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March 20, 2003
An assorted menu
Ingredients: 1kg chicken
3 cups basmati rice (boiled)
2 onions
3 tomatoes chopped
1 cup yogurt
4-5 green chillies
Salt to taste
1tbsp red chilli powder
1tsp black pepper
1tsp coriander powder
1tsp turmeric
1tsp garam masala
1tsp zeera (fenugreek) powder
1 cinnamon stick
4 cloves
1 bayleaf
1tsp ginger paste
1tsp garlic paste
1cup oil
Few mint leaves chopped
Pinch of saffron dissolved in milk
Method:
Heat oil and add onions. Saute and put bay leaf, cloves, and cinnamon sticks. Now put chicken and fry for 5 minutes. Add salt, red chilli, black pepper, coriander powder, turmeric, ginger paste and garlic paste. Then add chopped tomatoes, chopped green chillies and yogurt. Mix all the ingredients well with chicken. Cover it and cook on low flame for some time. When the gravy thickens, stir fry till oil starts to surface. Remove from flame.
In a separate pot, lightly grease the base with oil. Pour boiled rice, (boil water with little salt and oil if you wish. Add some cloves in water, and add rice. Let it boil for a few minutes and when rice turns a little soft, drain and set aside). Keep a layer of rice in the bottom, then lay the chicken gravy. Sprinkle mint leaves and cover with layer of rice. You can make as many layers as required. Finally, pour dissolved saffron on to the rice and cover the pot tightly to steam for a few minutes.
Kofta curry
Ingredients:
1 kg qeema minced meat
1tsp red chilli powder
Salt to taste
1tsp turmeric
1tsp coriander powder
1tsp zeera powder
1/2 tsp ginger paste
1/2 tsp garlic paste
1tbsp gramflour
1 egg yolk
For curry:
2 onions chopped
1 cup tomato puree
2 tbsp yogurt
Salt to taste
1tsp red chilli powder
Zeera (fenugreek) powder
1/2 tsp turmeric
1cup oil
1/2 glass water
Method:
In minced meat (qeema), add red chilli powder, salt to taste, turmeric, coriander powder, zeera powder, ginger paste, garlic paste, gramflour and egg yolk. Mix all the ingredients well. Then shape like small balls (koftas) and set aside or refrigerate for 1 hour.
To prepare curry, heat oil and throw onions to fry till they turn brown. Add tomato puree, yogurt, salt and red chilli powder, turmeric and zeera powder. Keep stirring and mixing till the gravy thickens. Then add 1/2 glass of water and bring it to a boil. Place koftas and cook for 2-3 minutes. Cover well with gravy, stirring carefully so that the koftas don’t break. Now let it cook on slow flame. When oil starts surfacing, check if koftas are done and then remove from flame.
Spaghetti with beef and vegetables
Ingredients:
1 packet spaghetti
1/4 cup carrot
1/4 cup capsicum
1/2 cup cabbage
1/2 kg beef (boiled) boneless
1/2 cup tomato puree
Salt to taste
2 tsp black pepper
1tsp white pepper
11/2 tbsp chilli sauce
3 tbsp oil
Method:
Boil spaghetti with a little oil in it. Drain and set aside. Heat oil in a pan and add beef (boiled) with salt, black and white pepper, and then vegetables one by one. Add sauce and tomato puree and cook on high flame for 3-5 minutes.
Then mix boiled spaghetti with the prepared vegetables and then steam for 5-10 minutes.
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