Harvest: The Festival of Rice: Roundup Part II

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With many types of rice, it really took me long to come up with the round-up. I would like to thank Hema and Easy to Cook for sending so many recipes for the event. Please let me know if I have missed out any of your recipes. You can see the first part of roundup for this event here.  SGD of  Whims and Wishes also wrote some words about this Harvest festival, and she was very kind to share her thoughts with us.

1. Bajji’s Platter from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
2. Bisi Bela Bhaat from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
3. Bisibelabath from Shama of  Easy to Cook Recipes
4. Black-eyed peas pulao from Asha of Aroma Hope
5. Brinjal Rice from Shama of  Easy to Cook Recipes
6. Capsicum Rice from Shama  of  Easy to Cook Recipes
7. Carrot Rice from Shama of  Easy to Cook Recipes
8. Cauliflower Rice from Shama of  Easy to Cook Recipes
9. Chenna Pulao from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
10. Chicken biriyani from Shama of Easy to Cook Recipes
11. Chilli-Tangerine rice from Anushreeram of Chandrabhaga
12. Cilantro Rice from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
13. Cocnut Rice from Shama of  Easy to Cook Recipes
14. Coconut Milk Vegetable Rice from Shama of  Easy to Cook Recipes
15. Dil se pulao from Sindhura of Bay Leaf
16. Doodh Puli Peethe from Sunanda of Sunanda’s Kitchen
17. Garlic Rice from Shama of  Easy to Cook Recipes
18. Healthy Geen Rice/ Pudina Rice from Shama of  Easy to Cook Recipes
19. Iyengar’s Poliodharai from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
20. Keshari Bhaat (Sweet Saffron Rice) from Sanika of  Sanika’s Spicy&Tangy….Sweet&Yummy!!!!
21. Khasta Kachori from Naveeta of Zaayeka
22. Kondakadalai Sadam/ Red Chana Dal Rice from Shama of  Easy to Cook Recipes
23. Lemon Rice from Shama of  Easy to Cook  Recipes
24. Lemony Lemon – A Tangy Tasty Masala Bath from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
25. Medhu Pakora from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
26. Mint Magic (Pudina pulao) from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
27. Mishti Pulao from Aundhuti of Gourmet Affair
28. Mor Koozh from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
29. Multiprotein Rice from Shama of Easy to Cook  Recipes
30. Mushroom Pulao from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
31. Paruppu Keerai Dosai from Shama of  Easy to Cook Recipes
32. Pasta Pulao from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
33. Patishapta from SGD of  Whims and Wishes
34. Peanut Cup Rice from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
35. Poha from EC of  Easy Crafts
36. Prawn/Shrimp Pulao of Homecooked
37. Puliyothaai/ Tamarind Rice from Shama of  Easy to Cook Recipes
38. Puttu~Steamed Rice Cakes from Poornima of Tasty Treats
39. Rice Ball Kheer from Sanika of Sanika’s Spicy&Tangy….Sweet&Yummy!!!!
40. Rice Uppma from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
41. Sharkara Payasam from Poornima of Tasty Treats
42. Shazani biryani from Sindhura of Bay Leaf
43. Spongy Dosa with yum yum coconut from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
44. Tomato rice from Sindhura of Bay Leaf
45. Vegetable Bonda from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
46. Vegetable Pulao from Poornima of  Tasty Treats
47. Vegetable Rice from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
48. Venpongal from Shama of Easy to Cook Recipes
49. Wholesome Moong kichadi from EC of Easy Crafts

With so many recipes, it’s really hard to choose which one is the best. But still, it’s on you to select the best. So go ahead and choose your best recipe and write it down as a comment for this post.

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Harvest: The festival of Rice: Round up Part I

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I am so sorry that I was not able to post the round up for the event. Thanks to all for sending me those wonderful recipes and also for being patient. Everyday of the last month I got so many mails for the event. All the mails had so many different kinds of recipe. To tell you the truth the first time when the idea of this event struck I was not at all aware that I’ll get so many different types of recipes with rice or rice flour as the main ingredient. This is really unbelievable.

