Poppy with Potato Curry

Ingredients:

Poppy with Potato Curry

1. 4 medium size potato
2. 3 green chilli
3. 5 tbsps poppy seeds(khus khus)
4. 3 tbsps mustard oil
5. 1 tea spoon turmeric powder
6. 1 tbsps red chilli powder
7. Salt to taste
8. 1 tbsps sugar
9. 1 glass water.

Preparation:

• Peeled the potatoes and cut into cube size .
• Wash it and keep aside.
• Grind poppy seeds(khus khus) with 2 green chilli.
• Add little water into it and make a thick paste.
• Heat oil in a cookware.
• Add potatoes and fry for 2-3 minutes.
• After that add poppy seeds paste.
• Add salt to taste.
• Add turmeric powder and red chilli powder.
• Reduce heat and stir well.
• Slit 1 green chilli and add with it.
• Cook for few seconds.
• Add sugar and mix well.
• Add water and cover the cook ware.
• Cook until potatoes boil proerly and water becomes dry.

          Serve hot with plain rice, roti.

Tips----

           Before grind soak poppy seeds in warm water for 10 to 15 minutes to paste quickly.
       
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Quick Tandoori Chicken

Quick Tandoori Chicken

Ingredients:

1.  1 kg chicken thigh
2. 4 tbsps ginger paste
3. 5 tbsps garlic paste
4. 4-5 tbsps butter
5. 1 cup curd
6. 1tbsps turmeric powder
7. 3 tbsps red chilli powder
8. 2 tbsps ground cinnamon stick
9. 4 ground clove
10. 3 tbsps ground cumin seeds
11. 1 tbsps sugar
12. 2 tbsps lemon juice
13. Salt to taste

Preparation:

• Take the chicken pieces and wash.
• Slit into the body of chicken pieces lightly.
• Now take a bowl and mix ginger-garlic paste.
• Add little water into it.
• Take big bowl and placed the chicken pieces.
• Add ginger-garlic paste and massage into the chicken pieces.
• Add lemon juice and again massage very well.
• Now add  ground cumin, turmeric powder, red chilli powder, ground clove and  ground cinnamon.
• Add salt.
• All spices massage into chicken pieces.
• Keep it in the fridge for 1 hours.
• After an hour add curd and again keep it into fridge.
• Next preheat Convection Toaster Oven to 440 F.
• Take a backing tray/wire rack and placed foil paper under the rack properly.
• Put the pieces on the wire rack.
• Brush up melted butter and bake for 20 minutes.
• After 20 minutes turn to bake opposite side.
• Then also brush up melted butter.
• Bake again for 10 minutes.
• When it looks nice golden brown check the chicken done or not.
• If necessary bake another 5 minutes.
• Finnaly placed on serving plate.

          Serve hot with raita.

Tips:

          If want more spicy add 1 tbsps red chilli more. 

          Check in the mean time that chicken pieces are not burning.
       
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Green Peas Puri

Green Peas Puri 

Ingredients:

1. 4 cups flour/maida
2.  white oil for frying
3. 2 cups green peas
4. 1 tbsps ginger juice
5. 2-3 pinch cumin seeds
6. 1 dry red chilli
7. 2 tbsps fennel seeds
8. 1 tbsps red chilli powder 
9. 1 tbsps sugar
10. Salt to taste
11. 1-2 cups water

Preparation:

• Take a pan and heat it.
• Dry roast red chilli and cumin seeds until deep brown.
• Next grind it and keep aside.
• Take a big bowl and add flour, salt and 1 tbsps white oil.
• Add water and make a dough and keep aside
• Grind green peas and make a paste with little water.
• Now take a pan and heat 2-3 tbsps oil.
• Add  peas paste into it.
• Stir well and add salt to taste.
• Add roasted masala, chilli powder and fennel seeds.
• Add sugar and cook it for few minutes on low flame.
• Make small balls from flour/maida dough.
• Stuff peas paste into balls and again make a ball very carefully.
• Make like chapati or roti with stuffed balls.
• Repeat it to make one by one.
• Take a bottomed vessel and pour oil to deep fry.
• Heat oil and drop stuffed roti.
• Fry both side until light brown and press slowly with spatula.

         Serve hot with potato curry, chana dal,mutton kasha, chicken kasha.

Tips-----

              To make flour dough use warm water.

I used Lodge Pro Logic 14" Cast Iron Wok, Black nonstick bottomed vessel for frying peas puri.

 Lodge Pro Logic 14" Cast Iron Wok, Black

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