вторник, 22 июня 2010 г.

Peas with paneer

Green peas - 1 cup
Paneer or Adyghe cheese - half a glass
Tomato paste - 2 tbsp
chili powder to taste
Turmeric - 1 / 4 tsp
Coriander powder 1 tsp
1 onion
2 cloves garlic
Butter - 1 tbsp
Fresh coriander
Mix the spices, tomato paste and chopped garlic with a little water .
Sauté onions in butter , add the paste with spices and peas, stew on low heat for 10 minutes, then add finely chopped paneer , stew for 5 minutes before serving sprinkle with herbs.

четверг, 10 июня 2010 г.

Mango Soup

1 kg sour mango
2 onions medium size
10 cloves of garlic
10 peas black pepper
0.5 tablespoons Gyra (seeds, plant, which grows only in a Himalayan valley Kaynor);
0.5 teaspoons of sugar
0.25 spoons chat Masalit (special spices)
Peel the mango and release him from the stone, grind the ingredients together and set aside in a glass. Grind one of onions and 5 cloves of garlic. The rest of the onions and garlic in oil overcook, add Geer, salt, sugar and simmer for 5 minutes. In this mixture pour the mango mixture and cook for 10 minutes. Add black pepper and ground mixture of onions and garlic. Serve hot.

Curry cabbage

1 / 4 cup vegetable oil, 400 g onion, 1 tbsp. teaspoon curry powder, 1 / 2 teaspoon cumin and red ground pepper, 2 bay leaves, 4-5 pcs. cloves, 600 g cabbage, 400 g potato, 100 g of tomato paste, 1 cup of broth or water, salt.
Heat the oil, lightly fry it sliced onion rings. Reconstitute the curry powder and put it out for 3-4 minutes on low heat (but so that it retains its flavor). Then add other seasonings and cabbage stew, and all with continuous stirring for 10 min. Peel potatoes, chop it into cubes and add to saucepan along with tomato paste, meat broth or water. Cooking food on a low heat until cooked. Before serving, remove bay leaf and cloves.

Potato Sabji

5-6 medium potatoes, diced
1 medium onion, sliced
Spices-Garam masala-1 tsp, coriander powder-1 tsp, turmeric-1 tsp,
Salt
1 tablespoon oil
On medium heat warm oil, add onion and fry it. Pour the spices and fry until brown
Not laying a lid, fry the potato cubes, stirring gently. Add a little vody.Nakryt lid and simmer until done over medium heat. Potatoes should not fall apart
Serve with rice or tortillas

Barf from the Indian walnut

350 g of the Indian nut
Grated coconut 1 pc.
Sugar 700
Vanilla essence few drops
1 tablespoon ghee
Soak the Indian nuts in cold water and then drain the water
Chop into fine paste, coconut with nuts
Heat a glass of water, the water Put sugar, dissolve it and cook until syrupy
Add the paste of coconut and Indian nuts, ghee and vanilla essence.
Stir on low heat until until it thickens.
Remove from heat, put on a plate and cool.
Cut into squares and serve.

GHI

Ghee (ghee) - a purified cow ("butter") melted butter. Preparation of ghee is its purification, ie removing from it all impurities, including water. The oil should preferably be home (rustic), or at least, without any additives and unsalted.
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Butter should be folded into a pot, pan - put on the weakest flames. On top will be formed cap of white foam that you want to remove skimmer, as often as possible. In the process peretaplivaniya and purification of oil becomes transparent. Gradually, the water will boil, and sediment will be tight. There should be more careful to make sure that oil is not burned. Time peretaplivaniya depends on the amount of raw materials. The more it was creamy, the longer it will be cleaned. You can download and 500 grams of oil and 5 kg ... Getting the oil - this oil ghee (ghee), it has a golden or amber-yellow color, pleasant scent and taste a little like med.i can become white and yellow, but it also normal. After the ghee has cooled slightly, it should filter. Keep ghee can be at room temperature indefinitely, even centuries. Butter ghee completely clear, if, for example, put it in a frying pan or saucepan and turn the fire, then it will boil gradually, without smoke and completely without residue.

