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Saturday, April 23, 2011

Dum Aloo

Kashmiri Dum Aloo: Simple Recipe, Yet The Same Yummy Taste

Ingredients

Baby potatoes- 1/2 kg (for 4 to 5 servings)
Ghee or any other edible oil- 4 tbsp
Onion- 1 grated
Plain yogurt (curds/dahi)- 2 cups
Milk- 1/2 cup
Asafetida- a pinch
Bay leaf- 5
Ginger garlic paste- 1 tsp
Chili powder- 1 tsp
Turmeric powder- 1/2 tsp
Salt- to taste
Masala- grind the following ingredients together to make the masala: coriander seeds
1tbsp, black cardamoms 4, cardamoms 2, cloves 4, peppercorns 7, cinnamon 1 inch, caraway seeds (shahajeera) 1/4 tsp

Method
  1. Wash the potatoes, peel the potatoes, prick all over with a fine fork and soak in the water with little salt for around 2 hours.
  2. Dry the potatoes on a cloth.
  3. Heat the ghee or edible oil in a pressure cooker. Stir-fry the potatoes in it over medium heat till they turn light brown. Take them out and keep them aside.
  4. In the same pressure cooker add the bay leaves, asafetida, ginger-garlic paste and grated onion. Stir-fry it on a medium heat till the paste becomes red-brown and the mixture starts separating from the oil.
  5. Add to it the ground masala and mix it well. Cook for 2-3 minutes on a medium heat.
  6. Add the turmeric powder, chili powder and salt. Saute for a minute.
  7. Add the milk and curd and continuously stir it.
  8. In case you feel that the gravy is thick, add water and cook for couple of minutes preferably on high heat.
  9. Add the potatoes in the gravy and cook under pressure in the pressure cooker. Dum aloo is ready.
  10. Garnish with coriander.
  11. Serve hot with chapatis, rotis, nans, rice etc.
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    Tuesday, April 5, 2011

    Vegetable Cutlet

    Vegetable Cutlet Recipe: The Easy Way

    Ingredients

    • Potatoes, boiled, peeled and mashed- 2
    • Vegetables (beets, carrots, peas, cabbage etc), chopped finely, boiled and drained well - 3 cups
    • Breadcrumbs- 1 cup
    • Ghee (clarified butter)- 1 tbsp
    • Edible oil for shallow frying of cutlets
    • Green chillies, finely chopped- 2
    • Ginger garlic paste- 1 tsp
    • Coriander leaves chopped- 1 tsp
    • Amchor (mango powder)- 1/2 tsp
    • Garam masala powder- 1/2 tsp
    • Red chilli powder- 1 tsp
    • Dhania (coriander) powder- 1 tsp
    • Cumin powder- 1 tsp
    • Saunf (fennel) powder- 1/2 tsp
    • Cashew nuts chopped - 1 tsp
    • Salt to taste

    Method
    1. Heat ghee and add ginger-garlic paste and green chillies. Fry for about a minute.
    2. Add the chopped cashew nuts and all the powdered spices. Add the coriander leaves. Fry for half a minute.
    3. Add all the drained vegetables and mix well. If there is any water, heat and fry till all moisture is completely gone.
    4. Add mashed potatoes and salt to taste. Mix the whole thing well. Heat the mixture and remove it from the stove.
    5. Make flat rounds of the mixture.
    6. Shallow fry in edible oil on both sides till the cutlets turn golden brown.
    7. Serve hot with tomato sauce (ketchup) or chutney.
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      Friday, April 1, 2011

      Egg Pudding

      Easy to Cook Dessert: The Easy Way

      Ingredients

      For pudding
      • 5 eggs
      • ¼ cup butter
      • ¼ cup sugar
      • ½ cup all-purpose flour (maida)
      • ½ liter milk
      • 1 tsp vanilla
      For hard sauce
      • 1/3 cup butter
      • 1 cup powdered sugar
      • ½ tsp vanilla
      • Nutmeg powder
      Method

      For pudding
      1. Heat a pan. Put butter into it. 
      2. As the butter melts, add flour and sugar to it.
      3. When it starts thickening, add milk in it and keep stirring.
      4. Cook this mixture for around 4 to 5 minutes and remove it from the stove.
      5. Break the eggs into a bowl and beat them.
      6. Add the beaten eggs to the mixture and keep stirring.
      7. Add vanilla to it.
      8. Transfer the contents to a pudding dish.Heat the over up to 350 degrees F.
      9. Keep the pudding dish in a pan of water in the oven.
      10. Bake the pudding for around 35 to 40 minutes in the oven.
      For hard sauce
      1. Beat the butter till it is fluffy.
      2. Gradually add sugar to the butter and keep stirring.
      3. Add vanilla to it and keep beating.
      Serve the egg pudding with hard sauce. For this, pour hard sauce over egg pudding and sprinkle a pinch of nutmeg powder on it. 

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