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Aalu* Bengan* Ke Pakore (Potato Eggplant Fritters)

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Aalu Bengan ke Pakore is a South Asian vegetarian appetizer, do try this and let me know your remarks …

Ingredients:

  • 2 cups of gram Flour
  • ¾ cup water
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbspn red chilli powder
  • ½ tspn turmeric powder
  • ½ tspn cumin seeds
  • 1 potato sliced
  • ½ egg plant sliced
  • 1 – 2 green chillies sliced
  • Oil For Frying
  • ½ tspn cracked dry coriander
  • ½ onion sliced

Procedure:

-Mix all the ingredients given except oil and mix well.

-Keep aside For 20 – 30 minutes.

-Heat oil. Now take a tbspn of this mixture and Fry, try to use your hands to make Pakoras.

-Take out on an absorbent paper and serve hot.

Outcome:

Tasty potato eggplant Pakoras are ready to be served.

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Tips:

-Do not make very thin mixture.

-Avoid lumps.

-Slice potatoes and eggplant into thin slice.

Serving:

This will serve 4 persons easily.

Hareesa 

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Hareesa is a dish made up of grains and meat, mixed well together, try and love …

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg mutton or beef
  • ¼ cup basmati rice
  • ½ cup wheat grains
  • ¼ cup whole green lentils
  • 2 onions chopped
  • 1 tspn ground garlic
  • 2 tspns ground black pepper
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil as needed

Procedure:

-Soak grains overnight. Strain them in the morning before cooking.

-Boil them in water with salt. Fry onions separately in a pan and when they are slightly red add garlic paste. Stir For a minute and add meat, salt and water. Cook until its tender. Take out meat From the broth and grind it coarsely.

-Put it back in the same broth along with wheat, rice and green lentils. Add black pepper and cook Further. Mix well.

-Separately in a pan Fry onions and introduce them to hareesa with oil.

Outcome:

Tasty grains and meat dish which is called Hareesa is ready to serve.

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 Tips:

-Soak and boil grains separately.

Servings:

This will serve 4 – 6 persons easily.

Kunna Gosht*/ Matka* Gosht*

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Kunna Gosht* / Matka* Gosht* is a traditional Pakistani style beef stew. Traditionally it is made in matka (a specific vessel made of mud)(pot) but at home you can make it in any stainless steel or non stick vessel. It is very tender and very lovely, I think your should give a try and believe me you are going to love it …

Ingredients:

  • ½ kg Beef Knuckle and marrow meat
  • ½ cup oil
  • 1 onion sliced
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbspn Red chilli powder
  • 1 tspn turmeric powder
  • 1 tspn dry coriander powder
  • 2 tbspns Ginger and garlic paste
  • 2 tbspns wheat Flour
  • 2 tspns cumin seeds
  • Plenty of water

Procedure:

-Heat oil in a pan and Fry onions.  When they are slightly brown in colour add meat and Fry it For 10 minutes on medium heat. Now add ginger garlic paste along with all the spices and Fry.

-Add 1.5 litre of water and let it simmer on medium high heat until the meat is tender.

-Dissolve wheat Flour in water and gradually add it to the stew and stir through.

-Avoid lumps and add water to the consistency that is desired.

-Now add cumin seeds and let it cook For another 5 – 10 minutes on low heat.

-Serve hot with Tandoori chapatti or naan bread.

Outcome:

Tasty, Pakistani Kunna gosht* or matka* gosht* is ready to be served.

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Tips:

-Avoid lumps while adding Flour.

-Cook meat to perfection.

Servings:

This will serve 4 – 6 persons easily.

Keema Samosa

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Keema samosa is one of the customised Forms of samosas, mainly they are stuffed with potatoes and peas but just to try something different, I think this is the best thing to have …

Ingredients:

  • Oil For Frying

FOR FILLING

FOR PASTRY

  • Samosa dough
  • Some lose Flour

Procedure:

-Take a little bit of samosa dough and Flat it with the roller pin. Use lose Flour if necessary.

-Make a thin Chapatti like thing. (Thin and round disc like shape)

-With a sharp knife divide it into half.

