Chicken hotdog

One of friend Sushil tagged me on FB for a post of cheese filled hotdog, as I watched video and way cheese was oozing out of hotdog. I immediately went out and bought stuff needed to make them.

Ingredients:
500 gms minced chicken
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp ginger paste
1 tsp cumin powder
1 tsp coriander powder
1 tsp chaat masala
1 tsp black pepper powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp red chilly powder
1 tsp tamarind paste
1 tsp garam masala powder
1 egg
1 medium sized onion finely chopped
4-5 cheese stripes (cut cheese block into stripes of 10x10 mm thick)
1 cup bread crumbs


Method to prepare marinade masala:
- In a frying pan saute onions over medium heat with ginger-garlic paste.
- Mix garam masala powder into mixture and saute till onions are cooked/tendered.
- Turn heat off and let it cool to room temperature.

Method to prepare marinade:
- In a big bowl, add all dry ingredients along with tamarind paste and mix well till smooth paste is formed.
- Now add prepared onion masala and mix well.
- Mix in minced chicken and egg to this mixture and knead mixture with hands to mix it nicely,
so that all chicken is nicely get marinated.
- Add bread crumbs to this mixture and knead mixture well.
- Add more bread crumb as needed till mixture starts holding well when pressed in hand.

Method to prepare hotdogs:
- Make 5-6 round shape portions of above mixture and start rolling them into cylindrical shape
- Make sure it is not very thin so that else they will tend to break while wrapping them.
- Place cheese stripe at one end of rolled out mixture and start wrapping like a roll.
- Use little oil to seal off edges from both side and smooth out outside edge.
- Our hotdogs are ready.


Grill them till they are cook Or they can be finish on frying pan as well. They are ready to eat when cheese starts to ooze out of it a bit. Serve with hotdog bread.


Tips:
Do not make very thin mixture for wrapping else cheese will ooze out while grilling, or hotdgos might break in half while transferring to/from grill or pan.
One can use same recipe to make burger patties/chicken cutlets as well :)

 

Grilled chicken burger

It was Wednesday and I had super craving for eating a nice non-deep fried burger which is hard to find where I live. So I decided to make one for myself.  After putting little efforts I was happy to realize its so simple to put a juicy chicken burger. Here is my version.

Ingredients:

Marinade:
chicken thighs 1 piece
1 tsp garlic paste
1 tsp salt
1 tsp crushed black pepper
1 tsp oil
2 tsp mix herbs

Spicy caramelized onions:
1 tsp melted butter
1/2 tsp cumin seed powder
1/2 tsp coriander seed powder
1 tsp red chilly powder
1 medium onion cut in julienne style

Sauce mix:
Mayonnaise + Worcestershire sauce  + chilly sauce (as per taste)

Topping:
cheese slice, jalapenos and as per choice.
and most important burger buns :)

Recipe:
Preparing marinade:
- rub salt, black pepper powder, garlic paste and herbs nicely on entire chicken thigh, I often prefer to puncture chicken thigh with knife tip many times so that marinade sticks nicely to eat and makes its way in deep chicken muscle. Also helps cooking faster.
- sprinkle oil on top and coat chicken nicely and kept aside.

Cooking:
- Take a frying pan and put it on medium high heat. Cook chicken nicely till flesh separates from bone.
- take out chicken and cover in aluminium foil.
- In same pan add all ingredients for spicy caramelized onions, and saute them nicely until they are nicely coated and becomes little tender.
- Take off from pan and keep aside.
-Warm up burger buns in this pan, so tat they will soak up all this good flavor nicely.
- Put aside burger buns.
- Shred chicken using forks and knife. Take a portion of this shredded chicken and put in pan,
add cheese slice on top.
- Apply sauce mix generously on burger buns
- As soon as cheese melts, carefully transfer chicken+cheese on burger bun (don't worry melted cheese helps shredded chicken stay together)
- Add your favorite topping, add caramelized spicy onions and enjoy your burger.

You may choose to put more sauce mix on top of chicken, one can adjust hot level by varying chilly sauce and chilly powder.