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Recipe For Onion Dip

talat — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:58:22 +0000

Preparation time : 10 min. + Chill time | Serves 1 bowl

This recipe for onion dip is one of a famous French style dip. This is actually a caramelized onion dip which is prepared with fried onions. You may also give it some colorful touch by adding green onions or finely grated carrots, etc. It gives good taste when serve with garlic bread or any toasted bread.

Ingredients:

2 onion (sliced)
oil for deep frying
½ cup mayonnaise
¼ cup sour cream
2 tbsp cream
salt to taste
1 tsp black pepper (freshly crushed)

Procedure:

1. Deep fry the onions till become crispy golden brown.
2. Drain onions from oil and let it cool.
3. In a mixing bowl combine mayonnaise, cream, sour cream, salt, pepper and
crushed brown onions.
4. Chill it in fridge and then serve with garlic bread.

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Recipe For Coconut Chutney

talat — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 07:51:56 +0000

Preparation time : 15 min | Serves 1 ½ cup

This recipe for coconut chutney is one of a famous South Indian chutney recipe which is usually served with traditional street foods like masala dosa, idli, sambhar, etc. You can also serve this chutney with any roll and samosa as it gives awesome flavor to these foods.

Ingredients:

1 cup grated coconut (fresh or coconut flakes)
2 green chilies (seeded and finely chopped)
½ tsp fresh ginger (finely chopped)
½ tsp garlic (finely chopped)
¼ cup fresh coriander leaves (chopped)
¼ tsp salt
¼ cup water
1 tsp vegetable oil
½ tsp black mustard seed
2 shallots (very finely chopped)
4 curry leaves
½ tsp black gram or urad dal (soaked for 15 min)
¼ cup plain yogurt

Procedure:

1. Make a thick paste of coconut, green chili, ginger, garlic, coriander, and salt in a food processor and add water accordingly.
2. In a skillet, heat oil and fry mustard seed for 1-2 min until the seeds pop, then add curry leaves, urad dal and shallots and fry for 3-4 min until shallots turn into white.
3. After that remove the skillet form heat and mix it with coconut paste and yogurt. Serve the sour and spicy coconut chutney with masala dosa, idli or sambhar.

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Olive Garden Alfredo Sauce – Olive Garden Recipes [Copycat]

talat — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 07:17:52 +0000

Preparation time : 20 min | Serves 4 persons

This alfredo sauce recipe is inspired from a famous American Restaurant Olive Garden. This recipe is taken from Ron Douglas’s best selling cookbook America’s Secret Recipes (get 5 sample recipes) that contains hundreds of copy cat recipes of many popular restaurants in U.S.

Ingredients:

2 cup heavy cream
1/8 tsp garlic powder
½ cup butter
1/8 tsp pepper
¼ cup parmesan cheese

Procedure:

Heat butter in pan then add rest of the ingredients and cook over medium heat until the sauce gets desired thickness. The consistency of sauce is enough so that when it drops from spoon it would not drop easily and coat around the spoon.
Pour the yummy Alfredo sauce over pasta or chicken with topping of chopped parsley.

To get more copycat recipes of restaurant foods, refer to the cookbook America’s Secret Recipes (get 5 sample recipes).

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Recipe For Chili Sauce

talat — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 16:25:25 +0000

Preparation time : 90 min | Serves 4 medium jars

This chili sauce recipe is prepared with red ripe tomatoes, different flavors of red pepper and pickling spices hence has yummy salty, sweet and sour taste. This chili sauce can be used in preparing soups, sandwiches, or even in place of pizza sauce.

