Meetha Pulao(Sweet Basmati Rice)

This is another lovely recipe. This has been shared to me by my mother. Its an awesome fragrant sweet basmati rice recipe. This can be served along with chana dal or Dal kaadu or any curry of your choice. It tastes great and i totally adore it.
Hope you too like this recipe.

Vegetable and egg fried rice

I love fired rice. Whenever i have some rice leftover with me i quickly give it a colorful texture. My son loves it. Its so easy to prepare that it hardly take much time, roughly 10 to 15 minutes. I like adding scrambled eggs to the rice which add in taste to it.
This is the recipe for people who wish for taste in no time. I like keeping it clean and simple but yet tasty. I also like several Chinese and Indian version of fried rice.

Hyderabadi Chicken Dum Biryani

Rice Noodles(Chinese) with Chicken Teriyaki

Being a die hard Chinese cuisine fan. It was time to prepare something more than the regular items. I bought a packet of rice noodles to go with my chicken teriyaki . This is plain simple and easy recipe.
I hope you like it.

Hainanese Rice(Singapore Style)

I have been hunting for some other ways to prepare the flavored rice other than the regular biryani and fried rice. This led me to search for some east Asian food and to my luck i found this really awesome recipe. This is basically served with chicken or a combination of sauce but i gave it a twist and served it with cauliflower Manchurian. This rice goes perfect with any spicy curry or veggies or any meat.

Gobi Manchurian(Cauliflower Manchurian)

I am a great fan of Indo -Chinese cuisine. I have always loved all kinds of Manchurian dishes. Say it and i start craving for them. I love Chicken Manchurian, Vegetable Manchurian and Gobi Manchurian.  For the add on with this Manchurian i prepared some famous singapore recipe, Hainanese Rice.

This flavoured rice is a add-on for the saucy dish. 

Vegetable Dalia Khichri (Vegetable Wheat Rice Khichri)

Dalia or Wheat rice are extremely light and highly nutritious . Addition of vegetable makes them super nutritious. Khichri means mixture of lentil , rice and vegetables. These are said to be easily digestable. My son , husband and Father-in-law love this dish. You can bring in any number of vegetable to this dish, no matter what it always taste great.

This Recipe will serve -4

Preparation- 10 minutes

Cooking- 5 minutes to 30 minutes.

Level of difficulty- easy

Ingredients:

• Dalia/ Wheat rice/ weizengrütze fein -200gms
• Lentil- 200gms
• Carrot- 1, chopped
• Zuchini- 1, chopped
• Cauliflower- 2 florets
• Potato- 2, chopped
• Salt
• Butter- 1 Tbsp
• Cumin seed- 1 Tsp
• Turmeric- 1 Tsp(optional)
• Tomato- 1 large, chopped
• Water- 600-800 ml of water

Preparation:

• In a pressure cooker pan, heat butter, add the cumin seed and let it crackle.
• Add in the wheat rice, fry until colour changes to little whitish.
• Now drop all the vegetables and washed lentil.
• Add water such that you cover 2/3rd of the vegetable layer.
• Season with salt and turmeric.
• Cover the pressure cooker and in low heat wait for three whistles.
• Turn off the heat and let the cooker cool up for 5 minutes.

Your Vegetable Dalia Khichri is absolutely ready to be Serve.

Serve hot with Papad ,Chips ,curd or pickle.

To cook without pressure cooker, after step 5 , cover the pan with a heavy lid and cook for 20 to 30 minutes until lentils are done.

Enjoy.

