Prawns Green Pulao

This is a quick, simple yet tasty recipe. A perfect dish if you have lot of guests coming over and need an extensive menu.

Ingredients :

Prawns (cleaned and deveined) - 250 grms

Rice - 3 Cups, soaked for 10/15 mins

Water - 3 cups (if you are using basmati rice use 1:1 water)

1 Medium Onion - finely chopped

1 Medium Tomato - finely chopped

Ginger and Garlic paste - 2 tspn

Whole garam masala - 5/6 Cloves, 2/3 black cardamom pods, 12/15 whole black paper corns,  1 tspn jeera

For Green Masala - half bunch of fresh coriander (cleaned and washed), 2/3 green chillies (you can vary the quantity of chillies, as per your taste), little water

Salt - to taste

Oil - 3 tbspn

Recipe :


First make the green masala and keep it ready. Make fine paste of fresh coriander and chillies with a little salt and a little water.

First put oil in the pressure cooker. Once the oil is hot, add whole garam masala to it. After this, add chopped onion and saute it till the onion turns pink. After this add the chopped tomato and the green masala and let it cook for 2 mins. Now add prawns and rice together. Give this mixture a good stir and let it cook for 2 mins. Now add water to rice and prawns and let it boil for another 3 mins. Once water is boiling you can cover the cooker with a lid. Turn the flame to sim. Let the pulao cook in cooker on low flame (or on sim) for 12/15 mins. Serve hot :).

Aam Panha / Kacche Kairika Panha

A raw mango or kachhi kairi is full of A,C and B6 Vitamins. It is also rich in antioxidants. I get nostalgic whenever I have this panha. This fresh and homemade panha is anytime better than any ready-made drinks, which has lots of artificial flavors and colors.

Ingredients :

1 cup raw mango (cut into pieces)

2 cups sugar (you can also put sugarfree as substitute)

5/6 strands of saffron

Salt to taste

6 glasses of Water (around 1.5 Liters)

Recipe:

Blend cut raw mango pieces in the mixer with little water. The consistency should be like a pulp. Put this pulp in a bowl and add sugar and water to it. Stir the mixture till the sugar dissolves. Now strain this mixture with a strainer, make sure that only the juice is coming out of the strainer and not the pulp. Once the juice is collected, add saffron to it. Keep the juice in the fridge for cooling. Serve it cool.
You can store this for 3 to 4 days.

Note: You can add a pinch of cardamom powder to the panha, if you like the taste of it.

5 in 1 Daal

This daal preparation is a mixture of 5 different variant of daals. This is very nutritious, high in protein and yet tasty. It is highly recommended for those who are on a high protein diet.

I generally buy this mix daal from Hypercity. If you dont have access to already mixed daal, then you can mix below mentioned daals in equal quantities. 200gms of mix daal serves 4

Ingredients :

Moong Daal (with outer green cover)
Masoor Daal
Toor Daal
Urad Daal (with outer black cover)
Chana Daal

1 medium sized onion -- finely chopped
1 medium sized tomato -- finely chopped
1/2 inch ginger
5/6 cloves of garlic -- make ginger and garlic paste
1 tsp Turmeric
2 tsp Red chilly powder
2 tsp Chicken curry masala (use Garam Masala if you do not want to use chicken curry masala)
1 green chilly -- finely chopped
4/5 stems of fresh coriander -- finely chopped
salt -- as per taste
1 tbspn Oil


Recipe :

As mentioned above mix all the 5 daals together. Cook the mixed daal in a pressure cooker.2 whistles are enough to cook the daal.
In a deep pan, put oil. Once oil is hot saute chopped onions till they turn pink. Now add ginger-garlic paste and let the onion cook for 2 mins. After 2 mins add the chopped tomatoes. Then add turmeric, red chilly powder and chicken curry masala to the onion and tomato mix. Let the masalas cook for 2 mins. Now add the cooked mix daal and some water (if required, daal should not be too watery). As the daal starts simmering, add the chopped green chillies and salt to taste. Daal should simmer on low flame. Let it simmer for 5 to 8 mins. Daal is ready to serve. Serve hot with rice or chapattis.

Paneer Paratha

One of my favourite breakfast recipes. Quick, easy and very tasty. With the below ingredients you can make 4/5 medium size parathas.

Ingredients :

For Stuffing
Paneer -- 200gms (grated but not very fine)
Green Chillies -- 2 (finely chopped)
Fresh Coriander leaves -- 10/12 stems (finely chopped)
Salt -- as per taste

For Paratha
Knead the dough with a little salt
Oil / Ghee -- for cooking

Recipe :
Mix grated paneer, finely chopped green chillies and fresh coriander leaves with salt to taste.
To make the paratha, stuff paneer mixture in the kneaded dough and make small dumplings. Roll the paratha. Cook it on tava with little oil or ghee.Serve hot :)