Kashmiri Dam Aloo

Kashmiri Dam Aloo Preparation Time : 15 - 20 minutes Cooking time : 30 minutes Ingredients : • Potatoes(peeled) 18-20 small • Oil for deep-frying • Kashmiri red chillies(ground) - 5-6 • Yogurt - 2 cups • Green cardamom powder - 1/2 teaspoon • Dry ginger powder (soonth) - 1 teaspoon • Fennel seed (saunf) powder - 2 tablespoons • Mustard oil - 1/4 cup • Clove powder - a generous pinch • Asafoetida  - a pinch • Salt to taste • Roasted cumin powder - 1/2 teaspoon • Garam masala powder - 1/2 teaspoon Method : Peel and prick the potatoes all over with the help of a fork. Keep in salted water for fifteen minutes....

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Navratan Korma

Navratan Korma  Preparation Time : 20 minutesCooking Time : 30 minutes Ingredients :Carrots ,1/2 inch cubes 2 medium Potatoes ,1/2 inch cubes 2 medium Cauliflower 6-8 florets French beans 5-6 1/2 inch pieces Green peas,shelled 1/2 cup Button mushrooms,halved 8-10 Cashewnuts 1/2 cup Oil 2 tablespoons+ to deep fry Lotus seeds 30 grams Cloves 2 Black peppercorns 4 Cinnamon 1 inch stick Green cardamoms 2 Boiled onion paste 1 cup Garlic paste 1 tablespoon Ginger paste 1 tablespoon Yogurt 1/2 cup Green chillies,chopped 2-3 Salt to taste Cottage cheese (paneer) ,1/2 inch cubes 75 grams Fresh cream 1/2 cup Raisins 1 tablespoon Method: Soak half...

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Dal Makhani

Dal Makhan Preparation Time : 30-35 minutes Cooking Time : 35-40 minutes Ingredients : Whole black gram (sabut urad)- 1/2 cup Red kidney beans(rajma) - 2 table spoon Red chilly powder - 1 tea spoon Cumin seeds - 1 tea spoon Ginger (chopped)- 1 inches piece Garlic (chopped) - 6 cloves Onion (chopped) - 1 big size Butter - 3 table spoon Cooking oil - 1 table spoon Tomatoes(chopped) - 2 medium size Green chllies(slit) - 2 Garam masala powder - 1 tea spoon Salt - to taste Cumin seeds - 1 tea spoon Preparation : Wash and soak rajma and urad dal over night in sufficient water. Drain, add salt, pressure cook urad dal and rajma in...

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Lauki Kofta

Lauki Ka Kofta Preparation Time : 15 minutesCooking Time : 30 minutes Ingredients :Bottle Gourd (lauki) - 1 kg Gram Flour (besan) - 2 table spoon Onion - 2 medium size Red Chilly - 2 midium size Ginger - 1 inch piece Garlic - 6-8 pieces Cumin powder - 2 table spoon Garam Masala Powder - 1/2 tea spoon  Raisins - 1/2 cup Fresh Coriander leaves - few springs Oil -  Bay leaf - 2  Turmeric Powder -  Salt - to taste Method : Peel bottle gourd, wash and grate. Mix half tea spoon salt and keep aside. Peel wash onion and finely grate. Remove stems of red chillies, peel wash garlic and ginger and grind to a fine paste. Wash...

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Bharva Karela (Stuffed Bitter Gourd)

Stuffed Karela  Preparation Time : 30 minutesCooking Time : 30 minutes Ingredients :Karela  (Bitter Groud)- 250 gms.(small size) Jeera Powder (cumin powder) - 2 tea spoon spoon Dhaniya Powder (coriander) - 1 tea spoon  Haldi Powder (turmeric powder) - 1/2 tea spoon Chilly Powder - 1/2 tea spoon Tomato - 2 medium size (finely chopped) Onion - 2 medium size (finely chopped) Cooking Oil  Ginger Paste - 1 tea spoon Garlic Paste - 1/2 tea spoon Salt - to taste Method : Slit karela length wise on one side and remove the seeds. Grind the seeds and keep aside. Put water sufficient water and bitter gourd in a pan and let it...

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Kulfi

Kulfi  Preparation Time : 10 minutesCooking Time : 30 minutesFreezing : 6-8 hrs. Ingredients :Milk - 5 cups Milkmaid - 1 tin cornflour - 2 table spoon ground cardamom - 1/2 tea spoon kevra/ saffron - 1 pinch Method: Take 1 table spoon milk in a small bowl add saffron and keep aside. Mix milk and milkmaid in a pan. Put on heat and bring to boil stirring constantly. Take cornflour in a small bowl and mix it well in 2 table spoon cold milk. Add it to the boiling milk stirring till it is thick. Remove the pan from heat. Mix cardamom powder, saffron and let the mixture cool. Fill the mixture in kulfi moulds and leave to set in freezer for...

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Bagiya (बगिया, A Maithil Dish)

Preparation Time : 30 minutes Cooking Time : 30 minutes Ingredients : chaval atta (rice powder) - 500 gms. khoya - 250 gms sugar - 4 table spoon milk - 2 liters cardamom powder - 1/2 tea spoon Method : Boil 2 cups of water in a kadai, put chaval atta in it and mix it , let it cool down. Now heat kadai and put khoya , sugar , cardamom powder and let the khoya dry . Take out the khoya and keep aside. Heat milk in a pan or kadai and let it boil on low heat . Now knead the chaval atta put some water if needed while kneading. Take equal parts of kneaded chaval atta and make pedas. Take the peda on your palm , put khoya in the middle and...

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