Indian Curry Recipes - Rajma Curry

A favourable from the Punjab.

Preparation time : 20 minutes
Cooking time : 20 minutes.
Serves : 6.

Ingredients :

1 teacup red kidney beans (rajma)
2 onions, grated
1 teaspoon chilli powder
500 grams tomatoes
2 teaspoons sugar
3 tablespoons ghee
Salt to taste

To be ground into a paste :

7 cloves garlic
7 green chillies
25mm. piece ginger

How to proceed :

1. Soak the red kidney beans over night.
2. Next day, cook in a pressure cooker. Drain.
3. Heat the ghee and fry the onions for 2 to 3 minutes. Add the paste and chilli powder and fry again for 1 minute.
4. Add the cooked red kidney beans.
5. Cut the tomatoes into big pieces, add 2 teacups of water and cook. When cooked, take out a thick soup through a sieve.
6. Add the tomato soup to the rajma mixture.Add the sugar and salt.
7. Cook for a few minutes.

Indian Dessert Dishes - Rasmalai

Makes: 15 pieces

Ingredients:

4 Measuring cup milk for chenna (2% milk)
3 measuring cup milk for Ras
4 - 4 1/2 tbsp. sugar for Ras
1 cup sugar
3 cups of water
safforn, cardomom, pista, almonds
lemon juice

Method :

1. First keep the 3 cups of milk for ras to boil until it reamins 1 3/4 cup.
2. Bring 4 cups of milk to boil. Now to curdle the milk add lemonjuice to it stirring continously.
3. Then drain it in athin muslin cloth or handkerchief.
4. Hold it covered with cloth in the running water.Drain the excess water by pressing the cloth there must not be water remaining.
5. In a pressure cooker take 3 cups of water and 1 cup of sugar.
6. Take the chenna out of the cloth in a dish, mash it and make around 15 small size of balls out of it
7. Toss that balls in the pressure cooker and bring two whistle.
8. In the mean time see the milk for ras may be ready.
9. Add the sugar for ras to it and add cardomon, pista, almond and safforn to it.Let it cool aside
10. As the pressure cooker is warm now open it take out the balls of chenna with the spoon ina dish and let the water drain by pressing it little and let it cook.
11. When the milk is cool add chenna balls to it .
12. Refrigerate it. And it is ready to serve. Isn't it quick and easy

* while putting chenna balls inthe pressure cooker do not put one onthe other. Depending on the size of the pressure cooker I put 12 pieces at a time.

Indian Dessert Dishes - Patisa (Soan Papdi)

Making time: 45 minutes
Makes: 20 pieces (approx.)

Ingredients :

1 1/4 cup gramflour
1 1/4 cup plain flour (maida)
250 gms. ghee
2 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cup water
2 tbsp. milk
1/2 tsp. cardamom seeds crushed coarsely
2 tsp. charmagaz (combination of 4 types of seeds) refer glossary
4" squares cut from a thin polythene sheet

Method :

1. Sift both flours together.
2. Heat ghee in a heavy saucepan. Add flour mixture and roast on low till light golden.
3. Keep aside to cool a little, stirring occasionally.
4. Prepare syrup simultaneously. Make syrup out of sugar, water and milk.
5. Bring syrup to 2 1/2 thread consistency.
6. Pour at once into the flour mixture.
7. Beat well with a large fork till the mixture forms threadlike flakes.
8. Pour onto a greased surface or thali and roll to 1" thickness lightly.
9. Sprinkle the charmagaz seeds and elaichi and gently press down with palm.
10. Cool, cut into 1" squares, wrap individually into square pieces of thin plastic sheet.
11. Store in airtight container.

Indian Gravy Recipes - Potato in Curd Gravy

Making time: 30 minutes.
Makes for: 5

Ingredients:

3 medium. potatoes boiled and peeled
1 cup curd or yogurt beaten
1 tsp. red chilli powder
1 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. dhania powder
1/4 tsp. turmeric powder
1/4 tsp. garam masala
2 pinches asafoetida
1 stalk curry leaves
1 tbsp. coriander leaves chopped
1 1/4 cup water
1/2 tsp. each ginger, garlic grated
2 green chillies slit
1 tsp. each cumin, mustard seeds
1/4 tsp. wheat flour
1 tbsp. oil

Method:

1. Cut potatoes into big pieces. Mash 3-4 pieces fine with hand. Keep both aside.
2. Mix all the dry masala in 1/4 cup water.
3. Heat oil. Add the seeds (cumin and mustard). When they splutter, add ginger-garlic, chilli and curry leaves.
4. Add the masala mixture and fry for 2 minutes.
5. Add beaten curd and fry for 5 minutes or till the curd loses its whiteness. Stir continuously after adding curd.
6. Add the remaining water and all the potato and flour. Stir well.
7. Boil and simmer for 10 minutes or till gravy thickens
8. Garnish with chopped coriander.
9. Serve hot with thin wheat chappaties and rice.