Egg Omlette Curry (Dimer Dhokar Dalna)

Egg Omlette is a very common item in our daily diet but curry of egg omlette sounds little different. Egg omlette curry is one of my favourite dish since my childhood. My mother used to make omlette with beaten egg mixed with grounded urad or masoor dal in order to make the omlette thick enough to cut into cubes and dip in curry. So Egg lovers this is yet another delicious and different egg recipe for you.

Ingredients:

3 Eggs

1/2 cup urad daal or masoor daal (soaked for at least 5 hours and then grind into paste)

1 large onion (finely chopped)

1 large onion (grated)

1 tbsp. ginger garlic paste

2 green chili (slitted)

2 green chili (chopped)

1 tomato (finely chopped)/tomato puree 3 tbsp

2 tsp turmeric powder

1 tsp coriander powder

1 tsp cumin powder

1 tsp red chili powder

2 bay leaves

1 tsp cumin

1 tsp garam masala

Salt (as per taste)

1 tsp Sugar

Coriander leaves chopped

Method:

1. To make the omelette's cube:

Beat 3 eggs in a bowl and mix grind Dal paste salt, chopped green chill is, 1chopped onion, 1 tsp turmeric powder, 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp sugar and chopped coriander leaves. Mix well and keep aside. Heat oil in a flat bottomed nonstick pan. Now reduce the flame and spread half of the mixture uniformly and covered with lid and let it cook for about 5 minute. Turn it and cook the other side until become little crisp and golden brown in color. Take it out in a plate and cut into cubes. Repeat the same process for the other half of mixture also. If u have large pan then you can use the full mixture at a time.

2. Heat oil in a pan. Add bay leaves and cumin seeds. Now add grated onion and fry for a minute. Now add ginger garlic paste, turmeric powder, coriander powder, cumin powder, red chili powder and little water . Fry the mixture until oil get separated from it.

3 . Add chopped tomatoes or tomato puree and salt . Stir for some time and add 2 cups of water.

Add garam masala powder and 1/2 tsp. sugar. Cover the pan and let it cook for 6 to 8 minute in medium flame.

4. Add egg omelette's cube in the gravy. Cover it again and cook for another 6 to 8 minutes. when the gravy is little thick take it out.

Garnish with chopped coriander and serve with roti, naan or steamed rice.

This recipe goes for the event 'Side dish for Chapthi hosted by Vicky Xavier at Viki’s Kitchen.

Kashmiri Dum Aloo And My Awards

Kashmiri Dum Aloo is considered to be one of the hot and spicy dish of north India. This is a partof culinary delights originating from the Kashmir's living in that region and over the period becomes popular all over the world as an integral part of Indian cuisine.This is an extremely delicious main course item which is actually potatoes cooked in a rich spicy gravy.

Ingredients:

200gms.Small potatoes
1 large onion (chopped)
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
1tsp coriander seeds
1 tsp cumin seeds
1tsp poppy seeds
1tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp garam masala powder
2 red Chilis
1/2 tsp pepper
2 Bay leaves
2 cardamom 2 clove
1 Cinnamon stick
1 cup curd
3 tbsp Tomato puree
Salt as required
Sugar as required
Oil
Coriander leaves (chopped)

Method:

1 Wash the potatoes and peel them off properly. Now prick the potatoes all over with a fork and soak them in salt water minimum 2 hours. Heat oil in a pan and deep fry the potatoes in medium flame until it becomes brown in colour and soft in side.take it out and keep aside.
2. Heat oil in a pan and add chopped onion and fry them until golden brown.In the same pan roast coriander seed, cumin seed poppy seed and dry red chilis. Grind them into a fine masala paste along with fried onion.
3. Heat oil in a pan and add bay leaves, cardamom, cinnamon and clove. Fry and add ginger garlic paste and fry again for a couple of minutes. Now add the masala paste and add little water . Stir frequently and cook for about 6 to 8 minutes.
4. Add Tomato puree, curd, salt and 1/2 tsp of sugar, Stir the gravy for 3 to 4 minutes and then add fried potatoes into it. Add little hot water as required and stir again . Cover with a lid and let it cook over low heat for 5 minutes.
Now Sprinkle with pepper powder and garam masala powder and cover it for another 5 minutes.
Garnish it with chopped coriander leaves and serve it with paratha or chapatti.

