Lamb curry or simple Mutton curry

Hi guys, in this post i will tell you easiest way of preparing Lamb Curry.
This recipe will serve 4.

Ingredients:

• Lamb or Mutton: 500gms
• Turmeric powder-1 Tsp
• Chillies-4
• Onion-3 medium sizes sliced
• Garam Masala- Cinnamon stick,bay leaf
• zeera
• cumin powder-1Tsp
• Coriander powder-2Tsp
• Pepper Powder-1Tsp
• Ginger Garlic paste
• Coriander leaves
• Salt-As per taste
• Oil for cooking
• Red chilli powder-1 TSP(optional)
• Papaya-1 slice(optional)
• Curd-2 Tsp(optional)

Method:

Marinate:

• Wash mutton thoroughly - add salt ,oil ,curd or yoghurt and turmeric
• Keep it aside for 1/2 hour

Frying:

• Heat Oil in a pan
• Add cumin seeds and garam masalas
• once pooping sound comes add green chilies and onion
• Add ginger garlic paste and fry for 2 minutes
• Once the raw smell of garlic-ginger disappears , add marinated mutton
• fry for 3 minutes
• Now make a paste of coriander powder,zeera powder,turmeric powder and pepper powder
• add this paste and fry until you can smell the flavours of fried mutton
•  if cooking in a cooker ,to this add 1/2 cup of water and wait for next 5 whistles in low flame
• If cooking in a pan add 2 cups of water and let it boil for  next 20-30 minutes

Once the lamb becomes tender...garnish it with coriander leaves and the Dish is ready to be served.

Enjoy cooking........

Note: Lamb already consists of lots of Fat(oil) so do not add to much oil ....use optimum amount only.

By: Sushmita Pandit

Chana dal Vada

Hi, in this post we will learn how to prepare chana dal vada. It is an Indian snack that's often prepared during various festival . Its mouth watering and i love it. Hope you will enjoy it too. :-)

Ingredients:

• Chana Dal or Bengal Gram -200gms
• Onion- 2 Medium Size, Finely Chopped
• Green Chillies- 3, Finely Chopped
• Turmeric Powder- 1/2 TSP
• Pepper Powder-1 tea spoon
• Oil for frying
• Salt as per taste
• celery leaves or coriander leaves- finely chopped

Method:

• Soak the dal overnight
• Grind the dal as coarsely as possible along with the green chilies
• To this add salt ,turmeric,pepper,onion and celery leaves.
• Carefully make flat round shapes
• Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the mixture
• Take it out until vada's turn golden in color 

Chana dal Vada is ready to be served :-).

serve it hot with green chutney, preferably coriander chutney.

Enjoy and happy cooking :-)

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By: Sushmita Pandit

Vegetable Pasta Noodle-Indian Style

Hi, in this post we will learn how to prepare  Linguine Pasta Noodles. It s easy to prepare and quite good in taste.

Ingredients 

• Linguina pasta noodles-200gms
• oil
• carrot-2 finely sliced
• bell pepper- 1 finely chopped
• onion- 1 sliced into quarters
• ginger- 1 TSP finely chopped
• garlic - 1 TSP finely chopped
• french beans- sliced in length
• spring onion
• broccoli-1/2 cup
• Fried eggs,optional
• soy sauce, tomato sauce, oyster sauce
• Green Chillies-3
• Pepper powder-1 TSP
• Salt As per tatse

Method

• Boil pasta in water .(heat the water, add oil and salt to it, followed by adding pasta)
• In a pan heat oil,add green chillies,onion and fry for 1 min at high flame .
• Add all other vegetables fry for 2 minutes until vegetables get cooked.
• Add salt and pepper powder
• Add pasta and fry for 1 min 
• to this add all the sauce
• lastly add fried eggs and sprinkle spring onions.

