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Chicken Teriyaki

Teriyaki is a kind of sauce most popular in Japan. Chicken cooked in teriyaki sauce on a wide hot pan is known as chicken teriyaki. I had tasted it in Sarku Japan, New Jersey. They offer a sample of chicken teriyaki pieces whenever you cross that eatery and you will like it at the very first attempt. It's a sweet sauce though, you might not fall in love with it if you prefer spicy food. Ingredients: 1 garlic clove nicely minced 1 tsp grated ginger 2 tbsp brown sugar 2 tbsp soy sauce 1 tbsp gingelly oil 1 pound of chicken pieces Steps: 1. In a heavy bottomed pan, add oil. Once it's warmed up add ginger and garlic. Saute for a minute. 2. Then add chicken pieces and saute it well for  8-9 minutes. Now the chicken is half cooked. 3. Add soy sauce and brown sugar. Stir well and cook it in high flame for another 5-6 minutes. 4. The gravy gets thicker as the sugar melts and gets mixed with the chicken. 5. If you need more sauce, go ahead and ad...

Eggplant curry

Eggplant curry is made using peanuts and sesame seeds predominantly. The flavour of peanuts and the oily sesame seeds make the curry rich in texture and taste. Chappati and eggplant curry is personally my choice of food for dinner. Let's take a look at the ingredients. Ingredients: 1 medium sized eggplant or 5-6 brinjals slit vertically along with it's stem 1 carrot, optional 1 tbsp black pepper corns 2 tbsp peanuts 2 tbsp white sesame seeds 3 tbsp sesame oil Few curry leaves 3 green chillies, slit vertically 1 tbsp thick tamarind paste 1 tsp red chilli powder salt to taste Steps: 1. Dry roast the peanuts till light brown, Then add sesame seeds and roast till sesame seeds turn light brown. We need to add sesame seeds later as it turns out brown quickly as compared to the peanuts. 2. Let it cool completely. Then add the peanut and sesame seeds mixture to a mixer and grind it to a coarse powder. If you grind nicely, the eggplant curry would become l...