Recipes

Lamb and Pomegranate Tagine served with Onion and Pomegranate Relish

I have been meaning to make this dish ever since I saw the recipe on TV on one of Nigella Lawson’s Christmas food shows. Finally, I made it yesterday…. For the first time. I expected this dish to be different.. do not know how…. but 

Potol Posto -Pointed Gourd -Parwal Cooked with Poppy Seed Paste

Sunday lunch special is not a thing of my house. We always had special food- there was always something new on the menu. We always had elaborated meals. Even now, when we are all away from home, my mother would cook a five-course meal. It 

Mutton Jhol -Goat meat Curry

Ingredients:
 300g mutton shoulder pieces
2-large onions cut into fine slices
4-cloves of garlic, paste
2-inch ginger, paste
1-teaspoon turmeric
1-teaspoon red chili powder
1-teaspoon cumin seed powder
1-teaspoon coriander seed powder
6-small potatoes, cleaned and skinned
1- Bay leaf
4/5-cardemom
2- Inch cinnamon
Salt to taste
2-tablespoon oil
 
Method:
1.    Heat oil in a pressure cooker
2.   Fry the potatoes and keep aside
3.   Add turmeric, chili, cumin and coriander with little water and make a paste
4.   Heat more oil in the pressure cooker
5.   Fry the onion until soft. Add little sugar for color
6.   Add ginger and garlic
7.   Fry until oil separates
8.   Add the spice paste with fried onion, garlic and ginger and fry till oil separates
9.   Add mutton and cook
10.                Add cinnamon, bay leaf and cardamom
11.  Cook the mutton and 10 mins
12.                Add potatoes and pressure cook until mutton is soft ( I did not count the whistle of the pressure cooker. So please follow your own pressure cooker instruction)
13.                Serve with white boiled rice
 
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Sunday Saga continues: Mutton Jhol (Goat meat Curry)
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Shorshe Ilish -Hilsa Cooked in a Mustard Paste Gravy

Ingredients 6-pieces of Ilish / Hilsa 3-green chili, slit length wise 2-teaspoon mustard seed (I used black) or use 2 –teaspoon mustard seed powder (read instruction of soaking on the pack before using) 1-teaspoon turmeric powder 1-teaspoon red chili powder (I used Kashmiri chili, as 

Tomato Chutney

Ingredients 5-ripe and sweet tomatoes cut into small pieces ½-teaspoon panch phoron 1-green chili ½-teaspoon grated/paste ginger ¼-teaspoon turmeric powder 5-tablespoon sugar (or as per taste of sweetness) Pinch of Bhaja masala (dry roasted masala dust. See my spice section for details) Salt to taste