I am very thrilled to recieve 3 awards: One Lovely blog award, Creative blogger award and I love your blog award from one of myvery sweet blogger friend Aysha of Life Today and Sireesha of Moms recipies . Thank you so much Aysha and Sireesha for those awards and tag. You really made my. These are my inspirations go aheadand flourish in this blogging world.

1. What is your current obsession?
Blogging
2. What are you wearing today?
Jeans and T- shirt
3. What’s for dinner?
Chicken curry and Rice
4. What’s the last thing you bought?
vegetables
5. What are you listening to right now?
Bengali songs
6. What do you think about the person who tagged you?
She's is an awesome person and an excellent chef..
7. If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
Bangalore
8. What are your must-have pieces for summer?
Sunglasses
9. If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Switzerland
10. Which language do you want to learn?
Chinese
11. Who do you want to meet right now?
My mom
12. What is your favourite colour?
Blue
13. What is your favourite piece of clothing in your own closet?
Salwar suit

14. What is your dream job?
Chief chef in a five star hotel.
15. What’s your favourite magazine?
Womens Era
16. If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Clothing
17. What do you consider a fashion faux pas
Anarkali Salwars
18. Who are your style icons?

Aishwarya Rai
19. Describe your personal style?
Simple and Gorgeous
20. What are you going to do after this?
Have Dinner
21. What are your favourite movies?
old movies
22. What inspires you?
nice comments.
23. Give us three styling tips that always work for you:
Be Simple, Be confident and ask other how u r looking.
24. Coffee or tea?
Tea
25. What do you do when you are feeling low or terribly depressed?
pass some quality time with my kiddo
26. Which month is your birthday?
March
27. Which other blogs you love visiting?
All good recipe blogs.
28. Favorite Dessert/Sweet?
Rosogulla

29. Favorite Season?
Spring
30.One thing you love about yourself
my nature

31 What is your favourite pass time

Playing with my daughter

The rules are:
Respond and rework – answer the questions on your own blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, and add one more question of your own. Then tag eight or ten other people.
I am very glad to share these awards and tag with following blogger friends:

Prathibha of 'The Chef And Her Kitchen'

Preeti of of ' Indian Khana'

Kitchen Flavours of ' Yummy food'

Indrani of 'Appayan'

Preety of ' Preety's Kitchen'

Malini of 'Khana khazana'

Poornima of 'Tasty treats

Kalaivani of 'Little taste buds'

Shanthi of 'Shanthi Krishnakumaras cookbook'

and Curry leaf of 'Tasty curry leaf'

Congrats! all of you for the achievements.

Chhole Bhature

Chhole Bhature is one of the most popular dish of northern India. It seems to have originated in Punjab though it is considered as one of the delicious fast food item throughout the country. It is basically a complete and heavy breakfast item which is generally accompanied by coled Lassi or hot tea. Chhole Bhature is a combination of 'chhole' (Spicy chickpea curry) and fried bread called 'Bhatura' (made of maida). My recipe for chhole bhature may not be the authentic style of making Chhole Bhature but I tried to make it more tasty by changing some of the ingredients and I m sure you will enjoy it.

Bhatura

Ingredients:

2 cups maida or all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. baking powder
2 tbsp. cup yogurt
1 tsp. sugar
1 tbsp. Oil

Salt

Water as required

Oil for Frying.

Method:

1. Mix all the ingredient (except oil for frying) in a bowl and knead properly to from a soft and uniform a dough. Keep it aside for 8 to 10 hours.

2. Take a small ball of dough and rolled into a desired shape like chapatti.

3. Heat oil in a pan and deep fry Bhature in oil.

Chhole

Ingredients:

2 cups Chick peas

2 Large Potato (diced)

1 Large onion (grated)

1 tbsp. Ginger-garlic paste

2 Bay leaves.

2 Cardamom

2 cinnamon stick

3 clove

2 Whole red chili

1 tsp. turmeric powder

1 tsp. coriander powder.

