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Indian Recipes are popular all over the world thanks to their variety and usage of wide range of spices. There are thousands of Indian recipes which can be prepared in many ways as it suits to your taste. Each Indian recipe has it’s own way of cooking in various regions. for instance North Indian Chicken Curry will be rich in butter whereas in South India it will be more spicy.

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Khandvi

Khandvi

Khandvi is simple and yet delicious. It is a snack from Gujarat. It is prepared from gram flour (Besan). This recipe is served with meals on special occasions in Gujarat. It requires very less oil.

Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 15-20 min
Serves: 4-5

Ingredients:

• 1 cup soft besan (Bombay besan)
• 2 ½ cups buttermilk
• 3 green chilies
• 1 inch ginger
• ¼ tsp turmeric
• Salt to taste
• 25 gms refined oil
• 3 tsp grated coconut
• Coriander for garnish

For seasoning:

• 5 gms mustard
• A pinch of asafoetida (hing)
• 15 gms refined oil

Method:

First make a paste of green chilies and ginger.

Mix buttermilk, salt, turmeric, ginger and green chilly paste to besan. Now pour this mixture into the cooker tin and steam for about 20 minutes.

Now reverse a big plate and grease it with oil. Take this mixture with a spoon and spread it thin on this plate. Allow it to cool for 15 min.

Cut this into a 2-inch width long ribbon with a knife and roll it. Pour the mustard seasoning on top.

Garnish with grated coconut and finely chopped coriander leaves.

Dhaba chicken curry

Dhaba chicken curry

This chicken curry is lip smacking and is usually served in Dhabas. It is easy to prepare and less spicy. This curry tastes good with rotis. It is one of the popular dishes in India. The Punjabi dhaba chicken curry is consumed as a main dish.

Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 2-3

Ingredients:

• 500 gms chicken
• 1 tsp red chilly powder
• ½ tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp garam masla
• 1 tsp cumin seeds
• 1 tbsp coriander powder
• ½ cup beaten curd
• 2 tsp ginger garlic paste
• 2 red chillies
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 tbsp refined oil
• Salt to taste
• Coriander for garnish

Method:

Clean the chicken and marinate with salt and turmeric. Refrigerate for about 30 minutes.

Heat oil in a wok. Add cumin, red chillies and bay leaf. After the cumin splutters, fry onions till they turn translucent. Stir in garam masala and fry for few minutes. Then add ginger garlic paste and saute for 2 minutes.

Put the marinated chicken to this. Add red chilly powder, coriander powder and mix well. Close the lid and cook till chicken is half done and oil leaves sides, over a medium flame.

Pour the beaten curd and let the chicken cook over a low flame till it is done. Add more water to bring it to gravy consistency.

Garnish with chopped coriander and serve hot with rotis.

Amrit Phal

Amrit Phal

This Amrit Phal is a sweet dish wherein we make doughnuts and dip these in sugar syrup. They are prepared like gulab jamuns but are different to taste. They are indeed delightful.

Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 4-5

Ingredients:

• ½ kg sugar
• 250 gms maida
• 250 gms unsweetened khova
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ cup curd
• A pinch of saffron
• ½ tsp cardamom powder
• 1 tbsp rose water
• 1 tbsp ghee
• Oil for frying
• Chopped almonds for garnish

Method:

For preparing doughnuts:

Take khova in a bowl. Smash it well so that there are no lumps. Add maida, salt and baking soda. Mix all these ingredients with curd, adding gradually. If the dough is rough, add some maida to it. The dough should be soft in texture. Rub ghee to give a rich taste.

Heat oil in a pan for deep-frying. Meanwhile prepare doughnuts- Take a small ball of dough, slightly press it between your palms and make a hole in the center.

When the oil is ready for frying, reduce the flame and fry these doughtnuts till they are brown in color.

Take them on a plate and set aside. Allow them to cool to room temperature.

For sugar syrup:
Take sugar in a pan. Pour ½ cup water and make syrup with string consistency. To know whether the syrup is done pour the syrup with a spoon from above. When the last drop falls like a string, then it is done.

Mix saffron soaked in warm milk, rose water and cardamom powder to this syrup. Mix well.

Drop the doughnuts one by one into the syrup. Let the doughnuts absorb the syrup.

Take them on a plate and garnish with chopped nuts.

Kachumar Raita

Kachumar Raita

Kachumar Raita is an Indian recipe that is made from curd and vegetables. The delectable taste of kachumar raita is complemented by nutrition it provides. Made of curd and vegetables it is highly nutritious. It can be included in the main course of your lunch or dinner. You can even relish it with biryani to moderate the spicy taste of biryani. It can be quickly made and so extremely preferred by all.

