Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label recipes. Show all posts

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Pulled Pork Slow Cooker

Pulled pork is pork roast made with barbecue sauce, onions and other seasoning. There are different ways of making pulled pork. Slow cooker is one of the best ways of making pulled pork. Using the slow cooker is best suited to make pork. The taste and the flavor of the pork is enhanced in the slow cooker. The meat cooked is tender, although it does take long to cook. We will see the pork recipes now.

Pulled Pork - Slow Cooker Recipes

The beauty of the pulled pork lies in the fact that it has been cooked on low heat for a number of hours, approximately 8 to 9 hours. Cooking the pork for a long period of time over slow heat makes it tender and the meat simply melts in the mouth.

Easy Pulled Pork Slow Cooker Recipe
This is one of the easiest slow cooker pulled pork recipes. Once you make pulled pork using this recipe, your family will keep asking for more.

Ingredients
  • 4 pounds boneless pork shoulder blade roast cut into 4 pieces
  • 12 soft Ciabatta rolls, warmed
  • 1 medium chopped onion
  • � cup ketchup
  • 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
  • � cup brown sugar
  • � cup tomato paste
  • 2 tablespoons sweet paprika
  • 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
  • 2 tablespoons yellow mustard
  • 1 � teaspoons salt
  • 1 � teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
Method
  • In a slow cooker pot put onion, brown sugar, tomato paste, paprika, Worcestershire, mustard, ketchup, vinegar, salt, and pepper.
  • Stir well so that all the ingredients are mixed well.
  • Add in the pieces of pork to the sauce mixture in the cooker pot.
  • Turn the pieces of pork in the sauce till the pieces are well coated with sauce.
  • Cover the crock pot with lid, set the cooker on low setting, and cook the pork for 8 to 10 hours, till the pork pieces become tender.
  • After the pieces or pork are cooked, remove the pieces into a large bowl.
  • Change the setting of the slow cooker to high.
  • Cover the pot with lid and heat the sauce till it thickens and reduces a little.
  • Till the sauce is boiling, using a fork, pull pork into shreds.
  • When the sauce boils, add the shredded pork to the sauce and toss, so that the sauce is combined with the pork shreds.
  • Cover crockpot and heat the pork shreds.
  • Place a spoon of the pork mixture on the ciabatta rolls.
  • Serve it with pickles, potato chips, hot sauce, etc. as per your likings.
BBQ Pulled Pork - Slow Cooker Recipe
One of the best ways of eating meat is barbecue meat. One can make a delicious BBQ even in a slow cooker. Following is a crockpot pulled pork recipe.

Ingredients
  • 2 pound pork tenderloin
  • 18 ounce bottle of barbecue sauce
  • 8 hamburger buns
  • 12 fluid ounce can or bottle root beer
Method
  • Place the entire piece of pork tenderloin in the slow cooker.
  • Pour root beer over pork tenderloin.
  • Cover the slow cooker with the lid and let the pork cook on low heat till the pork is well cooked.
  • When the pork cooks well it will shred easily
  • Depending on how tender the pork tenderloin is, it will take anywhere between 7 to 8 hours to cook well.
  • Once the pork is cooked, drain it.
  • Shred the pork and then add barbecue sauce to it.
  • Place it in the slow cooker again and let it heat a little.
  • Split the hamburger buns and lightly toast them.
  • Spoon the meat on the buns and serve hot.
These are the two simple variations of pulled pork - slow cooker recipes. You can make alterations to the recipe depending on your liking. When you are making the pork make sure you keep the temperature on low itself. So that the meat is tender and does not dry out. If required, you may add water, however most of the times it is not required.

Buffalo Sauce Recipe

Anybody, who at least eats non-vegetarian food, will agree with me that eating buffalo wings is simple heavenly. Even though we have different opinions on how the wings should taste (hot and spicy, sweet and spicy, Teriyaki-style, mild and sweet, etc.), the best way to have them is with delicious sauce. Whether you're baking or deep frying your wings, the buffalo sauce recipes mentioned in the article will definitely increase the delight of eating wings. Hence, we won't wait any longer and start cooking immediately.