Peas Pulao

Peas Pulao is also known as Yellow Rice. It is a good alternative simple boiled rice to accompany to any dish, whether vegetarian food or meat.
Preparation: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
2 tablespoons oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 cup fresh green peas
1 cup basmati rice (long grain Indian rice)
3 cups water
1 / 2 tsp turmeric powder
Salt to taste
1 / 2 cup warm water
Preparation:
Rinse the basmati rice in running water and soak it for 30 minutes.
Heat the oil in a deep frying pan with heavy bottom. When warmed to put onion and fry until soft.
Add peas and stir well.
Add rice and fry for 2 minutes.
Add 3 cups of water, saffron and salt to taste and boil on medium heat.
When the water boiled out and the surface of rice produced roshechnye holes, again add 1 / 2 cup warm water, spilling it across the surface of rice. Simmer another 5-7 minutes and turn off the fire.
Hold the rice under the lid for 10 minutes.

Masala Kheema (spicy minced meat)

Kheema or mince can be made from any meat that you prefer.
Ingredients:
1 / 2 kg of meat
3 tbsp oil
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
2 medium chopped onions
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
1 tablespoon ginger
2 tablespoons coriander powder in
1 st.l.tmina powder
1 tablespoon garam masala
Salt to taste
2 medium chopped tomatoes
Juice of 1 / 2 lime
Chopped coriander leaves for garnish
Preparation:
Heat the oil in a deep frying pan over medium heat. Add cumin seeds and fry for 1 minute. Add onion. Fry until pale golden.
Add ginger, garlic, fry for 1 minute.
Add mince and all the powdered spices - coriander, cumin, garam masala and salt to taste.
Fry until brown. This should take about 5-7 minutes.
Add tomatoes and cook until their softness.
Turn off fire, add lime juice and stir.
Serve with hot chapatis.

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Dal - the dishes of legumes (peas and lentils)
Without gave no cost, no feast. Under dalom understood peas (chickpeas, mash or plain yellow peas), lentils, beans
The general principle of cooking gave this: zamachivatsya beans, packed in a pressure cooker. Meanwhile, preparing zazharka-tharka: masala + garlic, onions (optional), blanched tomatoes. When given boiled soft tharka adding a pressure cooker, and the dish is brought to readiness, dressed cream or butter, coriander leaves, etc.

Soup of mung - dala - super-counterirritant, it helps with broom. 1 cup masha (or regular yellow peas) soak (sometimes dry heated, but I'm usually lazy to do it ), rinsed, put in kstryulyu, pour water and add bay leaf and butter and salt, bring to a boil and cook. When given will be boiled soft, cook tharku: The hot oil or ghee to put mustard seeds, cover (if heated mustard seeds begin to jump) when they stop popping, add cumin, hot red pepper, ginger, asafoetida and turmeric, fry for about 20 seconds and add tomatoes, stir. Put zazharku in the soup, cover and cook until completely gave not boiled soft. In the end, add tamarind water or lemon juice and coriander, mix well. In principle, you understand, given one can use a different principle of cooking the soup will be the same.
My favorite has makhani is made from black lentils and red beans. Dal soaked, prepared in the pressure cooker (the first being cooked beans, then add lentils (it cook faster, should not stay too tenderized). Tharka being prepared, is added to give all this boil. Before serving, dressed with cream and ginger cut into strips.

The most famous after gave makhani dishes - kichri (rice, dal and vegetables), a dish called poor. I was not too fond of, because for me the rice and gave in one dish is not compatible, but then-boyfriend and his family are preparing kichri quite often.
Dal (peas) and rice washed and soaked. Vegetables (cauliflower, tomatoes, potatoes), rinsed and cut the cabbage buds, tomatoes oshkurit and squares, potato squares. Prepared tharka: In a saucepan tolstodonnoy melts heated ghee or oil, there are added cumin, ginger and hot pepper (seeds, sliced peppers and ginger, respectively), after a minute add asafoetida, in a few seconds as there are potatoes and cauliflower, stir fry vegetables and spices for 4-5 minutes, now add the drained rice and dal and stir 1 minute overcook. Then you add water, turmeric, tomatoes, brought to a boil and reduce heat camouflage kryshkyo Ivars 30-40 minutes before cooking provided. Thus it is necessary to mix a couple of times to figure not prisoh. When given seethe, squeeze in kichri lemon juice, add a little butter and cook until liquid is absorbed. Ready kichri spiced with black pepper and gently mixed. Kichri Eto'o just a little dry, but I saw kichri and fairly liquid.