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 2 min
Serves: 4

Ingredients

• 250 gm curd
• 1 tomato
• 1 onion
• 1 medium size carrot
• 1 medium size turnip
• ½ bowl anar dana (pomegranate seeds)
• Green coriander leaves
• Salt to taste
• ½ tsp chat masala powder

Method

Blend the curd in a blender with adding salt to it. Now pour it in a big bowl. When you are done with it, chop each of the vegetable, except pomegranate seeds, into fine pieces. Add all these chopped pieces of vegetables to the curd and stir it to mix all of them. Now sprinkle chat masala powder and raita masala. Refrigerate it and serve it cold.

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Mutton Dum Biryani

Mutton Dum Biryani

Mutton Dum Biryani is a popular dish. Here is a simple recipe to prepare dum biryani at home. This dish does not need any gravy and can be served with onion raita.

Cooking time: 60 min
Serves: 3

Ingredients:

• 2 cups basmati rice
• 250 gms mutton
• Few coriander leaves
• Few mint leaves
• 3 cardamoms
• 9 cloves of garlic
• 1 inch ginger
• 1 inch cinnamon
• 3 cloves
• 2 tbsp cashew nuts
• ½ cup curd
• 1 bay leaf
• ½ tsp coriander powder
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• Salt to taste
• ½ tsp turmeric
• 1 tsp pepper corns
• 2 onions
• 2 tbsp refined oil
• 2 tsp ghee
• A pinch of saffron soaked in warm milk
• 1 tsp lime juice
• Atta for dum

Method:

Grind coriander, mint leaves, cardamom, garlic, ginger, cashew nuts, coriander powder and pepper corns to a fine paste along with curd.

Clean the mutton and marinate with this paste along with salt, chilli powder, turmeric, coriander powder for 30 minutes.

Fry onions lengthwise and fry in ghee till golden brown. Keep aside.

Heat oil in a pressure cooker and add the marinated mutton into it. Saute till the masala is cooked and oil oozes out. Pressure cook till the mutton is cooked.

Meanwhile boil water, add washed and soaked basmati rice, bay leaf, cloves and cinnamon to it. Cook till it is ¾ done. Strain the water.

In a heavy bottomed vessel spread some mutton curry. On top of it spread rice, some brown onions. Again spread some curry, rice, brown onions. Repeat till all the curry and rice is completed.

Cover the vessel with a plate. Seal the edge of the plate with atta. Keep this vessel on a hot tawa with medium flame (dum) for about 20 minutes. Open and add saffron and lime juice. Mix well and serve.

Chicken kheema fry

Chicken kheema fry

This chicken recipe is a stir-fry, which requires less oil. Chicken kheema fry can be had with rotis or as a side dish for rice.

It can also be used as a stuffing for parathas and samosas.

Cooking time: 25 min
Serves: 2-3

Ingredients

• 500 gms chicken kheema
• 1 large onion
• 1 tomato
• 1 tsp chilli powder
• ½ tsp roasted cumin powder
• 3 green chillies
• 1 tsp pepper powder
• ½ cup dry coconut scrapings
• Salt to taste
• ½ tsp turmeric
• 2 tbsp refined oil
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 3 cloves
• 1 inch cinnamon
• 2 tsp ginger garlic paste
• Fresh coriander for garnish

Method

Wash kheema and pressure-cook with salt and turmeric (Do not add water). Set aside without draining the water.

Grind together coconut, cloves and cinnamon to a paste.

Heat oil. Fry chopped onion till golden brown. Sauté ginger garlic paste and slit green chillies for 2 minutes. Fry chopped tomato till soft. Stir in all the powders and fry for 2 minutes. Stir in the ground masala and cook till oil leaves sides.

Put in the chicken kheema and mix well. Add more salt if necessary. Cook till water evaporates and it becomes dry. Garnish with chopped coriander and serve hot.

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Sweet Corn Kheer

Sweet Corn Kheer

Sweet corns are very nutritious and one has to include them regularly in the diet. Cooked sweet corn has significant antioxidant activity, which reduces the chance of heart disease and cancer. If you stock sweet corn at home, this is an easy dish to prepare.

This is an Indian Recipe. Kheer is delicious sweet dessert.

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Serves: 3-4

Ingredients

• ½ ltr milk
• 1 cup sweet corn kernels
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 tbsp cashew nuts
• 1 tbsp almonds
• ½ tsp cardamom powder
• 2 tbsp ghee

Method

Fry broken cashew nuts and chopped almonds in 1 tbsp ghee till light golden. Boil sweet corn kernels and grind them to a coarse paste without adding water. Keep aside.

Take a pan and boil milk. Stir in the corn paste and mix well. Boil for 5 minutes stirring occasionally.

Add sugar and mix. Boil till the sugar is dissolved and the kheer thickens. Now add fried nuts, remaining ghee and cardamom powder. Mix well. Serve chilled.

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Annabel Karmel

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