Rajma Masala (Kidney Bean Curry)

Rajma Masala
Serves

This is an Indian food recipe savored particularly in Northern part of India

Ingredients

1 Cup Kidney Beans (Rajma)
2 Onions
1 teaspoon Ginger Garlic Paste
¼ cup tomato puree
½ teaspoon Red Chilly Powder
½ teaspoon Garam Masala
½ teaspoon Dhania Powder
2-3 tablespoon edible oil
Pinch of heeng (Asafoetida)
Salt to taste

Recipe

Boil kidney beans along with heeng and salt
Make onion paste and shallow fry in oil until golden brown
Take ginger garlic paste in a bowl, add turmeric, salt, red chilly powder, Garam Masala, Dhania Powder and add some oil to it
Now add it to the golden brown onion paste
Stir for a while till the curry leaves oil
Now it’s the turn to add tomato puree
After this add boiled kidney beans to it
Mix it well and serve hot with Rice, Chapatti or Naan

Mango Custard

Serves

This is a sweet dessert which can be served after lunch or dinner

Ingredients

One cup Milk
2-3 teaspoon Sugar
2-3 teaspoon Custard Powder
1 Mango peeled and sliced

Recipe

Take a pan and pour milk into it to boil
Mix custard powder in 2-3 tablespoon cold milk
Pour this mixture in boiling milk
Now add sugar to it
Boil till it thickens a bit
Now take it off the flame and add mango slices to it
Refrigerate and serve it cold

Kathal Masala (Jackfruit Curry)

This is an Indian Food Recipe prepared in thick gravy or Masala

Serves

3-4 persons

Ingredients

½ kg Jackfruit
2-3 onions
1 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
½ cup tomato puree
½ teaspoon red chilly powder
½ teaspoon Garam Masala
½ teaspoon turmeric powder
½ teaspoon Amchur (Dry mango) powder
Oil for frying

Recipe

Peel jackfruit and cut it into pieces
Now shallow fry it in oil
Take pan, put 2-3 teaspoon oil in it
Now add onion and ginger garlic paste
Fry for 2-3 minute until golden brown and then add tomato puree to it
Add rest of the spices to it
Now it’s the turn to add fried Jackfruit pieces to it
Sprinkle some water to it and cover the pan with a lid
Cook for a 3-4 minutes
Garnish it with coriander leaves and serve hott

Dal Makhani

Dal Makhani
Serves

2-3 persons

Ingredients

1 Cup Urad Sabut Dal (Indian Pulse)
¼ Cup Rajma or Kidney Beans
1 Teaspoon Ginger Garlic Paste
½ Teaspoon red Chilly Powder
½ Teaspoon Garam Masala
3-4 tablespoon tomato and onion paste
Pinch of Heeng or Asafoetida
½ Cup Milk
Salt and red chilly powder as per taste

Recipe

Take a pressure cooker and warm water in it
Take it off the burner and add washed Daal, salt and Heeng (Asafoetida) to it
Keep it aside for two hours
Now boil the Daal and add some milk to it and mix it well
Take 2 tablespoon butter and add tomato and onion paste to it
Also add spices stated above to it
Now add this paste to the Daal
Add dollops of butter and serve it hot with Naan or Parantha or Chapatti

Vegetable Cutlets

Serves

2 persons

Ingredients

3-4 Boiled Potatoes
½ Cup chopped Capsicum, Carrot and Beans
½ teaspoon Garam Masala
½ teaspoon Red Chilly Powder
½ teaspoon Chaat Masala
1 teaspoon Ginger Garlic Paste
½ teaspoon chopped green chilly
½ cup Breadcrumbs
2-3 teaspoon Corn flour
Salt to taste
Oil for frying

Recipe

Take a bowl and mash the potatoes
Put all the ingredients above stated to it except breadcrumbs and corn flour
Now take the mixture in your hand and make round shaped or any other shapes balls you want your cutlets to be in
Mix corn flour in water
Dip the balls in the corn flour mixture and apply breadcrumbs to it
Deep fry in edible oil
Serve hot with tomato ketchup or mint chutney

Chicken Hara Lajawabi

Chicken Hara Lajawabi
This is an Indian Chicken dish which can be served as a snack too

Serves

2 persons

Ingredients

1 Cup boiled boneless Chicken
2 teaspoon garlic ginger paste
2 tablespoon chopped onion
2 tablespoon chopped capsicum
½ Cup Curd
½ teaspoon Turmeric powder
½ teaspoon red chilly powder
½ teaspoon Garam Masala
¼ teaspoon clove powder
2 teaspoon coriander seeds
3-4 cardamom seeds
Cream and coriander leaves for garnishing
Salt to taste