1. roasted cumin powder

1 tsp. red chili powder

1 tsp garam masala powder

1/2 cup tomato puree

1 tsp. Sugar

Salt

Oil

1 tsp ghee

Coriander leaves

Method:

1. Soak Chick peas overnight in water and pressure cook along with the potato pieces adding little salt.

2. Take out the potato pieces and fry it until becomes golden brown. Keep it aside.

3. Heat 2 to 3 tbsp oil in a pan. Add bay leaves , red chili's, cinnamon, cardamom and cloves. Fry it for a minute and then add grated onion and ginger garlic paste. After a couple of minute add turmeric powder chili powder , cumin powder and coriander powder. Add little water and fry the masala until oil gets separated from it. Add cooked Channa (chick peas), fried Potato pieces salt, sugar and tomato puree. Stir well and cook for 6 to 8 minute with occasional stirring. Add garam masala powder and water for gravy. Cover it and let it cook until the gravy becomes thick. Take it out from fire and add 1 tsp of ghee.

4.Garnish with coriander leaves and thin sliced onion rings and slice of lemon and serve along with bhatura.

Matar Paneer

Matar Paneer is an extremely popular North Indian dish and is considered as a special side dish among most veggies across India. I tried to prepare it in many different ways so as to get the restaurant-style taste and guess what, this time I succeeded to create something much better.

Ingredients:

2 cups fresh Green Peas(matar)(or you can use dried green peas by soaking it overnight).
1 cup Paneer (cottage cheese) cubes
1 Large Onion (grated)
1 tbsp. Ginger garlic paste
2 Slitted green chili
2 tbsp tomato puree/tomato sauce.
2 cinnamon sticks
2 to 3 cardamom
2 to 3 clove
2 Bay leaves
1/2 tsp. Cumin seeds
1 tsp.turmeric power
1 tsp Red chili powder
1 tsp. Coriander powder
1 tsp. Garam masala powder
1 tsp Sugar
Salt (as per taste)
Coriander leaves (finely chopped))

Method:
1 Cut the paneer into cubes. Heat oil in a pan any fry the paneer until becomes soft and light golden color. Remove from heat and keep aside.
2. Boil the green peas in a cup of water adding a pinch of salt and sugar.
3.Heat oil in a large pan. Add bay leaves, whole garam masala (cardamom, cinnamon, clove)and cumin seeds. Now add grated onion.Saute until the onion becomes golden brown. Add ginger garlic paste,green chilies, turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder and little water. Fry the masala for sometime until oil get separated from it. Now add salt Sugar and tomato puree/ sauce and finally boiled peas. Stir continuously and cook for 5 to 6 minutes.
4. Finally add paneer pieces and 1/2 cup water.Add garam masala and cook for another 5 minutes and then allow it to simmer for about 8 minutes. when the curry becomes semi dry remove it from heat. Garnish it with chopped coriander leaves.

Serve hot with Chappathis, naan, pooris or with plain rice

Yummy Pancake

After getting up every morning, the first thing that hits and confuses my mind is making a unique and healthy breakfast, especially for the young ones before they start for school. This probably the very usual and common problem between all homemakers. This problem becomes bigger during weekends when my family's subtle demand is that breakfast should be something special. The one breakfast item which I usually make for my family and they pretty much like it is the pancake. It doesn't require much of preparation, is pretty fast and comes out very tasty.

Ingredients:

2 Cups All purpose Flour (Maida)

2 Eggs

1 Large onion (Finely chopped)

1 carrot (grated)

1 small capsicum (finely chopped)

2 green chilli (chopped)

1 tsp. turmeric powder

1 tsp red chili powder

1 tsp. garam masala powder

1 tsp. salt

1/2 tsp. sugar

Oil

Coriander leaves (chopped)

Method:

1. Mix Flour and beaten eggs in a bowl to get a smooth paste. Add 1 cup of water, Turmeric powder, Red chili powder, Garam masala powder, Salt and sugar to it and mix thoroughly so as to get a smooth batter. Now add chopped onion, chillis, carrot, capsicum and coriander leaves and mix it well.The batter must be thick enough to spread well on non-stick pan. Keep the batter for about 30 minutes.