Here goes the first part of the round up for Harvest:  The Festival of Rice

1. Ambur Mutton biriyani from Ashwini of Ashwini’s spicy cuisine
2. Bengal Royal Rice from Anushriram of Chandrabhaga
3. Brown Basmati Egg Biriyani with Chickpeas from Anuvidya of And a little bit more
4. Cheppi Surnalli from Namrata Kini of Welcome to Namu’s Kitchen
5. Chicken Dum Biriyani from Dershana of The Footloose Chef
6. Chicken Rice from Priya Sriram of Priya’s Sourashtrian Kitchen
7. Chilli-Tangerine rice from Anushriram of Chandrabhaga
8. Chinese fried rice from Dhanya of My Home Cooking
9. Coriander Rice from Ashwini of Ashwini’s spicy cuisine
10. Curd rice from Deepa Hari of Simple Home Cooking – from Deepa’s Kitchen
11. Kadambam Rice from DK of Culinary Bazaar
12. Lemon Rice from Ramya of Mane Adige
13. Minced Chicken Pulao from Poornima Nair of Tasty Treats
14. Mixed Vegetable Khichdi from Usha of Veg Inspirations
15. Paal Pongal from Rajee of Simply Innocence
16. Pakistani Chicken Biriyani from swapna Pravin of  Cooking with Swapna
17. Pongal from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
18. Pongal, vadai and a tooth from Sunshinemom of Tongue Ticklers
19. Puli Sundal from Chitra of Ratatouille – Any one can cook
20. Recipe for Stuffed Baked Acorn Squash from Vnv of Veggie Monologues
21. Rice Dosa and  Koozh of Chitra from Ratatouille – any one can cook
22. Sakkarai Pongal from Priya Suresh of Priya’s Easy N Tasty Recipes
23. Schezeun Fried Rice from Poonam of Poonam’s Kitchen
24. Tacos with Kidney beans, salsa and rice from Arch of The Yum Factor
25. Tehari from Notyet100 of Asankhana
26. Tondli Bhat from Usha of Enjoy Indian Food
27. Undi (Steamed Rice Balls) from Namrata Kini of Welcome to Namu’s Kitchen
28. Veg Dhum Biriyani from Hema of Adlak’s Kitchen
29. Venn Pongal and Chakkarai Pongal from Smita Kulkarni of Dabbu’s Recipes
30. Zucchini rice from Anushriram of Chandrabhaga

Go ahead and comment on your most loved recipes. I would love to know about your comments.

Check out the other parts of the round up, till then Happy Cooking and happy Eating .

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Malabar Chicken

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From my childhood I always wished where ever I am I should be at my home in Kolkata for the Durga Puja. We have a century old tradition of worshiping the deity. But, this time it’s a little different. I am away from home for the first time in my life during the Durga Pujas. I am missing every bit of this gorgeous festival.

If you are in Kolkata we’ll never be able to ignore the arrival of this festive season. With the start of September you can feel the Puja is nearing. All the markets and for now the shopping malls are flooded with people to buy new clothes, shoes, and house hold articles. As the big day nears, the foot paths are barricaded with bamboo pillars to control the heavy crowd. There are big hoardings of advertisements on every nook and corner of the city. With all these grandeur and pomp comes our idol. I miss those lazy afternoons sitting at my neighborhood Puja pandal chit chatting with my friends. All my relatives come to my place to worship the deity. O, I miss everything about Kolkata.

There is nothing more I can do but to think about the by gone days of living in Kolkata during the Durga Pujas. So, just to make myself a little happier than I am right now, I thought of adding some special recipes for this occassion.

Living in the Southern part of India, these days I come across a lot many South Indian cuisine. Every region in South India has got its own style of cooking. Malabar region is in the South-western part of India, facing the Arabian Sea. Lots of spices like cloves, coriander, cardamom, black pepper grow in the hilly terrain of the Malabar Coast. All their cuisine is done with these spices. The Malabar Chicken is just one such example of the rich cuisine of this coastal region.

Serves 2

Ingredients:

Chicken (Murgi): 500gms

Onion paste (Peyaj bata): 2 tablespoons

Desiccated coconut (Narkel korano): ½ cup

Coriander leaves (Dhane pata): 1 tablespoon

Green chili paste (Kacha Lanka bata): 1 ½ tablespoon

Garlic-ginger paste (Ada-rasun bata): 1 tablespoon

Red chili powder (Sukhno Lanka guro): 1 teaspoon

Tamarind paste (Tetul bata): 1 tablespoon

Coriander powder (Dhane guro): 1 teaspoon

Clove (Labango): 5 to 6

Black pepper (Gol morich): 10 -12

Turmeric powder (Halud guro): 1 teaspoon

Sunflower oil (Sada tel): 1 tablespoon

Salt to taste

Preparation:

For preparing the tamarind paste:

• Take out the pulp of 5 or 6 tamarind pods and dip in water for ½ an hour.
• With a sieve separate the pulp from the tamarind water, and keep the tamarind water for later use.

For the curry:

• Heat oil in a wok. Throw in the ginger-garlic paste, onion paste, black pepper, green chili paste and tamarind water, sauté for 2 minutes.
• Add red chili, coriander and turmeric powder along with the desiccated coconut. Fry till the coconut turns brownish.
• Add water and cook for 5 -7 minutes.
• Add the chicken and add water till necessary.
• Cook till the chicken becomes tender, adding water if required.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.

