Lamb Chop Malani

Ingredients:

• 800gm lamb chops (24 pieces)
• salt to taste
• 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
• 2 tbsp vinegar or lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp red chilli paste
• 1 tsp raw papaya paste
• 2 tbsp oil

For Sauce:

• 1 tsp garlic chopped
• 1 tbsp soya sauce
• 3 tbsp fresh tomato puree
• 1 tbsp coriander leaves chopped

Preparation:

Clean lamb chops and pat with the back of the knife. Rub with salt and leave aside for 10 minutes. Then squeeze out the moisture.

Rub in the rest of the ingredients and leave overnight.

On a hot plate or grill, grill the lamb chops till they are tender and cooked.

In a pan take 1 tbsp oil. Add garlic and cook till garlic becomes transparent but not brown and add soya sauce and tomato puree.

Coat the lamb chops with this sauce and serve hot. garnish with chopped coriander leaves

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Chicken Bijarani

Ingredients:

• 800gm boneless chicken (leg only)
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
• 1/2 tsp red chilli paste

For Sauce:

• 1 tsp brown onion paste
• 2 tbsp tomato puree
• 10 crushed pepper corns
• 1/2 cup chicken stock
• 1/2 tsp butter
• 1/2 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp coriander leaves chopped
• 1 tsp chillies chopped

Preparation:

Rub pieces of chicken with salt and ginger-garlic paste and red chilli paste and leave aside for 60 minutes.

Grill the pieces of chicken on a grill in medium temperature till they are light brown and cooked

To prepare gravy:
Melt the butter in a pan, add crushed pepper corns and fry for a minute. Add brown onion paste and tomato puree and coriander powder and cook till oil separates. Now add chicken stock and grilled pieces of chicken and simmer till sauce starts sticking to the chicken pieces

Serve garnished with chopped green chillies and coriander leaves

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Prawn Ballaoucha

Ingredients:

• 800gm prawns

For paste:

• 50gm red chilli whole seedless
• 25gm cloves
• 20gm jeera
• 15gm mustard seeds
• 25gm ginger
• 20gm garlic
• 20gm onion chopped
• 50ml vinegar

For gravy:

• 25ml oil
• 10gm garlic finely chopped
• 100gm tomato puree
• salt to taste
• onion chopped
• 5gm coriander leaves chopped

Preparation:

Clean and wash the prawns and keep aside. Make a paste of the above mentioned ingredients 2-9 in a mixie/grinder. Marinate the prawns with this mixture and keep it for 2 hours at room temperature.

Heat a pan , add oil and garlic and also add onions and cook for 2 minutes. Add the prawns and cook further for 10 minutes.

When the prawns are 3/4 cooked, add tomato puree and salt and cook further for 5 minutes.

Serve hot garnished with chopped coriander leaves.

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Prawns Pattar Pani

Ingredients:

• 800 gm Prawns
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 15 ml lemon juice
• 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste in the ratio of 1:2
• 1/2 tsp red chilli paste

For Sauce:

• 1 medium-sized onion
• 4 tomatoes
• 2 tbsp tomato puree
• 1 tsp garlic finely chopped
• 1/2 tsp green chilli finely chopped
• 2 tsp coriander leaves chopped
• salt and pepper to taste
• a pinch of clove powder

Preparation:

To prepare prawn:
Clean the prawns, rub with salt and leave for 10 minutes.Squeeze out moisture, add lemon juice, ginger-garlic paste and red chilli paste. Keep aside for 4-5 hours.


To prepare sauce:
Blanch the tomatoes in boiling water, remove skin and seeds and chop finely. Heat oil in a pan and slightly fry onions and garlic and add rest of the ingredients and simmer for 20 minutes. Now grill the prawns on a griller in medium temperature, arrange in a sigri and top with the prepared sauce.

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Panner Kala Angur

Ingredients:

• 600gm cottage cheese (cubes 1 cm)
• 200 gm black grapes crushhed
• 60gm aam papad (sweet and sour type)
• 5gm black salt
• 2gm red chilli powder
• 80 gm jaggery
• 5gm salt

Preparation:

Crush the black grapes separately. Chop both the types of aampapads and mix together. Make a powder of black salt and crushed jaggery.

