Cheese and Chilly Spread

Food industry lost one great player when Shekhar decided to become a techie!

Having said that, let me share an interesting spread that Shekhar made in 5 minutes...

You will need
1. Grated Mozzarella / Monteray / Mixed cheese - 1 small bowl
2. Green Chillies - 10/12 [depending on your taste]
3. Garlic - 5-6 cloves
4. Crackers
5. Bread

How to Make
1. Coarsely ground the chillies and the garlic
2. Mix nicely the grated cheese, ground chillies and garlic and salt
3. Microwave for 1-2 minutes, right before serving

You are done!
To eat, you can spread the mix on a cracker and cover it with another. Microwave the cracker pairs for 30 second. The cheese will stick the crackers together! Enjoy your snack :)

You can also spread the mix on toasted bread and top with onions / tomatoes for a hot and spicy breakfast / brunch that melts in your mouth!

Yummy Chicken Sticks

This is a very interesting finger food and can be served with your drinks. Easy to make, and delicious to eat!

What you will need:

1. Chicken.
Breast Pieces cut in thin stripes. You can have about 4 stripes from one regular sized chicken breast piece. Glaze lightly the chicken stripes in 1 tbs melted butter.

2. Batter.
There will be a dry batter made with the following:
- Red Pepper [1 tsp]
- All purpose flour [2 tsp]
- Black Pepper [1 tsp]
- Grated Parmesan Cheese [2 tsp]
- Lemon Zest [1 tsp]
- Salt [to taste]

Preparation
1. Pre-heat the oven to 350F
2. In a plastic pouch, put all the dry ingredients and shake well
3. Put the glazed chicken in the pouch and shake again - rigorously
4. The shaking will cause the batter to nicely coat the chicken stripes
5. Put the coated chicken stripes in oven for 10 minutes
6. Take tha chicken pieces out. They will be almost done. Glaze them thoroughly with some barbecue and spicy sauce on all the sides
7. Put the chicken back in oven and bake for another 5 minutes

Bake the chicken right before you are ready to serve, because you will not be able to resist the spicy and hot chicken for long!

PS: You can use this chicken in the quesadilla recipe, I have mentioned earlier 0r as a filling for sandwich.

Quick Quesadilla

This is a simple recipe to make quesadilla at home. It turns out pretty fine, the first time. A quesadilla is a toasted tortilla with melted cheese inside. Infact, 'queso' in Spanish means "cheese". Tortilla is the base used to make the quesedilla, and is usually made with corn flour. I used regular and jalepano tortillas in this recipe.

You can stuff a variety of fillings in the Quesadilla, however, this is not a requirement. In this recipe, I am making Chicken Quesadilla.

You will need:

1. Tortillas

2. Grated Cheddar Cheese

3. Grated Monterey Jack Cheese

4. Olive rings [Optional]

5. Bell Pepper rings [Optional]

6. Grilled Chicken breast pieces

Steps to make Quesadilla

1. Pre-heat the oven at 300F

2. In a working board, place the tortilla

3. On half side of the tortilla, top generously with Grated Cheese

4. Spread the chicken pieces, olives and pepper rings on the cheese. Sprinkle some more cheese

5. Fold the tortilla to cover the stuffings, quite like an omlette

6. You may combine some salsa to the stuffing.

7. Place the stuffed tortillas in the oven and bake for 3-4 minutes, or untill the cheese has melted and the tortillas are crispy

8. Once, out of the oven, cut each quesadilla into wedges. Three wedge per quesadilla is the ideal size.

The chicken stuffing can be bought from frozen food section of any food store. Or, you can make them at home as described here.

Server with Guacamole, sour cream and Salsa for a delicious meal.
You can make quesedillas with variety of stuffings, including, shrimp, other meats or vegetables.

Enjoy!

Potato - Cheese Crispies

Prepare this if:
1. you are in a hurry
2. you want to make a simple, fast snack
3. you want something new for your kid
4. you are watching a movies and tired of popcorns
5. you don't know what to do with life

Potato - Cheese Crispies
1. Heat the oven at 300F
Meanwhile,
2. Peel two potatoes and wash them
3. Slice the potatoes in thin circles
4. Rub the slices with salt and pepper
5. Baste the baking sheet or tray with some oil
6. Put the potato slices sprayed out in the tray
7. Cover them with shredded parmesian chees
8. Put in (now hot) oven for 5 (to 10) minutes

Crispie Potato Cheese Snack is ready