Ingredients
1 kg chicken
4 tbsp. curd (plain yoghurt)
1 tsp. turmeric powder
1 cup onion, finely chopped
1 tsp. ginger powder
1 tsp. garlic powder
2 tsps chilli powder
2 tsps coriander powder
1/4 cup oil
Salt to taste

Directions

Cut chicken into pieces and marinate with curd and salt and keep aside for an hour.
Heat oil and fry turmeric.
Add onion and fry till light brown.
Then add ginger and garlic mixed in a tbsp. of water and stir well.
Then add chilli and coriander mixed in 4 tbsps water. Stir well until the oil comes out clear.
Now add the chicken and sufficient water to make good sauce.
Cover and let cook on gentle heat till chicken is done.

100 grams chicken pieces
1 litre(s) water
1 onion(s) finely chopped
1 green bell pepper(s) finely sliced
2 green chilli(es) finely chopped
1 teaspoon(s) garlic paste
1 egg(s) white whisked
1 tablespoon(s) vinegar
2 tablespoon(s) cornflour
sugar, salt and pepper to taste

Combine all the above ingredients (except for cornflour) in a cooking pot. Cover and cook on a medium level for about 15 minutes or till the chicken pieces are cooked. Separate out the chicken pieces and de-bone them. Put the boneless chicken back into the stock.
In a bowl, take some stock just enough to mix the cornflour. Mix well and add to the stock. Cook on high while stirring for about 2 minute(s).
TIP:

To preserve the color of the green bell peppers, add them along with the cornflour.
Serve hot with: breadsticks

Asafetida, mango powder, and black salt distinguish the chat masala
from other masalas, giving the blend a sourness that makes it a
welcome accompaniment to fresh fruit and other snacks. (‘Chat’
refers to various snacks and to the North Indian cafes that serve
them.) Fresh fruit often is sprinkled with lime juice and chat
masala. Black salt (which is actually reddish gray), available at
Indian food stores, has a distinctive flavor that’s quite different
from sea salt or table salt. The garam masala is the wild card in
this recipe; either one of the (Tamil Nadu Curry Powder or
Punjabi-Style Garam Masala) masalas may be used.

Toast and grind cumin and fennel seeds and combine with remaining
ingredients.

Black salt, or Kala Namak, is not black, but more a reddish-gray,
because of the presence of trace minerals and iron. It is not
interchangeable with sea salt or table salt because of it’s distinct
flavor- Yumana Devi likens it to hard boiled egg yolks.

Chicken pieces – 2 lbs; Onions- 4; Ginger paste- 1tsp; Garlic paste- 1 tsp; tomatoes- 2 large ones; whole spice- cardamom, cloves, cinnamon 2 each; coriander powder – 2 tbsps; turmeric pd- 1/2 tsp; red chilli pd- 1/2 tsp or more according to taste; cumin pd- 1 tsp; garam masala( a mix of spices available in Indian stores); salt- to taste, coconut milk – a can or make from Nestle’s coconut milk powder.
Heat 2 tbsps oil and fry whole spice in it. Saute chopped onions till well browned. Add ginger-garlic paste, and fry for a few minutes. Add chopped tomatoes, and cook on low heat till well blended add dry powders and mix well. Add chicken and potatoes, and add salt and 1/2 a cup water. Cook on low heat till cooked. Lastly add 1/2 to 3/4th cup coconut milk, depending on how much gravy you want. Simmer till gravy is thick.

3 tablespoons tomato sauce
3 tablespoons plain yogurt
1 cup water
4 cloves garlic
1 inch cube of ginger
2 tablespoons water
1 cut-up, skinned chicken
3 tablespoons oil
1 cinnamon stick
2 bay leaves
5 cardamom pods (green if you can find them),
5 whole cloves
1 teaspoon hot pepper flakes
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 tablespoons lemon juice

Mix the tomato sauce, yogurt and water and set aside. Blend the garlic, ginger and water until smooth. Brown the chicken pieces in the oil Remove the chicken from skillet and lower heat. Add the cinnamon stick, bay leaves, cardamom pods, cloves and hot pepper flakes.
Stir for 30 seconds. Add the garlic and ginger paste and the turmeric. Stir for 1 minute. Add tomato mixture, salt, pepper and lemon juice. Stir. Add chicken, cover and simmer for 30 minutes, turning chicken a few times. Serve with plain rice.