Chapati - this is the collective name of food, bread and a kind of bread.
Chapati is simple: prepare the dough from flour milling gruogo, salt and water. The dough should be soft and moist. Leave him to rest under a damp cloth for up to 2 hours. Dough money had and dry. Next obmyat dough to form balls and roll out round cakes. Bake in preheated dry pan. When the surface is covered with cakes, chapatis bubbles on both sides, then take it with the tongs and bring it to the fire, turning, until cake does not swell like a balloon. When chapatis ready to release air with his hands and smear one side with melted butter.
This paratha bread is more characteristic of northern India, particularly Punjab. Parathi may be conventional plain, may be with butter - lacha paratha, or stuffed with stuffed parathas.
Dough for parathi prepared in the same way as for chapatis, sometimes mixed the flour with the flour milling grbogo more finely ground but, as I understand it is optional. Balls are formed and shaped into a fairly thin pancakes. Next pancake folded in half and roll again (at this stage, the surface of pellets can be lubricated - Lacha paratha, or put the filling - in this case chip to unroll cake and filling to the dough is not broke, filling for parathi can be crushed potatoes Artilerija with Herbs - aloo paratha, fried cauliflower - gobi paratha; obazharenny onion, and indeed Owono ragout - Sabzi, left with dinner) Procedure sheeting, lubrication / stuffed, folding and re-sheeting can be repeated not once but a couple of times (so the hostess Pont). Parathi baked on the hot, dry pan for baking parathi should move a bit, so that all karsya get baked evenly, when the party will zoltisto brown, the paratha turns, the upper side is smeared with butter or ghee, paratha with a little swelling - do not panic. Parathu overturned and smeared with oil the other side.

Vegetable dishes
The principle of cooking is quite simple - roast, followed by quenching with the addition of water.

Fried cauliflower with potatoes and paneer: preparing tharka, after adding milled spices added couple glasses of water. While liquid is boiling oil, deep-fried fry potatoes, cabbage and paneer, and shift to liquid Masalit, boil for 2-3 minutes. Seasoned salt, and garam-Masalit, sprinkled with cilantro or parsley.

The same, but without the cheese and iogurte: masala is done without adding water, then there is added to potatoes, cauliflower kupusta,, fried under the lid for 2-3 minutes, then add water and all stewed over medium heat for 15 minutes, from time to time, shaking the pan. At the end add-iourt dahi and cook it for several minutes until the sauce thickens. Priparvlyaetsya garam-Masalit. Another is called a vegetable curry. There can also add green peas

Makai Malai Palak - sauteed spinach with corn: preparing tharka, then there is added blanched spinach, stirred, kneaded until paste-like state and is quenched, and then added in advance ovtarennaya corn (may be out of cans), stewed until thickening. At the end is loaded with butter or cream. You can add a tharku ozharenny cheese, but without the corn, then it is called Palak paneer. Similarly, the infamous is also preparing a similar dish of saag - think it is something vroed nettle.

Rice with vegetables (Pool)
Soak rice. Prepare Masalit to ignite the oil. Ms. Tudeh add diced potatoes, cauliflower and green peas and fry. Hatem add garam-Masalit and ground coriander. After a couple of minutes to add water + rice (water: rice = 2:1), salt to taste.

Non-vegetarian dishes
Butter chicken
Cooking Masalit: razgretoae in oil or ghee put pods of red pepper, cloves, koriadr, green and brown cardamom, nutmeg, broken into pieces; + garlic + ginger + onion (this is tharka)
In tharku add turmeric and garam-Masalit. In this mixture add the chicken pieces (understand that just as you can cook any meat), salt and cook, adding a little water. When the meat is ready, add the chopped tomatoes, and after 5 minutes to infuse the cream, mixed with grinded paneer. In the end, add 1-2 tablespoons lemon juice or iogurta (prepared separately, added salt, Zira and bhundi - balls of wheat flour).