Ingredients:

4 qt red ripe tomatoes (peeled)
2 cup onions (chopped)
2 cup sweet red peppers (chopped)
1 hot red pepper
1 cup sugar
3 tbsp salt
3 tbsp mixed pickling spices
1 tbsp celery seed
1 tbsp mustard seed
2½ cup vinegar

Procedure:

1. In a large sauce pan cook together tomatoes, onions, sweet and hot peppers, sugar and salt.
2. In a muslin bag put all the remaining spices and tie it tightly from top so that spices would not leak into the mixture. Add this bag of spices in the tomato mixture and cook over medium heat until the mixture starts to get thick. It would table 40-50 min.
3. After that add vinegar and cook for further 15-20 min to make it thick.
4. Pour the prepared chili sauce in jars (cleaned properly) and cover them tightly. Put the jars in boiling water for further 15 min then store in fridge after cool it to room temperature

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Garlic Mayo Recipe

talat — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 12:04:51 +0000

Preparation time : 10 min. | Yield 1 cup

This garlic mayo recipe is one of a delicious mayonnaise flavor which is used in burgers and sandwiches specially in crispy burgers and rolls. It Gives wonderful flavor when when serve with hot and spicy chicken broast. You can adjust the seasoning level according to your taste.

Ingredients:

2 egg yolks
2 large garlic cloves (minced)
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp lemon juice (or to taste)
1 cup extra virgin olive oil (or as required)
2 tbsp warm water

Procedure:

1. In your blender put egg yolks, garlic, lemon juice, salt, pepper and sugar and start blending them together.
2. When the mixture becomes smooth slowly start adding 1/2 cup oil to it while blending. As the oil blends with the mixture, the mixture starts to get thick. Gently beat for 3-5 min. after adding half cup of oil.
3. Now add remaining oil in the same fashion and beat well until become thick mixture.
4. Add warm water and just mix it in the prepared garlic mayo to make it slightly thin. Yummy garlic mayo sauce us ready to use, you can use it for ine week by keeping it in fridge.

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Recipe for Marinara Sauce

talat — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:38:30 +0000

Preparation time : 30 min. | Yield 2 cups

This recipe for marinara sauce can be easily prepared at home and become very economical if it is prepared at home rather than buy it ready made form store. There are lots of other varieties of marinara sauce available in the market which can also be prepared in the same way except different seasoning flavor is used to make difference.

Ingredients:

1 can red tomatoes
¼ cup olive oil
4 cloves garlic (minced)
3 fresh leaves chopped basil
½ tsp of dried oregano
½ tsp red pepper flakes
Salt and pepper to taste
1 tsp white vinegar

Procedure:

1. Sauté garlic in oil until become light brown in color.
2. Blend tomatoes and then add to the garlic with seasoning of oregano, salt, pepper red pepper flakes, vinegar and basil.
3. Bring the mixture to boil at medium heat, and then simmer the sauce for 15-20 min until sauce gets thick.
4. After that put the sauce in air tight jar and can be used for one week.

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Ginger Salad Dressing – Benihana Recipes [Copycat]

talat — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:07:46 +0000

Preparation time : 5 min. |Yield 1 cup

This is a slightly modified recipe of the original Ginger Salad Dressing found in the Cookbook America’s Secret Recipes (get 5 sample recipes) . The cookbook contains hundreds of top restaurant recipes [copycat] and the good thing about it is that it is immediately available for download as it comes in both e-book and hard copy format.

Ingredients:

¼ cup chopped onion
1 tbsp chopped fresh ginger (peeled)
1 tbsp chopped celery
¼ cup peanut oil
2 tbsp white vinegar
3 tbsp water
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1½ tsp tomato ketchup
1½ tsp sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
Salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

1. Put all the ingredients mentioned above in food processor and process until become smooth paste.
2. Transfer the ginger salad dressing in an air tight jar; you can use it up to one week.
3. To make recipes similar to this one and various other copycat recipes of top American restaurants, grab a copy of the cookbook America’s Secret Recipes (get 5 sample recipes) .

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Taco Sauce Recipe

talat — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 06:41:27 +0000

Preparation time : 5 min. | Serves 1 cup

This taco sauce is one of a hot and spicy tomato sauce from Mexican cuisine which is used in preparation of variety of foods including casserole, salads, ground beef, etc. You can adjust the flavors of spices and seasoning according to your taste.

