Cooking butter chicken is easy! Many might think so after browsing through a couple of videos on YouTube or flipping through fancy looking recipes on cookery magazines. Respite you all, it is an art!
An art that involves smokey, tangy, creamy and a rich taste. Tender pieces of chicken blended with right amount of spices to make you crave for it whenever you think of eating chicken.
I was elated to discover the same at Goila’s. Not just the butter chicken, Chef Saransh’s brainchild has his own recipe of everything he has included in the Menu. The joint is attractive and the name itself has a non vegetarian’s favorite eat.
Sindhi style mutton is again, that had right amount of flavors and spices to make it overpowering on the whole. The roomali rotis they serve are fresh and just perfect.
Chocolate Golgappa for desserts is one interesting out of box innovation on the food side. One suggestion to Chef Saransh would be get it copyrighted before it gets copied by someone.
To sum it up, Goila butter chicken is a must try for everyone who loves butter chicken or is willing to try a different flavor of all the dishes. Go ahead and place an order for delivery.
This is not just delicious, its healthy-licious! Washington Apples and USA Pears conducted the coveted Fruit-a-thon challenge for their second season!
Most of us know that junk food is unhealthy and yet our fast paced life is laded with kilos of junk throughout the day. We know that poor nutrition is related to heart problems, high blood pressure, and a host of other health ailments and yet, we crave for all of them.
Even when some of us are consuming a healthy diet, we most often forget an essential part of diet, i.e Fruits. They are not just refreshing, healthy and ensures of our well being; they provide high nutritional value, guard us against diseases and gives us more energy.
A fruit doesn’t need to be boring; fruits can be incorporated into your lifestyle in the most interesting ways! Like the ordinary Apples and Pears are a delight to make shakes, dips, salads and even desserts from!
Washington Apples & USA Pears introduced the concept of fruit eating in a fun manner and this time it witnessed enthusiastic participation from the people. The challenge entailed participants from 15 to 35 years of age and were asked to relish various lipsmacking fruit recipes prepared using USA Pears and Washington Apples.The contestants had a crazy competition where in they were divided into three teams with four participants each naming Fruit king, Fruit Tella & Fruit Maniac.
One member from each team had to participate in one round of the competition, the #USFreshFruitathon that had 4 challenges:
1. Shake It Up– A large jug of heavenly apple milkshake! No surprises here! Be the first to finish it and get your team to win!
2. Salad Salsa– A large bowl of apple and pear salad deliciously sinful you couldn’t tell its healthy!
3. Dip-a-licious– Eat as many crackers with the creamy apple dip that will leave you wanting more and more
4. Muffin Topper– Healthy apple cinnamon muffins that you can eat to your heart’s content without feeling guilty!
The pictures tell an awesome story of the challenge that I am craving for and hope you all are too! An urge to the organisers would be to conduct the challenge at the country level or may be scaling it to multiple cities for all the foodies to enjoy.
Last week I got the opportunity of visiting Go Cheese Factory, a good 2 hour drive from Pune operated from Manchar amidst Maharashtra’s Western hills. This is a home grown dairy farm and Cheese factory owned by the one of the pioneers of dairy products in India, Parag Milk Foods. The brand portfolio entails various dairy products from brands like Gowardhan, Pride of Cows, Topp Up and Go.
Dairy Products
On arrival we were offered Chaas (Buttermilk), Lassi & Badam Milk as welcoming drink and were briefed by the management team of the stories of establishment and unique innovative inventions in the Indian dairy industry.
The itinerary included to visit the home grown dairy farm, cheese factory and understand behind the scenes of the manufacturing of the delicious milk products. We started with the Bhagyalaxmi Dairy farm visit owned by the company where around 3500 cows are taken care to produce variety of milk and cheese products.
Members of the farm take good care of the cows right from their birth to handing over to farmers (once their milk production reduces) including sanitation, nutrition and survival. Thing which intrigued me was the automation at the farm to reduce contamination and avoid spread of communicable ailments. Even the rotary belt used to milch cows is fully automated and at a time can milch upto 35 cows. We also tasted the fresh milk that gets packaged in bottles of Pride of Cows to be delivered at various locations across and has been recognised as the best packaged milk.
Rotary belt for milking cows
Post the visit, we were offered lunch at the hall that had various products from the milk and cheese manufactured at the factory. There were varieties of Pizza, Pasta, salads and Indian dishes made with milk.
Pizza-Pasta served for Lunch
Now was the time for Cheese factory visit. Started with the dressing for the tour, we were given briefing of the various types of cheese produced and their uses followed by the showcase of various processes and procedures of the manufacturing and packaging. Most of the process is same except for the time required for ripening of the cheese for different kinds. While Mozarella takes 2-10 days to ripe with extreme cold temperature, Cheddar might take quarter to half an year.
Cheese Factory Visit
Cheese Factory Visit
The amazing experience came to an interesting end with some interesting interactive session with the factory team followed by Cheese tasting and high tea session. And we did get enough time to ‘Say Cheese’ throughout the tour.
Nothern India has always been the quintessential part of art, culture and specially food. Mughals and Persian dishes are worth swearing by and 1 thing I have always realised during my visit of Delhi and nearby locations is that it is always one place you can look upto in terms of chicken dishes with all the flavors.
I have always travelled to Mohammed Ali road for having my dose of tasty chicken but when I go to hear about the launch of ‘Delhi Zaika’ restaurant in Bandra by Mid Day it was worth paying a visit and believe me! you can truly skip travelling to Mohd Ali road during Ramzaan because whatever you need is all here in one place.