Your pasta is ready to serve,

Enjoy and keep cooking :-)

By: Sushmita Pandit

Aloo Chop/Potato Dumplings

Hi, in this post i will tell u how to prepare Aloo Chop. Its a famous fry usually found in Eastern part of india with the name chop while in Maharashtra they call it vada yes you are right it is the one that we find in the vada paw. For many its the day meal while for others its a satisfying evening refreshment. And for people like my mummy and my hubby its time for joy cooking and eating chops. In west bengal people will smash and mix the chop with puffed rice locally known as Mudhi again it becomes a stomach filling dish. And as a street food it helps thousands of people to keep on running who does not have time to prepare food. My father always use to tease me whenever i used to cry with a bengoli song that meant duaghter dont cry i will buy u a chop "Chela kandish nai chop kine dibo". I have so many memorable moments associated with this chop. Lets have the recipie.

Ingredients:

• Potato- 5 medium size(boiled)
• onion- 2 medium size(finely chopped)
• celery/coriander leaves- (finely chopped)
• Zeera/cumin-1 tea spoon
• Turmeric powder- 1 tea spoon
• Besan/gram powder- 1/2 cup
• Ajwain-1 tea spoon
• green chilies- finely chopped
• Pea nuts- fried
• oil for frying
• Salt as per taste

Method:

• Mash the boiled potatoes
• Add salt, green chilies,zeera, ajwain,peanuts, celery,onion to the mashed potatoes.
• Now make small balls out of this
• heat oil in a pan for frying
• Take besan in a bowl .To this add salt and water. Prepare paste such that its neither too thin nor too thick.
• to this paste dip the potato balls and deep fry them.

Serve hot with green chutney,sauce or with any chutney...

Happy cooking :-)

Thanks and keep cooking and enjoying :-)

By: Sushmita Pandit

cheesy Macroni soyabean fry salad

Hi in this post we will learn to how to prepare chessy macroni soyabean salad.

Ingredients:

• Macroni
• soyabean granules
• chillies -2
• oil for frying
• salt as per taste
• onion- sliced
• jeera
• turmeric
• pepper
• tomato sauce
• cheese
• cucumber
• bell pepper
• carrots
• cabaage- finely chopped
• Tomato- finely chopped
• Lemon Juice

Method:

• Boil macroni (Add salt and oil in the water used for boiling)
• boil soya bean granules(Add salt and oil in the water used for boiling)
• In a pan heat oil,add cumin seeds let them crackle,add chopped green chillies
• to this add chopped onions,fry them until they turn white
• Add finely chopped tomatoes, fry until it softens
• now add soyabeans granules, fry until it looses its moisture 
• Add turmeric and pepper to this
• now add bolied macroni 
• Add tomato sauce, chilli sauce and soy sauce
• Finally add cheese let it melt.

For The Salad

• Chop bell pepper,onion, carrot, cabbage,cucumber. to this add salt.
• To this add fried macroni and 1 tea spoon lemon juice
• Now add sauces of your choice.

Enjoy.......

Happy cooking :-)

Fried Macroni Soybean Salad.

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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

Momos(Veg)

Hi in this post we will learn how to prepare Momos(veg). This basically a Tibetan Dish.

Ingredients:
For the filling

• Cabbage- 1/2 cup finely chopped
• Tofu or paneer- 1/2 cup finely grated
• Carrot - 1/2 cup finely grated
• Garlic paste - 1Tsp
• Ginger Paste - 1/2 Tsp
• Chilly powder- 1/2 tea spoon
• Pepper -1/2 tea spoon
• Oil for frying
• Salt- as per taste 

For the cover

• Maida or All purpose flour - 1/cup
• Water - to prepare the dough

PREPARATION:

For the filling:
Heat oil in pan add all vegeatbles and other ingredients .
Fry until all the vegetables get cooked well.


For the cover :
make  dough out of maida
make small balls and roll them flat in either squrae or round shape.(shape can be compromised ;-))
make sure you roll them flat really thin.
Now carefully take the flattened maida on your palm put the fried vegetable in the middle and close it from all side such that you create a seal.

