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Keema Aalu Methi

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If you are not in mood of just vegetables, add some mincemeat ……….

Ayesha's Kitchen

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Ingredients:

  • 500 gms mincemeat
  • 1 large onion, sliced
  • 2 tomatoes, chopped
  • 1 tbspn garlic and ginger, crushed
  • 1 green chilli, chopped
  • ½ cup oil
  • 500 gms methi (fresh fenugreek leaves)
  • 2 large potatoes , peeled and diced
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbspn red chilli flakes
  • 1 tspn turmeric powder
  • 2 tbspns yogurt
  • 1 tspn coriander powder
  • 1 tspn garam masala powder

Procedure:

-Heat oil and fry onion and ginger garlic until its golden red. Add mincemeat and stir, break and cook on medium heat for about 5 minutes or until the mincemeat changes its colour.

-Add methi, potatoes and all the spices. Stir and cook until the water dries. Add tomatoes and yogurt and cook covered on medium heat for 20 minutes or until the oil hoose out.

-Serve hot with raita, salad and rotis.

Cottage Style Potatoes

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Ingredients:

  • A dozen of baby potatoes cut into 4 wedges each (with skin)
  • Some water to parboil
  • A scoop of butter
  • Some sour cream and spring onions to serve

Procedure:

-Boil water and add potato wedges. Boil for around 10 minutes and discard water.

-In a skillet, melt some butter and add potatoes.

-Stir fry until the wedges get a nice golden, crispy colour.

-Serve hot with sour cream and sour cream.

Bengan Bharta Curry

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Ingredients:

  • 2 large aubergines
  • 2 large onion sliced
  • 2 large tomatoes sliced
  • 1 tbspn yogurt
  • ½ tspn cumin seeds
  • ¼ tspn carom seeds
  • 1 tspn garam masala
  • Some salt to taste
  • Some red chilli powder
  • ½ tspn turmeric powder
  • 1 tspn fenugreek leaves
  • ½ cup oil
  • 1 cup chopped coriander
  • 4 green chillies sliced
  • 1 tspn sliced ginger
  • 4 tbspn lemon juice/ ½ lemon squeezed
  • A dollop of ghee

Procedure:

-Broil aubergines on naked fire until their skin is blistered. Remove from fire and with a sharp knife scrape the burnt skin.

-Take off the green part and mash the white cooked aubergines.

-Heat oil and fry onion until they are golden brown. Add all the spices, ginger and tomatoes. Mix well on high heat until the tomatoes are loose and mixed. Reduce the flame to medium and add aubergine puree. Mix well.

-Add yogurt and lemon and mix well. Let it cook for 5 – 10 minutes.

-Add a dollop of ghee and let it melt.

-Garnish with some coriander leaves and serve hot with chapattis and lacha parathas.

Aalu Keema

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Aalu Keema is another very special dish of Pakistani home cooking. People love this combination of spicy mincemeat with lovely tender potatoes. Sometimes I think that Pakistani cooking is a bit like Italian cooking, we use mincemeat quite often with a combination of vegetables and chopped tomatoes for the tangy taste. You can add boiled noodles/ spaghetti/ rice to this dish to make Aalu Keema noodles/ spaghetti/ rice, it is also very common in Pakistani  home cooking. This is known to be the best technique in Pakistan to utilize the left overs. Do try this wonderful dish and I am sure you are going to love it …..

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Ingredients:

  • ½ kg to 750 gms mincemeat chicken/ mutton/ beef/ lamb
  • 2 potatoes (peeled and cubed)
  • 2 medium sized onions (sliced)
  • 2 tomatoes (chopped)
  • Green chillies (as you like)
  • Some chopped coriander
  • Salt to taste
  • Red chilli powder to taste
  • ½ tspn turmeric
  • 1 tspn garam masala
  • ½ cup oil
  • 2 cups water
  • 2 big cardamoms
  • 2 cloves
  • A piece of cinnamon
  • 1 tspn ginger (crushed)
  • 1 tspn minced garlic
  • A pinch of fenugreek leaves

Procedure:

-In a deep pan, add water, mincemeat, onion, ginger garlic paste, cardamom, cinnamon and cloves and boil for around 20 minutes on low heat or until the water gets dry.

