The Desserts for Calories Conscious!

Calories Concious DessertsRice pudding is such a dish which is universally loved and every country has its own variant. In Pakistan & India it is generally known as kheer which though delicious. It is also very sweet and contains abundant amounts of full fat milk. The Western variation comes with a generous dose of cream and eggs in addition to the milk. The healthiest among the lot is the Thai version which is made with coconut milk & this is well suited for weight watchers as an occasional serving is definitely not as calorific as other versions. It has a fairly lower amount of sugar and no cream, eggs or milk. Traditional Thai pudding is topped with mangoes, which every one love to add when in season but during other times of the year, you prefer seasonal fruits.

The following recipe includes best topping – candied dried fruits. Try it, it willn’t fail your expectations!

Coconut milk pudding

Yield: 3 servings

Ingredients:

For the pudding:
Rice (long grain) – ½ cup
Water – 1 cupCoconut milk (first extract if fresh or half a can if using store-bought) – ¾ cup + ½ cup Granulated sugar – ¼ cup
½ Vanilla stick – slit horizontally and scraped directly

For the topping:
Toasted cashew nuts and almonds, chopped into small bits – 3-4 tbsp.
3 tbsp Sugar
Water – A little, to melt the sugar

Method:

The pudding: Soak rice for 3 hours. Drain well and pound coarsely so that the grains become half their size.

Boil water and add the pounded rice. Cook until water is absorbed.

Add ¾ cup coconut milk, sugar and scrape vanilla seeds (or you may substitute with vanilla extract) into the pan. Cook further, stirring well so that the mixture is evenly distributed throughout, until the milk is absorbed.

The topping:Heat a saucepan with sugar and water, just enough to melt the sugar. When the sugar melts, add toasted nuts and keep stirring until the nuts are well coated with sugar and the pan becomes dry.

Serving:In a bowl, pour some of the pudding, add a few tablespoons of fresh, thick coconut milk and top with candied fruits.

Karachifoods have many others delicious taste of desserts recipes from the desk of experts.

Let’s Enjoy Delicious Foods at Chatkharay Restaurant Karachi!

Chatkharay restaurant is a very famous and thriving restaurant situated in Khadda Market, Defence phase 5, just opposite the stadium.

Chatkahray RestaurantIts name also represents itself abut a tradition cuisines, so it offers traditional Pakistani desi cuisine in an upscale dining environment with some continental dishes as well. They also offer breakfast on all days of the week now.

They also announce the special menu of the day in their Black Board.

In the downstairs, there are some jars of “homemade” pickles/achar and other chutneys, sauces and spicy condiments are for sale.

There is a very attractive & Hygienic Dining hall upstairs. A LCD screen is also placed in hall to make customer entertain.  Some AC is also installing there to make the environment cool in this hottest summer season.

Here are some Special dishes of Chatkahray. They are truly scrumptious taste of food.

Mix Chart
Special Gool Gapay
Chicken shahlik

So Let’s Come towards Chatkahray restaurant and enjoy delicious taste of foods with your friends and families.

 

A delicious Whole Wheat Pita Pizza!

Let us Come to know that how to prepare a delicious Pita Pizza at home. For this pizza chose tomatoes, yellow peppers, red onion and fresh parmesan. Load it up with veggies and then put the cheese on top. It literally takes 15 minutes and you end up with a healthy and filling meal. Here is the Cooking method of pita Pizza with it ingredients.

Pita Pizza Ingredients:

  • For making 4 Pizza
  • 4 Whole wheat pita breads (make sure you get one that has ~130 calories and at least 4g fiber per round)
  • 1/2 red onion, chop
  • 1 yellow pepper, Chop
  • 2 tomatoes, Chop
  • 1 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
  • Pizza saucePita Pizza ingredients

The Direction:

Step 1: Warm your pita bread in a toaster oven or in a pan over low heat and chop your veggies.
Step 2: Now Top 1 pita bread with 1-2 Tbsp sauce, and a handful of each of the veggies (use as much as you like – the more veggies, the more fiber and nutrients are on your pizza!) I like to use a lot of veggies.
Top Bread
Step 3: Top it now with 1/4 cup (100 Calories) of cheese or a smaller amount depending on how much cheese you like.
Step 4: Finally heat the pizzas in a toaster oven until the cheese dissolves. And if you don’t have a toaster oven, you can heat the pizzas under a broiler at 350 degrees until the cheese dissolves (or in your regular oven at 350 degrees).
Pita Pizza finallyYou absolutely felt the wonderful taste of this pita pizza while eating this it.

