Chicken Gold Coin

I have a colleague who celebrates Chinese New Year.  Every year she make lots of dishes mostly non-vegetarian. One of them was chicken gold coin. She had got few for us to taste, it was yummy.  That’s when I thought that I will try making it at home.  The recipe credit goes to her and Sanjeev Kapoor link. The final product was more than I thought.  It’s a very good starter and   kids love it as evening snacks.

So do try it.

Ingredients

Bread Slice -  12

Minced Chicken – 250gm

Onion – 1 small (finely chopped)

Ginger – 2 tsp (finely chopper

Garlic – 2 tsp finely chopped

Soya sauce – 1tsp

Corn starch – 2tsp

Pepper powder – 1tsp

Green chill – 2 optional (finely chopped)

Egg – 2

Sesame seed – 2 tbsp

Salt to taste

Oil to deep fry

Method

1.           Cut the bread slices into roundels with a round cutter or a kattory(steel bowl) as shown.

2.           Take the minced meat into a bowl.

3.           To this add the soya sauce, onion, ginger, garlic, greem chilli, pepper powder, corn flour, 1 egg, and salt. Mix well to make the filling.

4.           Now in a separate bowl break the second egg, add pinch of salt and 1tsp water and beat it well to make the egg wash.

5.           Take the prepared round bread, lightly brush the egg wash on one side.

6.           On top of this keep a little filling of chicken.

7.           Again brush the egg wash on top of the chicken filling.

8.           Spread sesame seed and press lightly.

9.           Do the same with the other bread roundels

10.      Now refrigerate it for 15 min.

11.      Heat the oil to fry in a wok.

12.      When it is hot to fry, first lower the heat, and then fry the prepared gold coin with the chicken side down for 10 min and turn and fry for 2 min.

13.      Remove from the oil and strain the excess oil.

14.      Chicken gold coin is ready to eat with sauces or dips. 

Heart Centred Cookies

For this Valentine’s Day this is what I have prepared. The only twisted part is to make the heart shapes stand straight and get it combined. Rest its pretty simple and fast to make. I made about 5 batches with this recipe and took it to my office for a small Valentine ’s Day celebration. My colleagues enjoyed it.

So try to make it.

Ingredients 

Butter – ¾ cup

Castor Sugar – ¾ cup

Egg – 1

Maida / all-purpose flour – 2 cups

Baking powder – ¼ tsp

Salt – 1 pinch

Red food colour

Strawberry essence

Heart shape cookie cutter 

Note : all in room temperature

Method 

1.           Beat together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

2.           To this beat the egg for a minute.

3.           Now add the essence and mix.

4.           In another bowl swift together maida, baking powder and salt.

5.           Mix the dry mixture to the wet mixture.

6.           Mix well and knead it to a dough.

7.           Tint 1/4^th of the dough with red colour and wrap into a plastic wrap.

8.           Wrap the remaining plain dough also in a plastic dough.

9.           Refrigerate the doughs for 2 hrs.

10.      Lightly flour the rolling surface and roll red dough into a thick rectangular sheet. With the cookie cutter, cut as many shape as possible.

11.      Repeat the same with the remaining red dough.

12.      Place the cut heart one above the other to make a long heart rod (as shown in the figure). Refrigerate for 15 min.

13.      Make a long thick strip of the white dough and fill the groove of the heart.

14.      Now roll the plain dough and rollup to cover the red dough and roll it to make a cylinder.

15.      Wrap up in a plastic wrap and refrigerate for 2 hrs.

16.      Preheat the oven to 180^OC.

17.      Unwrap and cut the dough into 1/4 inch slices.

18.      Line a baking tray with butter paper and place these cookies with a little gap between each cookies.
19.      Bake the cookies at 180^OC for 12 min.

20.      Remove to cool.