By- Sushmita Pandit

Lemon Rice

Lemon rice!!
Once i was travelling on Dhanbad Allepy Express. This Train connects extreme of south India to east of Jharkhand and this journey takes more than 37 hrs on whole. We Indians often carry home made food for such a long journey. Sometimes its better to keep interacting with fellow travelers as it becomes easy to pass such long long hours. In the same coach a south Indian  family was travelling with me carrying a Tin packed with Lemon Rice for the whole journey. They were very friendly and during lunch hours they offered me a plate full of lemon rice. As a courtesy i accepted the food and to be honest it was mouth watering awesome dish.  Since then i fell in love with this simple and serene recipe.
In south India during Pongal they prepare this rice. Also in several other festivals i have received lemon rice and gram curry as prasadam.
Take a note of this recipe:

Ingredients

• Rice- 2 Cups (boiled)
• Curry Leaves/Mint Leaves/Coriander leaves- Finely Chopped
• Mustard seed- 1 Tea Spoon
• Roasted ground nuts- 1/4 Cup
• Whole gram/Chana Dal- 3 TSP (soaked in water for 1 hour)
• Lemon juice- 3 TSP
• Salt as per taste
• Green Chilly- 2
• Turmeric- 1 Tea Spoon
• Oil for cooking
• Onion- 1 Chopped

Method

• Heat 2 TSP of oil in a pan or skillet
• Add the mustard seeds
• Once they start crackling  add the gram and roast it. If u have Curry leaves ,at this point of time add some curry leaves. If you are adding curry leaves  then mint or coriander leaves are not require to be added further.
• Add the chilly and onion
• Fry until onion is soft
• Add the groundnuts ,salt and turmeric powder. Fry for 1 min
• Finally add the rice, Fry until every thing gets mixed up well.
• Add the Lime juice , Mix well.
• Turn off the heat and finally add Mint or coriander leaves to it. 

Serve Hot with Pickle or Yoghurt. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Cooking :-)

By: Sushmita Pandit

Biryani(Lucknowi Style)

Biryani(Lucknowi Style)

Hi in this post we will learn how to prepare lucknowi biryani. In this style of preparation chicken and rice are prepared separetly and then mixed together.

Ingredients(For Chicken)

• Chicken- 500gms
• Turmeric- 1 tea spoon
• Salt- As per taste
• Coriander Powder- 1 table spoon
• Ginger garlic paste- 2 tea spoon
• pepper- 1 tea spoon
• Garam masala- 1 tea spoon
• cumin powder- 1 tea spoon
• Onion- 200 gms
• Oil
• Tomato puree- 100 gms
• Green Chillies

Ingredients(For Rice)

• Basmati Rice- 250gms
• Salt
• Cinnamom sticks
• Cloves
• Oil
• Cumin seeds
• Pepper Corns

Ingredients(For Garnishing)

• Keshar or Saffron
• Fresh Mint Leaves
• Fried onions
• Milk
• Dry Fruits
• Ghee or clarified butter

Marinating Chicken:

• Wash the chicken add salt, turmeric, oil, yoghurt, Coriander pwd,Cumin powder, Pepper pwd, Garam masala.
• Referigerate this marinate for 1 hour

Cooking Chicken:

• In a frying pan heat Oil
• To the oil Add green chillies and Chopped onions, fry it until the onion turns tender.
• To this add the marinated chicken
• Cook until the Masala gets fried and the chicken turns tender.

Preparing Rice:

• Soak the rice for 1/2 hour
• drain the water
• In a pan heat water
• To the water Add all the ingredients mentioned
• When the water comes to boil, Add rice
• IMPORTANT: we have to take out rice when its 3/4^th cooked( Check: when the rice starts Dancing take a piece of it , if it breaks easily this means your rice is done)

The Dum:

• For the dum Choose a vessel such that the lid is tight such that the steam wont escape much out of it. To captivate the steam is called DUM
• Layer the bottom of the vessel with the cooked chicken
• On it layer the Rice, also use the water in which the Rice was cooked(This well help to captivate the moisture, which will help in the cooking the rice and chicken)
• On the rice put the fried onion, soaked saffrons in milk , little milk, mint leaves, ghee, dry fruits
• Repeat the process for each layer.
• Cover the Vessel tighltly
• Cook For 20 mins
• Serve it with Raita.

I would suggest first to prepare the chicken first followed by rice then the Dum.

At the end of cooking, be ready for your nieghbours to ring your Door bell. Since the aroma of biryani is irresistingg...

Enjoy :-) Happy Cooking. Thanks

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By: Sushmita Pandit