Color Pepper Chicken

After almost 8 days today we saw a bright sunny day. From last Sunday day light savings stopped so within 4.30 pm outside becomes dark. Still if it’s a sunny day feel like to do some household works, but in a cloudy day I never feel like to do anything. But during winter most of the days are like that.
Yesterday I brought some colorful peppers, from the shop itself I felt like to do something with them. So prepared some chicken with all those colorful peppers and believe me my plate was looking so attractive. The recipe I tried it’s completely came from my mind during cooking. Step by step I just did as it came in my mind. Hope you all like my little different recipe.

Preparation time: 30 mints.
Cooking Time : 40 mints.
Serve for 4 people.

Ingredients:

1.Chicken : 750 gm. (cut into small pieces)
2.Two medium size sliced onion.
3.One small chopped tomato.
4. One Cup Green, Red, Orrange and Yellow Pepper cut into cube size.

 

5.One table spoon ginger & garlic paste.
6.One table spoon curd.
7.One clove chopped garlic.
8.Black pepper powder, Kashmiri  Red chili Powder, Coriander Powder (One tea spoon of each item).
9.Black pepper 8 to 10 piece, Clove 4 to 5 piece.
10.One tea spoon Hot Sauce.
11.Salt & Sugar as per taste.
12.Sunflower oil for cooking.Process:

Marinate the chicken pieces with the curd, ginger garlic paste and salt for 30 mints.
Now fry the sliced onions and tomatoes till the onions are become brown, after that grind that fried onion and fried tomatoes.

 
Now put some oil in a vessel and add the black peppers, cloves and chopped garlics after few seconds add the fried onion and tomato paste. Cook for 2 mints and then add Kashmiri red chili Powder and coriander powder.

Now add the marinated chicken pieces into the vessel and cook with a lid till the chickens are tender.

 Now reduce the flame and remove the lid. Add little salt and sugar.

Now add all the chopped color full peppers into the vessel and cook for another 5 mints.

 Before switch off the gas add the hot sauce.
 

Enjoy the dish with Roti Paratha or Rice.

 

Aloo Patol er Dalna or Potato Parwal Curry

Among all the vegetables one of my favorite is Patol or Parwal. Anything with Patol makes my day. But the problem is that my husband dosen’t like it at all except Patol er Dorma (my patol er dorma recipe is here http://cookwithpoulamee.blogspot.ca/2012/10/patol-er-dorma-or-stuffed-parwal-patol.html) . So no other option some time I cook for myself also. He used to have the potato from this Aloo Patol er Dalna or Potato Parwal Curry. But the probelem is that in the Indian grocery store they have very limited stock of Patol or Parwal, so everytime I am not so lucky.

This one I cooked like my Maa-in-law used to cook. She is dosen't add that much of spice because of my father in-laws health but I just made it little spicy. This is one the popular Bong delicacy.

Preparation time: 10 mints.
Cooking time: 20 mints.
Serve for 4 people.
Ingredients:
1.Patol or Parwal 6 to 8. (cut into cube size).
2.One medium size potato (cut into Cube size).
3.One medium size sliced onion.
4.Half small chopped tomato.
5.One table spoon Ginger & Garlic paste.
6.Turmeric Powder, Red chili powder, Cumin Powder, coriander Powder (one tea spoon of each item).
7.One table spoon tomato puree.
8.One bay leave, One small dry red chili, Few cumin seeds, 2 Clove, 2 Cardamom, One small cinnamon stick.
9.Salt & Sugar as per taste.
10.Sunflower oil or Musard oil. (I prefer to use Mustard Oil).

Process:

Shallow fry the Patol pieces and Potato pieces with pinch of turmeric powder and salt. And keep it aside.

Now put some oil in a vessel and add all the No 8 ingredients as mentioned above.

Now add the sliced onion and chopped tomatoes and fry till the onions are transparent.

Now add the ginger garlic paste and cook till the raw smell goes off, now add all the spices powder, tomato puree with some salt and sugar. Cook till the oil come out.

Now add the fried Patol and potato pieces and mix well with the masala for 3 mints.

 Now add some water and cover with a lid.

Cook till it done and gravy become little dry.

Serve hot with plain rice or Roti.

Misti Polao or Sweet Polao

What you guys really do when you fill helpless or when you have some uncontrollable situation, for me only one person can help me or suggest me what to do. And the person is none other than my Maa. My Maa is a very good cook or I can say she is the best cook for me. During my college day I used to call her before coming home what’s on lunch or evening snacks. And if I don’t like to have the prepared one immediately without getting angry she used to prepare whatever I wanted to have. O what a life which I miss like anything. Now I am doing such things for my hubby dear.

That’s why whenever I prepare something from my Maa’s kitchen I fill like to order her like before. But this time it’s on my Husbands demand. A very common and famous Rice recipe its called 'Misti Polao' or 'Sweet Polao'. The ingredients are very less but the taste is better than any other Rice preparation.

Preparation time: 5 mints.

Cooking time: 20 mints.

Serve for 2 people.

Ingredients:
1.Gobindobhog Rice : 1 cup.

2.Half tea spoon ginger paste.
3.Cashew nuts: 10 to 12 piece.
4.Raisin : 10 to 12 piece.
5.One tea spoon turmeric powder.
6.Half tea spoon Kashmiri chili powder.
7..Salt & sugar(add little more than other rice preparation) as per taste.
8.One bay Leave, 2 Clove, 2 Cardamom, One small cinnamon stick.
9.One table spoon ghee.
10.Two table spoon sunflower oil.Process:

Wash the rice and mix the rice with 2,3,4,5,6,7 no items as mentioned above.