Recipe

Take curd in a bowl and add turmeric, red chilly powder, salt, clove powder, Garam Masala, cardamom seeds and ginger garlic paste
Now add boiled chicken to it and leave it for marination for three hours
Now take a pan and add two tablespoon oil and add coriander seeds to it
Add marinated chicken to it and shallow fry it
Now add chopped onion and capsicum and stir it
Allow it to cook for few minutes
Garnish with cream and coriander leaves and serve hot

Gramflour Fried Peanut (Besan Mungfali)

Besan Peanut

This is an Indian Chatpata Snack which is can be savored with your evening tea

Serves

3-4 Persons

Ingredients

One Cup Peanut
½ Cup Gram flour
1 teaspoon Salt
1 teaspoon Rock Salt
1 teaspoon Chat Masala
1 teaspoon Red Chilly Powder
1 teaspoon Mango Powder
Pinch of soda bicarbonate
Oil for frying

Recipe

Take peanuts in a plate and add all the spices
Now add gramflour to it and sprinkle it with water so that a coating is formed over the peanut
Take a frying pan and heat oil in it
Now put each piece of peanut in it and fry until golden brown
Cool and serve it as a snack

Keema Kaleji (Minced lamb meat and liver pieces)

Keema Kaleji


This is an Indian non vegetarian food dish which comprises of minced lamb meat and chunks of lamb liver cooked together in Indian spices. Must have for die hard non vegetarian food fanatics!!
Serves

2-3 persons

Ingredients

250 gm minced lamb meet and lamb liver
2 chopped onion
2 chopped tomatoes
2 teaspoon ginger garlic paste
1 teaspoon chopped green chilly
1 teaspoon Salt
½ teaspoon turmeric powder
½ teaspoon Red Chilly Powder
½ teaspoon Garam Masala
2 teaspoon Edible Oil
Cream and coriander leaves for garnishing

Recipe

Take a pan and add oil to it
Now add chopped onion until golden brown
Add tomatoes and green chilly to it
Take a small bowl and add ginger garlic paste and rest of the spices to it
Add ½ teaspoon oil and water to it and mix well
Add this mixture to the pan
Now add minced lamb meet and lamb liver to it and sauté it
Add water to it and cook
Garnish it with cream and coriander leaves and serve hot with Chapatti, Parantha or Naan

Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)

Butter Chicken

Serves

2-3 persons

Ingredients

½ kg Chicken
1 Cup Tomato Puree
½ cup Curd
¼ cup cashew nut paste
2-3 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
4-5 tablespoon Butter
1 teaspoon Red Chilly Powder
1 teaspoon Garam Masala
2-3 teaspoon cream
Food grade red color

Recipe

Take chicken and add curd, ginger garlic paste and color and leave for marination for 2-3 hours
Take a pan and add butter, add one ginger garlic paste
Add tomato puree to it
Now add chicken and add spices to it and saute
Add cashew nut paste to it
Add water to it and cook it for few minutes
Garnish it with cream and coriander leaves
Serve hot with Naan or Rice

Tiranga Parantha

Tiranga Paratha
Serves

1 person

Ingredients

½ Cup Flour
½ cup Spinach
1 Green Chilly
2 Tomato
Salt to taste
Red Chilly powder to taste
Ajwain or carom seeds to taste

Recipe

Make a paste of spinach and green chilly
Now add salt and 1/3 flour to it and make dough

Now take tomato and add red chilly powder to it to make a paste
Now add salt and 1/3 flour to it and make dough

Take rest of the flour and add salt and carom seeds to it.
Add water to it to make dough

Make rolls of all three types of dough and twist them together
Cut it into pieces
Flatten it and shallow fry them on a pan
Serve hot with curd and pickle of your choice

Dahi Wala Chicken (Curd Chicken)

Dahi Chicken
Serves

2-3 person

Ingredients

½ kg chicken
2 Cup Curd
4-5 Boiled Onion grounded to paste
2 teaspoon Garlic Ginger Paste
2 teaspoon Cashewnut Paste
1 Cup Milk
½ Cup Cream
Salt to taste
White Pepper to taste
Edible Oil or Butter

Recipe

Wash Chicken and add one cup curd to it
Now add one teaspoon ginger garlic paste and leave it for marination for one hour
Take a pan and add oil or butter as per your choice
Now add the onion paste to it and fry it
Add one teaspoon ginger garlic paste to it
Now add the marinated chicken to it and stir it for few minutes in it
Now add stirred curd to it along with cashew nut paste
Now add salt and white pepper according to your taste
Now it’s the turn to add milk to it
When chicken is cooked add cream to it
Serve hot with chappati or rice

Bun Tikki (Indian Burger)

Bun Tikki
Serves

1 person

Ingredients

2-3 potato
1 Bun
1 Onion cut in rings
1 Tomato cut in rings
1 square piece of cottage cheese
Oil for frying
Salt to taste
Pepper to taste
Garam Masala to taste

