Aloo Paratha – Stuffed Bread
Aloo Paratha is nothing but stuffed roti. This is one of the popular Indian bread which is served with spicy curries. Roti is stuffed with mashed potatoes and spices which makes it soft and tasty. It is very easy to make. All you need is patience to roll it slowly. After making two or three rotis, you will get hands on it. This is one of my all time favourite. I am sure you will become a favourite too if you make it once. Here you go… Ingredients: Wheat flour – 2 cups Potatoes (medium size) – 2 Chopped onion – 1 cup Green chillies – 2 Coriander leaves – 1/4 cup Salt to taste Method of Preparation: Take 2 cups of flour in a round bottom vessel and add a little salt and 3/4 cup of water or...
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Stuffed Bell Peppers
Stuffed Bell Peppers is another Indian curry which is made by stuffing the bell peppers with vegetables and spices and served with a gravy along with chapathy or paratha. This is one of my favorite dish. I always wanted to try this at home and I finally made it. The output was really good. My husband and all my friends loved it. Hope you will also love it. Here you go… Ingredients: Tomato – 2 Ginger garlic paste – 1 tbsp Tamarind paste – 2 tsp Red chilly powder – 1 tsp Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp Garam masala – 1 tsp Cumin powder – 1/2 tsp Cloves – 2 Bay leaf – 1 Oil- 1 tbsp Yogurt – 2 cups Salt to taste Lemon juice – 1 tbsp For stuffing Bell peppers – 5 Onion chopped – 1...
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Curried Shrimp Skewers
Our good friends, Romie & Peter had invited us over for dinner. Romie had made several delicious dishes for us. She is an excellent cook and every time we go over to her place, I am looking forward to a new dish she would have made. And this time was no different. She had made multiple mouth watering dishes and I really loved perai (Kerala dish) and Curried Shrimp Skewers. I couldn’t resist to take pictures of them and share it with you all. And I am posting the Curried Shrimp Recipe here on behalf of her. I will be posting the Perai (kerala dish) recipe very soon. The first thing that struck me, probably you too, is the presentation. Doesn’t it look so inviting? Here is an awesome recipe and pictures from Romie’s kitchen. Ingredients: Raw Shrimp :...
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Bottle Gourd Koottu – Bottle Gourd Curry
This yet another recipe from my mother inlaw’s kitchen. I have never tried bottle gourd before and didn’t know it was so easy to cook. It’s very healthy and makes for a tasty side dish for chapathies and rice. Besides its healthy properties, there is a little known fun fact about this vegetable. Its dried and cored skin is used to make traditional musical instruments like Tambura and Veena. 🙂 I am sending this recipe to Pooja of My Creative ideas who is hosting  “Vegetable of the Week ” – Bottle gourd Event And I am submitting this recipe to Srivalli of Cooking 4 all seasons Who is hosting Curry Mela Event. Thanks for reminding me srivalli. Ingredients: Bottle Gourd : 1 no Channa dal : 1/4 cup Onion : 1/2 Tomato : 1 Water : 3/4 cup...
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Tandoori Chicken
Tandoori Chicken is another staple item in any Indian restaurant menu and is one of the best liked items as well. Tandoori Chicken is a chicken dish that originated in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent. Chicken is marinated in yogurt and seasoned with tandoori masala. It has a lot of history behind it going back to the Mughal age. From Wikipedia, Tandoor cooked chicken actually dates back to the Mughal peroid. A man named Kundan Lal Gujral ran a restaurant called Moti Mahal in Peshawar before the partition of India. Trying out new recipes to keep his patrons interested, Gujral tried cooking chicken in tandoors (clay ovens) used by locals until then to cook naans (bread). The tandoors are bell-shaped ovens, set into the earth and fired with wood or charcoal reaching temperatures of about 900 degrees....
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