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Recently Tanmaya is one health kick and the only thing he eats through out the week is green salad and grilled chicken breast. So every other weekend he would get huge pack of boneless chicken from costco and I am left wondering how to make something tasty out of it that doesn't need a lot of oil , time and tastes good. So I decided to make kebabs. Ingredients: Boneless chicken: 3 thigh pieces Ginger: 1 inch Garlic: 8 -10 cloves Red chilli: 4 whole Egg: 1 whole Coriander Seeds: 1 tsp Cumin Seeds: 1 tsp Turmeric: 1 tsp Green chillies: 2 finely chopped Garam masala: 1/2 tsp Onion: 1 small finely chopped Chat Masala: 1 tsp Corn Flour: 2 tsp Oil: 2 tsp Procedures: Make a fine paste of ginger, garlic, coriander seeds, cumin seeds and red chilli. To this paste add egg and chicken and make a fine paste. Now take the grinded paste into an bowl Add chopped green chillies, chopped onion, garam masala, Corn Flour, and chat masala and mix well Now using t

As a kid this used to be one of my favorite curries that my mom would make for breakfast with roti or parathas. Its easy, quick and on top of all yummy!!! Ingredients: Egg: 4 whole Onion: 1 medium finely chopped Green Chilli: 4 finely chopped (remove the seeds if you don't want it to be too spicy) Tomato: 1 medium finely chopped Green Peas: 1/2 cup Red Chilli Powder: 1 tsp Turmeric Powder: 1/2 tsp Salt: as per taste Mutton/chicken curry masala: 1 tsp Oil: 2 tsp Procedure: In a pan heat 1 tsp of oil and 1/2 of the chopped green chilli and onion with a pinch of salt. Fry till the onion turns transparent. In the mean while beat the eggs with 1/4 tsp of red chilli powder and 1/2 tsp salt. Add the beaten eggs to the pan and make scrambled eggs. Cook till the eggs are cooked through and the eggs turn slightly brown. Remove from heat and keep aside. Mix rest of the chopped green chilli , onion and chopped tomato together. In a kadhai heat rest of the oil and add

Its a popular snack made in Orissa with wheat flour and enjoyed with ghughuni and dalma. This is one of my brother's favorite evening snack. Ingredients: Wheat flour: 1 cup Sugar: 1 cup  Oil: 2 tsp Curd: 4 tsp Fennel Seed: 1 tsp Salt: 1 pinch Water:  1/2 cup Oil: for deep frying Procedure: Mix all the ingredients together except the water.  Add water little at a time till we get a thick batter. Heat oil till drop of the batter rises immediately without getting brown.  Now fry the gulgula batter 1 tsp at a time till it turns brown on all sides. Serve it hot with ghughuni or dalma and enjoy. Please enjoy this quick and easy snack with your friends and family. Till then happy blogging Rakhee

Its an authentic oriya dish that uses fish head, tail and channa dal. I know the name does not make much sense to non-oriya people actually it does not make much sense to me either  as it really does not use any mudi :) Its generally cooked in wedding receptions in villages and its really important to people that it is a part of the feast. Ingredients : Fish head: 1 ( I used tilapia fish, back home its generally rohi ) Fish tail: 1 Channa dal: 1 cup Tomato: 2 medium finely chopped Potato: 1 medium cut in cubes Grated ginger: 1 tsp Ginger garlic paste: 1 tbs Onion: 1 medium Cinnamon stick: 1 inch long Cardamon: 2 Bay leaf: 2 Cumin seeds: 1 tsp Mustard seeds: 1/4 tsp Coriander seeds: 1 1/2 tsp  Red chilli: 4 whole Turmeric: 2 tsp Oil: 4 tsp Salt : as per taste Procedure: Wash and soak the channa dal for 2-3 hours.  Marinate the fish with salt and half of the turmeric for about 5 minutes.  Dry roast the cinnamon, cardamon, half of the cumin seeds, co