Buffalo Chicken Wings Sauce Recipe

Making buffalo wing sauce from scratch is so much better than emptying any store bought bottle. The flavor is rich because you'll be using fresh ingredients for your recipes. Which is why, I think you should try these wing hot sauce recipes mentioned below.

Buffalo Sauce Recipe #1

Ingredients
  • 5 tablespoons tomato sauce
  • 4 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1 stick butter
  • 1 teaspoon oregano, fresh
  • � teaspoon garlic
  • � teaspoon onion powder
  • � teaspoon white pepper
  • � teaspoon chili powder
  • � teaspoon salt
  • Beer, for taste
  • Hot sauce, for taste
Directions

To make this best buffalo sauce recipe, take a medium pan, and melt the butter and brown sugar properly. Mix properly and then add in the tomato and hot sauce as well. After everything is mixed well, add garlic, white pepper powder, chili powder, onion powder, salt, and oregano. Add a splash of beer to enhance the taste of your sauce. Keep stirring occasionally as the mixture combines. Once the sauce is thick enough and ready, toss it over the wings generously.

Buffalo Sauce Recipe #2

Ingredients
  • 8 oz Ranch� dressing
  • � cup blue cheese, crumbled
  • � teaspoon cayenne pepper
Directions

To make the blue cheese buffalo dipping sauce recipe, take a medium bowl to empty the dressing, sprinkle in the crumbled blue cheese, and add the cayenne pepper. Mix everything properly and do a taste test. Once your wings are done, serve this sauce on the side.

Buffalo Sauce Recipe #3

Ingredients
  • 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
  • 2 teaspoons spicy mustard
  • 1� cups barbecue sauce
  • � cup honey
  • Tabasco, for taste
  • Salt and black pepper, for taste
Directions

To make this easy buffalo sauce recipe, take a pan and mix barbecue sauce, spicy mustard, Worcestershire sauce, honey, and Tabasco together. Heat the pan till the sauce combines and turns thick. Do a taste test and add salt and pepper accordingly. Use this sauce over your deep fried chicken wings.

Buffalo Sauce Recipe #4

Ingredients
  • 4 tablespoons oyster sauce
  • 2� tablespoons soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon dry sherry
  • 1 cup water
  • � teaspoon sugar
Directions

To make this buffalo wing sauce recipe, take a pan to mix oyster sauce, sugar, soy sauce, water, and dry sherry together. Keep the heat at medium-low, place a cover on the pan, and let it cook for about 10 minutes. Take the cover off and let the sauce cook uncovered some more time. Once the sauce is thick enough, baste your baked chicken wings with it.

Buffalo Sauce Recipe #5

Ingredients
  • 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • � cup honey mustard
  • � cup cayenne pepper hot sauce
  • Salt and black pepper, for taste
Directions

To make our final sauce recipe, take a medium pan to combine honey mustard, butter, cayenne pepper hot sauce, salt and pepper properly. Stir everything and let the sauce cook on medium-low heat for about 5 minutes. Once the sauce is thick enough, serve it warm with hot buffalo wings.

These buffalo sauce recipes are really easy to prepare as the ingredients are very few and the directions are simple. So next time when you're ready to cook wings, don't serve the wings dry. Try these homemade hot sauce recipes and have a ball of a time eating them.

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Best Funnel Cake Recipe

A funnel cake is an interesting and easy dessert to prepare, and can be done anywhere, anytime, be it from the comfort of your home or for a bake off sale/fair/carnival. This recipe originated from the Pennsylvania Dutch region in the US, and is a favorite among the people. This tasty dish is made by pouring batter into a big funnel spout, where the batter is then poured into hot oil, in a circular fashion, making the soft batter take on a knotty look. Once it deep fries, the outcome of the funnel cake is crisp on the outside, and soft and chewy on the inside. It can be eaten with anything from fruits strew around it to flavored syrups spread generously on its surface. Here we have some of the best funnel cake recipes, that are sure to tickle your palette.

Homemade Funnel Cake Recipes

To make this dish, we first start off with one of the best funnel cake recipe using a pancake mix. This will give you a nice, sweet and creamy texture on the inside of the funnel cake when you take that first bite. This is also an easy funnel cake recipe, that can be made in the comfort of your kitchen.

