Showing posts with label curry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label curry. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Eel Fish Curry and dry

Ingredients:

Eel fish - 1/2 kg Fresh and cut into pieces.
Onion - 1 medium sized chopped
Dry coconut - grated 1/4 cup
Coriander leaves - 1/4 cup chopped
Fennel seeds - 1 tblsp
Coriander seeds - 1 tblsp
Ginger - 1 inch
Garlic - 5-6 cloves
Asofedita - 1 tsp
Turmeric powder - 2 tsp
Red chilly powder - 4 tblsp
Coriander powder - 1 tblsp
Salt as per taste
Lemon for garnish


Recipe:

1. Wash the fish and cut it into pieces. Apply 1 tsp of asofedita and 1/2 tsp of turmric to these pieces.
2. Grind onion, grated coconut, coriander leaves, 2-3 garlic cloves, ginger, fennel seeds, corainder seeds in a very fine paste.
3. Heat oil in a pan. Add remaining crushed garlic cloves and fry for a minute. Add grinded paste and saute it for 2 minutes.
4. Add 1 tsp turmeric, 2 tblsps red chilly powder, coriander powder and salt as per taste. Mix it thoroughly till it starts to ooze out the oil.
5. Then add 2 cups of water to it and let it boil.
6. Once it starts boiling, add fish pieces to it and let it boil for 5-10 minutes. After adding fish do not stir the curry, to prevent it from getting mashed.



7. After 10 minutes transfer the curry in another pan. Leave behind pieces along with 2-3 tblsps of curry with it. Only add the fish pieces of tail or head in the curry and let it simmer on low flame. Our fish curry is ready.
8. In the first pan add 2 tblsps of oil to those fish pieces. Add 1 tsp turmeric powder, 1 tblsp red chilly powder and little salt as per taste. Mix it gently and let it simmer for 5 minutes. Finally add coriander and switch off the gas. Dry fish is ready.





9. Serve this hot curry and dry fish with Bhakari (i.e. one kind of indian bread) or plain steamed rice and lemon.




Thursday, June 23, 2011

Koyla chicken (Smoked Chicken)


Ingredients:

Chicken - 500 gm
Tomato - 3 tomato puree
Cashew powder - 1/4 cup
Cream - 4 tbsps
Red chilly powder - 4 tsps
Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
Garam masala - 2 tsps
Ginger-garlic paste - 2 tbsps
 Lemon - 1/2
Ghee - 4 tbsps
Charcol (Koyla)- 1 no
Salt as per taste


Recipe:

1. Cut the chicken in medium size pieces.
2. Marintae the chicken with ginger-garlic paste, turmeric powder, red chilly powder, garam masala and salt as per taste.
3. Add 3 tbsps ghee in a pan. Fry the marinated chicken in it for 2-3 minutes.
4. Once the chicken get little brown in color, add tomato puree to it and let it simmer for 2-3 minutes.
5. When the gravy becomes thick, add cashew powder and 1/2 lemon juice to it and cover it.
6. Till the chicken is getting cooked, heat the charcol on gas burner till it's red.



7. After 4-5 minutes chicken will get cook. Add cream and mix well. Switch off the gas.
8. Place one small bowl in the middle of chicken gravy. Put hot charcol in it and pour 1 tbsp of ghee on it.



 9. Cover the chicken immediately and let it be covered for 5-10 minutes.
10. Garnish the chicken with chopped corainder and serve hot with Naan or roti.
11. Smokey flavour of chicken gravy tastes awsome.