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Palak Rice/Spinach Rice

by Ekta 8. July 2008 14:34
  •  Rice - cooked
  •  2 Tomatoes (chopped) 
  • 1 Onion (medium to big chopped, if the onions are small, take 2) 
  • 4-5 Green chillies 
  • chopped  Ginger as per you want ( Should not be too much)
  • 2 Garlic chopped 
  • 1 small stick Cinnamon
  • 2 Cardamom
  • 2 Bay leaves
  • 1 tsp Chilli powder
  • 1 tbsp Garam masala
  • 6 tbsp Oil 
  • Corns
  • Bunch of Cleaned Spinach
  • Salt to taste

Method:

  • Add bay leaves, cardamom, cinnamon and cloves to rice while cooking. Its better to cook rice in an open vessel with adequate amount of water instead of cooker  so that the rice is not sticky.
  • Cut the palak into small pieces.Take a vessel and heat a little oil in that with garlic and green chillies. Fry the palak in the oil for 5 to 10 mins.
  • Then put the whole fried palak into a grinder and grind till it becomes a medium to thick paste. You can add some water to it while grinding but make sure its not too watery. Keep the paste aside.
  • Heat 2tbsp oil in a pan, add onions and saute till they turn light brown. Add turmeric, tomato puree and corn. Cover and cook till tomatoes are done.
  • Add spinach paste, chili powder, garam masala & salt and saute for about 15minutes. You may add water, if the mixture looks too dry.
  • Add the spinach mixture to rice, mix well. You may serve palak rice with onion raita.
  • Enjoy each bite of it!!!!!!   aur mujhe bhi bulana jab bhi banaoge
Spinach Rice

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Indian Mutton/ Goat Meat

by Ekta 22. May 2008 07:42

Ingredients

  • Goat meat (mutton) half to 1kg 
  • cooking oil
  • 4 to 5 onions
  • 2 full bunch of garlic
  • Ginger
  • bay leaves
  • Mirchi/ Chilli powder
  • Haldi/ turmeric powder
  • Garam masala
  • Dhaniya/ coriander powder
  • Meat Masala 
  • Salt for taste

Directions:

  • Wash the pieces of mutton and take off the fat/skin and keep aside
  • Make a paste of onions and garlic in a mixer and drain in a seperate bowl.
  • Now make a paste of only garlics and drain in seperate bowl. (This paste should be one small bowl full)
  • Put all the pieces of mutton in a pressure cooker.
  • Add enough oil, ginger, garlic onion paste, chilli/mirchi powder, haldi/turmeric, garam masala (1 tbsp), dhaniya powder (4-5 tbsp), meat masala (4-5 tbsp) and salt to taste. Mix well. 
  • Add some water and cook till 6 to 7 pressures.
  • Now when all the pressure is gone open the cooker and just see if the mutton is cooked well. It should break smoothly with your fingers. 
  • Now is the time to add the garlic paste.
  • In a seperate vessel add oil. After the oil is heated, add bay leaves and garlic paste
  • After the paste goes brown add the cooked mutton to it.
  • Heat water in a seperate vessel and add to the mutton.
  • Cook for about 15 to 20 mins.
  • And you are all set to hog now.Tongue out
  • You can have the mutton with Chappatis and rice.

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kachey kele ke pakodey/Raw Banana Dumplings

by Ekta 1. May 2008 04:36

       Ingredients

  • Raw bananas (green ones) 4 to 5
  • soaked rice (1 medium bowl)
  • Trumeric powder
  • Mirchi powder
  • Oil
  • Salt to taste


    Method:
  • Soak rice (take rice quantity upto one medium bowl) in adequate amount of water and leave for 2 to 3hrs.
  • After the rice is soaked grind it well in grinder so that it turns into a medium to thin paste ( make sure its not too thick).
  • Take the paste out in a bowl and put turmeric powder, mirchi powder and salt according to your taste and mix well.
  • peel off the skin of raw bananas and cut half then cut the halved pieces in thin slices.
  • Heat oil ( not too much) in a pan.
  • Put some rai when the oil is heated.
  • Dip the sliced bananas into the paste well enough and then put in the heated oil.
  • You can put 3 to 4 slices at one time.
  • Fry till the bananas turn light brown.
  • Serve with paratha or roti.

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