Sid Khullar - Chef at Large

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Chicken in Black Bean Sauce with Vegetables

By Sid • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Deserts, Healthy, Leftover Ideas, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food

Cooking all three meals every day isn’t proving to be as much of a load as I thought it would be. After reaching home around 7:00pm with fresh vegetables and breads, dinner is ready in the next 1 hour. The next morning, breakfast is usually served around 7:30am with sandwiches for lunch ready by 8:15am. [...]



Fried Pomfret - Indian Style - I

By Sid • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Cooking For Kids, Dinner, Indian Food, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Posts, Seafood

During interactions with many North Indian friends, I find many are interested in trying out fish dishes at home, but they simply aren’t sure how to cook it. Most are quite comfortable with chicken and meat dishes, but with fish they’re like… pardon the pun, a fish out of water.
This dish is easy to cook, [...]



Fried Pomfret with Sweet Chilli Sauce

By Sid • May 7th, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Dinner, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food, Posts

The pomfret is such a versatile fish - it goes well with most flavors you can throw at it and tastes wonderful even with the simplest of seasonings. I’m going to try different styles of cooking this great fish.
For this version, make a couple of slits in the fish on both sides, rub some sea [...]



Review: Nazeems, Sector 18, NOIDA

By Sid • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Dinner, Fast Food, Indian Food, Lunch, Middle Eastern Food, Non Vegetarian Food, Posts, Restaurants In NOIDA, Reviews, Starters, Vegetarian Food

We were shopping yesterday and I saw this place that I’d never visited - Nazeems. Thinking I’d pop in for a quick snack, I headed over. Located in a corner of sector 18, NOIDA, Nazeems claims to have been serving the public since Adam. Inside, it has a college canteen kind of decor and the [...]



Review: Wok and Talk, Great India Place, NOIDA

By Sid • Apr 24th, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Dinner, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food, Posts, Restaurants In NOIDA, Reviews, Soups, Starters, Vegetarian Food

Wok and Talk is a part of the Spoon Food Court, in the Great India Place, NOIDA. Just like any other food court, you can take in the many aromas wafting around the place, the hubbub of many people talking at once and the occasional loud crash of a strike at the bowling alley ahead.
The [...]



Kebab Curry Noodles

By Sid • Apr 22nd, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Dinner, Fusion Food, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food, Posts

I found these freshly made noodles in the market yesterday. All you need to cook them is a couple of minutes in salted, boiling water. So, I tried this recipe out, which resulted in a spicy combination of curry, noodles, kebabs and coconut.
First, boil your noodles, chop the kebabs and onions and squeeze out the [...]



Review: The Fortune Cookie, Sector 18, NOIDA

By Sid • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Deserts, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food, Posts, Restaurants In NOIDA, Reviews, Salads, Snacks, Soups, Starters, Vegetarian Food

Meeting with some long lost friends, their parents, their children and so on, we landed up at Fortune Cookie on Friday night.
It’s a nice place really - the owner is an ex-shippie who has ransacked his house and placed all his collected oriental artifacts in the restaurant. Decorated with an overpowering shade of red, The [...]



Pepper Tuna with Tomatoes

By Sid • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Dinner, Fusion Food, Italian Food, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Posts

Watching a travel program this evening motivated me to run into the kitchen and start doing *something*, not knowing exactly what I was going to end up with.
I started by cutting a few slices off a gourd and sauteing them in a little olive oil. Next came the tuna, which was steamed, shredded, seasoned with [...]



Pan Haggerty

By Sid • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: British Food, Cooking For Kids, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Posts, Snacks, Vegetarian Food

Pan Haggerty is a delicious and simple to make dish. I wouldn’t say its quick, but your kids will love it. My wife ended up scraping the pan, so I’m pretty sure it appeals to children. (I hope she’s not reading this).
Oil a pan, put a layer of sliced potatoes, then a layer of sliced [...]



Review: Mexican Mania, Great India Place, NOIDA

By Sid • Apr 7th, 2008 • Category: American Food, Fast Food, Lunch, Non Vegetarian Food, Posts, Restaurants In NOIDA, Reviews, Starters, Vegetarian Food

Mexican Mania is a part of the Spoon Food Court, in the Great India Place, NOIDA. The ambience is what you would expect in any mall food court – loud music, the buzz of people everywhere, the sizzle of food cooking, intermingling aromas of different cuisines et al.
The available menu is rather sparse, and [...]