Heat the saucepan and put all ingredients other than the cottage cheese together and cook on slow fire till this mixture achieves a jam-like consistency. Add seasoning.

Add cut cottage cheese cubes and mix well. Cook further for 5 minutes and remove from fire. Serve hot.

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Bharwan Chicken Makhani

The mouth water recipes for the famous Indian dhaba food Bharwan Chicken Makhani or the Stuffed Butter Chicken

Ingredients:

1. 240gm chicken breast
For stuffing:
2. 150gm minced chicken
3. 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
4. 1/2 tsp clove powder
5. 1 tbsp coriander leaves chopped
6. 1 tsp black cardamom seeds crushed
7. 1/2 tsp salt  
For marinade:
8. 2tbsp oil
9. 1 tbsp red chilli paste
10. 1 tbsp ginger-garlic pste
11. 4 tbsp lemon juice
12. 1 tsp salt
For accompaniments:
13. 2 carrot
14. 1 1/2 cup beans
15. 1 tbsp carrots and french beans
16. 1/2 tsp butter
17. 1/2 tsp garlic finely chopped
18. 1/2 tsp cumin powder
For rice:
19. 1/2 cup basmati rice
20. 1 tbsp fennel seed
21. 1 1/2 tbsp butter
22. 2 leeks
23. 1/2 tsp salt
24. 4 tbsp pine nuts (optional)
For sauce
25. 250gm tomato puree
26. 1 large sized onion - boiled and pureed
27. 3/4 tbsp butter
28. 1 tsp salt 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
For garnishing:
29. 1/2 bunch coriander leaves

Preparation:

To prepare chicken:
Carve the breast of chicken in heart shaped and flatten with a steak hammer.

To prepare stuffing:
Mix ingredients 2-7. Place the chicken mince in middle of chicken breast and fold the other half of chicken breast over it. Seal the sides by tapping with the side of knife.

To prepare marinade:
Make a homogeneous mixture of ingredients No 8-12 and rub this mixture over prepared chicken breast and keep aside for 2hours.

To prepare accompaniments:
Boil carrots in salted water and when they are tender , remove
Blanch the french beans in salted water. Toss in butter with garlic and sprinkle with cumin for seasoning

To prepare rice:
Soak rice for 15-20 minutes. Prepare a stock with green part of leeks and fennel strains. Saute the white of chopped leeks in butter and add leek stock, rice and pine nuts. Simmer till almost all moisture evaporates. Put on dum for 10 minutes. Mix well.

To prepare Sauce:
Saute pureed onion in butter and ginger-garlic paste, tomato puree and cook till oil separates out. Correct the consistency.

Char-grill the breast of chicken. Place in the centre of plate. Place the carrots and arrange the sauted beans and pour sauce over the steak and garnish with a bunch of fried coriander leaves

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Tomato Baked Rice

 

Ingredients:

• 600gm basmati rice
• 25ml oil
• 25gm red chillies whole cut into diamond shape
• 15 gm ginger-garlic paste
• 5gm chilli powder
• 75gm tomato puree
• salt to taste
• ajinomoto a pinch(optional)
• 50gm processed cheese (Amul will do)

Preparation:

Clean, wash and soak the rice in water for 20 minutes. Heat degchi and add oil and then add ingredients 3-8 and cook for 19 seconds.

 Degchi/ Dekchi

Add 1 1/2 litre of water and allow it to boil. Drain out the soaked water from rice. When water comes to a boil, add rice and allow to cook. When 80% of the water gets evaporated , cover with a lid and put on dum for 15 minutes.

When rice is cooked, put it into a baked casserole dish and sprinkle grated cheese over the rice and then bake in the salamander oven till the cheese is golden brown.

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Mukand Vadi Mattar

Ingredients:

• 250gm dal urad washed
• 10 kali mirch
• 1 tsp jeera
• 1 tsp saunf
• a pinch of heeng

For gravy:

• 200ml oil, 1tsp zeera
• 50gm urad dal washed
• 1 tsp turmeric powder
• 1/2 cup yogurt
• 1/2 cup tomato puree
• 1tsp saunf powder
• 1/2 tsp chilli powder
• salt to taste
• 100gm green peas
• 1tsp coriander leaves chopped

Preparation:

Soak dal for 3-4 hours. Make a coarse paste in a mixie or grinder, add kali mirch, jeera, saunf and heeng

Tie the mixture in a muslin cloth and steam for 35-40 minutes in boiling water. Cool and cut into 1/2 inch dices.

