Shukto
Ingredients:
Vegetables
- 1 karela
- 2 drumsticks
- 1 plantain
- 1 brinjal
- 1 potato
- 1 radish
- Half cup grated coconut
- Any other vegetable you wish to add.
Spices
- Ginger coarse paste
- Mustard and poppy seed paste
- Bay leaf
- A pinch of Rnadhuni or its substitute Panch Phoron
- Salt
- Sugar
Other ingredients
- Crisp lentil drops called Bodi or Dal-vadi
- Half to one cup of milk
- 1 tablespoon ghee
- Vegetable oil for cooking
Procedure:
- Chop all the vegetables to small or medium size.
- Heat oil in a big wok. Mildly fry all the vegetables one by one and set aside. Fry Bodi till it is brown and crisp and set aside.
- Add the bay leaf to oil. Once it is slightly brown, add Rnadhuni or Panch Phoron and temper till it releases aroma.
- Add ginger paste and temper till it releases aroma.
- Add the fried vegetables and mix with the spices.
- Add milk till it soaks the vegetables, 1 tablespoon mustard - poppy seed paste, grated coconut.
- Add salt and sugar to taste. Let the dish stew for a little while.
- Add fried Bodi.
- Top with a liberal helping of ghee.
- Serve with plain rice.
Methi Chicken
Ingredients:
Wet items
- 1 kg chicken chopped into medium-sized pieces
- 1 bunch of fenugreek or methi leaves cleaned and coarsely chopped
- Chopped onions
Spices
- Garlic paste
- Ginger paste
- Chilli powder
- Cumin powder
- Coriander powder
- Garam masala
- Salt
Other ingredients
- Char magaz or melon seeds paste
- Cashew paste
- Fresh cream
- Vegetable oil
Procedure:
- Warm vegetable oil in a wok. Fry onions till light brown.
- Add ginger paste and garlic paste. Temper for a while.
- Add cumin and coriander powder and cook for a while.
- Add salt to taste and chili powder.
- Add chicken pieces and mix with the spices. Let it cook for a while.
- Add methi leaves, mix with chicken and spices.
- Cover the wok and let it cook for a while.
- Check every few minutes and add some water if dry.
- Check after 15 minutes if the chicken is cooked. If still raw, cover the wok and let it cook again for a further 5 to 10 minutes.
- Once the chicken is cooked, add melon seeds, cashew paste, fresh cream. Let it simmer for a little while.
- Sprinkle garam masala and take the wok off the flame.
- Serve with roti or paratha.
Happy cooking! Hope you enjoyed our culinary journey as much as we did.