Fish- 1 lb (any fish of your choice)
Medium Onions- 3
Ginger- 1 inch piece
Garlic- 6 cloves
Garam masala- 1/2 tsp
Roasted Cumin powder- 1 tsp
Bread Crumbs- 3 tablespoons
Eggs- 2
Salt to taste
Oil- 5 tablespoons
Mince the onion, ginger and garlic together. Steam the fish. Remove the skin & the bones and Mash them. Add the onion-ginger-garlic mixture, breadcrumbs, garam masala, well-beaten eggs, salt and cumin powder to the fish. Mix well to make a homogeneous mixture. Make lemons sized balls out of the mixture and flatten them into thick patties.

Heat 2 tbs of oil in a shallow frying pan and fry few at a time until both sides become golden brown (turn it once). Repeat this until all the patties are fried (Pour some oil every time you replace them). Serve hot.

Heat oil in pan and fry the ground mixture for few minutes. Add the okra and fry for 3 minutes. Then add the tamarind extract and salt. Mix well. Cover the pan. Lower the heat. Let it cook for about 10 minutes. Garnish with Chopped coriander leaves.

3 cups rice (not basmati!), soaked overnight — room temp. water. 1 cup urad dal (a specific type of lentils avail. at Indian grocery stores— no substitution; other dals will not work like this)
Soaked separately overnight — room temp. water
Traditionally, stone grinders (huge mortars) and rolling pestles are used to grind the rice and the urad dal and motorized versions of those are now available at Indian elcetronic stores in D.C. A mixie
or a blender cuts the grains into fine pieces, but does not “mash” them like the stone grinders do. So there is a good deal of difference taste when you use a blender. But still, it is not bad at all if you make sure that you grind the rice really fine. Cover the rice with water just 1/2 “above the rice line in the blender.
Grind till Sssssmooth.
Grind the dal separately, with water that barely covers it. Grind a long time (be patient!), stirring once
in a while and grinding again. When
the dal is ground very well, and small air bubbles appear once you stop running the blender, it is enough. Add more water if necessary. But this should be very thick.
MIx the rice and the urad dal pastes, with 1/2 tsp salt.
Add one tablespoon beaten yogurt, and mix well.
Keep covered to let oit ferment fro at least 5 to 8 hrs or more. (Keep it close to a heater or in any warm place).

Once it has risen, stir briefly, and keep it oin the fridge.

You have the batter now.

Grease a griddle with plain sesame oil or peanut oil if you care about max. flavor; if not use veg. oil. The heat should be medium or slightly higher. When hot (a few drops of water will sizzle gently and disappear), using a metal ladle, pour one ladleful over the griddle; with quick and even and gentle strokes, spread the batter out
with the ladle as if you are drawing concentric circles on the batter. Do it either clockwise OR anticlockwise else you get lumps.
It takes a few tries believe me, and some of us who are trained well in this mess up occasioanlly. drizzle oil around edges, and on top. Once the bottom is cooked, turn it over, and cook the top. Be careful when using your spatula (metal preferred) to take it out to flip it.

This can be served with chilli-dal-spice powder and oil or ghee, coconut chutney, cilantro or mint chutney, onion chutney, or
red garlic chutney, and/or saambar. (If you want their recipes, email me) This is standard breakfast or supper fare for us, growing up in the south.

Else, as in your restaurant, make a filling as follows:

1. Take 2 large boiled potatoes, peel and mash coarsely.
2. Thinly slice one large red onion, 2 cloves of garlic (optional) and 3 or 4 green chillies.
3. Grate a 1″ piece of ginger.
4. Cut up a tomato if you want.
5. Take a sprig of curry leaves and chop them coarsely.
6. Heat some veg. oil, add some fennel seeds, and cummin seeds (1/2 tsp. each) 7. Add 1/2 tsp of black mustard seeds.
8. When they crackle, add the green chillies, ginger, garlic (if used), and onions and fry them with a little salt for a while till
onions are transparent. Add curry leaves.
9. Next add 1/2 pkt of frozen peas, tomatoes (if you choose), and fry for 5 minutes.
10. Add the potatoes, and more salt if desired. stir well till blended 11. Add some chopped cilantro if you want.

When making the dosai, spread the batter out as mentioned earlier, drizzle oil, and keep the skillet or griddle covered (any
cover will do as long as the dosai area is covered; just be sure the cover does not touch the dosai). In less than a minute, the dosai will be cooked with oil on the bottom, and its top will be cooked by the steam that is generated when you cover it. The color is now not the white of the batter but kinda dull; you’ll know)

Turn the heat down, place the cooled filling acrooss the center along the diagonal, and fold both sides overlappingly over it
to form a cylindrical shape. Increase the heat slightly, drizzle more oil, and cook both sides till golden.

