Stuffed Breast of Chicken
Ingredients

4 chicken breasts 
1 cup grated cottage cheese (paneer)
2 green chilles 
Few sprigs coriander leaves 
1 tablespoon raisins 
1 tablespoon cashew nuts 
2 teaspoons Ferns' Tandoori Curry Paste 
2 pineapple rings, chopped. 
¼ cup oil 
2 lemons 

For the gravy
2 cups onions paste 
1 cup tomato purée 
½ teaspoon turmeric powder 
2 teaspoons ginger garlic paste 
½ teaspoon red chilli powder or paprika  
Salt to taste 
Method
Clean the chicken breasts and flatten them with a steak hammer. Marinate with salt, lemon juice and one teaspoon Tandoori Curry Paste. Wash and chop coriander leaves. Chop raisins, cashew nuts and pineapple rings. Mix with grated cottage cheese, salt, sugar, green chillies to make a filling. Divide filling into four portions. Put one portion of filling into each chicken breast, roll and secure with a toothpick Heat oil in a pan. Put in the rolled chicken breasts and sauté until golden brown. Remove chicken breasts and in the same oil make a gravy, frying the onion paste and then adding tomato purée, ginger garlic paste, salt and one teaspoon Tandoori Paste. Add the chicken breasts and simmer until meat is tender.
Serve hot on a bed of saffron rice. 
  Tandoori Chicken 1
Ingredients

1 small (700g)  chicken, skinned
3 tablespoons Ferns' Tandoori Paste
1 small onion
Juice of 1 lemon or 3 tablespoons yogurt
Salt to taste
Method
Make small gashes in chicken. Grind onion and squeeze out juice. Rub into chicken with Ferns' Tandoori Paste, lemon juice or yogurt and salt. Marinate for an hour. Grill on either side in an oven or rotisserie.
  Tandoori Chicken 2
1 (500 to 750 g) whole chicken 
¼ cup curd /yogurt
¼ cup cream 
2 teaspoons ginger paste 
2 teaspoons garlic paste 
3 tablespoons Ferns' Tandoori Curry Paste 
2 lemons  
¼ cup oil for basting

Method
Remove the skin from the whole chicken. Clean the inside completely. Wash, pat dry and marinate the chicken with a mixture of curd, cream, ginger and garlic paste and Tandoori Curry Paste. Allow to marinate for 3 - 4 hrs at least. For best results keep the marinated chicken in the refrigerator overnight. Skewer the chicken and roast in a tandoor. An electric or gas oven may also be used. If a rotating device does not exist in the oven, keep turning the chicken at regular intervals and baste with oil from time to time, to prevent drying out. Cooking time will be around 15-20 minutes in a tandoor or 25-30 minutes in an oven.
Serve hot with sliced onion and lemon slices and tandoori roti or bread of your choice.

  Tandoori Promfret
Ingredients

2 (750 to 800 g) Pomfrets 
¼ cup curd/yogurt
1/3 cup cream 
2½ teaspoon ginger paste 
2½ teaspoon garlic paste 
2 tablespoons Ferns' Tandoori Curry Paste 
2 teaspoons lemon juice 
Butter for basting 
2 eggs
Method
Clean the pomfret and make 3 deep incisions across each side. Hang the curd in a muslin for 15 minutes and squeeze out the liquid. Separate egg yolks and whites and mix yolks with curd and Tandoori Paste. Apply on the fish and keep aside for 3 hours. Skewer the fish and roast on a grill or in a tandoor for 5-10 minutes. Remove and hang the skewers to allow excess moisture to drip off.  Baste with butter and roast again for another 6-8 minutes. Serve with onion rings and lemon slices. Serve with an Indian bread of your choice.
  Seafood Cocktail
Ingredients

½ kg shrimps* shelled and cleaned
2 tablespoons Ferns' Tandoori Curry Paste 
1 cup mayonnaise 
1 tablespoon tomato ketchup 
Salt to taste
1 egg 
3 - 4 leaves lettuce 

*Other shell fish like crab, lobster or squid can be used, singly or in combination.

Method
Boil the shrimps in water and drain. Mix tomato ketchup, mayonnaise and Tandoori Curry Paste. Add shrimps and mix together. In a cocktail glass place shredded lettuce at the base and the shrimp mixture on top of it. Place a whole boiled shrimp on the edge of the glass as garnish. Top with a slice of hard-boiled egg and a dot of tomato sauce.
  Russian Salad
Ingredients

1 small cauliflower
¼ cup shelled peas
2 small potatoes
8-10 French beans
2 carrots
1 bunch lettuce
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
¼ teaspoon mustard
400 ml or 2 large cups mayonnaise
½ teaspoon Ferns' Tandoori Curry Paste
Method: Cut the carrots and potatoes into cubes and the french beans into diamonds, cauliflower into florets.
Boil all the vegetables in water along with salt, drain and cool. Add pepper and mustard. 
Add salt and Tandoori Curry Paste. Mix the mayonnaise into the vegetables. Arrange the salad on a bed of lettuce. Serve chilled.
   
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