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Fish Curry

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Here's a traditional Indian Garhwali fish curry recipe within mustard seeds or any kind of milk, just plain and simple.                             Ingredients: 500 grams fish fillets (any firm white fish like cod, tilapia, or snapper) 2 medium-sized onions, finely chopped 2 tomatoes, pureed 3-4 green chilies, slit lengthwise 1 tablespoon ginger-garlic paste 1 teaspoon turmeric powder 1 teaspoon coriander powder 1/4 cup coconut milk 2 tablespoons oil (preferably mustard oil) Salt to taste Fresh coriander leaves, chopped (for garnishing) Method Clean the fish fillets, remove any scales, and cut them into medium-sized pieces. Marinate the fish pieces with 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder and 1/2 teaspoon salt. Set aside for 15-20 minutes. Heat oil in a deep pan or kadai over medium heat. Add the fish pieces and cook until golden brown from both sides and keep aside. Add mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds, and fennel seeds in th...

Vegetable Pulaov

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Medley of vegetables of your choice with rice, cooked with wholesome spices and served with curd. This dish is one pot dish and can be served as anytime hungry meal. Nutritional Value The meal is packed with vitamins, carb and proteins. This dish serves around 6 adults and each helping is around 300 k cal. Ingredients Veggies - Capsicum, Cabbage, Potato, Beans, Carrot (all chopped) Rice - 2 cups (washed) Basmati or any long grain Cottage Cheese (Paneer) - Cubed Onion- 2 diced small Tomatoes- 3 medium Ginger- 1 inch grated Garlic- 20 cloves chopped Green chili- 2 sliced Tej Patta- 2 Big cardamom- 1 Spices Turmeric, Coriander Powder, Garam Masala- 1 tbsp each Salt- 2 tbsp Ghee/Clarified butter- 3tbsp Method  Take a big pressure cooker, if its not available then a big pot with heavy base and add oil to it. Add the slit chilies, Tej patta, cardamom, garlic and ginger to it and fry it for 30 seconds and then add the chopped onions to it. Let the onion fry till they are translucent and t...

Chicken Curry | Spicy

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 A very simple chicken curry dish made with few ingredients and lots of love and  spices.   Nutritional Value Chicken curry has an expected 240 calories in 1 cup  This dish serves 5 people. Almost 50 percent in one cup of curry is protein combined with fat and carbs. Ingredients 500 gms of Chicken curry cut (washed) 3 sliced onions medium size 1 teaspoon Coriander powder 1 teaspoon Turmeric powder 1 teaspoon Garam Masala 2 teaspoon Chicken Masala  3 chilies green chopped 2 teaspoon Salt 20 cloves of garlic 2 inch ginger 2 tomatoes medium size 3 tablespoon of clarified butter/ghee or butter or oil 2 bay leaves 1 big cardamon 1/2 Cinnamon stick 1 bunch chopped coriander leaves Method    Heat the pressure cooker and pour 2 tablespoon of ghee. Drop the spices ( bay leaf, 1 big cardamon,cinnamon stick) in it. Add sliced onion and fry in low flame for nearly 15 minutes until onion are translucent and cooked completely. Add dr...

Paneer Tikka | Oven Grilled

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 Marinated paneer grilled and charred to perfection is the perfect starter for Indian Cuisine. Nutritional Value Paneer is the main ingredient in this and veggies are optional, so ta single line of tikka is around 5 pieces of paneer with veggies with almost 100 calories in each section. Ingredients  For marination 1oo gms of hung curd  400 gms of paneer diced in cubes 100 gms of mix capsicum and onion diced Chopped garlic and ginger- 1 tbsp Spices 1 tbsp each (turmeric powder, coriander powder. garam masal. amchur powder, cumin powder) Salt 2 tsp Method Make the marination by mixing all the spices and curd. Now mix the paneer and veggies and let it marinate overnight or minimum 4 hours Align them in the skewer and place it on the baking sheet Grill them at 200 C for 20 to 25 minutes rtating in between to get the perfect charred look. Serve with Mint chutney and Enjoy!  

Coconut Khova Barfi

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A very simple and three step coconut Barfi for Diwali. This three ingredient barfi is delicious and easy to make.   Nutritional Value This is a a pure coconut and khova dish , the calories in coconut are less but khova is full fat. So this is a festivity recipe. I am not mentioning calorie per piece wise but this whole recipe has approx 2192 kcal in it. So eat wisely. Ingredients Khova- 400 gms Coconut- 2 and 1/2 cups Sugar- 1/12 cup Cardamon Powder- 1/2 tsp Method First Shred the coconut and  dry roast it in a wok, don't turn it brown. Melt the khova in a heavy bottom pan until it starts to ooze some ghee from sides, add sugar and cardamon powder and mix it well. Add the roasted coconut and mix it thoroughly Grease a bowl or dish of your choice and fill it with the barfi mixture and press it down from all sides. Mark the design as per your choice and refrigerate for at least two hours before serving, so that it can retain its shape. Enjoy! Happy Deepawali!

Pomfret Fish | Coconut Curry

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Promfret Fish are small in size and serves one per person, it can be deep fried, baked or cooked in curry. Here I have cooked Promfret and dipped it in coconut milk curry.   Nutritional Value Pomfret fishes are good source of calcium, vitamins A and D, and vitamins like  B12. It contains fat too. A whole Fish contains around 270 Kcal and with the curry the calories goes around 350 Kcal per serving. Ingredients To marinate Turmeric and Salt 1 tsp for each fish. For gravy 2 - medium size onion 1- tsp mustard seeds 5 - garlic cloves 1/2 inch - ginger  2- medium size tomato Spices- coriander,  turmeric, chilli (1.2 tsp each) Salt- 2 tsp 1/2 cup- coconut milk 1/2 cup oil to fry and gravy. (mustard oil is preference) Chopped corainder leaves a bunc Method  First, we will marinate our clean fish in salt and turmeric and let them sit for half hour. In a heavy pan we will heat the oil and shallow fry them or 5 minutes from both the sides. In the same oil we will first pu...

Tikki Chaat | Homemade

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Homely Tikki Chaat is my take on our very Indian street food, its taste as good as we eat outside cooked with the comfort of taste of home. Nutritional Value Its main ingredient is Yellow peas and potato which is mix of protein and carb, not a daily diet food, but once in a while use it as a cheat meal. Calorie per tikki around  250 kcal Ingredients For Tikki Boiled Potatoes- 6 medium size Onion- 1 medium Coriander- chopped bunch Salt- 1tsp Chaat masala- 1/2 tsp Semolina- 2 tbsp Turmeric- 1/2 tsp Cumin Powder- 1/2 tsp Oil to shallow fry- 1/2 cup  Green chili- 1 chopped For Chole  Yellow Peas- 300 gms soaked overnight  and boiled Onion- 1 medium Coriander- chopped bunch Salt- 1tsp Bay leaves- 2 Cinnamon stick- 1 small Coriander Powder- 1/2 tsp Semolina- 2 tbsp Turmeric- 1/2 tsp Cumin Powder- 1/2 tsp Green chili- 1 chopped Oil- 1 tbsp (any) Tomato- 1 medium size Ginger small 1 inch, garlic- 4 pods and some mint and coriander leaves  Garnish Green Chutney Sweet Tam...