VEG BENGALI FOOD RECIPE
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Aloo Tamatar
Aloo Tamatar
Ingredients
* 6 potatoes
* 2 ripe tomatoes
* 1/2 inch ginger
* 1 onion
* Jeera 1/2 tea spoon
* Haldi 1/2 tea spoon
* Garam masala 1/2 tea spoon
* Salt to taste
* 2 green chillies
* cooking oil 4 tablespoons
Method
* At first Peel the potatoes, cut them in four pieces each and soak them in water.
* Then Slice the onion thin and mince/grate ginger.
* Cut tomatoes in six pieces each.
* Heat oil in a cooker and add jeera, onion, ginger, tomatoes, haldi, green chillies and garam masala.
* Stir everything till this masala leaves the oil.
* Then potatoes and masala mix all of them very well
* Then put it one cup water and close the lid of the cooker. Remove it from heat after two whistles. The cooker will be open after fifteen minutes.
Serve with hot fresh chappati and curds.
Aloo Simla
Aloo Simla
Ingredients
* 4 medium potatoes - boiled
* 3 medium capsicum
* chilli powder 1/2 tsp
* garam masala 1/2 tsp
* cumin powder1/2 tsp
* 1 tsp oil
Method
* Mash the boiled potatoes with the chilli powder, garam masala and cumin powder.
* Above ingridients Put in the oil and Mix them well and cook the potato mixture for about 10 minutes in a pan then Add salt as needed.
* Wash the capsicum thoroughly and cut open the top by slicing the knife in a circle and remove the stem.
* Fill the mashed potato mixture inside each capsicum.
* Boil the stuffed capsicums in an oven for about 20 minutes and rotate the capsicum periodically so that it can cook on all sides.
Serve hot with rice or chappatis.
Aloo Palak
Aloo Palak
Ingredients
* Fresh Palak 1 bunch
* 2 medium sized potatoes
* 3-4 pods of garlic
* A small piece of ginger
* 2 large onions
* 2-3 green chillies
* Red chillies powder-1 tsp
* Dhaniya jeera powder-1 tsp
* Garam masala or curry powder-1 tsp
Method
* Wash and boil palak with the garlic pods,ginger and chopped onions(chop the onions into quarters)and green chillies.
* After everything is cooked remove from the vessel run it in the mixer for just few seconds and keep the paste aside.
* Do not add water unless necessary.
* Cut potatoes into cubes and boil it in a vessel.
* Add salt and turmeric powder to it while boiling.
* Once it is boiled drain the water and keep aside.
* Take a little ghee in a pan and add half a tea spoon of cummin seeds and once it splutters add the palak and onion paste and let it boil for few minutes.
* Now add the boiled potatoes and a little garam masala or curry powder and and dhaniya jeera powder and also some water if needed and let it boil for few minutes more till the potatoes absorbs the flavour.
* Season with fresh cream if you like.
Serve hot with hot phulkas or rice or puloa.
Aloo Matar
Aloo Matar Ingredients
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Aloo Gobi Masala
Aloo Gobi Masala
Ingredients
* potatoes 4 Medium sized
* Cauliflower 1/4 kg-
* 1 Tomato
* curd 2 tsp
* chilli powder 1 tsp
* dhania powder 1 tsp
* Jeera powder 1/2 tsp
* haldi 1/2 tsp
* Hing.
* cooking oil 3 tsp
* Salt and Coriander leaves.
Method
* Peel the potatoes and cut in cubes of 1 inch.
* Cut cauliflower into small sizes.
* Put the oil in a kadai and add the chilli powder, jeera powder, dhania powder, hing, and haldi.
* Immediately add the potato cubes. When all the potato pieces are nicely coated with the mixture, add cauliflower.
* Stir well, add salt and little water and cover the kadia and allow to in low flame
* When cooked, add tomato ( cut into wedges) and curd and stir well for about 1 min.
* Remove from flame and nicely decorate with finely chopped coriander leaves.
Akbari Vegitables
Akbari Vegitables
Ingredients* 1 Cauliflower (cut into flowers)
* Carrot 100 gm (Cut into small cubes)
* Potatoes 1/4kg (Big) (Cut into medium cubes)
* Paneer(Cut into Big pieces) 200gm
* Green Peas 100gms
* Cashew Nuts (50gms cut into pieces & 50gms grind to a paste)100gms
* Tomato 5(1 tomato cut into slices &others grind)
* Onion (1 onion sliced others grind well)300gms
* green chillies 2 (grind well)
* garam masala powder1/2tsp
* coriander powder1/2 tblsp
* jeera powder1/2tblsp
* cardamom powder slight
* ginger (grind)1" a piece
* garlic (grind) 1 pod
* cream 1/4tin
* oil1/2 cup
Method
For gravy
* Heat 1/4 cup oil, fry the onion pastet till brown.
* Add half of the ginger and garlic paste.
* When brown add tomato puree and fry.
* Then add ground cashew nuts and fry for 5 minutes.
* Add green chillies paste and 1/2 of other dry masalas and fry for 10 minutes in low flame.
* Add 1/4 cup water and boil for few minutes.
Method
For Vegetables
* Heat the other half of oil.
* Add sliced onion, rest of the garam masalas, ginger garlic paste chili paste and fry till oil separates.
* Then add all vegetables, paneer, again fry for 5 minutes.
* Then add the above gravy and cook till vegs are well cooked.
Serve hot with cream, cashewnuts pieces, paneer cubes, coriander leaves. Serve with nan, chapatti, pulkas and rice.
Akbari Paneer
Akbari Paneer
Ingredients
* 250 grams Paneer
* Garlic 8 kali cut in long thin pieces
* 3 Tomato (medium size
* 3 Small cardamom
* Ginger 1" piece cut in long thin pieces
* Red chilli powder 1 tea spoon
* Cinamom 1" piece
* Milk 1 to 2 glass
* Ghee or oil 4 tbs
* 2 Onion (medium) cut in long thin pieces
* Salt to taste
Method
* Heat the ghee in a pan.
* Put onion, ginger, garlic, cinamom and cardamom.
* Fry them light brown.
* After that keep out all the things from ghee and make a smooth paste with tomato in mixer.
* Then again fry for 4 to 5 minutes the paste in ghee and add salt and chilli powder.
* Add paneer pieces and fry for two to three minutes.
* Add milk and cook till the gravy become thick.
* Garnish with chopped coriander .
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