Note: Using 1/4 cup of cheese, one pizza is about ~260 calories: 130 from the pita bread, 100 from the cheese, 30 from the sauce. You’ll also end up with about 10g protein, and at least 6g fiber.

So let’s go a head and take a bite of this delicious taste of Pita pizza with your families, friends & love one now.

Top 5 Buffet Restaurants in Karachi

Buffet restaurants in Karachi have always been popular. Food lovers always try to grab a bite of various dishes or want to indulge taste buds to many specialties, here is the restaurants that serve buffet meals. A buffet meal not only gives you an opportunity to taste a variety of food on the menu but also allows you to taste everything at a reasonable rate.
Karachi is an ideal place to many restaurants that serve up a scrumptious buffet. Here is top 5 Buffet Restaurant in Karachi.

Shan-e-Mughlia: Shan-e-Mughlia
It is Pakistan’s leading buffet restaurant which is owned by Chef Zakir. It is a good place for a Dinner buffet. There are more than 90 varieties of dishes offered by Shan-e-Mughlia in which mostly includes Pakistani, Chinese, Continental, Italian and even Indian dishes too. The service is efficient, the decor is simple yet elegant and the spread, extensive. So what are you waiting for? Visit at Shan-E-Mughlia and taste great Pakistani Indian, Chinese and Continental food.

 

Lal-Qila Restaurant:Lal-Qila Buffet Restaurant
Lal Qila Restaurant in Karachi is a dramatic and eye-catching insight of the glory of our sparkling esthetical essence. All the way a blend and modernism, adorned with courtesy of mughlai era lalqila buffet Pakistan offers you to dine out genuine Mughlai, Tandori, and Live Bar-B-Que & Traditional Pakistani cuisine. Lal Qila is one of the renowned restaurants of Pakistan located in Karachi near Shahrah-e-Faisal, just opposite to Awami Markaz.

Variety of dishes is being served at Lal Qila to its respected customers. Extensive range of over 90 dishes from diverse food genres are served at Lal qila’s ‘dastarkhawan’ .Lal Qila is an ISO certified restaurant. Proper Standards are preserved in terms of food quality, environment and over all environment. Lal Qila’s guest is the spotlight of all our activities. Lal Qila offers affordable price and frequently presents special offers and deals and provide the best value for money.

The Salt’ n Pepper Village Restaurant:Village restaurant

The Salt’ n Pepper Village Restaurant Karachi is to be found on the sea shore with conventionally designed four halls Fanoos Hall, Red Hall 1, Red Hall 2 and Blue Hall. Fanoos Hall is particularly planned for the reason of Luncheon, co-operate dinners, meetings and conferences for business. Village Restaurant Karachi offers a picturesque sight of the Arabian Sea and the daily, it is judged as the major and the most admired restaurant of the city. This buffet restaurant is renowned because of its quality food taste and special service.
The decor at Village Restaurant is stylish and very traditional that really feels like a village. The service is fine and this place is also good for hosting parties or corporate lunches and dinners. Salt’ n Pepper Village Restaurant is located at 3-B, Beach Avenue, Phase VI, D-H-A, Karachi. So lets come to see the most attractive view of the sea and scrumptious foods as well.

Rangoli Restaurant:

Rangoli Restaurant Karachi is positioned at Arena, well-known for Indian and Pakistani Cuisine. The Restaurant has an imposing architectural structure covering a range of international standard games and attractions for children like rock climbing, ice-skating and Brunswick bowling alleys and many more. Rangoli Restaurant is in fact a great place where each person likes every moment of life. The surrounding of the restaurant is par

Rangoli Buffetexcellence and the structural design is delicate with different halls sorting out the dining places. There are also live cooking areas where there are diverse ranges of dishes being cooked, like Shawerma, Saji, Kata cut, Pasta and more. Heart-touching music and sweet-smelling dishes insert to the matchless environment of the restaurant. So let’s come towards Rangoli and enjoy delicious foods & fantastic Games.

