A recipe for passion is always simmering !
Butter chicken is basically a North Indian dish, popular type of chicken curry sauce, which is seen in almost all Indian restaurant menus. Chicken cooked in creamy rich sauce made with cashews, almonds, tomatoes and butter, also known as Chicken Makhani.
In a khadai, season mustard, urad dhal, channa dhal, curry leaves and ginger. Cut onions and green chillies saute them. For one cup of rava, you will need two cups of water. Pour the reqd. amount water, add salt and let it boil. Sift the rava into the water and keep stiring. Keep stiring until it cooks and comes off seperately. You may add cashews if you like.
2 glasses of milk, 1/2 a cup of fresh cream, 4 – 5 tablespoons of sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla essence. Add sugar to milk and boil milk until it thickens slightly. Run cream in the mixie till creamy. Add to the milk after removing from fire. Add the essence and mix well and cool it and put in the freezer.
Fishes like Sankara and Vanjiram are good for this receipe. Cut and clean the fish. Marinate it with chilli powder, turmeric powder, salt and ground ginger and garlic and some cumin seeds(all ground with very less water) soak for a half hour and fry them on a pan one by one. If you prefer, may put cut lime or raw onions on top.
Cook the dhal in a cooker with turmeric powder and oil. May use thur dhal, channa dhal, or pasi dhal. Best with channa dhal or pasi dhal. Wash and cut veg. Can use vegs. like chow chow, vazhakkai, or a combination of carrot, ladysfinger and potatoes. Boil the veg in a vessel with salt. Close and cook. In the meantime grind coconut, cumin seeds, green chillies and make a paste. Add it to the veg.
side dishes can be appalam,potato or any side dishes …. its good for digestion
RASAM Take some dhal that was cooked for sambar, 2 tbl spoons and some dhal water. To it add tamarind juice, tomatoes, coriander leaves, crushed garlic and ground pepper, cumin seeds, coriander seeds and 1 red chilli. Mix them well adding salt. In a pot heat a spoon of oil/ghee and season with mustard, asafoteda, curryleaves and 1 red chilli.Pour the above mixture and cook it on low fire. When it froths up remove from the stove. Rasam should not boil.
PAYASAM
Payasam can be made with vermicelli,cooked rice and beaten rice (aval) Vermicelli and beaten rice as the case may be should be dry roasted . Then pour milk on top of it until the subject immerses, 3/4 milk and 1/4 water. let it boil but keep stirring it constantly. When the content inside is cooked, the milk by then would have condensed too. When the milk is boiling add cardomoms, just the black stuff inside and not the shell. When it is cooked add sugar. After adding sugar do not allow it on the stove for more than 5 minutes. Remove from stove and cool it. Fry cashews and raisins and add to them.
When some iddlis remain after breakfast, instead of eating them the way they are, you can mash them and in a pan/pot, season mustard, urad dhal, channa dhal, curry leaves, ginger pieces, onions and green chillies.Fry them for a while and then add the mashed idli and fry a little longer and remove and serve.
Make potato curry like you make for Poori masala, but dry. (Cook potatoes and mash them. Then season with cumin seeds, ginger pieces, green chillies, curry leaves and add the potatoes and put turmeric powder and salt and fry until it becomes dry – for poori masala you need to add onions and make it watery by adding water.
Cook 4- 5 large potatoes in a cooker and peel and mash them. Cook vegs. like peas, carrots and beans cut into small pieces with salt . Add this to the potatoes. Add small cut green chillies and mix them well together. Then form round shaped balls and then flatten them to get the cutlet shape. In the mean time, buy bread crumbs or powder any bread in a mixie and use it as crumbs. Beat two eggs and keep aside. Check the