Ingredients:

8 oz tomato sauce
1 tsp ground cumin
¼ tsp garlic powder
2 tsp minced onion
½ tsp oregano
½ tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp hot sauce
Salt and pepper to taste

Procedure:

Combine all ingredients mentioned above and whisk together so that all flavors blend well. Keep this sauce in air tight bottle or jar and place in fridge; you can use this sauce for a week.

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Corn Dip

talat — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:04:03 +0000

Preparation time : 60 min.

This corn dip recipe can be served with any fried stuff or even with spaghetti. Its method of preparation is very simple you only need to combine ingredients and then cook in slow cooker. This dip is usually served hot.

Ingredients:

16 oz cream cheese (softened)
1 cup butter (softened)
30 oz white corn (drained)
28 oz diced canned tomatoes with green chili peppers
1 cup cream

Procedure:

1. In a slow cooker, put all the ingredients and mix well. Cook them together at low setting og cooker until all the cream cheese and butter melts completely and all the flavors blend well.
2. After that take out the prepared dip in bowl and serve with chopped tomatoes and cream.

Russian Dressing

talat — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:56:35 +0000

Preparation time : 10 min.

This Russian Dressing is used in preparation of many vegetable salads. This type of salad is usually served with pizza or any other fast food to make complete meal.

Ingredients:

¼ cup sugar
3 tbsp water
¼ cup grated onion
¼ cup mayonnaise
1 tsp mustard
1 cup vegetable oil
½ cup ketchup
2 tbsp lemon juice
½ tsp salt
½ tsp paprika
1 ½ tsp celery seed
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

Procedure:

1. Prepare syrup for the dressing for that you need to cook sugar and water until become slightly thick so that if it is dropped from spoon little bit of the liquid should stick to the spoon. Then cool it to room temperature.
2. After that mix all the ingredients with the syrup and make uniform batter and then chill in fridge.
3. This salad can yield 1-2 medium bowls of salad.

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Banana Ketchup

talat — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:49:09 +0000

Preparation time : 90 mins. | Yield 4 cups

This banana ketchup recipe is bit different from normal tomato ketchup recipe. Due to presence of vinegar it can be used within 2-3 months without opening jars. This ketchup gives different taste if small golden raisins are used which has also good flavor but lighter in color. Serve this banana ketchup with any fried stuff or potato pancakes.

Ingredients:

1 cup dark raisins (seedless and soaked in water for 30 min.)
1 cup onion (coarsely chopped)
3-4 garlic cloves (minced)
6 oz tomato paste
2 cup vinegar
8 ripe bananas
1 cup dark brown sugar
1 tbsp salt (or to taste)
1 tsp cayenne pepper
½ cup light corn syrup
4 tsp ground allspice
1 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
1 ½ tsp nutmeg (grated)
1 t freshly ground black pepper
½ tsp ground cloves

Procedure:

1. Make smooth puree of raisins, onion, garlic, bananas and tomato paste in food processor. Add little amount of vinegar so that blend easily in the processor.
2. Pour the puree in a deep pan and add remaining vinegar, 4 cup water, brown sugar, salt and cayenne and bring the sauce to boil at medium heat. Stir in between so that sauce may not stick to the pan.
3. After that reduce the flame to low and simmer for 70 min until sauce gets thick like ketchup. If the sauce is too thick then add water accordingly.
4. Now add corn syrup, all spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper and cloves and cook on 15 min more so that all flavors incorporate well with each other.
5. Then remove the pan from heat, cool it to room temperature then fill in jars and serve after a day. You can use this banana ketchup for 2-3 weeks after opening the jar.

Spicy Peanut Sauce

talat — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:40:00 +0000

Preparation time : 15 mins.

This spicy peanut sauce is easy to prepare at home, it can be served with fried shrimps, chicken or even with pasta. You may also cook shrimps or chicken in this sauce and serve with rice for dinner or lunch.