 

Now put ghee and oil in a vessel and slowly add the whole garam masala.

Now add the rice mixture, and stir for few mints.

Now add 2 cups of water and cook till the rice done.

 

Serve hot with any veg or non-veg curry.

Almond Chicken

Finally the winter is here. Today’s temperature is -1 but fills like -6 wanted to go for some grocery shopping. But with my little one it’s very difficult to go, because it’s very windy also. This is just the start more horrible days are on the way. So better concentrate on cooking.
There is some Almond in my home, with that I wanted to cook something. But not any dessert, so I started searching in Google but don’t want to follow them exactly so I took few things and applied few of my cooking funda’s. Prepared some Almonds Chicken, I put some fried and grinded almond into the gravy. The flavor is really mild but we loved it.

 

Preparation time: 10 mints.
Cooking time: 40 Mints.
Serve for 4 people.
Ingredients:
1.Chicken drumstick: 8 piece.
2.Two large sliced onion.
3.One small chopped tomato.
4.One table spoon Ginger & Garlic paste.
5.Red chili Powder, Cumin Powder, Coriander Powder ( one tea spoon of each item).
6. Garama Masala Powder, Fennel Powder (Half tea spoon of each item).
7.Ten to Twelve almonds.



8.One table spoon curd.
9.One table spoon lemon juice.

10.Salt & Sugar as per taste.

11.Sunflower oil.

Process:
Marinate the chicken pieces with the lime juice, pinch of red chili powder and salt for 30 mints.
Chopped the almonds, fry them in little oil and grind half of them. And keep it aside.
Now Fry few sliced onion till it golden brown and keep it aside. Bit the curd nicely and add the fried grinded almond paste into the curd.

 

Now put some oil in a vessel and add the sliced onions fry till the onions are transparent. Now add the ginger garlic paste chopped tomatoes, and slowly add all the spice powder with some salt and sugar.

 

Cook the masala in low flame with a lid for 2 to 4 mints. Remove the lid and add the marinated chicken pieces. Cook with cover till the chicken tender.
Now add the curd almonds paste into the chicken and cook for some time. Before switch of the gas add the fried onions and fried chopped almonds.

 

 

 

Serve hot with Paratha or Naan.


 

Aloor Chop or Mashed Potato Vada

‘Street Food’ the name only makes us hungry at any time of a day. No matter we are hungry or not if it’s a question about Street Food we are ready to have. Kolkata is famous for plenty of different Street Foods. Among of them one of the very old and popular is Aloor Chop or Mashed Potato Vada. Almost all Bengali relish this with Moori or Puffed Rice as evening snack. And this one is very common in any kind of Adda or get-together. I remember during my childhood days in one rupee we used to get 4 Aloor chop but now a day’s one Aloor chop is 5 rupees.

Boiled potato and besan or gram flower is the main ingredients of these snacks. I used to think it will be very tough to prepare like the shop but I am so wrong it’s quite easy and not that time consuming too.

Preparation Time: 10 mints.

Cooking Time: 15 mints.

Ingredients:

For stuffing:

1.One large bolied and smashed potato.
2.One medium chopped onion.
3.Half tea spoon Ginger paste.
4.Four to Five chopped green chilies.
5.Few cumin seeds.
6.A pinch of turmeric powder, Red chili Powder and Garam Masala Powder.
7.Half tea spoon chat masala.
8.Salt & Sugar as per taste.
9.Sunflower oil.

For Coating:
1.Gram Flower 100 gm.
2.A pinch of Baking Powder.
3.Salt & Sugar as per taste.
4.A pinch of red chili powder.
5.Around half cup of water.

Process:

Add oil in a vessel then add the cumin seeds. Now add the chopped onion and chopped green chilies.

Fry till the onion are golden brown; now add the ginger paste along with all the spices powder.

Fry for some time now add the mashed potato with some salt and sugar. Mix well and cook till the mixture become dry.

Now add all the ingredients of outer coat in a bowl and make a smooth batter.

Make some small flatter round shape ball with the mashed potato mixture. Sprinkle few pinch of all-purpose flower into them.

Now pour the balls into the batter.

Deep fry them till they golden brown.

Serve hot with tea.

 

Cabbage and Spinach Pakora

We all try to keep our diet healthy, but whenever it comes to Pakora’s we just forget about everything. Pakora with a cup of ginger tea, what else we need in a evening.  If my friends came for a Tea Party in my place and Pakora is a must item for our Party. My husband can do anything for Pakora’s.
So many different kind of Pakora I used to prepare but one our favorite Pakora is Spinach and Cabbage pakora. It’s crispy and perfect as a snack. My Maa used to prepare this at home.

 

 Preparation Time : 10 mints.

Cooking time : 15 Mints.

Serve for 2 People.

Ingredients:

1.One cup finely sliced cabbage.
2.One cup finely chopped spinach.

 

3.One medium size sliced onion.
4.Five to six chopped green chilies.
5.Two table spoon all-purpose flower.
6. One table spoon rice flower.
7.Half tea spoon corn flower.
8.Half tea spoon red chili powder, Half tea spoon chaat masala.
9.Salt & Sugar as per taste.
10.Sunflower oil for frying.

Process:

Mix all the ingredients with some water. 

 

Make a smooth dough (medium).

 

Now make small round shape flatter ball and deep fry them few at a time.

Serve hot with ketchup and ginger tea.