Malabar Chicken Curry

Serve with just cooked rice and enjoy the taste of the Malabar chicken.

Sending this sensational side dish to Ruth’s Sensational Sides Event.

Also sending over to Aartee’s Sapadu Ready Event

Sending this recipe to Pallavi’s Yummy Festival Feast- Diwali.

Happy Cooking and Happy Eating.

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Durga Puja

Durga Puja is a very special occassion for all of us. All year through we wait to spend these 4 days with the best grandeur possible.

Wait for the special recipes for the Pujas.

Non-Veggie Recipe Roundup

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It was a great honour to host this event. As it was, it was the first time I had hosted any event on my blog. It really felt nice to receives lots and lots of recipes from everyone of you. I thank all to make this event a great success. So here are the recipes for the Non-veggies event round up.

Post a comment on which recipe you liked the most and please leave out your own recipes.

This is in the order of how I received the recipes:

Sharmila was the first person to send me this yummy looking fish kheema for the event.

Fish Kheema

Manasi with her lots of energy had many a things to share and here are her contributions.

Seekh Kabab

Lukhmi

Shikambur Kabab

After fish and meat it has to be egg, so here was Vij with her Disguised Egg Curry.

DISGUISED EGG CURRY (EGGS COOKED IN CASHEWNUT AND POPPY SEEDS SAUCE)

And now comes the dear exception. With the girl chefs around, I came across somebody who is a little different. He is non other than Siddharth, he was good to send me his simple recipe of EggVeg Ginger Garlic Maggie Noodles, and to tell you the truth, it has become very popular among those who can light the gas oven and knows nothing more. Check his blog for more details.

EggVeg Ginger Garlic Maggie Noodles

Suma was there next with chicken kheema and chiken samosa. A all time favorite of all Indians for an idle evening ideal snacks.

Chicken kheema

Chicken samosa

With the snacks getting over had to have something little more spicy, and yes Arundhati was ready for that. The Tandoori chicken was ready to serve.

Tandoori Chicken

It was now time for my dear friend Priti, who had sent a number of recipes for the event and here are the list: Grilled Chicken, a different style Egg Drumstick curry, the delicious and yummy Prawn Masala, and ofcourse the main course Egg Briyani with Rajma.

Grilled Chicken

Chicken curry with capsium baby corn

Prawn Masala

Egg Biriyani with Rajma Raitha

Vij has sent another yummy recipe with egg, Egg Kheema Curry.

Egg Kheema Curry

Priya was all set to have a massive entry for the event, and here she is with five of her delicious non-veggie recipes. Hyderabadi Chicken 65,  Malabar Egg Thokku, Egg 65, Shark Hash Kuzhambu, and Spicy Fish Gravy.

Hyderabadi Chicken 65

Malabar Egg Thokku

Egg 65

Shark Hash Kuzhambu

Spicy Fish Gravy

Shama sent nice South Indian non-veggie recipes for the event. Mutton Kulambu/Goat meat Curry, Chicken Pulikulambu, Chicken kulambu, Fish Mango Curry and Fish Kulambu.

Mutton Kulambu

Chicken PulikulambuChicken Kulambu

Fish Mango curry

Fish Kulambu

Priyanka sent the chicken specialties Murghir jhol and chicken rezala, and look they seem to be so mouth watering.

Chicken Rezala

Murgir Jhol

And last but not the least it was Srivalli who had sent me her Fried Chicken with Eggs. To add here she had specially made this preparation for the Non-Veggie event.

Fried Chicken with Eggs

Thank you everybody for taking active part in this event and making it a huge success. I hope that I have added all yours recipes. If somehow I had missed out any please do notify me through email or just post a comment with this roundup.

THANK YOU very much. Keep in touch. Till then HAPPY COOKING AND HAPPY EATING.

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Non-veggie Recipe Event

Today when I logged on to my blog, one thing caught my eyes. The blog stats. It has just crossed the 4000 bar. In just 4 months and 23 days my blog has crossed 4000 hits. It felt real good that people like my posts. Thanks to all my blog visitors. o I thought of celebrating this event with all of you. There were many ideas in mind, but I stuck to this one. Myself being a non-vegetarian I thought of hosting an event to celebrate these 4000 hits of my blog.

My blog reaching 4000, you can say that’s just a mere alibi to host this event. All I wanted was to share more and more with those people whom I have never but they share the same love for cooking like me. So lets joins hand in hand, not really , rather lets join mail through mail and celebrate our love for our kitchen and everything in there.

The rules to participate are simple, alike all other events hosted by the other blogs. All you need to do is send me the recipe of any non-vegetarian dish; it can be fish, egg, chicken, mutton, pork, ham, or any kind of animal meat of your choice. Along with the dish also send photo(s) of the preparation. When you post it on your pblog please get the link to this event along with the event photo.

