Garlic Knots

A day after Valentine day, I wanted to make something nice and simple for my GF, so I bring out the flour, sugar, yeast and all to bake some Garlic Knots...

Here's the recipe i got from here...http://www.foodmayhem.com/2009/08/garlic-knots.html

Well, it turns out quite good.

It was a bit too salty for me, note to myself..less salt.

I served it with Pan-seared Asparagus and Poached-egg.

For Pan-seared Asparagus, easy:
Remove the woody part of the asparagus.
heat up a pan, add some Butter.
Chop some garlic, brown it in the hot pan for a minute.
Add in the Asparagus and sear it for 3 minute.
And done!

For the Poached-Egg:
I think it takes a lot of practice to make a prefect Poached-Egg. Well, it sure does for me. Haha

Bring a pot of water to boil. Add in some vinegar ( 2tablespoons), stir the water so that you create a swirl in the water, immediately bring down the heat and crack the egg in the middle of the swirling hot water.

Poach for 3~4 minute.

A prefect Poached Egg

Horse Gram Fritter with Red Onion and Cilantro

I have some soaked, then boiled and drained
Horse Gram left over from my attempt to whip up some delicious Hummus- about I.5 cup of it. Not wanting to throw them away, I used them to make some Fritter.






Here's my version of the Horse Gram Fritter with the ingredients that I can find in my kitchen:

1.5 cup horse Gram bean, soaked and boiled to soften it.

1 big red Onion, chopped coarsely.

1 potatoes, chopped finely.

2 stalks Cilantro. Chopped coarsely.

1 tsp of ground Cumin Seed

1tsp of Salt

Dash of Pepper

1 tbsp of Plain Yogurt

Blend the Horse Gram bean into a paste/ batter. Add some water if it is too dry.

Mix all the other ingredients into the batter, evenly.

I tried to deep fried 1 tablespoon of the batter to see how it turns out. The batter won't hold and just fall apart.

To fix the batter, I added half a cup of shifted Wheat Flour and 2 egg white.

Now I think the batter will hold.

Note the actual recipe has more ingredients such as Baby Spinach, chopped chillies and chaat masala powder. I just used what I have in my kitchen and cross my fingers and hope for the best.

I served it with some sweet chillies sauce and cold yogurt sauce.

The cold yogurt sauce will tame the Oily-ness a bit, IMHO.

Yogurt sauce:
Mix Yogurt with come chopped cilantro and some lemon zest. Put inside the fridge to cool it.