Baiguni- Bengali style aubergine/eggplant fry-
Aparna Rao
Ingredients- Large/long brinjal chopped into slices, wheat flour, Ajwain, salt, turmeric, chilli powder. So the brinjal slices are marinated for about 10 minutes in salt and haldi... Make your flour mix in the meanwhile - mix wheat flour, salt, chilli powder and ajwain.
Now heat the pan. The water from brinjal slices is squeezed out. Then layered with a mix of wheat flour, Ajwain, salt and chilli powder. Shallow fried on hot pan... Turn both sides till golden brown. Enjoy...
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Sunday, July 21, 2019
Baiguni- Bengali style aubergine/eggplant fry
Green Chutney
Green Chutney for ragda pattice
Vaishali Damle
-Thoda pudina, kothimbir, green chillies, little jeera, garlic, chopped onion and salt. Grind to a smooth paste.
Ragda Pattice
Ragda Pattice
-Vaishali Damle
Boiled potatoes half kilo, 2 soaked bread slices, smash karneka. Added dhania jeera powder, salt according to how many pattices you want adjust the quantity of batata and bread. For ragda- in kadhai take little oil add chopped onion, little tomato, fry for sometime add boiled white watana, mirchi powder, chat masala, salt and cook well.
Aubergine Sandwich
Aubergine Sandwich
- Sangita Haria
Greased pan, brinjal slice ko roast kiya both sides, onion slice,salt ,pepper. Bought long brinjal .They have less seeds.
Mixed veggie dal with Jackfruit seed
Mixed veggie dal- (Jackfruit seed, drumstick, white melon and green mango dal)
- Bindu Mohanan
Ingredients:
Tur dal - 1 cup wash and pressure cook..
Jackfruit seeds 1 cup...clean and cut in long pieces
Drum sticks - four to five..cut in long pieces.
Quarter white melon - cut in small prices
Mango green - 1 cut in small prices.
Dry masala :
Haldi pwd and Mirchi pwd and salt, jeera
Coconut grated
Method:
Wash all the veggies and put it in a vessel expect the mango...put haldi pwd and Mirchi pwd and salt and boil till tender..add the green mango prices to it..
Add the pressure cooked dal into it and boil it.
In a mixer jar add the coconut grated jeera and a price of onion and make a little watery mixture add it to the veggies and dal mixture and let it boil. Until u get a nice smell.
Tadka/ seasoning: In a vok pour oil add musterd seeds and urad dal .and akka Mirchi and add it to the dal.
Can be eaten with hot rice✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽😋😋😋😋
Saturday, July 20, 2019
Aubergine Roast (Vaangyache kaap)
Aubergine Roast (Vaangyache kaap) - Vaishali Damle
- Just cut long Brinjal slices and keep them in water. Just tap them in mixture of rice flour and rawa in which salt, mirchi powder is added and also little dhania jeera powder and shallow fry
Date and Walnut Cake
Date and Walnut Cake
- Smita Kanojia:
Ingredients -
One cup flour
2 eggs
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 cup fresh cream
Baking powder 1 tsp
Pinch of salt
1/2 teaspoon Nescafé
100 gms walnut
150 gms of dates
Method- Soak the dates in hot milk
Milk just enough to soak them
Then beat eggs,sugar n cream add coffee powder n vanilla essence
Sieve flour with baking powder n salt
Gradually add flour to egg mix
Add dates and mix the batter
Don’t overdo the mixing
Add chopped walnuts
Line the cake tin , add batter , Sprinkle Balance walnuts over the batter
Bake the cake in a pre heated oven at 180 degrees
Bake it till it is done
Thursday, July 4, 2019
Kori Roti
Kori Roti
Chicken Gravy and Chicken Sukkha:
Sangeeta Salian
Ingredients..
Chicken.. 1 1/2 kgs
Coconut.. I full,,, grated
Bediki Mirchi..25 nos
Coriander Seeds.. One fist full
Onion.. 4 nos,,, chopped
Garlic flakes,, 10nos
Curry patta,,, 30 leaves
Jeera,,, 1. 1/2 tspn
Methi... 1/4 tspn
Rai,, 1/4tspn
Cloves,,, 2nos
Dalchini..one inch
One elaichi
Kali miri... 10 seeds
Tamarind...small Lemon size jitna
Method....
In a kadhai add two tspn full oil or ghee, as per ur choice, then add rai, jeera, cloves, dalchini, elaichi, methi, kalimiri,(all these fry in slow gas)...then garlic crushed, chopped onions, curry patta twenty leaves, coriander seeds and lastly bediki mirchi... Fry well. Remove from fire and cool.
Grind the above spices adding 1/4tspn turmeric powder and tamarind.. Grind to fine paste...
In a kadhai add one tspn oil or ghee and fry grated coconut till golden brown.
Preparation..
In a kadhai heat two tspn ghee,,, add 1/4 tspn rai, allow it to splutter, then four mashed garlic flakes ten curry patta fry,one chopped onion,,, fry....... Then put cleaned chicken pieces and mix. Do not add salt or water till chicken changes it's color n turns a bit white. It should release it's moisture. When chicken turns white,,, add the red masala paste and mix thoroughly... Allow it to boil for three minutes,, add salt as per ur taste, mix then cover and simmer till ten minutes.. Add sliced potatoes (sos) ..again cover and cook for ten more minutes or it chicken is done.
Transfer three parts of chicken pieces in another pan,,(this is for chicken sukkha),, don't transfer too much of red masala, u will need more of these masala for chicken curry.
Now grind grated and fried coconut in a mixer. Just for five seconds. Then stop. Coconut should be very coarsely ground. Remove one fist full and mix it in chicken sukkha kadhai.
Switch on the gas and mix well the chicken sukkha mixture. Over and cook for ten minutes,, sim gas.. One dish is ready.
Next for chicken curry, grind the leftover coconut in the mixer to a very fine paste then mix it with the chicken masala which u have retained in the first kadhai..
Add plenty of water, since this gravy should not be thick. Add salt as per ur taste. Allow to boil for ten minutes and ur curry is also ready.
Cauliflower pizza crust
Cauliflower pizza crust:
Sangita Kalarickal
1 head cauliflower
2 pods garlic
1.5 cups shredded mozzarella + 1/2 cup for sprinkling on top
cheese
2 eggs
Black pepper
Italian seasoning or other herbs
Salt
Blitz the cauliflower in a food processor to get it finely chopped.
use clean kitchen towel to squeeze out the juice as much as you can.
Grate or very finely chop garlic
To the cauliflower flour add eggs, cheese, garlic, salt, pepper and herbs and mix well.
Preheat oven to 400F
Meanwhile prepare your pizza toppings... mushrooms, eppers, olives, onion etc.
Line a pan with parchment paper, spread out the mixture thinly.
Sprinkle cheese on top.
Bake at 400F for 25 min.
Turn over. Sprinkle toppings, add more cheese, and bake for another 25 min.
Enjoy!