Grilled Beef Liver

I was surprised that hubby found this food outside when I asked him to buy some tandoori. Although this was not the usual food that can be found outside since it is non vegetarian, I find it yummy. It is a food rich in iron since I needed that in my daily meal, I opt to have this one on my menu.

Grilled beef liver



Actually I don't have a recipe yet to tell you, this one was bought and we did not prepared it. It was grilled beef liver which is tasting deliciously and I can remember the recipe that my mom used to make back home. She used to cook us beef liver steak and it was almost the same taste like this one.

I enjoy it with my buttered garlic palak (spinach) recipe (Easy Spinach Recipe) which I have already shared here on my blog and you can just search it if you want to know the recipe. Of course eating this food is not complete without rice or chapatti (flat bread). Have a nice day everyone!

Beef Broccoli with Mushroom

It’s very rare to find broccoli in the market and I can only buy them in big groceries here in India. I don’t know why the supply here is limited although cauliflower is too much and I can see them being sold at local public market by side street vendors’ year round.

Beef Broccoli with buttered mushroom


A small portion of broccoli would be amounting to Rs 55+ which is very expensive too plus sometimes they don’t even look so fresh. I just had an opportunity to buy a small piece so that I can try beef broccoli recipe which I just added fresh button mushrooms into it.

Here’s a sample list of ingredients needed for Beef Broccoli with Mushroom:

Beef (500 grams)- cut into strips
Broccoli
Button mushrooms
Soy sauce
Oyster sauce
Sesame oil
Salt
Ground black pepper
Garlic paste
Beef stock
Butter
Cooking wine- (you can use cane vinegar if you don’t have cooking wine)
Cornstarch
Water
Vegetable oil

Easy steps on How to Prepare Beef Broccoli with Mushroom:

Marinating the beef:

Step 1: Combine the following ingredients to marinate the beef (corn starch, salt, ground black pepper, garlic paste, soy sauce, white wine).

Step 2: Keep the beef marinated for an hour or two and keep it aside since you needed to blanch the broccoli.

For your beef broccoli sauce, combine the following ingredients:

(2tbsp. soy sauce, 1 tbsp. oyster sauce, 2 tbsp. vinegar or white wine, ½ tea cup of beef broth, 1 tbsp. of garlic paste, 1 tbsp. sesame oil, sprinkle of ground black pepper and salt to taste). Keep it aside.


Blanching the Broccoli:

Step 1: Heat water and when it reaches its boiling point, that’s the time you need to put the broccoli. Be sure to wash and clean the broccoli first before blanching.

Step 2: Wait for 2-3 minutes and then drain the broccoli before placing it in cold water. In this way your broccoli would keep its fresh green color. Keep it aside.

Cooking the button mushroom:

Cooking the mushroom with butter


Step 1: Cut and slice the fresh button mushrooms and be sure that it’s washed clean. If you’re using canned mushroom, it’s okay too.

Step 2: Heat a pan and put 1 tbsp of butter combined with 1 tbsp of vegetable oil. The next step is to put the mushrooms and let it simmer for quite some time to let the juice out of your mushroom. No need to add water into your mushroom since it will remove excess water and let it dry. Cook it using medium flame heat and keep it aside after 3-5 minutes of cooking.

Preparing to Cook your Beef Broccoli with Mushroom:

You need to dry off the water in your beef before putting cooking oil


Step 1: Once your beef is marinated, the next step is to heat up the pan and put the marinated beef in. Do not add any water or oil. The beef will automatically juice out the excess water and keep the flame into medium heat as you stir your beef.

Step 2: Once your beef is dry out, that is the time that you need to put ample amount of vegetable oil and fry your beef. Once it’s fried, you need to put the sauce that you prepared for your beef broccoli. Stir the beef well and let it sip the beef for 5-7 minutes.

Delicious Beef Broccoli with mushroom


Step 3: You can now add your blanched broccoli and buttered mushroom and stir well together with the beef. You don’t need to extend the time of cooking since the broccoli is done as well as the mushroom. You just need 1-2 minutes of cooking as you mix well the beef with the veggies. The final touch for this recipe is adding 2 tbsp. of water with cornstarch to make it creamy a bit and then you can now turn the stove off.

You can sprinkle spring onions if you like and it is optional also if you wanted to include sesame seeds but as for me, sesame oil was enough so I need not to put sesame seeds. Hope you did enjoy cooking this recipe as I did enjoy preparing it at home.

Not so Chicken Lemon

I was browsing the internet about chicken recipes and found this one out and so I tried to order it in a local restaurant which is 20 minutes away from our place. It seems that Chicken Lemon has originated in China and there are other versions of this recipe in other countries.

Chicken Lemon with Gravy


Here in India they are also serving Chinese cuisines and there are local restaurants that cook you good Chinese food, although I doubt it if it was really the real Chinese cuisine. Anyway, Chicken lemon is usually cooked crunchy coated with some gravy. It is a simple dish to prepare although the methods of cooking it differ from what a chef or cook prepares.

The one we ordered out was with gravy and not dry. But when I tasted it, it wasn’t even lemony in taste, lacking saltiness also and the chicken that was coated with egg and flour wasn’t that tasty. In short, it’s not that delicious. I’m not saying that all restaurants do cook their chicken lemon the same. It’s just that I was expecting more of a tangy twist flavor of the lemon to the chicken.

Chicken not so lemony, hey I did not cook this one!


The capsicum was even more obvious in flavor than the lemon. This is what a cook should know, what are the ingredients that will take effect more when you cook. I guess they might have just used a lemon in a bottle, meaning not the freshly squeezed lemon that you buy in the market, but just a lemon in a bottle that was synthetic, so no wonder the taste of the chicken will just be bland.

I finished one plate and still my tongue is in question, looking for an evidence of what chicken lemon is and where is the justice. The yellowish color might just masquerade the lemon color but for me it was the turmeric that side swept it, kicking the tamed lemon in the corner knocking off the whole recipe.

Hot rice and Chicken Lemon dish for lunch


Anyway so much for my expectations, I will keep on hunting better restaurants that can prepare me a better Chicken Lemon. Besides the price we ordered was just Rs 85.00 or equivalent to $1.93 and it was delivered for free, that will be my consolation.