May 15, 2007 09:27 AM
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Hello friends as you know I am very fond of cooking so I would like
to share my three of my favourite recipes. I have made them in
microwave as well as gas. Hope you guys like it too.
*Have written all the recipe to be made in
microwave but one can make it gas by increasing time of cooking.
First Non Vegetarian: Butter Chicken( this is for you Ava, Sanjoy, Ashish, Ateesh)
Cooking time - 20 minutes.*
Ingredients:
500gms chicken pieces
1 large tomato(boiled and cut)
1 large onion( boiled and cut)
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
2tbsp lemon juice
1tbsp red chilly powder
1 tbsp meat masala
1tbsp garam masala
1tsp kastoori methi
1 cup hung curd
1tbsp oil
salt to taste
tbsp - table spoon
tsp - tea spoon
Method:
Wash chicken pieces and apply lime juice all over. Keep for
15 minutes to marinate. Grind tomatoes and onion in a mixer. Grill the
marinated chicken pieces on the high rack on high for 10 minutes.
Put oil in a casserole and heat it on high for 40 sec. now
put ginger garlic paste in the oil and mix. Add onion and tomato paste too. Add
meat masala and microwave it on high for 8 minutes. Stir it once in between. Now
put the marinated chicken into the mixture. Add curd, salt, red chilly powder,
garam masala, kastoori methi and microwave the same for 6 min on high.
Serve hot with butter and garnishing it with coriander. My
favorite dish. hmmmmmmmmmmmm
*PS:
ONE CAN REPLACE PANEER WITH CHICKEN TO EAT PANEER BUTTER MASALA…*
Now Vegetarian:*
This is a Punjabi dish. **Karhi Pakora( This is for Shanti, Rohit)
Cooking
time 13 minutes:
Ingredients:*
2 cups hung curd
2tbsp besan
1 tbsp chopped ginger
curry leaves to taste
2 green chillies
salt and red chilly powder to taste
few pakoras( u can make plain besan pakora for the same
with just salt and red chilly powder)
½ tbsp methi dana( fenugreek seeds)
½ tbsp cumin seeds( jeera)
1 tbsp oil
¼ tsp hing( asafetida powder)
½ tsp mustard seed( sarso ke dane)(rai)
½ tsp turmeric powder( haldi)
tbsp - table spoon
tsp - tea spoon*
PS: THE DIFFERENT MEANING OF WORDS ARE
NOT TAKEN FROM NET BUT FROM MY MOTHER SO I DON’T KNOW WHAT SITE TO GIVE FOR
REFERENCE.
Method:*
Whip
the hung curd and add water and make it thin…. add besan and salt to it and
leave aside for some time.
Heat
oil in a dish on high for 40seconds
Add
red chilli powder, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, green chillies,
ginger, turmeric powder, curry leaves and hing and cook on high for 4 minutes.
Mix
the curd mixture now and microwave it for 10 minutes.
Add
pakoras and microwave on high power for 2 minutes. Stir 2-3 times du ring
cooking
Serve
hot with rice.
Yummy……….wah…………….
Now
sweet dish ke liye we’ll make Gajar ka Halwa…. (This is for you Itika)*
Cooking time: 24 minutes
Ingredients:*
2
cups grated carrot
half
cup sugar
half
cup milk
6tbsp
fresh khoya( you’ll get this in any sweet shop)
2tbsp
Ghee
pinch
of cardamom powder
1tbsp
cut dates
1tbsp
sliced almonds
tbsp - table spoon
tsp - tea spoon
Method:
Put
ghee in a bowl and microwave at high for 40 seconds
Add
grated carrots and stir well. Microwave for 2 min on high. Mix milk and khoya
and add it to the carrots.
Microwave
it for 10 minutes on high stirring in between. Again cook for 10 minutes on
medium. Now add sugar.
Sprinkle
the cardamom powder and almonds and microwave for 2 min. serve hot.
Wahaaaaaaaaa
*PS:
THESE ARE ENTIRLY MY MOM’S RECIPE AND
HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH NET….
Enojy
eating*