Indian Prawn Masala Recipe

Indian Food

Prawn masala is a Bengali curry made from prawns  and flavored with spices.The dish is popular in Odisha, West Bengal  and is served during weddings and celebrations, or for guests, and was also very popular among the British in Calcutta.The main ingredients are prawns and along with cocking oil, onions, turmeric powder, chopped green chili, garlic paste, and ginger paste flavored with spices.

Prawn Masala

Ingredients:

• Chingudi - (Prawn) - 500 gm
• Piaja - (Onion) - 4 big size
• Bilati -(Tomato )- 2 small size
• Ada - (Ginger )- 1 inch
• Rasuna -(Garlic)- 3,4 cloves
• Tela -( Cocking Oil)- 5 tsp
• Lanka Gunda - (Chilli powder )-2tsp
• Haladi Gunda -(Turmeric Powder) - 1tsp
• Dhaniya Gunda - (Coriander powder )- 1tbs
• Garam Masala - 1/2 tbs
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp
• Curry leaves - 5,6 leaves
• Salt - As per taste
• Dhaniya Patra - Coriander Leaves
• Jeera Gunda - (Cumin Powder ) - 1/2 tsp

Preparation:

• Clean the prawns remove the shell.
• Peal the ginger, garlic and make a pest.
• Take a bowl and put marinate with salt, 1/2 tsp turmeric, 2 tsp chili powder, 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste, lemon juice .
• Marinate the prawn with it for 30 minutes.
• Cut the onion and tomato into small Pisces.
• Heat oil in a pan and add cut onion and fry it. 
• Then add curry leaves, ginger-garlic paste and fry til it golden brown color.
• Put all the masalas and tomato with it and fry it 10, 15 minutes.
• When the masala begins to look ready add the marinated prawn.
• Fry it 10,15 minutes again.
• Then add 1 cup of water and fry it some times.
• Then remove and garnish with cut coriander leaves.
• Serve it hot with plain rice.

Malai kofta recipe Indian style

Indian Food

Today am discus about malai kofta. In India  it is varieties vegetarian dish and  made of potato,  paneer and some masala. In India are normally cooked in a spicy curry and are served with boiled rice and a variety of Indian breads. In Iran, Iraq and Azerbaijan, koftas are served with a spiced curry, as dry versions are . 

Malai Kofta

Ingredients:

• Aloo - (Potatoes) – 5 big
• Paneer  - 300 gm
• Maida – 50 gm
• Dhaniya Patra - (Coriander leaves) – 1 tbs
• Piaja – (Onions ) - 4
• Ginger – 1 inch
• Garlic - 4,5 Cloves
• Tomato – 3 No.
• Cream or malai  – 250 ml
• Raisins – 1, 1/2 tbs
• Cashew nuts – 1,1/2 tbs
• Cashew nuts paste -50 gm
• Haldi  - (Turmeric Powder) – ¼ tbs
• Chilli powder – ½ tbs
• Kitchen king masala – ½ tbs
• Kasturi methi – 1 tbs
• Luna – ( Salt ) – as per taste
• Sugar – 1 tbs
• Cocking Oil -3 tbs

Preparation:

• Peal and wash the potatoes and boiled it .
• After boiling remove and allow to cooling for 2,3 hours.
• Take a vessels add  the boiled potatoes, paneer, maida together and mix it properly.
• Add salt, cut coriander leaves with it and mix well.
• Make a small ball sized .
• Cut the raisins and cashew nuts into small pieces and add 1/4 tsp of sugar to the mix.
• Heat 2 tbs of oil in a pan and roll out the balls from the above mixture you prepared.
• Add the dry fruit mix in the balls center.
• Sometimes it breaks if it breaks in hot oil then add them with dry maida before putting them in heat oil.
• Peal and make a ginger garlic paste .
• Peal and cot the onions into small pieces.
• Wash the tomato and make a fine pest
• Again heat 1 tbs of oil and fry some onion, ginger garlic paste and tomato paste.
• Then take cashew nut and also make a pest add it with warm milk in the fry .
• Add all the dry masala except kasturi methi, into the paste and fry it sometimes.
• Then add some water and fry sometimes.
• Put cream/malai , one tbs of sugar and kasturi methi .
• Fry some times then put th  fried koftas into the masala and serve hot .

Easy Cauliflower and potato curry

Indian Food

Today am discus about Indian food Aloo gobi curry.It  is a dry Pakistani, Indian and Nepali  dish made with potato,cauliflower and Indian spices. Other common ingredients are garlic, ginger, onion, coriander , tomato, peas, and cumin. A number of variations and similar dishes exist, but the name remains the same.You can serve it with roti and  rice .

Cauliflower and potato curry

Ingredients:

• Aloo ( Potato ) – 200 gm
• Phula Kobi ( Cauliflower ) – 750 gm
• Dhania ( Coriander ) -2 tsp
• Tomato ( Tomato ) -100 gm
• Jeera ( Cumin s ) -2 tsp
• Dalchini ( Cinnamon ) – 1 inch
• Sukhila Lanka ( Dry chilies ) -2 No.
• Aada ( Ginger ) – 1inch
• Golamaricha ( Black pepper ) -6 No.
• Luna - ( Salt ) - ( as per taste )
• Haladi Gunda ( Turmeric powder ) -1 tsp
• Dhania Patra ( Coriander leaf ) 
• Aleicha ( Cardamom ) – 2 No
• Lavanga (Clove) -2 pcs
• Cooking oil – 4 tbs
• Garam masala - 1 tsp
• Peas - 150 gm

Preparation:

• Remove the  leaves and stem from cauliflower and cut into small pieces. 
• Peel the potato and cut into small pieces .
• Heat in a pan,add cumin and coriander .
• Fry till it turns into light brown color.
• Peal the green peas.
• Take cardamom, clove, and black pepper and make a powder.
• Take tomato, dry chili, ginger, coriander leaf, fried cumin  and coriander and make a pest. .
• Cut the rest tomato and coriander leaf and keep aside.
• Heat 1 tsp oil  in a pan, add cauliflower and salt as per taste.
• Fry till cauliflower turns light brown color and remove it.
• Then heat 1 tsp oil again in a pan and add the potatoes.
• Fry it till the potato change brown then remove it.
• Heat 2 tsp oil in a pan and add cumin when it splutter add the tomato pest,turmeric powder with it. Fry it 5,6 minutes, then add the cut tomato pieces and fry some times.
• Then add the cauliflower , the potato,green peas and continue fry it properly.
• Then add some water and salt as per taste cover and boil it 10-15 minutes.
• Add garam masala and mix it properly.
• After that remove it and add the cut  coriander and serve it hot .

Cauliflower and potato curry