Labhi Kabab

Ingredients:

• 500gm minced mutton
• 10g mutton fat
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• 5g shahi jeera
• 500g yoghurt
• 500ml water
• 3 big green cardamom
• 3 small pieces of cinnamon
• 1 tsp dry ginger powder
• 1 tsp dry mint powder
• 100g onion, finely chopped and fried till golden brown
• salt to taste
• 5 sprigs fresh mint leaves, finely chopped
• 5 sprigs fresh coriander leaves finely chopped

Preparation:

Mix the minced mutton with the mutton fat, 1/2 tsp turmeric, 1/2 tsp chilli powder, the shahi jeera and a pinch of salt

Make 16 small boat shaped dumpings and set aside.

Ina a pan, heat the yoghurt and water . Add the green cardamoms, cinamons, 1/2 tsp turmeric, 1.2 tsp chilli powder, dry ginger and mint powders, fried onions and salt to taste. Keep stirring to prevent the yoghurt from curdling.
When the mixture comes to a boil, add the boat shaped dumplings.

Cover the pan and cook on low heat for about 25 minutes.Garnish with fresh coriander and mint leaves.Serve hot.

Source:Femina

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Pao Bhaji

You don't always eat to assuage hunger and get nourishment. At times we eat for pleasure too. And some foods which we love to eat are from street vendors and dhabaa's. The food tastes exotic and we keep returning to such place again and again with friends and family. Pav or Pao Bhaji is a mumbai fast food, Pao meaning the bread and Bhajji - the curry.To prepare Pao bhaji

Ingredients:

• 6 pieces of bread ( Pav bread or Hamburger bread)
• 100gm carrot chopped
• 100gm French beans chopped
• 100gm peas shelled
• 250gm potatoes chopped (small)
• 200gm cauliflower chopped
• 4 onions chopped
• 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
• 3 green chillies chopped
• 200gm butter
• 250gm grated tomatoes
• salt to taste
• 1/2 tsp red chilli powder
• 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
• 4 tsp lime juice
• 1 tsp amchur
• 1 tsp garam masala

For Garnishing:

Chaat masala, onion rings and coriander leaves

Method:

Boil carrots, beans, peas and cauliflower till tender.
Melt 2 tbsp butter in a karahi/kadai
Fry onions, ginger-garlic paste, green chillies till it is brown in colour.
Add tomatoes, salt, red chilli powder, turmeric powder,lime juice, amchur and garam masala.
Cook for 5 minutes. then add this masala to the boiled vegetables
Mash these vegetables
Put butter and garnish with chaat masala, onion rings and coriander leaves.
Melt butter on a griddle , divide the Pav / hamburger bread into two and fry them pressing a liitle
Serve hot with the Bhajji

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Nattu Kozhi Curry Vindayi

Cooked with country chicken, lots of tomatoes, garlic, spices, cashew nuts, coconut milk and vinegar, the Pondicherry Vindayi tastes heavenly. Many Pondicherians feel the name "vindayi" has its origin in "vin d'ail", a French dish, meat cooked with wine.

Some say the Portuguese priests brought this Goan dish to this part of India. In fact, vinegar, a European condiment, is used intensively in Goan cuisine. And Goa is known for its vindalu. Vindayi and vindalu sound similar but the Pondichery vindayi tastes different.

Ingredients:

• Serves 6
• Cooking time 30 minutes
• Country chicken or mutton - 1 kg
• Onions - 5 big finely chopped
• Garlic - 2 big crushed
• Tomatoes - 7 big finely chopped
• Cumin seeds - 2 tbsp powdered
• Chilli powder - 1 heaped tbsp
• Cloves - 2
• Cinnamon - 1 small piece
• Bay leaf - Half a leaf
• Curcuma - 1 tsp
• Vinegar - 2 tbsp
• Gingili oil - 2 tbsp
• Cashew nuts - 8 ground to a fine paste
• Coconut - Half (extract the 1st, 2nd, 3rd milk)
• Salt to taste

Method:

• Grate half a coconut, put it in a mixer and run it with 100 ml of water. 
• Strain the liquid for the 1st milk. Keep aside.
• Repeat the operation for the second and third milk with 100 ml of water each time.
• In a deep frying pan, heat oil, add bay leaf, clove and cinnamon. 
• Let the spices splutter. Add onions, fry till golden, add garlic, cumin, chilli, curcuma and fry well. 
• Add tomato. Cook covered till the tomato is soft. 
• Add salt and then the chicken or mutton and fry till the gravy thickens.
• Add the second and third coconut milk. Cook on a low fire, till the meat is ready.
• Mix the cashew nut paste to the first milk and add it to the curry. 
• Add vinegar. Bring to a boil. The gravy should be thick. Turn off the stove.
• Serve piping hot with plain rice or ghee rice and Salade Pondichérienne.

Courtesy : The Hindu
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