Stir fried chicken sausage and tortilla chips, with cheese cream sauce

I love chicken sausages as they have nice smokey flavor. But best part is they can be cooked pretty fast with less efforts. I love to eat sausages loaded with spices and along with cream cheese sauce, a combo of two different tastes blends very well.

Ok enough writing, here is how to cook this simple recipe.

Ingredients:
- chicken sausages (2-3) cut in about half inch thickness
- 1tsp Gigner-Garlic paste
- 2 tbsp finely chopped onion
- chilly flakes
- Mediterranean mix spices
- salt and black pepper for taste

For sauce:
- 150ml milk
- 1tsp all purpose flour
- 1 cup grated cheese
- 1 tsp butter
- 1 tsp oregano

How to put everything together.
- Heat a pan on medium heat and saute ginger-garlic paste, add finely chopped onions till they turn bit pink.
- Add sausage pieces and saute them till they appear golden brown.
- Add in spice mix, salt, pepper and chilly flakes
- Toss nicely and turn off heat, keep lid on.

Sauce:
- Add a butter to sauce pan over medium heat
- Add 1tsp all purpose flour and whisk with butter, make sure no lumps left and mixture does not turn brown.
- Add up milk and give it a nice stir
- Once milk starts to bubble stir in cheese until it melts completely and prepare a creamy sauce.
- Add in some oregano and we are done.

Take out sausages on plate, pour in creamy sauce and serve with some spicy tortilla chips.
It should look something like this

Home made cream cheese

Yes, I love cheese in all forms be it cream/spread/slice/cubes or any other form I just love cheese. Cream cheese is widely used in many western cuisines, be it dessert or main dish. However it is very less used in
our cuisine. Rather I don't think any of Indian cheese maker even produces creame cheese.

So bottomline creame cheese is way to much costly, I had checked it out in several super stores and had fallen on face after staring at its price tag. 250Rs/100gms, which is certainly costly, especially when anyone want to "just try" out a recipe :D

After searching and reading through various food blogs, I came across creame cheese recipe and decided to go for it. I referred recipe from
http://www.shesimmers.com/2010/12/how-to-make-cream-cheese-at-home.html

I changed proportions to suit experimental need. Its always good to try out in smaller quantities,so that even if you fail you tend to minimize wastage.

What we need:
1. 200ml fresh cream (amul fresh cream)
2. 120ml milk
3. 10ml of lime juice (no pulp)
4. 1 teaspoon of yogurt
5. Salt to taste

Method:

1.Mix together cream and milk in non-reactive bowl (glass bowl/stainless steel/food grade plastic bowl) and heat up till it gets warm (just wanr don't boil it)

2. Add 1 teasppon of yogurt and mix well

3.Add lime juice to mixture as well, lime juice will act as a coagulator and is must for making cheese, it can be referred as a rennet.

4.Cover mixture with a lid and set bowl aside overnight without disturbing. No need to keep it in freeze as we need to allow fermentation. Make sure place is bit warm. If mixture is kept for longer period then it will develop yogurt like taste and we don't want that.

5. Good morning, we are ready for next step. Mixture should be set by now and should look like yogurt,now use wire whisk and whisk for about 2-3 minutes. Add some salt and align cheese cloath on colander and drain mixture in cheese cloth.

6. Let it drain for about 30 minutes, then pull togther all ends of cheese cloth and seal it with a rubberband. Hang it in refrigerator with a bowl below it to gather all the liquid (whey) for about 24 hours. Yes in refrigerator, in Indian subcontinent day temperatures can reach upto 30-35 degrees even in winter which can cause cheese to become sour, so better use refrigerator.

7.Your cream cheese is ready, check consistency of it, if you want more thick version just hang it for another 12 hrs or so.




Enoy making cream cheese :). this makes about 275 grams of cream cheese. Unfortunately I don't have any pics, but I shall post them for my next trial.