Deep fry the prepared vadis in medium hot oil till they are golden brown and start floating on the top of the oil.

To prepare for gravy:
Heat 2 tbsp of oil. Add jeera, ground urad dal and turmeric powder and cook till dal is made. Add yogurt, tomato puree, saunf powder, red chilli powder and salt and also add green peas. Simmer till peas are cooked and the gravy becomes thick. Drop the vadis in the gravy and serve garnished with chopped coriander leaves.

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Broccoli, baby corn and Mushroom Tak-a-Tak

Ingredients:

• 200gm broccoli
• 200gm baby corn
• 100gm mushrooms

For gravy:

• 2 tbsp oil
• 1tsp jeera
• 1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
• 1 1/2 cups fresh tomato puree
• 2 tbsp brown onion paste
• 1/2 tsp red chilli paste
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1/2 tsp kasturi methi
• 1/2 tsp kali mirch (black pepper powder)
• 1/2 tsp broiled zeera powder
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp ginger chopped
• 1 tsp coriander leaves chopped



Preparation:

Clean broccoli, cut baby corn into 2 pieces and mushrooms into quarters.

To prepare gravy:

Heat oil on a tawa. Add jeera and cook till it crackles. Add ginger-garlic paste and brown it. Add fresh tomato puree and red chillies paste and cook till oil separates. Add broccoli, baby corns and mushrooms. Cook till vegetables are tender. Add rest of the ingredients and serve hot.

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves.


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Mushroom Tikka

Mushroom tikka can be served as an appetizer, well its a pleasure food like chaat. spicy and tasty, quite different from regular tikkas. Mushrooms are consumed for their nutritional and occasionally medicinal value. We have to be careful with mushrooms as some mushrooms that are edible for most people cause allergy in some individuals. Old improperly stored specimens could also cause food poisoning.

Ingredients

• 1 pack mushrooms
• 1/2 tsp garlic paste
• 1 tsp ginger paste
• a pinch of saffron colour
• 2 tsp gramflour
• salt to taste
• 1tsp oil
• 2 tsp curd

For garnishing:

1/2 tsp chaat masala and onion rings

Method:

Wash and dry mushrooms.
Marinate mushrooms with rest of the ingredients for 1/2 an hour
Roast them in a tandoor or grill (or even you can deep fry the mushrooms , in case you don't have a tandoor).
Sprinkle chaat masala
Garnish with onion rings and serve hot.

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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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The Indian - Chicken Tikka

Tikka means pieces, chunks or bits. A very delicious dish in which pre-marinated pieces of chicken are grilled.It is traditionally baked skewers with small pieces of chicken, usually boneless, in a clay based oven called tandoor, after marinating in spices and yogurt.

It is typically eaten with a green coriander & tamarind chutney, served with onion rings and lemons. A very good appetizer dish

Ingredients

• 500g Boneless chicken/ chicken thigh,chicken breast - skinless and off the bone
• 2 tsp ginger paste
• 2 tsp garlic paste
• 1 tbsp lemon juice or vinegar
• Salt, to taste
• 1/2 cup thick drained yoghurt
• 1 tsp red chilli powder /deghi mirch
• 1 tsp garam masala
• 3 tbsp oil
• a pinch of tandoori color (optional)
• a pinch of chat masala (optional)

Preparation

Wash and pat-dry the chicken. Press with a kitchen towel. Rub the chicken pieces with garlic, ginger paste, salt, chilli powder, garam masala, lemon juice and oiul. Leave aside for an hour.

Add beaten yogurt and tandoori colour, chat masala (optional). Refrigerate for 6 to 8 hours to marinate the chicken tikka.

Preheat the barbecue or grill and put the chicken pieces on the skewers. Baste with the marinade and cook under the grill or keep the skewers on a greased wire mesh of the barbecue.

Turm them 2-3 times for even browning. Brush with oil, remove from skewer when they are cooked. Sprinkle chat masala.

Serve hot with onion and chilli salad and mint chutney.

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