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Mooli Wale Parathay

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One of my favorite breakfasts ………….

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Ingredients:

FOR PARATHA

  • 3 cups wheat flour
  • 2 cups meda
  • Some water for kneading the dough
  • Some oil/ghee / butter for frying parathas

FOR FILLING

  • 1 large size white radish (peeled and grated)
  • Salt
  • Red chilli flakes
  • 1 tspn chaat masala
  • 6 tbspns coriander chopped
  • 4 tbspns green chillies chopped
  • 1 tspn chopped mint (good for digestion)
  • ¼ tspn carom seeds (ajvain)
  • 1 tbspn cracked coriander
  • 1 tspn cumin seeds (zeera)
  • 1 tspn garam masala
  • ½ tspn turmeric

Procedure:

-In a mixing bowl, combine plain flour & wheat flour and add knead into a soft dough by adding water gradually. Keep aside for 20 minutes.

-Now make small balls of dough, 2 per paratha.

-Roll them flat with a rolling pin into a saucer size chapatti.

-Place 1 ½ – 2 tbspns of radish filling on one chapatti and cover it with the other one. Press the edges to seal.

-Flat with your palm and fingers and then use a rolling pin to plat the edges.

-Place the parathas on a hot griddle. After 15 secs or when it looks like it is half cooked flip the side and apply some oil. I use spoon to apply oil.

-Then flip the side and apply oil to the other side. Cook from both the sides until both are brown and good.

-Do the same with remaining dough and filling.

-Serve hot with anda, yogurt and achar.

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Anda Paratha Naashta

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Famous Breakfast combination in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. You can get it anywhere in Punjab even in NWFP and other provinces but home made is the best and when Ayesha’s Kitchen recipe is followed its awesome!

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha’s Kitchen

Try out and let me know what you think about it!

Ingredients:

FOR PARATHA

Saada Paratha

FOR OMELETTE

  • 2 eggs
  • 2 tspns milk
  • Some salt and red chilli flakes
  • 1 shallot chopped
  • 1 small tomato chopped
  • 1 green chilli chopped
  • 2 tbspns chopped capsicum
  • 1 tspn chopped spring onion
  • 2 tspns chopped coriander
  • 2 tspns oil for frying

Procedure:

-In a mixing bowl, crack 2 eggs, add milk, salt and red chilli flakes and whisk.

-Now add vegetables and stir.

-Heat some oil on a griddle (tawa)/ or in a frying pan and spread this egg mixture all over. When egg starts to turn white on the edges, flip the side and cook until its golden.

-Serve hot with parathas and achar.

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.

Dhaniya Raita

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Dhaniya Raita is the most popular condiment in Pakistani condiment menu. You can have it with anything; BBQ, Biryani, Pulao, Paratha, anything!

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ayesha’s Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • A bunch of fresh green coriander
  • 1 kg fresh natural style yogurt
  • Some salt
  • 1 green chilli

Procedure:

Take a good quality marble mortar and pestle and crush coriander and green chilli to fine paste. Now add salt and mix. Stir in yogurt. Pour the whole mixture in a gravy boat or any other bowl. Garnish with some coriander leaves and serve as a condiment.

Gulab Jamans/ Gulab jamuns

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Gulab Jaman is one of the most favourite and most popular dessert/ sweet of South Asia. It is made of milk solids soaked in cardmom scented sugar syrup and served hot with slivered nuts. This is the easiest and the tastiest recipe I know…… Please try and comment 😀

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • ¼ to ½ cups of cold milk
  • 1 cup full cream milk powder
  • 1 tspn self-rising flour
  • 1 tbspn ghee
  • Few cardamom seeds
  • 1 ½ tbspn semolina (soaked in ¼ cup of lukewarm water for 2 minutes)
  • Oil for frying (fresh oil) and 6 tbspns ghee

SHEERA

  • 1 cup white sugar
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • 2 cups water
  • Few cardamom seeds

Procedure:

-In a saucepan, mix water, cardamom seeds and sugar and put it to boil. Stir and keep boiling until the gulab jamans are ready.

-In a mixing bowl combine milk powder and ghee. Mix it well until u form small crumbs.

-Add flour and mix.

-Drain and discard water from soaked semolina and add the soaked semolina into the mixture. Add cardamom seeds too and mix well until everything is uniformly mixed and small crumbles are formed.

-Now gradually add milk and mix. Add milk slowly in batches and when this mixture takes the place of smooth, soft dough, keep it aside to rest for 10 minutes, covered with damp cloth.

-Meanwhile, heat oil. Be very careful about the temperature of the oil. You do not need very high or very low temperature. The best way to check the rite temperature for frying gulab jaman is drop a very little piece of the dough in to the oil, if it rests at the bottom and rise to the surface of the oil in some seconds, then it is ready to fry gulab jamans.

-Now make 12 small (walnut sized) balls from the dough.

-Put them in oil and keep stirring the oil slowly with the wooden spoon. This will give your gulab jamans even colour and texture and the oil temperature will also remain uniform.

-After 10 minutes of frying you will get the right Gulab Jaman colour and that is when your gulab jamans will be cooked from inside too.

-With a slotted spoon take them out and put them in boiling sugar syrup (sheera). Let them cook for 5 – 10 minutes on low heat in the sugar syrup.

-Take a deep serving bowl and pour the sugar syrup and gulab jaman thing into it.

-Garnish with some slivered almonds, pistachios, shredded coconut and silver edible foil and serve hot after as a desert

OR

-After cooking them in the sugar syrup for 10 minutes take out the gulab jamans and arrange them on a serving dish, garnish with some shredded coconut, etc. and serve.

Spicy Chicken Boneless Tikka Boti

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This dish belongs to Pakistani BBQ. I have made it at home without using a BBQ grill because most of us dont have BBQ grill at home but believe me, this tastes exactly the same and it is hassle free. Do try this and do not forget to comment …..

Ayesha's Kitchen

Ingredients:

  • 3 – 4 boneless skinless thigh fillets (cut into big cubes, 6-7 pcs. Per fillet)
  • Salt to taste
  • ½ tspn ajinomoto (optional)
  • 1 tspn Ayesha’s Kitchen Garam Masala
  • ½ tspn turmeric powder
  • ½ – 1 tspn red chilli powder
  • 1 tbspn vinegar
  • 1 tbspn lemon juice
  • 1 cup yogurt (sour)
  • A pinch of black pepper
  • A pinch of methi leaves
  • 1 tspn ginger garlic paste
  • 4 tbspns olive oil

Procedure:

-Combine everything (except oil) in a mixing bowl and marinade for around 6 hours.

-Heat oil in a pan (nonstick, with a lid) and add the marinated chicken. Stir and cook it covered on low heat for around 30 minutes.

-Take off the lid and cook on medium – high heat for 10 minutes with constant stirring. Remove from heat.

-Heat a piece of charcoal until it is white. Place it on a 4×4 aluminum sheet and place it on the top of chicken tikka. Drizzle some oil on it (coal) and cover the pan with the lid for about 10 minutes.

-After 10 minutes, remove the coal and serve the chicken with mint tikka and fresh salad.