Thursday, 7 January 2016

Chicken Gravy

Hi! Here’s the quick and tasty chicken gravy recipe!

Chicken dishes makes Sunday a perfect one! And here I have shared a chicken gravy recipe to make your day even more tastier! This is quite a simple recipe. When making dishes with chicken make sure you clean the chicken properly and marinate with lemon and turmeric for atleast 10-15 minutes to get rid of the raw smell. Happy cooking! Cheers!



Ingredients:

To dry roast and grind

Red chilli – 6
Coriander seeds – 2 tbsp
Pepper – 1 tsp
Jeera – 1 tsp
Sombu – 1 tsp
Cinnamon – 2 inch piece
Cloves – 2
Cardamom – 2
Coconut – ½ cup

For Gravy

Chicken – 300 grams (cleaned and marinated with turmeric and salt)
Oil – 1 tbsp preferably sesame oil
Mustard – 1 tsp
Jeera – 1 tsp
Cinnamon – 1 inch piece
Clove – 1
Cardamom – 1 
Small Onion –  20 finely chopped
Ginger Garlic paste – 1 tbsp
Tomato – 2 finely chopped
Mint leaves – 1/2 cup finely chopped
Coriander – 1/2 cup finely chopped
Water – ¼ cup
Salt

Method

1. In a pan heat oil and put mustard when it splutters addcinnamon, clove and cardamon
2. Add onion and fry till the raw smell of onion goes then add  ginger garlic paste, fry till raw smell goes
3. Add tomatoes and let it cook for 2 minutes.Now mash them, so that you get a thick gravy consistency.
4. Now add chicken, turmeric powder, mint leafs and salt to taste. Close with a lid and let it cook for 10 minutes.
5. To the cooked chicken add the ground paste and little water to adjust the consistency.
6. close with lid and cook till the oil floats/ oozes out.
7. Add fresh coriander leafs and serve with hot rice/ roti

Wednesday, 6 January 2016

Cabbage Pakoda & Gravy

Hello! Here's a lip smacking curry recipe just for you!

I know, reading that name " Cabbage pakoda gravy" makes you hungry! ;) It is such a tasty curry with chapatti/phulka. First you have to make the pakodas and then the curry. You can mix them together as suggested in the "Time to Serve" segment. But make sure that you have enough pakodas in the plate for the gravy! Because it always happens that the pakodas will disappear before the gravy gets ready;)  Happy cooking! Cheers!



Ingredients:

For Cabbage Pakoda,

Cabbage – 1 cup (Chopped thin and long)
Green chilli – 1 (Finely chopped)
Ginger – 1 tsp  (Finely chopped)
Garlic – 1 tsp (Finely chopped)
Curry leafs – 1 sprig 
Gram Flour -  ½ cup heeped
Rice Flour – 1 tbsp
Hing – 1 tsp
Chilli powder – 1 tsp
Turmeric powder – ¼ tsp
Water – ½ cup + 1 tbsp
Salt to taste
Oil for deep frying

For Gravy,

Oil – 1 tbsp
Mustard – 1 tsp
Jeera – 1 tsp
Bay leaf – 1
Cinnamon – 1 inch piece
Clove – 1
Onion – 1 finely chopped
Ginger - 1 inch piece
Garlic – 4
Green chili - 2
Tomato – 1 finely chopped
Coconut paste – ¼ cup
Chilli powder – 1 tsp
Garam masala – ¼ tsp
Coriander – 1/4 cup finely chopped
Water – ¼ cup
Salt

Method

1. In a bowl or plate mix all ingredients mentioned in “Ingredients For Cabbage Pakoda” section. (Exclude oil for deep fryingJ ). Make a thick dough.
2. Heat the oil for deep frying and fry to golden brown.
3.In a mixie grind green chilli ginger and garlic to fine paste by adding little water.
3. In a pan heat oil and put mustard when it splutters add jeera,bay leaf, cinnamom, clove
4. Add onion and fry till the raw smell of onion goes then add  ginger garlic green chillipaste, fry till raw smell goes
5. Add tomatoes and let it cook for 2 minutes.Now mash them, so that you get a thick gravy consistency.
6. Now add chilli powder, garam masala, turmeric powder for colour and salt to taste.
7. Let it cook. Oil will start oozing out now it’s the right time to add the coconut paste.
8. In two minutes you can add coriander leafs and switch off the flame!

Time to serve!

Type 1:

If you are going to serve immediately, you can add the hot pakodas to the very hot gravy and serve with chapattis

Type 2:

If you are planning to cook early and serve later. Do not add the hot pakodas to the very hot gravy. At the time of serving no gravy will be left! Pakodas will absorb all of it! So add the pakodas 15 minutes before serving time.

Type 3:

If you want a dry gravy, then add the pakodas to hot gravy and wait for the pakodas to absorb the gravy! The pakodas will be very delicious and juicy! I like it this way! J