Cashew (kaju) curry

Kaju curry or cashew curry is a delicious north Indian variety. It is less spicy then other Punjabi dishes but is equally tasty and deliciously mouth watering.


50gms Cashews (kaju)
100gms poppy seeds (khas khas)
500gms onion
60gms dry coconut (khopra) optional
50gms Charoli optional
500gms tomatoes
100gms thick milk creme (mava)
Cumin (jeera), ginger (adrak), salt, pepper (mirch) and other spices to taste.


Grind poppy seeds, 25gms cashews, charoli and dry coconut. Puree the tomatoes. Fry onion pieces and grind. Heat oil in a deep pan, add cumin, salt and other spices. Add ginger to it and saute the mixture (bhun le). Add turmeric, red chilly powder, and grinded cashew misture to it. Cook for 2 minutes, then add crushed onion and tomato puree. Add 100gms milk creme, 2tsp garam masala and little water.

Add salt to taste. Cook until the preparation in ready. Put off the flame, garnish with coriander leaves and cashews. Serve hot

Butter paneer masala

Butter paneer masala is a spicy Indian dish with thick butter gravy and chunky pieces of paneer (cottage cheese).  It is a Punjabi food and is popular in most of India and is very easy to cook.

250gms tomatoes
100gms paneer
50gms onion
50gms butter
25gms cashews
50gms creme
Cumin (jeera), coriander (dhaniya), salt, red chilly powder to taste



Chop onion and fry in a pan until its color changes to golden. Fry pieces of paneer to pink / golden color. Add cashews to about 1tbsp milk and crush. Then crush tomatoes with fried onion. Heat oil in a pan and add cumin and other spices to it. Add ginger - garlic paste and crushed tomatoes and onion. Mix the contents and add salt, pepper to taste. Simmer for 1-2 minutes at low flame. Add paneer, butter, crushed cashews and creme. Simmer until paneer is cooked. This should usually take about 5 minutes. Serve hot with nan or paratha.

Samosa recipe

Samosa is a snack in India. It is very popular in Indians through out the world. Its basically mashed potato mixed with spices and fill in tortilla (thin roti) and deep fried.

Ingredients:-

400gms refined wheat flour (Maida)

1/2tsp bishop's weed (Ajwain)

2tbsp Ghee

500gms potatoes
200gms peas
2tbsp Ginger (adrak)
2 Chilies (hari mirch)
Other spices to taste
Oil


Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Serves: 4

How to cook :
Mix 400gms refined wheat flour, 1/2tsp bishop's weed, 2tbsp Ghee and pinch of salt. Make dough of this mixture. Keep the dough covered for 15 minutes. Heat oil in a shallow pan. Add cumin seeds to it. When it starts to change color, add ginger and green chilly to it. Add pieces of potato and red chilly powder, salt and other spices to taste. It is advised to add Garam Masala to it for those people who eat garam masala. Add little water and green peas. Cover the pan and simmer for 5 minutes until potatoes are cooked. Turn off the flame and  add coriander leaves, let it cool.

Take a round piece of dough that we made earlier. Press it flat (roti bel le). Cut the pressed dough into two halves and make cone shape cup from it. Use water to stick the sides. Take about 2tbsp filling from the pan that we made, and fill in the cone. Seal the cone with water. Make some samosas in this manner and heat oil in deep pan. Deep fry the samosas until they become golden color. The samosa should be crisp and golden pink in color. Remove your samosas and drain excess oil. Serve hot with pudina chutney or other sauce of your choice. This is a delicious recipe and you have a choice of many spices you can use like sour mango powder (amchur) and garam masala.

Palak paneer Indian dish recipe

Palak paneer is a north Indian dish. It contains spinach and cottage cheese. It is widely consumed in every part of India. It is easy to cook and tasty.

500gms Spinach (Palak) chopped

150gms Cottage Cheese (Paneer) about 1 inch pieces

4 tomato pieces

2 green chilies chopped

1 tbsp Cumin (jeera) not grinded

8 garlic cloves chopped

Oil 2 tbsp

Preparation time: 15 minutes

Cooking time: 30 minutes

Serves: 2

Pour 2 tbsp oil in a cooker. Heat it. Put 1 tbsp jeera and about 1 tbsp garlic paste in it. Heat it until it becomes pink in color, then add spinach, green chillies chopped, salt to taste, red chilly powder, turmeric, coriander leaves to it. Mix the contents and cover. Simmer for 5 minutes.

Add some red color to water and soak paneer in it. After 5 whistles from the cooker, blend the contents of cooker and add paneer to it. Do not cover the cooker, and mix slowly. Simmer until the palak paneer becomes dry. Tasty palak paneer is ready to be served