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Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Moringa or drumstick leaves (সজনে পাতা) dal with toor and masoor mix


Method

  1. Wash and pressure cook equal parts toor dal and masoor dal with salt and turmeric. You can cook with only toor or only masoor dal (red lentil) too.
  2. In a wok, heat 2 tsp cooking oil, whole cumin seeds, dry red chilies, chopped garlic and drumstick leaves (destem and wash them before cooking). You may add mustard seeds and curry leaves too. Slit green chilies and 1/4 tsp ginger paste will also enhance the taste, 
  3. Saute for a bit and add the cooked dal to the spices. Cook to a boil.

Friday, December 28, 2018

Masala Squid


SG made masala squid for me.
I ate devoured it with pineapple slices and radish pickle. Yummy. A volcano in my mouth.

Recipe to be uploaded soon after I consult the chef :D
You can stir-fry with you favorites spices and lots of love :D

This isn't a recipe post, it is a happy post :D

Thursday, December 27, 2018

Egg with pointed gourd (ডিম পটল)




Ingredients:
Pointed gourd, cut in half vertically.
Boiled eggs (depending on serving size, cut into slits so that the masala gets into the eggs)
Cumin seeds
Onions-sliced
Garlic -minced or paste
Ginger paste
Green chilies
Spices of your taste


Method:

  1. Fry sliced onions, add cumin seeds to splutter. Then add minced garlic/garlic paste. (about two big cloves, not too much. This is for the eggs) Add ginger paste later on.
  2. When the onions are fried, add halved pointed gourd. (You may add salt before if you think the pointed gourd don't take salt while cooking.)
  3.  Fry the masala by stirring often. Add a handful of water if it gets too dry. Add boiled eggs, slit on four sides.
  4. Add salt to taste and your favorite masala. In one version, I added Koora Karam and dry garlic chutney to make it spicy.

    You may replace the pointed gourd with grean beans if you can't find any.

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Bok choy with potatoes and eggplant

You can make this recipe with Yu choy sum, spinach (palak) or Vietnamese/Malabar spinach (Pui) too.

Method:

  1. Heat Mustard oil in a wok. Temper with nigella seeds (kalonji/kalo jeere/কালো জিরা )
  2. Add cubed potatoes and diced bok choy, Add eggplant. If you are using other greens like spinach or Vietnamese spinach, you can add the stalks first and leaves later. Add salt to taste and turmeric.
  3. Stir-fry until almost done. Add slit green chilies and nigella seed paste (optional).  Boil water in a saucepan. Add for gravy.
  4. You can add deep-fried lentil dumplings (ডালের বড়া) and mustard paste (সর্ষে বাটা ) for extra punch.
I added the core of banana blossom, steamed and chopped into thin slices for variety. Good source of fiber and vitamins. Good recipe to eat in Summer.

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Paneer Cutlets

This post is dedicated to Suroshree Di who asked for the recipe. 
Otherwise, I feel too lazy to post food recipes nowadays. :D




You may use grated paneer and boiled mashed potatoes or leftover aloo-matar-paneer for the recipe. Some people also add grated cabbage and carrots to the mix for variety.

  1. Add chopped ginger, chopped green chilies, chopped cilantro, chat masala, black salt, roasted and ground cumin-coriander-dry red chilies (bhaja masala) and crumble the paneer (if using leftover sabji) with your hands.  The masher or food processor can be tricky to get desired granularity here. Use whatever is convenient for you.
  2. Add ghee roasted cashews and washed and squeezed raisins to the paneer-spice mix that will become your delectable filling. You just elevated it into a regal dish :D
  3. Shape the mix into patties and dip first into gram flour batter (besan) and then in breadcrumbs. Repeat the coating process a second time to make the patties tighter, so they don't break when deep-fried. 
  4. Deep fry in mellow tasting cooking oil.  Keep on a paper towel to soak excess oil. Transfer to a serving dish later.
  5. Serve with your favorite chutney or sauce.


Sunday, May 27, 2018

The Instant Death Mutton Roast



Method:

  1. Marinate the mutton in onion, ginger, garlic and green chili paste. Also add Karakoram spice and Kashmiri red chili powder, salt and mustard oil. Marinate overnight.
  2. In a wok, heat mustard oil (or other cooking oil) add curry leaves and fry the mutton on low heat for 2-3 hours or until the meat falls of the bones.

Saturday, May 26, 2018

Chili pork with Bhoot Jolokia

Method:

  1. Marinate the pork overnight with dark soy sauce.
  2. In a wok heat oil, fry cubed onions,  a star anise ( to counter the smell of pork, you can discard later) and 2-3 dry Bhoot Jolokia / Naga pepppers (adjust heat according to the sample you have). Keep aside,
  3. In the flavored oil,  add methi seeds to splutter and fry the marinated pork. Add crushed garlic and later thing sliced ginger. You may also add whole dry red chilies at this point.
  4. Cook till done, serve with steamed rice.