Else, place the filling in the center, and fold from three sides, forming a triangle, overlapping and covering the filling.

Cook as above.

If you have left over batter, and really fermented, make “OOTHAPPAM”: Chop some onions, green chillies, and cilantro really well, mix with salt.Soon as you spread out the pancake, sprinkle the chopped stuff on top. Drizzle oil on top, flip it over carefully when the bottom is cooked, and cook the other side. Serve with coconut chutney.

If you are into a health-diet, do not drizzle oil over and around pancake. Just grease the griddle lightly with a paper towel; in this case, cook just one side of the dosai on the greased surface, covering the dosai to let the steam cook the top. This dosa is very soft and tasty.

Back home, we add some fenugreek seeds to the urad dal, soak and grind them together for a superior texture, flavor, and color.

Hope that helps! I have babbled too much, but really, it is very easy to make once you have the batter.

100 grams chicken pieces
1 litre(s) water
1 onion(s) finely chopped
1 green bell pepper(s) finely sliced
2 green chilli(es) finely chopped
1 teaspoon(s) garlic paste
1 egg(s) white whisked
1 tablespoon(s) vinegar
2 tablespoon(s) cornflour
sugar, salt and pepper to taste

Combine all the above ingredients (except for cornflour) in a cooking pot. Cover and cook on a medium level for about 15 minutes or till the chicken pieces are cooked. Separate out the chicken pieces and de-bone them. Put the boneless chicken back into the stock.
In a bowl, take some stock just enough to mix the cornflour. Mix well and add to the stock. Cook on high while stirring for about 2 minute(s).
TIP:

To preserve the color of the green bell peppers, add them along with the cornflour.
Serve hot with: breadsticks

Ingredients

3 in piece of fresh ginger peeled and coarsely chopped
3 tbsps peeled and coarsely chopped garlic
6-8 lamb chops from the ribs, remove all extra fat
8 fl oz grated or finely chopped tomatoes
2 medium sized onions very finely chopped
1 tbsp cayenne
12 fl oz Greek yoghurt beaten
1 1/2 tsps salt
1 tsp ground roasted cumin seeds
1-2 tsps Punjabi garam masala
3 tbsps lemon juice
2-3 tbsps chopped fresh green coriander

Method

Put the ginger and garlic into the container of an electric blender with 2-3 tablespoons of water and blend to a paste. Put the chops, tomatoes, onions, cayenne pepper, yoghurt, salt and ginger-garlic paste into a large wok or heavy-bottomed saucepan. Stir and bring to the boil. Turn the heat to low, cover and simmer for 50 minutes or until the chops are almost cooked. Add the cumin seeds and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes or until the meat is tender and the sauce thick. Add the garam masala and lemon juice and stir. Sprinkle fresh coriander over the top and serve.

TIPS
In the Punjab, tomatoes are grated to make a puree. Don’t be tempted to use ready-prepared tomato puree instead of fresh. The spice combinations in garam masala vary in different parts of India. In the Punjab this one which you can try making yourself is common: 5 tbsps coriander seeds, 3 tbsps cumin seeds, 2 1/2 tbsps black peppercorns, 2 1/2 black cardamom seeds, 2 in cinnamon stick, 4-5 cloves, 1/6 nutmeg. Put the coriander and the cumin into a cast-iron frying-pan over a medium heat. Stir until lightly roasted. Allow to cool. Grind with the remaining ingredients in a clean coffee grinder and store in a tightly lidded jar.
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Posted by RB on Friday, January 18, 2002
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Chicken Curry with Tomatoes (Murgha Kari)
This dish from the Punjab takes only 30 minutes to prepare. In India fresh tomatoes would be used in this dish.

Ingredients

4 medium onions, chopped
2 tablespoons curry powder
1/2 cup butter or cooking oil
1 cup or 1 can (8 ounces)tomato sauce
2 teaspoons salt
1 frying chicken (2 to 3 pounds)
3/4 cup hot water

Method

Use a casserole or large skillet with lid. Cook onions and curry powder in butter for 10 to 15 minutes. Add tomato sauce and salt. Disjoint and skin chicken, and place in sauce. Cook, uncovered, over medium heat, turning frequently until sauce becomes quite dry and chicken tests done with fork, about 15 minutes. Add hot water, cover pot, and cook over low heat for 5 minutes. Makes 4 servings.