Recipe

Boil potato, peel them and mash them
Add all the spices and form a patty
Deep fry this patty in oil
Cut the bun in two pieces
Add piece of cottage cheese, then fried patty, then onion and tomato and finally the other half of the bun and use a tooth pick to hold them together
Serve it hot with mint chutney

Bread Gulabjamun

Bread Gulabjamun
Gulabjamun is a popular Indian subcontinent dessert and the recipe is different here as bread rather than milk solids is being used to create this quick sweet dish

Serves

2 persons

Ingredients

Four slices white bread
½ Cup Sugar
½ Cup Milk
Dry fruits including pistachio, cashewnut and raisins

Recipe

Cut the sides of the bread
Dip it in milk and after soaking it press it with light hands
Add dry fruit to it and make round balls
Perform the same steps for other pieces of bread too
Now deep fry these balls in oil until golden brown

For making sugar syrup

Take ½ Cup Sugar and add 1 Cup water to it
Boil it to create sugar syrup

Now dip fried balls to the sugar syrup for few minutes

Serve hot

Dahi Wale Aloo or Curd Potato

Curd Potato
Serves

2 persons

Ingredients

4-5 potatoes
½ Cup Curd
½ teaspoon Zeera or Cumin Seeds
½ teaspoon Ajwain or Carom Seeds
½ teaspoon Turmeric
½ teaspoon Garam Masala
Fresh Coriander
Salt to paste
2-3 teaspoon edible oil

Recipe

Peel the potatoes and cut them in round slices
Take water in a pan and add turmeric and water to it
Now add the round pieces of potato pieces to the boiling water and don’t cook them fully
Now in a pan add chopped onion, sauté it and add Carom Seeds, Cumin Seeds, Turmeric and Garam Masala to it.
Now add curd to it
Add the half boiled potato pieces to it and cook it for a few minutes
Serve hot with fresh coriander leaves on it

Gattey Ki Subzi

Gatte Ki Subzi
Gatte ki subzi is a dish from Rajasthan in India

Serves

2-3 persons

Ingredients

One cup Gram Flour or Besan
2 teaspoon Curd or Dahi
2 Onion
2 Tomato
5-6 pieces Garlic
1 piece Ginger
2 Green Chillies
2 Cup Water
½ teaspoon Dhania or Coriander Powder
½ teaspoon Red Chilli Powder
½ teaspoon Turmeric or Haldi
½ teaspoon Garam Masala
½ teaspoon Kasoori Methi or Dried Fenugreek Leaves
Salt as per taste

Recipe

In gram flour or besan 2 teaspoon Curd, 2 teaspoon Oil, Salt and add some water to create a dough
In a pan take some water and boil it and create pellets from the dough and put them in the boiling water and cook for 5 to 6 minutes
Cut these pellets into small pieces
Grind onion, tomato, garlic, ginger and green chilies to form a paste
In another pan take some oil and cook the paste formed above
Add all the spices to it and add the boiled pieces of gram flour pellets to it
Now add the water left from boiling and cook it to form gravy of thick consistency.
Your Gattey ki subzi is ready to be served

Kadhai Mushroom

Kadhai Mushroom
Serves

2-3 persons

Ingredients

200gm Mushroom
2 Capsicum
2 Onion
2 Tomato
½ cup tomato puree
2 teaspoon ginger Garlic paste
1 teaspoon Zeera or Cumin seeds
2 teaspoon butter
2 teaspoon edible oil
Salt as per taste
Red chilly powder as per taste

Recipe

Take a pan, put some oil and add ginger garlic paste to it
Now add sliced onion and capsicum to it
Saute it and add chopped tomatoes to it
Stir for a while and add mushroom and tomato puree to it and cook for a few minutes
Add rest of the spices to it
Now add butter to it
Add water to it and cook for four to five minutes to form gravy
Garnish with cream and serve hot with chapatti or rice

Spanish Omelette

Spanish Omelet
Serves

Two

Ingredients

3 Eggs
½ teaspoon chopped garlic
1 teaspoon chopped onion
½ teaspoon chopped green chillies
1 tablespoon chopped capsicum
½ teaspoon tomato puree
½ teaspoon white pepper
2 teaspoon milk
2 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
Salt as per taste

Recipe

Take a bowl take eggs and beat them
Now add rest of the ingredients stated above and beat them again
Now add milk to add which would give a fluffy consistency to it
Heat oil in pan and add the mixture to it
Cook it on slow fire
Serve along with your choice of bread or grilled ham

Savoured Afghani Chicken and Butter Naan for dinner

Today I was in no mood to cook dinner so I ordered for Afghani Chicken and Butter Naan from a local restaurant. Must tell you enjoyed it thoroughly along with cream salad and mint chutney



Afghani Chicken



Butter Naan