Butter Chicken

Butter Chicken - For all the non vegetarian food lovers, this is one of the most favourite dishes that people like to relish. Please follow the steps discussed below, the taste would definitely make you go yummmmm......

Ingredients

• Onions (Sliced) - 7-10 medium
  
• Tomatoes (Chopped) - 4-5 medium
• Green chillies (Chopped) - 2 medium
• Ginger garlic paste - 5 tsp
• Milk - 1 cup (or more depending on the sweetness you want to keep for the dish)
• Chicken - 500 gms

Spices

• Black pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
• Garam Masala - 2 tbsp
• Chicken Masala - 2 tbsp
• Amchoor - 1/4 tsp
• Coriander powder - 1 tbsp
• Jeera powder - 1 tbsp
• Salt - to taste
  

Preparation

• Heat some oil in a pan. Add chopped green chillies and onions to it. Fry them till the onions become golden brown in color
• Remove the mixture from pan and keep it aside for sometime to let it cool
• Add tomatoes and fried onions and chillies to a mixer and make a paste of these
• Add this paste to the same pan and without adding more oil, saute the paste for 10-15 mins. Add ginger garlic paste and saute the mix for about 10-15 minutes more
• Add the spices listed above and saute till oil begins to separate from the mixture (We saute the mix for such a long time since this helps in adding flavour to the dish, the more you saute the paste, the better flavour and taste you will get out of it.)
• After that, add the chicken and mix it well with the paste. Do this for about another 10-15 minutes.
• Add milk to the mixture and stir well so that no lumps are formed. Continue stirring for about 5 minutes. Keep on flame for 2-5 minutes more
• Butter chicken is ready. Serve hot with rotis
  

Malai sandwich

Malai Sandwich - Fast to cook, good to eat :)

Ingredients

• Malai - 1 cup
• Bread - 8 slices
• Sugar - 4 tsp
• Oil - 1 tbsp
  

Note: The quantity mentioned above is to prepare 4 sandwiches which serves 2 people

Preparation

• Whip malai till it gets a little creamy
• Take bread slices and on one side of each bread, apply a little oil
• On the other side, spread the whipped malai evenly
• Keep one slice as the covering slice for one sandwich and on the other slice, put a teaspoon of sugar on top of malai. Add another layer of malai on top of sugar
• Put the other slice on top, with the oiled side on top
• Now cook the sandwich in a toaster till golden brown
• Serve hot with tea
  

Cheese Tomato (Paneer Masala)

Cheese Tomato - One of mine and my husband's favorite dishes :) Very easy to cook and simply delicious to eat. Here goes the recipe:

Ingredients

• Onions (Sliced) - 3 medium
• Tomatoes (Chopped) - 5 medium
• Green chillies (Chopped) - 2 small
• Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
• Black pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
• Red chilli powder - 1/4 tsp
• Garam masala - 1 tbsp
• Amchoor - 1/4 tsp
• Salt - to taste
• Malai or cream - 1 cup
• Milk - 1/4 cup
• Paneer (Cut into small cubes) - 100 gms
• Coriander (finely chopped) - 2 tbsp

Preparation

• Take out paneer from freezer. Wash the pieces properly and keep aside so that it becomes soft with room temperature.
• Heat some oil in a pan. Add chopped green chillies and onions to it. Fry them till the onions become golden brown in color. Add ginger garlic paste and saute for about 5 more minutes.
• Remove the mixture from pan and keep it aside for sometime to let it cool. Add some tomatoes and fried onions,garlic paste to a mixer and make a paste of these.
• Add this paste to the same pan and without adding more oil, saute the paste. Add the spices listed above and saute till oil begins to separate from the mixture.
• After that, add the paneer cubes and mix them well with the paste. Do this for about 5-10 minutes.
• Add malai(or cream) and milk to the mixture and stir well so that no lumps are formed. Continue stirring for about 2 minutes. Keep on flame for 2-5 minutes more.
• Cheese tomato is ready. Garnish with finely chopped coriander.

Punjabi Kadhi

This is the most lovable mouth-watering Punjabi dish prepared in most north-indian homes. Here I share my recipe of the yummy dish.

Ingredients

For the Pakodas:

• Onions (Sliced) - 3 medium
• Potatoes (Sliced) - 2 medium
• Gram flour (Besan) - 2 cups
• Red pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
• Black pepper powder - 1/4 tsp
• Amchoor powder - 1/4 tsp
• Ajwain - 1/2 tsp
• Salt - as per taste
• Oil - for frying
• Water - to create batter for pakodas

For the Kadhi:

• Onion (Sliced) - 2 medium
• Tomato (Chopped) - 1 medium
• Kadhi patta ~ 5-10 leaves
• Ginger (Grated) - 1 tbsp
• Garlic (Chopped) - 1 tbsp
• Curd - 3 cups
• Gram flour ~ 7-10 tbsp
• Turmeric powder - 1/2 tsp
• Oil - for frying
• Salt - as per taste
• Water - to add to curd
  

Preparation

For pakodas:

• Add water to gram flour and mix so that no lumps are formed. Add pakoda spices listed above and mix well. Put sliced onions and potatoes to the mixture.
• Heat oil in a kadhai. Take the mixture in a spoon and deep fry in the oil till golden brown. Repeat the process with the whole mixture.
• The pakodas are ready.
  

For the Kadhi:

• Add water to curd and beat it so that it turns out into a smooth batter. Add gram flour to it and beat the mixture again and keep it aside. (While beating using a mixer, beat only for 3-5 seconds)
• Heat oil in a kadhai and add heeng, kadhi patta, ginger and garlic to the oil. Fry for few minutes and add onions to it. Add tomatoes after 3-5 minutes. Add the kadhi spices listed above and stir fry for 5 minutes
• Add the curd-gram flour mix and a glass of water to the above mixture. Keep on high flame for about 10 minutes and keep on stirring so that no lumps are formed. After that , simmer for 20-30 minutes. Stir the mixture occasionally.
• Add fried pakodas to the mix and keep on low flame for about 5-10 minutes.
• Serve Punjabi kadhi with hot jeera rice.