Mela Restaurant:

Mela Restaurant is a place which contains all sort of activity plus delicious Continental, Oriental, Local Traditional, and Barbeque Diet Cautious Food under single platform for the people of Karachi. Worth mentioning is that it has been also carefully plan to provide accommodation business and their yearly parties and events. Mela Menu includes Soups, Tandoori, BBQ, Sajji, Kata Kat, Fast Food Corner, China Town, Fish n Chips, Chatkhara Inn, Dessert, Cool Inn, Salad, Halwai and more with 54 selections of Buffet Dinner to go well with all groups of people.

So let’s come and enjoy the delicious buffet in reasonable price under a hygienic & attractive environment. For further information about buffet or more buffet restaurant visits now at Karachifoods.com.

Let’s Come to Know Some Basic Pakistani Kitchen ware!

A Pakistani kitchen consists on necessary cooking ware that can be used to prepare the southern region Oriental foods. If you are a newbie and wanted to set up your Pakistani kitchen for the first time, you could go through the referrals guideline that follows to get a concept about what Pakistani Basic kitchen ware that you should have to buy, to start off.

Here is the list of some basic necessary equipment for Pakistani kitchen:-

1.   A Flat Pan or A Tawa

A Flat Pan or  TawaA Flat Pan (A tawa) is used to cook the flat bread that is prepared by using a rolling pin or Belan. It looks like an American skillet but it is very larger in size. It is easily available in the market with stick or nonstick.

2.   Ladle or Kalchi

LadleIt is a Pakistani edition of a ladle and is used for mixing, preparation and also use for the distribution of foods. Traditionally it was made by wood but in this age a stainless steel; long hand-held ladle can be useful for stirring and serving meals.

3.   Hamam Dasta

Hamam Dasta is a very essential part of Pakistani kitchen or the Mortar and Pestle used for grinding and mixing spices. It can also be helpful for creating a curry pasteHamam Dasta or grinding spices to make a mixture called Gram Masala that is normally used in almost all Pakistani curries. That is traditionally made up by stone or wood. Nowadays the stainless steel edition is also available in the market.

4.   Karahi

KarahiKarahi is much heavier, deeper and quite small and is mainly used to fry and cook ingredients. It is mostly used for deep frying and cooks some special cooking dish like Karahi Gost. Nowadays a non-stick Karahi is also easily available in the market.

5.   A Grater (Kaddu Kass)

GraterA Grater can be used to grater vegetables and gourds. It is a very much helpful for cooking the perfect Gajar Halwa by grating carrots and make easy prepare different types of salad as well.

6.   Masala Daani or Spice Rack

Masala DaaniAny kitchen is incomplete without a spice rack specially Pakistani Kitchen. Traditionally there is a rectangular wooden box with compartments that have sliding lids; this has evolved from the traditional look and feel to being a metal container that holds small bowls & hold spices or masala.

7.    Stainer

stainerChalni is a handheld filter that helps to filter out solids from the liquids. It can be used to segregate dust from flour & rice before cooking them and also used for the segregate tea leaves from the tea and is usually made up of brass or stainless steel.

8.   Tongs (Chimta):

TongsTo prepare a perfect version of roti or flat bread, a chimta can be used for preparing the perfect bread. It can also be used to roast the perfect Papad as well.

 

 

The above cooking ware is most basic and essential that can be used any kitchen across the world for cooking some interesting Pakistani dishes. So let’s get some necessary kitchen ware and then ready to cook some delicious tasteful Pakistani cuisine by the help of karachifoods.com

Let’s have some Eid Ul Adha Top Special Recipes for a taste Full Eid!