As I mentioned in my previous blog there are so many different ways to make omelet here is one more version that has a very Indian touch to omelet. I learned it when I was staying with my friends during my early job days. Ingredients: Whole Egg: 2 Onion: 1 small finely chopped Tomato: 1 small finely chopped Green Chili: 2 finely chopped Salt: as per taste Red chili powder: as per taste Mutton/Chicken Masala Powder: 1/2 tsp Coriander Leaves : finely chopped 1/2 tsp Oil: 2 tsp Procedure: In a pan heat 1 tsp of oil add green chili, onion and tomato with salt to taste. Cover and cook  till the tomatoes are mushy. Add the red chili powder, Mutton/Chicken Masala Powder and coriander leaves and cook for 2 mins stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and let it cool down. Break the eggs add the cooled masala to it and beat it. In a pan heat the rest of the oil and pour the beaten egg and masala mix. Spread it around till you get the desired size and cook till almost do

Its a deliciously flavored fish curry from South India. It has a very creamy sauce and goes great with rice and naan.  Ingredients: Fish: 500gms  Onion: 2 large (Paste) Ginger Paste: 1 tsp Garlic paste: 2 tsp Tomato Puree: 2 tsp Curd: beaten 2 tsp Curry Leaves: 3-4 Mustard Seed: 1 tsp Red Chilli: 2 whole Salt : as per taste Black Pepper Powder: As per taste: Coriander Powder: 1 tsp Cumin Powder: 1 tsp Green Chilli: 2 whole Turmeric Powder: 1 tsp Oil: 1 tsp Procedure: In a  pan heat oil. Add mustard seeds, red chillies, curry leaves.  As the mustard seeds stop spluttering add paste of onion, ginger and garlic and tomato puree Add salt and pepper and cook for 5-7 mins stirring in between, till oil starts oozing out and the raw smell is gone. Add curd, coriander powder, cumin powder and turmeric powder and cook for another 4-5 mins.  As the oil starts oozing out of the masala add the fish , green chillies , cover and cook for 5-6 mins a more. Serve it hot wi

Channa masala is the very first dish I ever cooked apart from experimenting on omelet. My mom never believed that I can make anything other than a nice salad. But Dad would always make me prepare tea for him and every time I would manage to screw that in one way or other ... still do ;).... So when one day with my mom's help I prepared this dish, she and my dad were assured that I can at least manage to cook something edible. The moral is never underestimate the cooking skills of a gal who screws up a tea LOL.... Ingredients: Black Gram : 1 cup Onion: 1 large cut into thick slices Green Chili: 2 chopped Ginger Garlic Paste: 2 tsp Garlic: 2 cloves crushed Tomato: 1 medium finely chopped Turmeric Powder: 1 tsp Chili Powder: 1 tsp Channa Masala Powder: 1 tsp Salt : as per taste Oil: 2 tsp Procedure: Soak the black gram in water for 4-5 hours or overnight. Cook the dal in a pressure cooker with salt, till 2 whistles In a pan heat oil. Add onion and a pinch of s

When ever we have potlucks the concentration is on good food, great booze and loads of fun. If you ask the guys in the group what do you want for main course it would never be a vegetarian item and we end up making variety of non veg. But Sunita is  our one and only vegetarian groupie and every time she is the one who would prepare some thing vegetarian. So this post is dedicated to her, as she introduced me to tawa pulao and makes its real good. I am not sure if its the actual receipt for tawa pulao or not but this is how I make it. Sunita correct me if I  am wrong :) Ingredients: Rice: 1 cup Onion: 1 medium thinly sliced Green chilli: 2 slit Green peas: 1/2 cup Carrot: 1 medium chopped Button Mushroom: 10cut into half Tomato: 1 small chopped Paneer: few cubes fried Salt: as per taste Cumin seed: 1 tsp Pao Bhaji Masala: 1 tsp Red chilli Powder: 1tsp Oil: 2 tsp Water: 2 cups Procedure: In a rice cooker cook the rice with 2 cups of water. In a pan heat oil, a