choy - 2 lbs washed and ends trimmed

Garlic - 4 cloves sliced thin

Low-Sodium Soy Sauce - 2 Tbsp.

Salt - to taste

vegetable stock - 1/4 cup

White pepper - to taste

Oil - 2 tbsp.

Procedure:

- Heat oil in a wok.

- Add garlic and stir for 15 seconds making sure it doesn't burn.

- Add youchoy, soy sauce, stock, slat and pepper