Funnel Cake with Buttery Chocolate Chips

What You'll Need:
  • 2 cups of milk
  • 3 eggs
  • 3-4 cups of all purpose flour
  • � cup of sugar
  • Chocolate chips (� bowl)
  • Two teaspoons of butter
  • 2 teaspoons of baking soda
  • � teaspoon of salt
  • Vegetable oil
  • Deep bottomed pan
  • Funnel spout
  • Tongs
Method of Preparation

Take a nice big bowl and whisk in your 3 eggs, milk, flour, sugar and baking soda. Do this until you've reached a good consistent batter. Make sure you've got the oil heating on the gas beforehand (375o F). When the oil's hot enough, that is, when you see it ripple on the surface, you know it's ready. When you pour your batter into the funnel spout, make sure the other end is sealed with a stopper. Then gently place the funnel two inches above the oil, and start moving your arm in a circular motion, so that the batter curls and twists, giving it that wriggly look. Repeat the circular pattern, alternating your hand movement to crisscrosses, to overlap the batter into thick elongated clumps. Keep the funnel spout aside, and wait for your batter to turn golden brown in color. When it turns into that nice shimmery brown crispy exterior, flip it over occasionally. Once that's done, turn the gas off and gently place the funnel cake using the tongs, onto a tray with kitchen roll on the bottom. Leave it there for the sheet to soak up the excess oil from the cake. Pat the top of the funnel cake as well, to remove oil covering the top. Then apply the butter evenly, before you then generously shower the cake with chocolate chips. You can alternate ingredients in this funnel cake mix recipe, using chocolate shavings, raisins, nuts, jam or cinnamon dust.

Carnival Funnel Cake Recipe

If you've got a bake off, or carnival/fair date coming soon, you can set up your stall and offer carnival goers with one of the world's best funnel cake recipes. Here's showing you how to make funnel cake, when you try your hand out at making it for the carnival/fair or wherever else you please.

Vanilla and Lemon Funnel Cake with Strawberry Cream

What You'll Need:
  • 4 cups of flour (all purpose)
  • � cup of sugar (powdered)
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons of baking soda
  • 1 tablespoon of butter
  • Two tablespoons of vanilla extract
  • A teaspoon of lemon zest
  • Two tablespoons of double cream
  • 4 strawberries
  • 3 cups of milk
  • � teaspoon of salt
  • Vegetable oil
  • Funnel spout
  • Tongs
Method of Preparation

Start heating the oil at 375o F, and then move on to the batter. In a big bowl, whisk in 1 cup of milk, the 4 cups of flour, then sugar, butter, vanilla extract, eggs, baking soda, salt and lemon zest. Once the batter reaches a creamy finish, pour it into the funnel spout, using a stopper at the other end to avoid spillage. Once the oil heats up, hold the funnel spout two inches above the oil and start spreading your batter in a circular motion, till all the batter runs out. While that deep fries, take a blender and mix in the strawberries, one cup milk, double cream and about a teaspoon of sugar. Keep it aside, and attend to your funnel cake again. Remove the deep fried cake using the tongs, and let it sit on a tray with tissue roll layered in to remove excess oil. Cut it into even slices starting at the center and making your way to the end. Once you have your neat triangles, you can spread the strawberry cream on each, coating it evenly on all slices; and there you have it.

Now that you have the best funnel cake recipes, all you need to do is start cooking. Alternate your toppings with anything that you like or find delicious when combined with the funnel cake recipe. This will give you a chance to experiment with different ingredients, changing the taste every single time. There's nothing to it really, with these easy funnel cake recipes. Bon appetit!

Monday, September 16, 2013

Shrimp Marinade Recipes

Marination helps to tenderize tougher cuts of meat and also add flavor to the meat. The marination process may require a few minutes or it can also last for a few days. Different marinades are used for different types of meat. The ingredients used to make the marinade are often acidic in nature. They normally contain ingredients like vinegar, lemon juice, wine, soy sauce, etc. Different oils, herbs and spices can also be added to the marinade. In this article, we will concentrate on the shrimp marinade recipes.