2. Heat a small amount of oil in a large non-stick pan over medium heat. Now scoop pancake batter into the in about 1/4Th cup portions and spread it uniformly. Try to keep the pancake as thin as possible. Let it cook for sometime until edges are dry and bubbles are popping up and bottoms are nicely browned(about 2 to 3 minutes). Now turn it and cook the other side until browned and crisp.

Serve it with any chutney or tomato sauce.

Sweet Mango chutney

Mangoes are my all time favourite fruit and is considered as 'King of Fruits' in Bengal. I am particularly fond of fresh ripe mangoes as well as sweet, tangy and spicy mango chutney. Chutney is a very common dish served before dessert in most Bengali occasions, mostly made out of mangoes during mango seasons. I love to eat it any time especially after having meals. Chutney is prepared from ripe mangoes either sweet or sour but I always prefer sour one which gives a tangy taste to the chutney. It can also be prepared from raw mangoes which is available most of the time.

Ingredients:
2 nos. Raw or ripe mangoes
3 tblsp. sugar (depending on the sweetness of mango you can change the amount of sugar added.)
1 tsp. Salt (or as per taste)
6 to 8 Red chilli s
2 tsp. Fennel seed (sauf)
1/2 tsp. methi seed
1 tsp. mustard seed
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp. red chilli powder
2 slitted green chili
1 tsp. oil

Method:
1 Wash mangoes and peel off the skin and cut them into long slices. If you want you can discard the seed.

2. Heat a pan and add 3 red chilis, 1 tsp. methi seed and 1 tsp. fennel seed (sauf). Roast them for a couple of minutes and then grind them in a grinder to make powder.

3. Heat oil in a pan and add 3 to 4 red chillis, fennel seeds and mustard seeds. When mustard starts spluttering add mango slices. Stirr for a minute and add turmeric powder and salt. Stirr again for a couple of minutes and add 2 cups of water. Cover it with a lid and let it cook for about 10to 15 minutes with occasional stirring.

4. When the mango slices gets softer, reduce the flame and add sugar. stirr again and try to mash some of slices to get a chutney of thick consistency. Cook for another 5 to 6 minutes until the chutney becomes thick.

5. Remove from fire and set aside to cool. When it become cool serve it in a bowl or pour it into a jar and refrigerate it. It can be stored for long time in refrigerator.

Prawn Cabbage (Bandhakopi Chingrir ghonto)

Hello friends!! I have re-entered in my blogging world again. First of all I want to apologize for absconding so suddenly. I was really missing all my reader friends. Actually I went for a long pending and much needed vacation and spent some memorable time in my native. Now Iam back with lots of memories and most importantly loads of various new recipes from my super cook mother and mother in law which I would definitely like to share with all of you in due course of time. Here you go with the first one....

'Lau chingri' means Prawn and bottle gourd is considered to be one great combination among bengalis but this time I came to know from my mother that prawn and Cabbage is an excellent combination. The dish was so delicious that I immediately thought of putting it as my 'come back' post. This dish again is very healthy as it doesn't require any spice.
Ingredients:

250 gms Prawn (Each peeled and cut in two halves)
500 gms Cabbage (Finely chopped)
1 potato (Diced into small cubes)
1 Onion (Chopped)
1 tsp ginger paste
2 Bay leaves
1 tsp Black Cumin (Kala jeera or Kalaunji)
2 tsp. turmeric powder
3 to 4 slitted green chillis
Salt
Sugar
Coriander (finely chopped)

Method:

1. Pressure cook chopped Cabbage with little salt until it becomes tender.
2. Mix turmeric powder and salt with the prawn pieces.
3. Heat oil in a pan and fry the potatoes till golden brown , keep aside. Now fry the prawn pieces and keep aside.
4. Heat the remaining oil and fry Bay leaves and Kalaunji. Now add Chopped onion and grated ginger and fry for 4 to 5 minutes.
5. Add Cabbage, Green chillies turmeric powder and Salt. Stir continuously for 4 to 5 minutes so that it gets mixed throughly.
6. Add fried prawn pieces and potato pieces and mix throughly. Cover the pan and let it cook for 5 to 6 minutes. Stir occasionally.Now add half tsp.of sugar and stir.
7. Add Chopped Coriander leaves and remove from fire.

Garnish with coriander leaves and Serve Hot with steamed rice.