-Add oil and all the ingredients (except coriander and green chillies) and mix well. When the tomatoes tend to get soft cover the pan and cook on low heat with occasional stirring. Let the tomatoes cook in the moisture of tomatoes. Do not add additional water.

-When the potatoes are tender and it gives a nice cooked look, dish it out and serve hot with hot chapattis and salad.

Aalu Gosht

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Aalu Gosht is one of the famous dishes of Pakistan in home cooking. My mum and her mum, both love this dish a lot and that is why they make this dish thrice a week. It is easy to make and the “shorba” (stew) is considered good for heath in Pakistan. Do try this beautiful recipe and enjoy …..

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • ½ kg mutton cutlets/ chops
  • 2 cups water
  • 1 large onion sliced
  • 2 cloves of garlic (crushed)
  • 1 tbspn crushed ginger
  • 2 pcs. Of cinnamon
  • 2 small green chillies
  • ½ cup oil
  • 1 tspn Ayesha’s Kitchen Special Garam Masala
  • A pinch of methi seeds
  • 2 cardamoms black
  • 2 cloves
  • 4 peppercorns
  • 6 – 8 baby potatoes (halves) or 2 – 4 medium sized potatoes cut into wedges
  • 2 tomatoes
  • 1 tspn red chilli powder
  • ½ tspn turmeric powder
  • 1 pinch of cumin seeds
  • 4 tbspns coriander (for garnishing)
  • 4 – 6 cup water for Shorba (stew)

Procedure:

-In a deep pan, place meat, onion, cardamom, cloves, methi seeds, green chillies, ginger garlic paste,  cinnamon sticks and water. Boil on low heat until the chops are tender and water is dry.

-Now add all the other things except potatoes, water and coriander.

-Stir fry until the masala is formed.

-Now add potatoes and mix for 2 minutes.

-Simmer and add water for the stew.

-Cook covered on low heat for 15 minutes.

-Add coriander, mix and serve hot with home-made rotis.

NOTE: If you want to make Aalu Gosht with Shorba, add 6 cups or more of water and if you want to make it masala style, add 2 cups of water and do not cook it covered when potatoes are added.

Achari Aalu (Potatoes in Pickle Masala)

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Achari aalu is my way of consuming potatoes…… People in Pakistan do make this dish but i dont know the recipe, this is my own recipe and its very quick and easy. Whenever I have made this dish, people have appreciated a lot, especially my sister. Do try this and enjoy the sour and spicy taste of Achari potatoes (potatoes in pickle masala) with pooris, naan, boiled rice or paratha.

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 4 large potatoes (peeled and diced)
  • 1 medium potato boiled and mashed (no lumps)
  • 2 onions chopped in a food processor
  • 4 tbspns yogurt + ¼ cup water
  • Salt to taste
  • 1 tbspn red chilli powder
  • 1 tspn nigella seeds (kalonji)
  • 1 tspn turmeric
  • 1 tspn tamarind chutney (optional)
  • 4 – 8 curry leaves
  • 1 tspn cumin powder
  • ½ tspn saunf (fennel seed) powder
  • 1 tspn garam masala powder
  • ½ cup oil
  • 1 tbspn ginger garlic paste
  • 1 tspn fenugreek leaves (kasuri methi)
  • 1 doda mirch (dried red chilli, bird’s eye chilli)

Procedure:

-Heat oil and fry ginger garlic paste in it for few minutes. Now add chopped onions and cook until they are brown. Add kasuri methi and fry for another few seconds.

-Now add all the spices except nigella seeds and mix well.

-Add diced potatoes and stir. Now add yogurt, nigella seeds, curry leaves and mashed potato and cook it covered on medium heat until the potatoes are tender.

-Dish out and serve with hot pooris, parathas or saada roti/ chapatti.