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Hydrabadi Biriyani

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Original recipe from  Chef  Mehboob Alam Khan Ingredients For Special Hydrabadi Chicken Biriyani (No Ghee) recipe Rice - Tilda Basmati rice- 2 cups Saffron in Milk - 1/4 cup Chicken - 500 g (medium sized pieces) For Marinade Fried Onions- 1 cup Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 heaped table spoon (for 500 gm chicken) Turmeric Powder - 3-4 tsp Chilly Powder-  2 heaped Tb spoons  Hydrabadi Biriyani Masala - 1 tbsp Salt - to taste Yogurt - 2 tbsp Green Chilly Paste - 2 tsp Lemon juice- 2 tsp Coriander leaves - Use 1 tbsp oil to fry onions(2 nos) and add fried onion along with the oil to the chicken. How To cook Hydrabadi Biriyani? 1. Marinate chicken after adding all the ingredients .Keep refrigerated for 1 hour. 2. Add 1 cup water to 2 cups rice .Cook this until water is evaporated. Rice should be raw ,only 30 % cooked. 3. Now heat a heavy bottom vessel (non stick) or big  copper vessel if available. 4.Add 2 tsp oi...

Vegetarian Cacciatore Recipe

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Vegetarian Cacciatore Cacciatore is a classic Italian Sauce..(  basic recipe Courtesy :   Laura Vitale. ) Ingredients Bell pepper : (Yellow) -1 no Onion -1 big cut into cubes Egg Plant- Cubes 1 cup Garlic- 4 cloves Red Wine/veg.stock - 2 tbsp Italian Tomato pureed- 1 cup (I used   Sacla Italia  ) I f it is not available,just puree 2 big red tomatoes. Fresh Basil- Salt & Pepper- Olive Oil How To prepare this tangy nutritious sauce? Heat a sauce pan and add 2 tbsp Olive oil and lightly fry eggplant pieces and onion slices. You can add some salt and basil at this stage. Once it is half cooked add garlic and bell pepper cubes. Once everything is browned add red wine,if you are using.Or else you can add the tomato puree. Mix well and allow to cook with out lid.Add salt and pepper as required.When the sauce is thickened ,it is ready.GArnish with chopped basil. Boil water with salt and cook your favorite pasta/spaghetti. Serve veg Caccia...

Movie Review Eat Pray Love (2010)

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Movie Review Eat Pray Love (2010) "Awareness of the need to change is the beginning of change”. This apparently is the situation of the center character  Liz Gilbert  starring  Julia Roberts  in the movie  Eat.Pray.Love.  The movie is the story of a woman's personal growth, how she finds herself after getting out of the safe cocoon.  The movie starts with Liz Gilbert and her family leading a fast-paced life as any other  New Yorker . One night, as she feels empty inside, she decides to pray to GOD, for the first time in her entire life. She feels like, her life lacks something. At that phase of her life, she decides to quit her somewhat perfect life; prepares to get separated from her husband, and to find the true purpose of her life.  Bored of her stagnant married life, she even tries extra marital affair. But failed miserably since she was not very good at it and identifies herself that...

Chocolate coated Strawberries

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Wish You All A Very Happy Easter... The spirit of Easter  is all about Hope,Love and compassion. Today's recipe is a very simple but so very a delicious dessert. Chocolate and Strawberries..!!! This combination itself is so divine . How To Prepare Chocolate Coated Strawberries?? Strawberries- Good quality baking Chocolate- Butter-1 tsp Liquid Glucose-1 tsp 1.Wash strawberries under  running  water.Pat dry. 2. In a double boiler,melt  chocolate and butter and add in 1 tsp liquid glucose to this. 3.Dip strawberries in melted chocolate.Dip only 1/3rd of the strawberries. If you don't get strawberries with the stem,you can use toothpicks for holding  them. 4.Freeze for 30 minutes. That's it...Enjoy the rich,chocolaty  heart shaped Strawberry is the best dessert on your special day.Roll them in crushed nuts for a different variety.Also you can use white chocolate as an option. If you want another Easter recipes  yo...

Mustard Fish Curry

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Mustard Fish curry is a popular Bengali dish.(West Bengal is a state in Eastern India.)You get this recipe online ,so what is new in this? Let's check. Bengali cuisine uses the strong flavor of mustard oil in most of their recipes.I know,many of us may not like the flavor.So here,we are not using mustard oil,instead,adding yellow mustard paste to vegetable oil.Also we are adding a paste of mustard seeds with coconut,same as Bengali fish curry recipe. Ingredients Fish - any fish-250 g Yellow mustard paste- 1 tsp Onion- 1 big (chopped into small pieces) Ginger- chopped-1 1/2 tsp Turmeric powder- Red chilly powder- Salt- Whole spice powder or Garam masala- 1/2 tsp Green chilly- slit-4 nos Grated Coconut- 1/2 cup Vinegar- 1 tsp Hot water- 1cup For Tampering Shallots- 2 nos chopped Dry red chilly- 2 nos Mustard seeds- 1 tsp How To Prepare this Mustard Fish Curry 1.Clean fish with salt and vinegar. 2. Marinate fish with  turmeric powder,some whole spice powde...

Mustard Fish

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Mustard fish fry is just another recipe which came out well when tried unintentionally.That is when I felt to share this recipe with you all.Simple ,yet it has got an appealing taste different from usual fried fish varieties. Ingredients Needed Yellow Mustard paste-1 tsp Fish -Of your choice. Onion- 1 small Turmeric powder- a  pinch Salt- Green Chilly paste- Oil- 1 -2 tsp (for shallow frying) How to prepare Mustard Fish Fry? Make a paste with onion,salt,turmeric,green chilly and yellow mustard . Marinate the fish and keep aside for 15 minutes.Shallow fry in vegetable oil. This easy mustard fried fish recipe is very healthy as we are using very little oil. ENJOY...!

Gujiya Recipe

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Wishing all Indians a very Happy Holi... I really like Indian sweet Gujiya.This sweet is a must delicacy on Holi day.So why not we try this gujiya today? As always,this is an easy version of the traditional recipe.One thing that is guaranteed is the taste.We are using coconut ,Kalonji and dry fruits as the filling. Ingredients For the filling  Cashew nuts Raisins Almonds Dry Apricots Kalonji/Black seeds(Nigella sativa) Coconut dry/fresh -grated finely Cardamom Powder- /2 tsp Powdered sugar- 4 tbsp Mix all ingredients as shown in the picture below. Filling itself is so tasty and so try not to devour it off before we actually proceed with Gujiya recipe.!! For the outer layer All purpose flour- 1/4 cup Wheat flour- 1/4 cup Ghee- 1tsp Salt- a pinch Yogurt- 2 tbsp Mix all ingredients and make a dough as we make for Chapati/Poori. How to prepare Gujiya?? First make a small poori and spoon some filling to the center ,As in the figure below. Now ...