Palak paneer

There are many ways to prepare palak paneer. My mom used to say that garlic and palak go very well together...so every time I made palak paneer I added garlic to it. But this receipe of palak paneer does not have garlic (and onion) with palak and is yummy too:)

INGREDIENTS:
Spinach: I use baby spinach from costco, so I used full box
Paneer (cubed): 1/2 lb
Oil: 2-3 teaspoons
Jeera: 1 teaspoon
Green chillis: 4
turmeric: 1/2 teaspoon
Ginger: 1 teaspoon
Flour: 2 teaspoon
tomatoes (puree): 2
Cream or milk: 2-3 table spoon
Salt

METHOD:
Before starting I pureed the tomatoes in blender and also pureed spinach (after cooking it in microwave for 2 min).
Take oil, add jeera and chillis, when jeera is done add ginger (chopped into small pieces)and turmeric. Add tomato puree now and let it cook till little more than half is left. Add spinach and mix. Mix water and flour to make a paste (This paste will help the gravy to get a smooth consistency, otherwise water and spinach will get seperated) and add. Add cream or milk and salt. Keep the flame at medium and cook for 5-7 min. Add the panner. I like to keep the paneer in hot water for some time and then add to gravy, you can also fry it. Cook it again for some more time and it will be ready to serve :)

Introduction - Gurpreet

Hello Everyone

brief introduction of myself ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,name gurpreet born and bought up in delhi

There are many things i like to do , to see and to experience. I like to talk , i like to listen ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,i love to eat and cooking good and simple food is my hobby

Injera misadventure

Finally I was able to keep the injera batter to ferment yesterday night. It was bubbling with life since morning :) And for the side dish I made Ethiopian style split Bengal gram (Channa dhal).
Unfortunately, the injera didn't come out good :( I tried the recipe without the self rising flour. So i just mixed teff flour, yeast and warm water and left it to ferment for 24 hrs. The injera came out to be very dark brown in color, had cracks and was taking long time to cook. So this ended up as an extreme cooking mishap!!

The side dish came out good.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup chana dhal soaked for 1 hour
1 medium sized Onion
1 tablespoon ginger garlic paste
1 teaspoon jeera
1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder

Method:
Start with roasting the chopped onion with out oil, this will give the typical smokey flavour to dhal. You can sprinkle little water if it sticks too much. When it gets brown in color, make a hole and pour some oil in the center of the onion, add ginger garlic paste. After the paste becomes brown in color mix it with the onion. Add jeera and red chilli powder and stir. Now add the soaked dhal and water. Bring it to boil. Lower the flame now and cover and cook the dhal till it is soft and all the water is gone.

Joining the dots...

We went to fry's today and guess what....

Infront of me was the cookbook upon which the movie Julie and Julia was made!! I just flipped through it and noticed that it have very fine details too, like 'How to beat an egg'. For now I don't want to buy it coz im not too interested in french cooking, but have put it on hold in my library so that I can get the book for some time :)

Lauki Kofta

Finally, made kofta with kootu ka aata/singhare ka aata. The color of pakoras was different with kootu ka aata than when I made with besan. Also I didn't feel very drastic difference in taste. So here goes the recipe...

INGREDIENTS:
For pakoras-
Lauki: 1 medium sized
kootu ka aata/singhare ka aata: 1 cup
Salt

For gravy-
Onion: half medium sized
Ginger- garlic paste: 1teaspoon
Tomato: 2-3
Dhania powder: 1.5 teaspoon
Haldi: 1/2 teaspoon
Chilli powder: 1/2 teaspoon
Milk: 1 cup
Water: 1 cup
Salt

METHOD:
For pakoras, peel and grate lauki. Squeeze the juice from it and add kootu ka aata and salt. Make pakoras out of this.

For gravy:
In a pan put oil + onion + ginger garlic paste : fry till golden brown
now add tomato cook till nicely cooked
add masala: dhania powder + haldi + chilli powder
add milk and water
add salt to taste
Cook for 10-15 min on medium flame or till you get the desired consistency.

Its friday today :)

.....so will make something special for dinner :)

Will make "lauki kofta" (planning since looooong time). I read somewhere that we can use koutu ka aata instead of besan to make pakoras for kofta. So will try it this time. I'll post full receipe and more details after finishing dinner today ;)

Hey

Myself Beena Torgal,basically from Karnataka but born and brought up in Ahmedabad,Gujarat.

So can share some of the receipes from both the states!!!

but dont be under the impression that bahut receipes milegi...:)

Ethopian cuisine

Hi
How are you all today? I love ethopian food..... may be coz its so close to Indian cuisine. They serve huge injera (which is like big plate size dosa) with variety of side dishes like dhal, okra etc. I already make the ethopian style okra which goes very well with roti.
Today I got the ingredients for injera: teff flour (its very rich in fiber and iron too) and yeast. I will try it asap and will post my experience :)

Dates & walnut cake

This simple cake receipe never goes wrong.....and it is sooooo yummy. Most of the work to be done is at a night before, and next day you will be left with only mixing. I got this receipe from my friend 'Annie'. Thanks Annie:)

Ingredients:

Butter- 2 sticks
Sugar - 1 cup
Sooji- 1 1/2 cups
Eggs - 4
Baking soda - 1 tsp
vanilla extract - 2 tsp
walnut/cashew - i cup
water - 3/4 cup
Milk - 1/4 cup
Maida - 2 tablespoon
dates- 1 1/2 cups

Method:

Roast sooji in a dry pan for 5-10 mins and soak in butter overnight. Chop
dates and add baking soda, soak in 3/4 cup water overnigt. The next
mrng..beat egg yolks and sugar with a lil milk. Add the sooji/butter mixture
slowly untill thoroughly mixed. then beat the egg whites seperately and add
to mixture..dont beat after adding egg white. Slowly mix in chopped nuts and
vanilla and maida flour..mixing lightly with a spoon..Finally add the baking
poder. Butter the cake pan and dust with maida flour. Pour the cake mixture
into the pan and bake at 350F for 45 mins (or till a toothpick comes out clean from the center of the cake). U can make 2 round cakes.
In case u dont like dates..u can leave it out and add extra 1/2 cup sugar.

Introduction- Sonum

Hello world, I am Sonum. One of the 5 authors of this blog. We all are from 5 different states of India. I am from Uttaranchal, former UP. We created this blog to share our joy of cooking (& eating ;)).
We were inspired to start this blog by the movie 'Julie and Julia'. In the movie julie creates a blog to log her journey through cooking 500 something receipes from the cookbook written by Julia.