This is a documentation of some recipes to satisfy my new found interest in cooking.
Lassi
- Ingredients
- 1 cup yogurt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup milk
- few ice cubes
- Mix all the ingredients and whisk. Don't use blender. Blender makes a smoothie but Lassi has these small yogurt granules that add to the taste.
- You can also add a pinch of salt if you like.
- Serves 2-3
Lahsuni Daal
- Ingredients
- 2 teaspoon ghee (Clarified butter) or oil
- 15-20 cloves of lahsun (garlic)
- 1 teaspoon jeera (cumin)
- 1 cup yellow daal
- 1 teaspoon haldi
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 1/4 teaspoon heeng
- 1/2 teaspoon amchur powder
- Salt to taste
- Boil the daal with haldi and salt in a cooker for 6-7 whistles.
- Start with ghee and then add jeera and then garlic. Once the garlic has started turning brown, add the daal.
- Once daal starts to boil add chili powder, heeng and amchur powder. Add additional salt if necessary
Second Daal Tadka
- Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon ghee (clarified butter)
- 2 whole red chilis
- 2-3 kadi patta leaves
- 1 teaspoon jeera
- Pinch of chili powder
- Add ghee and jeera.
- Once jeera is cooked, add red chilis, curry leaves and chili powder.
Chicken Curry
- Ingredients
- Boneless chicken - 1 lbs
- Clarified butter (ghee) or oil
- 2 large onions
- 2 bay leaves
- 1/2 teaspoon jeera
- 4-5 cardamom
- 1 black cardamom
- 4-5 cloves
- 4-5 black pepper
- small stick of cinnamon
- 1 tomato
- 1 teaspoon jeera powder
- 3 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
- 2 tablespoon yogurt
- 1 teaspoon black pepper powder
- Salt
- In a bowl, mix chicken pieces, turmeric powder, chili powder, yogurt, salt and black pepper. Let it marinate for 30 mins.
- In a heating pan, start with 2-3 spoons of ghee
- When it's hot, add bay leaves, jeera, cardamom, black cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and black pepper
- Fry them for a minute
- Add onions and let it turn light brown
- Add tomato
- Add jeera powder
- Add coriander powder
- After 2-3 minutes turn off the heat and let it cool for 30 mins
- After 30 mins, run all the contents of the pan through a mixer to make a fine paste. Add water as necessary.
- Re-heat this fine paste and add the marinated chicken.
- Close the pan and let it cook for 15-20 mins on medium heat.