Eid-ul-Azha is a time to strengthen family and community ties. People share meat as per Islamic rule and also invite one another to share some special meat dishes in this Eid-ul-Azha or Bakareid. It is important religious holidays celebrated by Muslims worldwide and prepare many special dishes by using sacrifice meats to make this eid more delightful. Every nation of the country have different taste which known as there tradition or specialty. Pakistani cuisine is a blend of cooking traditions from regions of the subcontinent. Although there are great variations from one area to another, Foods from Sindh province, and the Punjab region are identical to north Indian cuisine due to the strong similarity of taste.

Some of the popular Pakistani-cuisine that are specially prepare during the month of Eid-ul-Azha (Dhu al-Hijjah) are as following.

Lahori Beef Karahi: It served usually with freshly made tandoori naan and Chapati (roti).

Seekh kebab / Bihari Kabab one of the famous Eid ul adha foods usually serve with Paratha and Tandoori naan.

Shahi Koftay: It is one of the most notable recipes women make on special occasion like Eid-ul-Azha and due to its unique ingredients (masalhay) in Shahi style, Shahi Koftay is an admirable choice for every food lover.

Bhuni Hui Kaleji: it is a typical instant dish to serve just after ritual of slaughter to starts this Islamic fair.

Paaye: It is not a common dish because we usually prepare this recipe on big occasion like Eid-Ul-Azha or any celebration day at our family. People like Paaye with different kinds of Naan.

Hunter Beef: It is the most common recipe prepare at our home on Eid-Ul-Azha, people usually separated the leg part of a meat for Hunter Beef recipe.

Pasta koftay: It is a unique recipe because it’s a blend traditional recipe along with Chinese ingredients which make this dish distinctive for a big occasion.

Mutton Karhai: It is a familiar dish for almost every occasion like wedding and parties but noteworthy recipe for Eid-ul-Azha.

Korean Beef: It is a simple and full of flavor recipe. It’s perhaps our desired way to make beef, it is usually consists of marinated barbecued beef, or you can also make it with chicken but on an occasion like Eid-Ul-Azha it’s best with Beef.

Beef Biryani: It is a desired dish for everyone, but with Raita, Salad and any spicy sauce, it makes your mouth scrumptious on a day like Eid-Ul-Azha, so make this Islamic day a splendor for your family and friends by making appetizing Pakistani top recipes that turn out well on a this traditional carnival of Muslim.

Tips for Cooking perfect Fish Fried with some Easy Steps!

During the winter season usage of fish increase than the other season. Especially in Pakistan the demand of seafoods increased during the winter season which is very much helpful for keeping warm inside. Here is an exclusive tip for cooking perfect Fish Fried by following some easy steps that will be useful to you.

  1. First of all heat the cooking oil in a fry pan that should be very hot just before the fish is added.
  2. For checking the oil is hot enough, press the tip of wooden chopsticks to the bottom of the frying pan. It should crackle vigorously.
  3. To keep the temperature stable do not add too many pieces at once.
  4. When the edges of the fish change color then it is time to shift the fish with alternative. If the fish shifts easily, it is ready for turning.
  5. To handle with splash oil, first cover your hand and cover the pan with pan cover. There is also a special sieve-like cover with a handle that is perfect for preventing oil spatters from frying fish. If you cover the pan, note that the fish will cook faster.
  6. To minimize spattering oil, tap the fish dry with paper towel.

So now let’s move towards the kitchen and try these exclusive tips for cooking perfect Fish Fried and feel the taste of difference. Karachifoods.com has wide range of many others special sea foods recipes that are very easy and quick for cooking so lets enjoy this coldest winter season with some delicious taste of hottest sea foods Now.

Enjoy the Quick and Easy Delicious Taste of Saffron Focaccia Recipe!

Saffron Focaccia is a very easy and quick recipe. Note down some ingredients that are required for the preparation of Saffron Focaccia and then look down steps for the quick and easy preparation of Saffron Focaccia.

Ingredients:

  • Saffron thread a pinch
  • Boiling water 2/3cup
  • Flour 2cup
  • Salt 1/2tsp
  • Rapid Rise Dried yeast: 1tsp
  • Olive oil tbsp

For Topping

  • Garlic cloves 2sliced
  • Red onion 1 then cut into thin wedges rosemary sprigs
  • Black Olives 12, pitted and coarsely (chopped)
  • Olive oil 1tbsp

In the first step you need to place saffron in a cup or glass and insert the boiling water in leave to stand and infuse until lukewarm.