Ingredients:

2 tbsp ginger (finely chopped)
2 garlic cloves (chopped)
1/3 cup white vinegar
1/3 cup chunky peanut butter
2 tsp red hot pepper flakes
¼ cup chili garlic sauce
½ cup soy sauce

Procedure:

1. In a large sauce pan combine all the ingredients and add 3-4 cup of water and let them cook for 10-15 mins on medium heat until mixture starts bubbling.
2. After that when all the ingredients blend well and sauce gets thick remove it form pan, fill it in air tight jar and keep in refrigerator. You can use this spicy peanut sauce for 10-15 days.

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Apple Chutney

talat — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:23:32 +0000

Preparation time : 20 mins

This apple chutney is from Pakistani cuisine which is little spicy and sweet and sour in flavor. It is better to use sour and juicy apples so that the taste of chutney would become naturally sour and hence amount of vinegar will be reduced. This chutney can be served with different meals like veggies. lentils curry, potato pancake, etc.

Ingredients:

2 kg apples (peel and cut into small cubes)
½ cup sugar or to taste
½ cup vinegar
2 tbsp ginger (minced)
1 tsp crushed red chili
1 tsp salt or to taste

Procedure:

1. In a sauce pan boil apples in 3 cups of water.
2. When apples become soft add ginger, red chili, sugar, salt and vinegar and cook on medium heat until the syrup starts to thick.
3. When syrup gets the desired consistency then pour the hot apple chutney in an air tight jar. This chutney can last for a month.

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Hot Dog Sauce

talat — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:55:26 +0000

Preparation time : 75 mins.

This meat sauce is usually used as stuffing for hot dogs but can be used for any sandwich or burger filling. The preparation of this hot dog sauce is simple it only takes time in simmering which is the main step of its cooking it can’t be cooked on high flame otherwise its taste will not be good.

Ingredients:

3 medium size onions (chopped)
1.5 kg ground meat
½ cup tomato sauce
1 ½ tsp oregano
1 ½ tsp cumin
2 tbsp paprika
2 tbsp chili powder
1 ½ tsp garlic salt
Salt to taste
½ tsp ground cinnamon

Procedure:

1. In a sauce pan, boil chopped onions in 1 cup of water for 5-8 mins.
2. After that add rest of the ingredients except ground beef and cook for 3-5 mins more on medium heat.
3. Then add ground beef and simmer for at least 1 hr.
4. After an hr. when meat completely blend with other ingredients then remove the pan from heat and serve as stuffing of hot dogs.

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Tartar Sauce Recipe

talat — Mon, 03 May 2010 06:03:04 +0000

Preparation time : 5 mins.

This tartar sauce is prepared mainly with sweet pickle relish hence it has some sweet and sour taste. Instead of adding pickle relish you may also add gherkins and cucumber with parsley and onion which also tastes good.

Ingredients:

1 cup mayonnaise
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp parsley (chopped)
1/2 cup sweet pickle relish
1 tbsp sugar (optional
1 tbsp onion (minced)

Procedure:

1. Whisk together mayonnaise, lemon juice and sugar.
2. Mix pickle relish, onion and parsley with the mayo mixture and chill for few minutes in fridge then serve with any fried stuff.

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Chili Sauce Recipe

talat — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:16:46 +0000

Preparation time : 10 mins.

This chili sauce recipe is from Malaysian cuisine in which bird’s eye chilies are used to make it spicy. The sauce has also some seafood flavor due to fish sauce, in some other recipes shrimp sauce is used in place of fish sauce which also tastes good.

Ingredients

400 gm fresh birds eye chilies
200 gm shallots
100 gm garlic
2 tsp fish sauce
2 tbsp lemon juice
50 gm sugar
Salt and pepper to taste
Light soy sauce
½ tsp sugar

Procedure:

1. Remove seeds from the chilies.
2. Blend together chilies, shallots and garlic and make smooth paste.
3. Now add salt, pepper, lemon juice, soy sauce and sugar.
4. Mix all the ingredients, keep in air tight container and place in fridge.

