Ramadan Recipe #3

Day 3 for me and i guess Day 4 for some others.  The moon thing is never ever gonna make sense to me but i must say the only thing all of us can agree on during the early phases of Ramadan is Iftar and what to make for iftar.  Although the days are a bit longer and a bit hotter.  We muslims inherently and systematically Thank God for anything that comes our way.  Alhamdolilla flows out of our mouths like water (that must sound good right about now).  Talking to several people in several iftar dinners.  We say things like "atleast we are not in canada, there maghrib is at 10:30" or We arent in India or pakistan or those hot places. Then we digress into question like "how do people in Alaska do it and go even further north to the north pole".  Not sure if anyone lives there but the group of people i hang out with.  We digress a lot.  Love them all .   I Heard in Dubai its a whopping 100 something.  God have mercy!   Lets not lose sight of it all we need to remind ourselves that Ramadan is about feeling for the poor, the hungry and the weak.  We have to remember to Thank God for everything we have, change the way we look and treat the world.  Our job is to love everyone for the sake of Allah.  Loving for the sake of Allah literally means that you act towards a person in a way that pleases Allah.  If you love "a person" you will do what pleases that person, you may even become obsessed or have crushes on them and do weird things for them like drive into the grand canyon or lie to your loved ones or hurt them just to please the other person so you can get that weird feeling when you are around them, like become selfish and stuff.  I digress again. However, if you love them for the sake of Allah you will treat them the way Allah wants you to treat others. You know,  be kind, respectful, smile and do their laundry occasionally.  Does that make sense?

I m gonna do a lot of recipes that are kids friendly, primarily because i have a lot of kids breaking fast in my house this summer and they have amazingly elaborate requests.  None if which include pakora cholay or dahi baday.  Today i had a strange request for spaghetti.  But i rather not. Since its so late in the evening we have to  make an extra effort to make something healthy and filling and nothing that keeps us or others awake during the night. Since we have to wake up in literally a couple of hours.

Today we make orange chicken bites

Basic recipe

1 pound boneless chicken (cubed)
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tsp chili powder (optional)

 1 cup Flour
1/2 cup Corn Starch
1 egg
salt
pepper
(this basic chicken nugget recipe is the best the kids love it)

Orange Sauce
3 tbsp Frozen Orange Juice ( Trust me the flavor is more stronger)
Garlic Ginger Paste
1 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp cornstarch
red pepper flakes
1 tsp oil

Marinate the Chicken with salt, chilli, soy sauce, and garlic ginger paste




Heat a deep fry pan with oil

First crack one egg into the marinated chicken mix well


in a separate dish  mix flour and corn flour with salt and pepper

dip each chicken piece into the flour shake and slowly put in in the oil.  fry the chicken nuggets until brown.


remove then place on wire rack or paper to drain the oil


In a large pot add 1 tsp oil and garlic ginger paste and cook on medium heat then add  2 tbsp frozen orange juice,  1 tbsp soy sauce and brown sugar and red pepper flakes. Dissolve the cornstarch in some water and add into the sauce.  Remove from heat then quickly toss in the chicken nuggets and quickly mix the ingredients together so the sauce adheres to the nuggets. Depending on the size of the chicken nuggets you may have to make more or less sauce.  The proportions are there to follow you can play around with it.  You can lessen or increase the amount of sugar and pepper flakes to your taste.  After coated remove the chicken nuggets and stick tooth pick on each of them then wait for it to be sunset...



okay this picture was from the google images as by the time i made this awesome dish it was gone.  But it really did look like this I promise