Marinade Recipes - Shrimp Marinade Recipes

Here are some of the simple shrimp marinade recipes. You can use these recipes to make marinade for fresh or frozen shrimps. Depending on your choice, you can either make use of the indoor grill for grilling or grill the shrimps outdoor. I often make shrimps using these recipes in my indoor grills, but enjoy the shrimps sitting in the balcony.

Grilled Shrimp Marinade Recipes

This is one of my favorite grilled shrimp marinade recipes. If you do not like spicy food, then you can do away with the cayenne pepper mentioned in this shrimp recipe.


Ingredients
  • 2 pounds Shrimps
  • 3 cloves Garlic
  • 1/3 cup Olive Oil
  • 1/4 cup Tomato Sauce
  • 2 tbsp Red Wine Vinegar
  • 2 tbsp Chopped Fresh Basil
  • � tsp Cayenne Pepper
  • � tsp Salt
Method

  • Peel and devein the shrimps before you grill them.
  • Mince the garlic clove and place them in a mixing bowl.
  • Add olive oil and tomato sauce to the minced garlic and mix well together.
  • Then add red wine, salt, cayenne pepper (if required) and chopped basil to the olive oil mixture and mix well.
  • The marinade is now ready. Pour the deveined shrimps to the marinade, coat well, cover and place the shrimps in the refrigerator for 45 to 60 minutes.
  • While the shrimps are marinating stir them a couple of times.
  • Till the shrimps are marinating preheat the grill on medium.
  • Remove the shrimps from the refrigerator and thread them onto the skewers and grill the shrimps for 2 to 4 minutes on each side till they are opaque.
  • Serve the grilled shrimp recipe with the salad of your choice.
Garlic Shrimp Marinade Recipe


If you like the flavor of garlic to your shrimps, then this recipe. This is one of the easiest to make of the different garlic shrimp marinade recipes you will come across. Let's see the grilled garlic shrimp recipe.

Ingredients
  • 2 pounds Large Shrimp
  • 2 large Shallots
  • 2 inch piece Fresh Ginger
  • 4 cloves Garlic
  • � cup Fresh Lime Juice
  • 2 tbsp Sugar
  • � cup Green Onions
  • � cup Peanut or Olive oil
  • � cup Soy Sauce
  • � tsp Fresh Coarsely Ground Black Pepper
Method

  • Peeled and chop the shallots, ginger.
  • Smash the garlic cloves and chop the green onions.
  • Do not remove the shells and tails of the shrimps. Leave them on.
  • In a blender, blend together shallots, ginger, garlic together, until they are smooth.
  • Then add soy sauce, lime juice and sugar to the shallots mixture and blend well till smooth.
  • At last add black pepper to the marinade.
  • Pour the shrimps in a bowl and drizzle the marinade over the shrimps.
  • Let the shrimps marinate for 30 to 45 minutes.
  • Till the shrimps marinate preheat the grill, remove the shrimps from the marinade and grill them till they are done on both the sides.
Spicy Shrimp Marinade Recipe


If you have been looking for spicy shrimp marinade recipes, then your search ends here. Here is one of the best recipes to make spicy marinade. Here's another delicious shrimp recipe.

Ingredients
  • 2 pounds Large Shrimp
  • 1 tbsp Dry Mustard
  • � tbsp Minced Garlic
  • 1 tsp Freshly Grated Lemon Peel
  • � cup Fresh Lemon Juice
  • � cup Fresh Parsley
  • 2 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
  • 2 tbsp Red Wine Vinegar
  • � cup Vegetable Oil or Olive Oil
  • � cup Soy Sauce
  • � tbsp Paprika
  • � tsp Ground Red Pepper
Method

  • In a large mixing bowl mix together dry mustard, minced garlic, lemon peel, lemon juice, chopped parsley, Worcestershire sauce, red wine vinegar, oil, soy sauce, paprika and ground pepper.
  • Add the shrimps to the sauce and roll well in the marinade.
  • Let the shrimps marinade in the sauce for 45 to 60 minutes.
  • Remove them from the marinade and thread them on the skewers and grill them till done.
These were some of the shrimp marinade recipes which you may want to try out when you want to make some great grilled shrimps. You can make changes to the recipes as per your choice as well.