Thousand Island Dressing Recipe

talat — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:28:59 +0000

Preparation time : 10 mins. + 4 hrs. Refrigeration time

This thousand island dressing recipe is one of the easy sauce recipe which you usually buy from store. You may use any kind of relish in preparing this dressing while in this recipe, sweet pickle relish is used. This sauce is mainly used as dressing for Russian salads.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup mayonnaise
2 tbsp ketchup
1 tbsp white vinegar
2-3 drops of Tabasco sauce
2 tsp sugar
2 tsp sweet pickle relish
1 tsp onion (minced)
Pinch of salt
Pinch of black pepper

Procedure:

1. In a mixing bowl, combine mayonnaise, ketchup, Tabasco and vinegar to make smooth paste.
2. Then add rest of the ingredients including salt, pepper, sweet pickle relish, onion and sugar. Mix them together and keep in air tight container.
3. Place the container in fridge for 3-4 hrs so that all the flavors mix well in the sauce and then serve with any salad.

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Peanut Butter Dip

talat — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:39:29 +0000

Preparation time : 5 mins. | Serves ½ cup

This peanut butter dip has some sour and sweet taste with garlic flavor; therefore it is mainly served with veggies, fried stuff or sandwiches. You can adjust it according to your flavor.

Ingredients:

¼ cup peanut butter
2 tsp soy sauce
¼ tsp sugar
½ garlic clove (finely chopped)
½ tsp mustard
Few drops of Tabasco (to taste)

Procedure:

In a mixing bowl, whisk all the ingredients mentioned above and slowly add water to reduce its consistency. When the sauce becomes thick enough that it easily drops from spoon then it is ready to serve with sandwiches or any fried food.

Picante Sauce

talat — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:08:03 +0000

Preparation time : 5 mins.

Picante sauce is a kind of tomato salsa which is used in making casseroles, sandwiches and burgers. This sauce becomes spicy due to jalapeno but you can adjust the level of spices and other flavors according to your taste.

Ingredients:

2 lb tomatoes (peeled)
1 medium green pepper (chopped)
1 medium onion (chopped)
1 clove garlic (chopped)
1 jalapeno peppers
1/4 cup vinegar
1 1/2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
Pinch of oregano
Pinch of cumin

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Procedure:

1. In a blender put all the ingredients together and blend till become smooth.
2. Take out the sauce in a glass jar, cover it with its lid tightly and then place in fridge.

Italian Tomato Sauce

Kash M — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:56:38 +0000

Preparation time : 40 mins.

This Italian tomato sauce recipe is one of a kind of pasta sauce which is mostly served with noodles, spaghetti and casserole. This sauce can also be used in place of pizza sauce for making pizza. Though use of canned tomatoes in this recipe reduce its cooking time but its good taste develops only when fresh tomatoes are used.

Ingredients:

3 tbsp olive oil
2 cup onions (chopped)
1 medium bell pepper (diced)
2 tsp basil
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp thyme
Salt to taste
1 kg tomatoes (chopped)
3/4 cup tomato paste
1 tbsp honey
black pepper to taste
6 garlic cloves (minced)

Procedure:

1. In a deep sauce pan heat oil, it is better to use dutch oven as the taste of this Italian tomato sauce cooks mostly by simmer process so that all the flavors when cook slowly with tomatoes yield good taste.
2. Now add onion, garlic, bell pepper, basil, oregano, thyme and salt and saute for 10 mins. make sure that onions would not get brown.
3. After that add tomatoes, tomato paste, honey, black pepper and 1 cup water and let it boil on medium heat.
5. When sauce starts bubbling reduce the heat to very low and simmer for 30 mins.
6. When the sauce gets thick remove the pan from heat and then serve it with any kind of pasta.

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