It was an afternoon when we went to the restaurant and I was famished of all the travelling, looking around for the place however its situated just walking distance from the Bandra Station near the Jama Masjid, in the local lane where eateries are famous (Ofcourse, Mumbaikars will able to relate to). Newly launched restaurant has a decent decor to please an eater for fine dining but I would suggest you don’t go with the intention of a fancy dining here.
The starters started coming in; at first we were served with the quarter plates of Tandoori chicken; the Chicken Barra Tandoori was less spicy but tasted perfect to start with which was followed by Peshawari Chicken Tandoori which was considerably more spicy and tasted better than the tandooris I have ever had.
North Indian chicken dishes are incomplete if we don’t talk about Afghani and hence, we were served with Afghani Malai Tikka and Paneer Malai Tikka. Both the tikkas were cream rich however some more seasoning could have helped making the dishes taste better.
Show was completely stolen by Chicken Delhi Zaika Special, the taste, garnishing and quantity; everything is to die for. I am definitely coming here many times just to savor this special gravy dish at the restaurant.
We ended our meal with awesome desi rabdi which I could have consumed many cups, had there been any space left in my tummy and caramel custard. To sum it up, the food served here is one of the best in town!
Address: Hasan Building, Shop No. 4, Bandra Station Road,
Opposite Bus Depot, Bandra, Mumbai-400050
Eating out these days is not just about food or ambiance anymore, its about complete experience. That is where the expertise of hotels like Renaissance come into being.
I had attended the relaunch menu of the Fratelli Fresh restaurant located inside the 5 star luxury hotel Renaissance catering to business crowd as well as people visiting for leisure trips.
So I entered inside the restaurant, greeted by the hotel staff and I just couldn’t stop myself from ogling at the food kept next to my stand. The ambiance is just wowsome and will lure you into affection if you are visiting anytime soon!
From the minute food was served on the table, I just devoured into it. The chicken margarita pizza was just worth it. And they also have an exotic collection of cheese to accompany your food.
Glass wall overlooking the Powai Lake, huge wine racks and open kitchen complete the decor of this spirited restaurant. The rack stacks massive number of Italian and current age wines. Now isn’t that an impressive collection?!
Fratelli Fresh spoils you for choice with the lavish food served from the newly launched menu. Delicious items in the menu will leave you confused as to which one is the best choice. All the dishes are delicious, I mean must try! We were offered Proscuitto e Formaggi, 3 mushroom risotto and spaghetti pasta cooked in arrabiata sauce.
The naughty glisten I had while the desserts were being served! Ofcourse, all of them were droolworthy. We were offered a place of fresh fruits the cocoa dust, mascarpone, Kahlua based Tiramasu and many more Italian delicacies with a mix of dry fruits and cheese.
By the way, did you have a glance at the fresh menu of Fratelli Fresh? Do say hello to Chef Christian whenever you happen to visit.
Healthy and tasty food sounds just a contradiction as any political agendas these days. But it is possible, believe me! I witnessed it during the prelaunch of a restaurant named FOODGASM situated amidst the foodhub of Bandra West.
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This is owned by a real estate Financial Analyst turned entrepreneur Kapil Ghorpade launched on January 22, 2016 with an amazing list of dishes on the menu. Here is an abstract of our calorie eating at the venue:
The table was already occupied with different varieties of breads which were being praised at almost all the tables and a unique thing which I observed was their way of serving water. There was mint soaked in the water jars giving it a flavor that stick to me and I am using the technique at my house as well.
Tasting started with a Power shot entailing banana, melon, almonds, walnut and dates followed by Hara Pyaaz soup which delighted the heart of all the foodies. I am not a fan of soups but this is worth your penny if you’re visiting the place any time soon. The hot and piping sipping enticed me for the further menu.
Hara Pyaaz Soup
The later servings were a mixture of vegetarian and non-vegetarian dishes. Turkish Grub salad which was a mix of chick peas, peppers, micro greens and goat cheese was served for vegetarians. More appealing for me was the Meat Lovers Salad which was a mix of prawns, shrimp and chicken liver garnished with tomatoes and leaves. Then followed the pani puri which was also in house prepared although lacked the authentic Indian taste.
Pani PuriQuinoa Biryani
We were then served the tandoor which was the most loved among the bloggers. Vegetarians got the grab of Apne Khet Se which was a mixture of cooked veggies while non-vegetarians divulged in the grilled Bangda/ Mackarel. This was yum!
Risotto
Then came the specially prepared main course for the preview dinner for the attendees; Quinoa biryani & Mummy Special Curry for vegans were just as delicious catch as were Grilled Tenderloin and Mummy Special Chicken Curry which was served with rice.
Grilled TenderloinMummy Special Chicken Curry
The tasting ended with a simple yet scrumptious dark chocolate brownie topped with vanilla ice cream and berries. The dessert was named as enticing as it sounded- dub smash. In all the name of the restaurant is apt- foodgasm and worth spending time with friends and family with nutritious and delicious food.
Dubsmash
Address: Shop No. 4, Ankleshwar Marg, Near IES College, Bandra Reclamation, Bandra (West), Mumbai. Landmark: IES College Bandra, Candies.
Caricatures on the wall, wooden tables with a casual look and a catchy logo are appealing to the eye. Decor reflects the owner’s charm and passion for creating a relaxing ambience to relish your food. His go-getter attitude is seen in him opening this venture and also his continuing support to his wife to reach new heights in her field, Lavina Q. (Senior VP in a leading MNC broking house). Delicious Food is the focus here with the owner’s infectious energy and enthusiasm being the icing on the cake.
Let me know how excited are you, for calorie-rich foodgasm?
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