Another popular dish - egg curry
Eggs boiled hard-boiled, then obdarivayutsya to grow. butter until golden brown.
For the sauce, curry: preparing masala: The hot oil catch large and small cardamom, cloves, bay leaf. Black pepper, cinnamon, garam masala and chili pepper. Then do tharku - in Masalit throw chopped garlic, hot peppers, ginger + add koriandr.yu onions. We would like to tharke onion until transparent, with stirring, salt. When onion is ready, add the chopped tomatoes and stew until done.
In the finished sauce Put the fried egg. If the sauce turned out very thick, you can dilute it with water. It is necessary that the sauce covered the eggs completely. Close the lid and give impregnated on a slow fire. In the end, add a few pieces of bread for the viscosity of the sauce, correct the salt.

methi chicken - chicken with Shambhala
Prepared tharka, pieces of chicken fried in tharke to solotistogo color, add chopped fenugreek, then filled with water and quenched. Fenugreek sometimes gives some bitterness, which is easily corrected by adding a piece of gur - a byproduct of the production of cane sugar, or just a small amount of brown sugar.


favorite recipes of Indian sweets:

Burfi, or sweet milk

am I doing out of 2 liters of whole milk, half cup sugar (sometimes substitute the sugar for honey) and 1 tablespoon butter without slides.

Milk boil down to 1 / 3 volume, thickens as it should be stirred with a spoon (I boil in a saucepan for a special dvudonnoy boiling milk, and therefore not particularly stirring, just take off the whistle and put on a very slow fire). When the milk thickens, add sugar and butter and continue cooking, stirring constantly. At the end of cooking (up to 1 / 3 volume) can add rahmolotye nuts, vnail, coconut, ground cardamom. Burfi is laid out on baking parchment lined or cooking paper, smeared with butter. When the mass has cooled slightly, roll out the layer 2 cm thick layer When finally cured, cut to the Diamonds.

Misthi Dahi

Boil milk for sweet burfi, when it boil for 1 / 3 (up to 2 / 3 pervonachalnog volume), strain through a sieve to remove lumps. Cool terpimmo-hot temperatures, nsyat foam, add sugar or honey, saffron (crumbled or ground stems) and iogurt (natural, it is used as a starter), all good knock whisk, cover and put the booze. Misthi dahi skvashivaetsya for about 5-6 hours (say, I've done in the afternoon were already prepared).

6 Indean food recipes

Punch masala (a mixture of five spices) - Indian cumin, kalindzhi, fennel seeds gorchiytsy, fenugreek seeds (Shambhala)
Are being made and subject mix - for given (fresh beans), for tandoori (vegetable, chicken or lamb cooked in tandoor), various curry, etc.
The meal usually consists of rice, gave, chapatis or parath (types of bread), sabzi (a type of stew) or a vegetable dish, Wright (liquid salad dressing with dahi-iogurta), kebabs or Tikka (small pieces of something , fried or baked), vegetarian or not. All dishes with gravy, except Tikki, it may be "dry" eat with your hands using a piece of bread, but for the gifted like me, of course, served fork and spoon )
Iogurt-dahi / is simple, fermentation of milk in the same dahi-iogurtom or yogurt, in general, as in Russia. The taste

dahi - it is rather natural iogurt or yogurt. Our sour taste sharper.
Paneer - boiling milk folded citric acid, or yesterday's serum and throws in a colander for draining. Then the cheese is put into a press to remove excess water. I sometimes paneer before weighing add herbs and spices to taste.

Chutney - Sauces
Chutney are "raw", ie prostosmeshivayutsya when the components into a homogeneous paste, and "boiled" when the components protushivayut.
The most simple raw chutney - a chutney of mint, coriander. Tender leaves are put into a blender and grind, dobavivi a little water to the leaves is not enveloped around the shaft of a blender, then mix in the spices are added (in my case, this chili pepper, cumin (Zira), salt, pepper cheny sometimes ginger). Then bring the sauce to desired thickness dahi, but the mother of my boyfriend adds water and a little honey - this is typical of north India.
By the same principle is coconut chutney (instead of water, you can use coconut milk, mango, etc.