-Now place a tbspn of roasted mincemeat in the middle of the half chapatti.

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-Now take point “A” and pin it with point “P”. Like This,

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-Then take point “B” and seal it with point “P” too.

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-Press the seal with your Fingers.

-Do the same with others.

-Heat oil and deep Fry them.

Outcome:

Tasty Keema* samosas* are ready to be served.

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Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-Use lose Flour only when its needed.

Servings:

This will serve 6 – 12 persons easily.

Lachha Paratha

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These parathas are lovely, ingredients are same as of Saadaa* Paratha, but there is a slight change in the method of rolling and giving a particular lachha look. Follow the steps given below, take help From the illustration and if you have any problem then email me …

Ingredients:

Procedure:

-Take a lump of Paratha dough and Make a kiwi Fruit sized ball.

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-Press it with your palm and then Flat its edges with your Fingers.

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-Now with a rolling pin, Flat this ball into chapatti. Spread 1 tbspn of ghee on it.

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-Now roll it into blinds.

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-Take one edge and Fold it with non – grease side up,

-Then Fold it with grease side top.

-Repeat this process.

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-Now make a spiral, coral like shape, like this,

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-And then press it with your Fingers.

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-On a lightly Floured surface roll it into a chapatti with a roller pin.

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-Place this on hot Flat pan.

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-After 5 – 6 seconds, turn its side and apply another tbspn of ghee on the half – cooked side.

-After 4 seconds, turn its side and apply another tbspn of ghee on it.

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-Now turn he sides Frequently and when its cooked (hot red) serve it hot with lots of pickle.

Outcome:

Tasty Lachha paratha is ready to be served.

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Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-If its greasy and difficult to roll, then use some lose Flour.

-Cook on medium low heat.

Servings:

This will serve 4 persons easily.

Maghaz Nihari

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Maghaz Nihari is purely a pakistani dish. Its a kind of beef stew cooked on low heat with spices and Fried brains. Do try this and make your day lovely …

Ingredients:

  • 1 kg beef (4-6 large pieces)
  • ½ kg knuckle and marrow meat (beef)
  • 1 ½ cup oil
  • 1 tspn garlic paste
  • Onion sliced
  • 50 gms of wheat Flour
  • Lots of water

MASALA

  • 2 tbspns red chilli powder
  • Salt to taste
  • 2 tspn nigella seeds
  • 1 tbspn garlic powder
  • 3 tbspn Fried dried onion
  • 3 tbspn cumin seeds
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tspn Fennel seeds
  • 2 tbspn black pepper
  • 2 tspns mace
  • 2 tbspn nutmeg
  • 1 tbspn ginger powder
  • 2 tbspn black cumin
  • 1 tspn cloves
  • ½ cup lemon juice

FOR MAGHAZ*

  • 3 goat or lamb brains
  • 1 tbspn ghee* or 4 tbspns olive oil

FOR GARNISHING

  • A bunch of coriander
  • 3 – 4 green chillies sliced
  • A big piece of ginger sliced thinly

Procedure:

-Combine all the masala ingredients except lemon juice and grind well into powder and mix with lemon juice.

-Now in a large, thick bottomed pot, heat one cup of oil. Add garlic and stir and then add meat, bones and masala and Fry For Few minutes. Add 13 glasses of water and cover. Cook on very low heat until the meat is very tender (For beef it will take something around 6 – 8 hours).

-Dissolve 50 gms of Flour in 3 glasses of water (avoid lumps) and stir this mixture into the curry and stir well. Remove bones if you want to.

-Boil brains For 5 minutes. Heat ghee or oil and Fry boiled brains in it. Stir this through Nihari.

-Cook For 15 minutes and meanwhile Fry onions in rest of the oil.

-Add Fried onions + oil to the mixture and again cook on low heat For 30 minutes.

-And Finally after a lot of struggle and cooking, Nihari is ready. Serve it hot with naan or parathas and enjoy.

Outcome:

Tasty homemade Maghaz Nihari is ready to be served.

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Ayesha's Kitchen

Tips:

-Avoid lumps while mixing wheat Flour and water.

-Take shin meat.

Servings:

This will serve 10 persons easily.