Sweet Bread (Tuti Fruity Bread :-))

Ingredients:

Maida- 250gms

Dry yeast- 3/4th tspn

Sugar- 60gms / 1/4th cup

Water – 100ml

Milk – 25 to 30ml

Butter- 2tbspn

Milk powder- 2 tbspn

Salt – ½ tspn

Tutti fruity – ½ cup

Mix fruit essence- 1 tspn

Steps:

1- Grease medium size loaf pan and keep aside.

2- Put yeast in a bowl, add 2 tspn sugar and warm water - mix them thoroughly.

3- Now put maida, sugar and milk powder in a bowl and mix together.

4- Add yeast mixture to it and make a smooth dough.

5- Now cream fat and salt and add them to the dough; knead the dough with ur palm and make a soft and silky dough. Cover it with wet cloth.

6- Keep the dough aside for 45 mins or till it doubles in volume.

7- Punch the dough to remove excess air.

8- Add tutti fruity.

9- Pan the dough in bread tin and let it rise.

10- Bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 20mins.

Now enjoy ur sweet bread with a cup of tea………….

Fish with mustard sauce (shorshe maachh)

Notice that I’ve used king fish fillet for this recipe but hilsa, bhetki and salmon can also be used.

Ingredients:

King fish – 1 kg

Mustard paste- 2/3rd cup

Curd – ½ cup

Haldi- 1 tspn

Green chilly- 4 nos

Kalonji (onion seeds)- 1/4th tspn

Salt and sugar

Mustard oil- ½ cup

Steps:

1- Marinate fish with haldi and salt.

2- Fry them and keep aside.

3- Now heat oil and add kalonji (onion seeds) and green chillies.

4- Add mustard paste and curd.

5- Now add haldi powder and cook till oil separates.

6- Add salt, sugar and ½ cup water; boil it for few mins.

7- Now add fried fish fillets and cook for 10 mins or to your desired level of curry thickness.

8- Lastly, sprinkle some mustard oil on it.

Enjoy your fish curry with plain rice……….

Kadhi Pakora

Ingredients (for pakora):

Masoor dal – ½ cup

Onion – 1 (finely chopped)

Green chilly – 1 (chopped)

Salt and sugar as per taste

One hand full of fresh dhania

Ingredients (for kadhi):

Curd – 1 cup

Besan – 2 tbspn

Water – 2 cups

Salt and sugar

Mustard seeds

Jeera seeds

Whole red chilly

Curry patta

Hing

Haldi

Slitted green chillies .

Steps:

1- Put besan in a bowl, add curd to it and make a paste; now add 2 cups of water - mix it well and keep aside.

2- Heat oil in a pan - add mustard, jeera, whole red chilly, curry patta and hing.

3- Now add besan and curd mix to it; boil it for a few minutes.

4- Add haldi, salt and sugar; cook it for some time.

5- Now put pakora into gravy.

6- Garnish with green chillies.

Serve with hot rice……….

Chicken Kofta Curry

Ingredients for Kofta:

Chicken keema - ½ kg.

Ginger garlic paste – 1 tblspn

Redchilly powder – ½ tspn

Garam masala - ½ tspn

Egg - 1 no

Salt – 1/4th tspn

Fresh coriander - 2 tblspn

Ingredients for Curry:

Big onion – 4 nos

Ginger garlic paste – 2 tbspn

Tomato puree – 1 cup

Curd - ½ cup

Water – 2 cups

Cloves – 5 nos

Black cardamom- 2 nos

Haldi – ½ tspn

Kashmiri chilly powder – 2 tspn

Garam masala – ½ tspn -

Salt- as per taste.

Sugar – 1 tspn

Oil – ½ cup

Steps:

1- Heat oil in a big pan or kadhai.

2- Pound cloves and cardamom and put them in hot oil.

3- Add onion paste and cook till it becomes light pink.

4- Now add ginger garlic paste and cook for atleast 10 mints on low flame.

5- Add tomato puree and cook till oil separates.

6- Now add haldi and kashmiri chilly powder.

7- Add salt and sugar and cook for 5 mints.

8- Add 2 cups of water and boil it for 2 mints.

9- Now add chicken koftas in the pan and cook it in low flame.

10- Lastly, add garam masala .

You're done :-)

Exotic Aloo Dum

Ingredients:

Small potatoes - ½ kg

Tomato puree- ½ cup

Coconut paste- ½ cup

Curd – 2/3rd cup

Ginger paste – 1 tspn

Saunf or fennel seed- ½ tspn

Haldi- ½ tspn

Kashmiri chilly powder- 1 tspn

Garam masala powder- ½ tspn

Kasuri methi – 1 tspn

Hing- 1 pinch.

Salt and sugar as per taste.

Oil – ½ cup.

Steps:

1- Boil the potatoes.

2- Now fry them and keep aside.

3- Heat oil in a pan and add fennel seeds or saunf.

4- Now add ginger paste.

5- After 2 mints add tomato puree and cook for 10 mins.

6- Now add coconut paste and cook for 5 more mins.

7- Next step is to add haldi, kashmiri chilly powder and curd; cook till oil separates.

8- Now add salt, sugar and ½ cup water.

9- Add fried potatoes.

10- Cook for few more mins and add kasuri methi and hing.

You are done!! Now enjoy your delicious aloo dum :-)

Choco Walnut Brownie

Ingredients:

Cooking chocolate- 140gms

Butter- ½ cup

Coco powder- 2tblspn

Castor sugar- 200gms

Vanilla essence- 1tbspn

Eggs – 3 nos

Maida or plain flour- 100gms

Steps:

Preheat the oven .

1- Melt chocolate and butter together.

2- Add 2 spoon coco powder.

3- Add castor sugar.

4- Add vanilla essence and mix well.

5- Now add eggs (one by one).

6- Add maida or flour and mix it well.

7- Now add walnut coated with little maida.

8- Bake it at 150 degrees in OTG and in microwave convection at 180 degrees.

Now, brownie is ready for you to devour……. Njoy………..

Muffins Mania - 2

Continuing the muffins story from my last post…

Ingredients for Chocochip muffins:

125 gm maida or plain flour

25 gm coco powder

1 tspn baking powder

1 egg

60 gm sugar

2 tbspn oil

100 ml milk

Steps:

Preheat the oven.

1- Sieve maida , coco powder and baking powder in a bowl.

2- Now take a separate bowl and put egg, milk, oil and sugar.

3- Mix them well.

4- Now add maida mix to the egg mix gradually .

5- Add chocochip.

6- Now arrange the muffin trays with muffin cups.

7- Spoon mixture into the muffin cups.

8- Bake it for 20 mins.

You're done!! Have fun.