Sunday, August 21, 2011
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
CHICKEN CURRY FOR THE BAGAARA RICE
This curry can be substituted with Mutton as well. Infact according to me Mutton tastes better . This dish i learnt from my Mother In Law.
Ingredients :
Chicken or Mutton 1kg
dry coconut 1/2 piece sliced and grinded to a paste
chilly powder 2 tbsp
Jeera powder 2 tbsp
garam masala 2 tsp
Kasuri Methi powder 3 tbsp
tomato 3
onion 2 big sliced
green chilly 7
ginger garlic paste 2 tbsp
oil 50 ml
coriander leaves a small bunch
Method :
Heat oil in a pan as hown below and put the sliced onions and saute for sometime. add cut green chillies to it and saute for some time till the raw smell goesoff.
add ginger garlic Paste and saute for 1 min . now add the cut tomatoes and saute well till the tomatoes gets pasty .
add the dry coconut paste and saute for some time. with this add red chilly powder , jeera powder and KASURI METHI POWDER
Now add the chicken pieces as shown below and allow it to cook. Add salt to taste .
once the chicken is cooked well add garam masala and garnish with coriander leaves .
BAGAARA RICE (Famous Hyderabadi Rice)
Bagaara Rice is a very famous Hyderabadi Rice which is simple and easy to cook. It tastes delicious . I am sharing with you the reciepe of making Bagaara Rice .
Ingredients :
Basmati Rice : 5 cups
water : 7 1/2 Cups( for 1 cup rice , take 1 1/2 glass water )
onion big : 2 cut in to small pieces
SAA Jeera : 2 tsp
turmeric powder : 1/4 tsp
coriander leaves : 1 big bunch
mint leaves : 1 big bunch
cinnamon : 5
green chilli : 7 big ( not sliced or cut )
bay leaves : 4 big
oil or ghee : 45 ml
salt to taste
Method :
wash the rice and soak it in water for half an hour . after that drain the water and keep aside. keep 7 1/2 cups of water to boil in a seperate vessel .
Now heat oil in a pan . add cut onions to it and saute well for 2 mins . add the green chillies and saute for a minute. now add saa jeera, and cinnamon sticks and saute for a minute . after that you can dump the rice and saute well till the rice turns white . add turmeric and salt . now pour the boiling water to this vessel , put coriander leaves, mint leaves , bay leaves and mix everything well . now close the vessel with a lid .after 10- 15 mins open the lid you will be just tempted to eat the rice from the vessel itself . it smells realllyyyyy good . serve hot with bagaara chicken curry or mutton curry .
FRUIT SALAD
Fruit Salad is one of the easiest and the tastiest dessert .
Ingredients :
fruits ( orange - 2 , apple -1 , grapes -few , mangoes - 1 big
milk 1 litre
sugar 1 cup
custard powder or egg
vanilla essence -2 drops
gelatin 1 pkt any flavour i use strawberry flavour
Method :
for the custard :
pour the milk in a vessel and heat it . while he milk is getting heated seperate 50 ml of hot milk from the vessel to a small glass. add 3 tbsp of custard powder and stir well until its smooth . meanwhile the milk will start boiling . add the custard mix to the boiling milk and stir the milk continiously for some time. you will notice the milk has become little thick . remove the vessel from the gas and keep aside to cool. put in 2 drops of vanilla essence in to it . you can refrigerate it .
while serving put the fruits first then pour the custard mixture on top of it and then put the jelly .
fruit salad is ready to serve
Sunday, August 14, 2011
TANDOORI CHICKEN, TANDOORI ROTI AND MINT CHUTNEY
For the Roti :
all purpose flour 3 cups
curd or milk 1 1/2 cup
butter 6 tbsp
sugar 2 tbsp
yeast 11/2 tsp
Method
Put the flour in a mixing bowl, heat the milk with butter until the butter melts and milk is warm. stir in yeast and sugar .pour the milk mixture over the flour. Mix and knead until its soft .cover and let the dough rest in a warm place for 4 hrs .divide the dough in to small portions . roll each portions and put it on the tandoor plate as shown in the above pic.cook for 3 mins.
For the Chicken :
chicken 1 kg
curd 1/2 litre
kashmiri chilli powder 2 tbsp
ginger paste 3 tbsp
garlic paste 3 paste
lemon juice 2 full lemon
red colour
salt to taste
cinnamon 5 sticks crushed to powder
cloves 15 crushed to powder
tandoor powder 2 tbsp
normal chilly powder : 2 tbsp
Method :
mix all the ingredients to the chicken and marinate it well. keep it refrigerated overnight or minimum of 4-6 hours
once its marinated keep the chicken pieces on the tandoori grill tray and cook for 15 mins both sides.
Coriander Mint Chutney :
curd 1 cup
coriander leaves few
mint leaves 15 numbers
ginger 1 small piece
garlic 4 numbers
green chilly 1 small
lime or tamarind little
Method
Insert all the above ingredients in a mixer grinder and make it in to a paste . chutney is ready !!!
CHINEESE NOODLES
Ingredients:
egg noodles 2 packets
beans 1/4 kg
carrot 1/4 kg
egg 3
soya sauce 4tbsp
green chillies 4 grinded
ginger 2 big grinded
water to cook noodles
salt to taste
method :
Boil water in a vessel , put the 2 packets of egg noodles and cook it . do not forget to put 2 tsp of cooking oil so that the noodles dosent stick and add 1 1/2 tsp of salt . once its cooked drain the noodles and keep aside to cool.
Place a big pan vessel , heat oil in the vessel and add the grinded chilly and ginger paste and saute until the raw smell is removed . Then put the cut carrot and beans and saute well . Add little water so that the veggies gets cooked easily . add salt to taste .
In a small pan scramble the eggs with salt and pepper powder .
Now add the earlier cooked noodles to the vegetables and also add the scrambled eggs , you can sprinkle little vinegar and soya sauce in the whole mixture and mix it well until the vegetables and egg scrambles are evenly spread .
serve hot with chicken curry or beef curry .
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