Beauty and Beyond: Hot potatoes recipe

Beauty and Beyond: Hot potatoes recipe: Hello guys! It's good to be back.... Today i am posting another hit from my mom's kitchen. Hope you enjoy! HOT POTATOES ingred...

Hot potatoes recipe

Hello guys!
It's good to be back....
Today i am posting another hit from my mom's kitchen. Hope you enjoy!

HOT POTATOES
ingredients:
1 kg baby potatoes cook in cooker with skin 2 whistles enuf n peeled
4 onions med Fry sliced onions till golden brown for barishta..
Zeera pwd 1 tbsp
1 tbsp chilli pwd
1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
Kokam juice 1 tbsp
Salt to taste

Method
Heat oil in a kadai... and ginger garlic paste n fry.Add the masalas and salt mix well. Add a lil water and then add the boiled n peeled potatoes to it. Finally add kokam juice and mix well so that the potatoes r covered in the masala. Add food colour. Cover n cook for a few min on low flame. Lastly add barishta and mix well.

Serve with coriander...

Enjoy the meal 👍

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Beauty and Beyond: White Chicken Korma

Beauty and Beyond: White Chicken Korma: Hello everyone! this recipe is from my mom's kitchen......one of her best. hope u all love it. INGREDIENTS: 1kg chicken For the Gravy:...

White Chicken Korma

Hello everyone! this recipe is from my mom's kitchen......one of her best. hope u all love it.


INGREDIENTS:
1kg chicken


For the Gravy:
100gms cashew nuts
1 tbsp khus khus
1 tbsp white til
100 gms curd
1 cup thick coconut milk
1 tsp maida
2 tbsp hara masala paste (ginger, garlic and green chillies)
whole garam masala ( laung, ilaichi, dalchini and black pepper)
2-3 tbsp oil
salt to taste


METHOD:
Soak cashew, khus khus and white til overnight in hot water and make a fine paste in the morning.
Heat oil in a pan and add whole Garam masala. 
Then add the chicken and fry it along with the garam masala.
Add ginger garlic and chilly paste and mix well.
Then add the blended paste of cashew, khus khus, til mixed with the curd and cook it well.
Add Salt. 
Add a little water if required.
Check if the chicken is cooked.
Now mix maida with the coconut milk and add it to the chicken.
Mix well, cook for another 5-10 mins and its ready to serve.
Garnish it with saffron and corriander.
Serve with naan or bread........ 

AUNTY'S KITCHEN

Channa Batata

Ingredients :

250gms black kabuli Channa soaked overnight

 4-5 med potatoes boiled and cut in cubes

50gms whole coriander seeds (akha dhania)

25gms jeera

50gms jagerry (gud)

25gms tamarind (imli)

10 -12 dry kashmiri chillies deseeded

1tbsp gram flour (besan)

chopped coriander

1tsp Oil

salt to taste

Method : 

Soak Channa overnight. Soak coriander seeds, jeera, kashmiri chillies, jagerry and tamarind in warm water till it softens. Blend all these ingredients in a grinder to a fine paste. 

Strain the Channa and boil the it  in cooker adding a little salt. After the Channa is boiled do not strain the water, use it when cooking the dish. Boil the potatoes and cut them into cubes.

In a vessel take 1tsp oil and add gram flour, saute till it leaves an aroma. careful not to let it brown too much. Add the paste to it and fry it well, now add the chana and the potatoes to the mixture. 

Add a little more salt only if required and remember that we have already added some salt to the chana when boiling it. Add chopped coriander and let the chana cook on slow heat for about 10 mins till the mixture leaves out a little oil on the top. 

Stir the chana carefully.

Garnish with coriander and serve Hot.

ENJOY :)

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