Saffron

And then place the flour, salt, yeast and olive oil in a food processor. Turn on and gradually add the saffron and its liquid. Processor until the dough forms and then brings it out on plate.

Dough Doubles

Knead it for a while through your hands and cover it for a short time and rest your pretty hands till the dough Doubles.

Dough

Punch down the risen dough on a lightly flour surface and roll out into round or oval shape, 1/2inch. Then place on a lightly greased baking sheet and leave to rise for 20-30 minutes.

Greased Baking Sheet

Preheated the oven to 400f. Press small indentation all over the surface of the Focaccia with your finger.

Press with you Finger Cover with the topping ingredients, brush lightly with olive oil, and bake for 25minuts or until the loaf sounds hollow when tapped on the bottom. Leave to cool on a wire rack. And then serve the delicious Saffron Focaccia.

Saffron Focacia

Let’s enjoy the tasteful quality hygienic foods at Hardees!

Hardees is one of the top international fast foods restaurants; it has their outlet in all over the world and serves the quality hygienic foods that are the supreme identification of Hardees Restaurant. Initially the first Hardee’s outlet in PakistanHardee's Restaurant opened at M.M. Alam Road Lahore and in 2011 it also launched its franchise at North Karachi. Its delicious taste of Hand-Scooped Ice Shakes and charbroiled 100% Meat Thick burgers is the main reason of Hardee’s popularity. The prices are little bit high as compare to other international fast foods however there is also not much space for enormous guest, parking area is also need to more space infect Hardees in north Karachi must have to increase his internal and external space so that the guest could easily facilitate.

 

The primary skills of the Hardees brand are their excellent quality, best-in-class menu, top excellent services and delivery systems, innovative menu offering. Hardees create its image as a youthful brand that why a number of youth attracts towards Hardees. Its value proposal for consumers is based on providing authentic and premium quality American Style burgers at a price that consumers are willing to pay for better quality, better service and better hospitality in a premium Quick-Service Restaurant (QSR) environment. Its offer made fresh to each order items, all you can drink beverage and many others unique drinks with best quality. It truly provides top greatest dinning experience through excellent items and environment to theirhrdees hand breaded Chicken guests.
After inaugurates Hardees Restaurant in Pakistan especially in Karachi gives the tough time to its competitor due to its scrumptious recipes with effective QSR service. Hardees have a fabulous range of Charbroiled Burger, Chicken & other, Sides, Desserts, Beverages and much more. It’s also visited by many celebrities specially shahid Afridi. So I recommend you to go at least 1time to the Hardees and feel the difference.

Use Negative Calories Foods and Loss your Weight Now!

All foods have a quantity of calories. No foods have in fact negative calories foods but the overall effect of certain foods in our body is the Negative calories. These are negative caloriesthe foods which use more calories to digest than the calories the foods actually contain. It is very hard to extract the calories from the body but the Negative Calories foods has tremendous fat burning qualities and its also known as a fat burning foods as well.

For Example: A piece of Desserts containing of 400 calories may required only 150 calories to be digested by our body, resulting in a net gain of 250 calories which is added to our body fat, but if you eat 100 calories of a foods that’s required 150 calories to digest, then it will be cause to burn the additional 50 calories simply by eating the negative calories foods.  Thus the more you eat the more you weight loss.

Negative calories

There are a large number of foods that have the low calories and delicious in taste. For reducing weight and to fight obesity, you should not starve anymore. You can eat a lot of negative calories foods to loss that extra fat and to become slim naturally. Some of these natural foods are:

Walnut, fig, Soya Bean, Olive, Carrot, Cucumber, papaya, spinach, Fish, Peanut, Ginger, Garlic, Amla , Apple, Mango, Pineapple, Limon/Limbu, Onion, Orange, cabbage, Celery, Berries, Cauliflower, Zucchini, Broccoli and many more. Karachifoods has fine range of negative calories foods recipes so let’s make yourself slim and smart by using the above ingredients in your foods  for reducing the weight and enjoying the taste.