Cooked chutneys - the principle of cooking is simple: first is masala: a pan or skillet in preheated oil (ghee or vegetable oil) are added spice (if you add spice to remember that the seeds of Shambhala, mustard, etc. treuyut more time for cooking and added first, then comes sliced or grated ginger, and then milled spices, this general rule when cooking MASA), then the basis - the one vegetable or fruit from which is made chutney) lightly fried and boil-utushivaetsya on low heat adding water if neobodimo, to the boiling-thick.
So you can do tamatar-chutney (a healthy alternative to ketchup) - tomatoes blanshiruem to bookmark spices: orchitsa, pepper, chili, cloves, Gorica, cumin, coriander, ginger, fresh, dried mud, asafoetida, salt and sugar to taste);
apple and other fruit chutneys (mango, peach, plum, apricot, guava, pineapple) - Spices: ginger, cinnamon, anise, spicy chile pepper, cloves, turmeric, asafoetida. We understand that the composition of spices - a sample.
Chutney of the dates and tamarind. Tamarind - a red pods of a tree there. Tamarind is used as follows - the pods are cut into small pieces (if dried, then soaked) and cooked in for about 10 minutes. After that, the resulting broth decanted, added to it mashed pulp, and this suspension is used in cooking. Thus, for the prepared tamarind chutney to cut the suspension to add dates, cumin, pepper, chili, grated ginger, salt, sugar and boil until water evaporation and consistency of thick jam. Chutney to taste spicy, sour and sweet at the same time, goes well with grilled hot snacks.

Rice - all head, yes.
They say that white rice - crisp, cooked with little, salt, served to set off the sharpness of other dishes. By the way, beginning indoedam - if you gave something too spicy for your taste, order white rice or dahi - lift syndrome "kids-ogneedov" in the mouth.
Many rice dishes are prepared on the basis of pilau - first made masala, then add the washed dried rice, fried, add water, and all brought to the condition.

Lemon Rice (lemon rice): done masala of cumin seeds, mustard seeds, curry leaves and cinnamon, hot pepper. Ready Masalit CLADES dried rice and fried a couple of minutes, pour the salt water (for color, you can add turmeric), is brought to a boil and boil for 1 minute. Then fire umeshaetsya and dish brought to readiness, until the rice is to absorb all the water. Almost cooked rice sprinkled with lemon juice, put the butter on top and all that is left under cover cook for 2-3 minutes. Then he carefully mixed and ready.
By the same principle can be done in Fig wasps spinach (Palak Chaval), spicy rice, rice with coconut (masala is not done in butter and spices are added to the water - the sugar, cardamom, coconut, cashews or pistachios, and then the rice and boil all to absorb moisture rice), various pool (rice with additives)

Indean culture

Indian cuisine is very diverse. If you're a risk, you can enjoy the tastes and aromas of the set of dishes. Indians like to eat outside the home, in large urban centers, there are places where you can enjoy any food. This is the expensive Western-style restaurants and Chinese restaurants, and small tents selling Shaath - a sharp mixture of vegetables and fruits.

Remember, if you do not want anything sharp, ask your dish without chili. The word "haram" means hot, and here we are talking about the temperature! Many foreigners, cautious of acute food, order something is not haram, and receive a cold meal, richly flavored chili. European cuisine can be tasted in luxury hotels and clubs in the British style and the best restaurants. If you are invited for lunch, then perhaps you will find yourself in one of these places, and the food is almost the same as in the West.

In India, you can always good, cheap and safe to eat. But it is not always easy to determine whether the observed rules of hygiene while cooking, so try to choose fresh food, carefully prepared and very hot. Roadside Restaurants (dhaba) is often on the form - only shelter, made from various boards and sheets of galvanized iron with wooden tables and benches. The food is prepared on the hearth, the food is very tasty. In Goa, restaurants and makeshift huts, which serves excellent food and drinks on the beaches in the season, usually open to semi-| night, and some all night.

Indian stalls with sweets - a colorful extravaganza of sticky pastry, with various regional variations. Most Indian women love these sweets and many of them suffer from diabetes. Note that in Indian culture fat means healthy. In a country where many people are starving, completeness - a sure sign of wealth.

Indian food


Breakfast in the cafe at the Bengali Market, New Delhi (town just a few steps from our hostel). Tea (by tradition, with milk), Dos. Dosa - a long triangular tortilla stuffed with something like cottage cheese. Caution: served with a relish! Condiments bring in special iron bowls (pictured - yellow and white (coconut)). However, Indians tend to prefer for breakfast Puri - air, hollow inside dough, which is also eaten with something sharp.