Steaming:
Take steamer and steam this sealed momo for next 3 min.

serve it hot with sauce or tomato chutney

Enjoy
Happy cooking :-)

Vegetable Momos(sushmita pandit)

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Coconut Ladoo (Nariyal K Ladoo)

Coconut ladoo ,one was never enough for me. People in my area are too good in the preparation of this sweet dish. Sweetness and the taste of coconut that melts in your mouth with each bite, its a mouth watering dish. One of my Bengoli neighbor always made it awesome. I know many of you like me like this sweet , you can sometimes try it out by yourself. Here is the recipe:

Ingredients:
Coconut(grated) - 2 cups
Milk - 2 cups
Sugar - 1cup
Cardamom - 3 pieces (seeds only)
Saffron - Pinch of
Pistachios - 3 to 4 crushed

Method:

• Heat one pan and add the crushed coconut to the pan
• Fry it for while
• Now add the milk to the grated coconut
• Keep on stirring in low flame
• Now add the sugar to it
• Keep on stirring unless the mixture becomes thick enough so that you can bind it into small balls.
• Once the mixture becomes dry and milk seems to disappear turn off the heat
• Allow this to cool for next 5 to 10 min
• Now add the cardamom
• Now make out small balls with the help of your palms
• Garnish each with saffron and pistachios

Your dish is ready to be Served

Enjoy

Happy Cooking :-)

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Gulab Jamun

Hii, in this post we will learn how to make gulab jamun. This is a sweet dish and people in india love it like anything.

Ingredients:

• Milk powder- 100 gm
• Backing soda - (pinch of )  
• Paneer  (fresh paneer preferably made up of cow milk ) - 125 gms
• All purpose floor (maida) - 2 1/2 tsp
• Cardamom 

Sugar syrup:

• Two cups of sugar
• Two cups of water

• oil for frying

Method:

• Take all the ingredients in one bowl and mix them well such that the dough is neither too tight nor too soft.Leave the dough for 15mins. 
• Now make balls out of this dough.
• Deep fry them until they turn golden in colour maintain medium to low heat.
• Now make sugar syrup by adding sugar to boiling water. Add the crushed cardmom seeds into the syrup. once the mixture thickens add the balls into the syrup. 
• Your gulab jamun is ready to serve.

Enjoy

Happy cooking :-)

By: Sushmita Pandit

Pizza

Hii , in this post we will learn how to make some amazing PIZZA's, This will serve one.

Ingredients:
1. Pizza Base - 1 medium in size
2. For the Sauce

• Tomato- 1 large size
• Garlic paste - 1/2 tsp
• Green chilli paste - 1/2 tsp
• Olive oil for make sauce
• Salt for taste

3. Toppings

• Tomatos - 1 small finally sliced
• Onion - 1 small finally sliced
• Capsicum- 1 small finally sliced
• Mozerella Cheese- 250gms finally grated
• Salt for taste

Method:  Making sauce

• Blanch the tomatoes( Make slight cuts on all sides of the tomato, and put it under boiling water for 2 minutes. peel off the skin)
• once blanching is over grind the tomato in the grinder to get a puree out of it
• Now take olive oil in a pan add garlic and chilli paste fry it out and finally add the tomato puree.
• cook for sometime unless you get a thick paste .

  Setting the oven:

• preheat the oven at 180 degrees
• Greese the baking tray with olive oil
• now take the pizza base in the tray and turn on the heat of ur gas stove slightly heat the tray for 30 seconds fliiping the base on both sides
• once u r done with that now spread the sauce over the base
• Sprinkle half of the mozerella cheese over the sauce
• Now spread all the toppings 
• Now sprinkle rest of the cheese over the toppings.
• Spread lots of olive oil over the tray also on the sides of the Pizza base

Once u r done with spreading put the tray in preheated oven. Bake the pizza  for next 10 min at 180 degrees.

U will see the cheese melting and the topping getting a good sizzling with it.

after 10 min take out the pizza transfer it to serving tray. U can add chili flakes and oregano over the hot pizza and what next Cut it and Enjoy......

If u wanna learn how to make home made pizza base..... just comment and get to know the rest.

Enjoyyyyy..................................

Happy cooking

By: Sushmita Pandit