Thanks to Google search, I got this image from http://www.robinsclipart.com/ and then did a little bit of photo shop editing.

Send in to bengalicuisine@gmail.com with the subject “Non-veggie Recipe“, add along the following details:

Your name:

Your blog’s name:

Your blog’s URL:

The post name:

The post URL:

The photo of the preparation:

There is no limit on number of entries per blogger. If you dont have a blog and you wish to participate please email me your Name, Recipe and Picture and I will include your entry in the roundup.

If you want to add some old recipes posted on your blog, then please repost it with a tag to this event , also with the event photo ,and send me the link to the post.

Those of you who doesn’t have a blog can just send in their own recipe to the afore mentioned mail id.

Send in to the give mail id by the 15^th of September 2008. You can send me any post that you had previously posted in you blog, with a link to the republished one.

Looking forward to all the wonderful entries , happy cooking and happy eating.

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Chicken-do-peyaja

India’s Independence Day, and everybody home. I was all in a mood to enjoy the day, cooking, eating and of course having fun. I started preparing for a nice and heavy lunch for the day. The menu today consisted of a lot many items, to celebrate the 61^st year of our independence. So, the first thing that came to mind of was definitely any chicken preparation. Chicken had always been the way of celebrating, and today was no exception at all.

Sending it to Curry Mela hosted by Srivalli.

Serves 4:

Ingredients:

Chicken (Murgi): 1 kg

Onion (Peyaj): 4 medium sizes

Tomato: 2

Garlic (Rasun): 10 /12 cloves

Ginger (Aada): 2gms

Ginger-garlic paste (Aada-rasun bata): 3 tablespoons

Green cardamom (Choto Elaichi): 3 or 4

Cloves (Labango): 5 or 6

Cinnamon (daar chini): 2 1inch sizes

Bay leaf (Tej pata): 2

Turmeric powder (Halud guro): 1 teaspoon

Chilli powder (Sukhno Lankar guro): 2 teaspoons

Salt to taste.

Preparation:

In place of separately adding cloves, cardamom you can just add garam masala (not powder)

• Wash the chicken well.
• Slice one onion into four halves.
• In a deep pan take 3 or 4 cloves of garlic, julienne ginger, the onion, 2 tomatoes along with the chicken and cover it with water.
• Boil the chicken till it is tender.
• Julienne the rest of the onions.
• Heat oil in a wok. Add onion, garlic cloves, ginger-garlic paste and gota garam masal. Sauté till the onions become brown.
• Add turmeric powder, chili powder, the boiled tomatoes and salt.
• Fry for a minute and drop in the boiled chicken to the fry spices.
• Mix the spices with the chicken well and then add the chicken stock already made.
• Cook till the gravy thickens and serve with rice, roti or paratha.

Ready to serve Chicken-do-peyaja

Enjoy the Chicken-do-peyaja. Catch you soon, till then happy cooking and happy eating.

Sending this to Theme for the Month of September – Chicken on Srivalli‘s blog.

Chicken in chilli garlic sauce

Sometimes back I read about a chilli garlic crab preparation in a cook book. Thought of trying the same preparation but with chicken in place of crab. The experiment turned out to be a very spicy and yummy platter, so here it is sharing with you all.

Ingredients:

Chicken (murgi): 1kg

Red chilli powder (sukhno lankar guro): 3 teas-spoons full, mixed with water to make a paste

Garlic (rasun): 15 cloves , chopped well

Mustard oil (sarser tel): 2 table-spoons

Tomato: 3 small sized, 2 of them grinded to make a puree

Onions (peyaj): 1

Cornflour: 2 table-spoons

Vinegar: 1 table-spoons

Spring onions : 2 stalks, chopped

Eggs (dim): 2, beaten well

MSG (ajinamoto): 1/4 teaspoon (optional)

Salt to taste

Preparation:

• Take the chicken , one tomato, one peyaj (cut into half) and boil the whole in a deep pan with sufficient water such that the ingredients get covered with water.
• Take it out , when the chicken is half cooked. Keep the stock for later use.
• Heat oil in a wok and deep fry the half cooked chicken. Keep aside.
• Take some more oil and sauté the garlic for a minute. Add the tomato puree, chilli powder paste, and the stock and bring it to boil. When it starts boiling add salt.
• Take the cornflour in a boil and mix it with water. Add it to the boiling sauce, cook till it gets thickened.
• Now add the chicken along with vinegar , MSG and spring onions to the sauce and mix. Add the beaten egg in trickle and cook till the egg strands rise to top.

Your chicken in chilli garlic sauce is ready to serve , spicy and yummy. Serve hot. Enjoy cooking and happy eating.

Chicken Manpasand

This is a new style of chicken I cooked a few days ago. It was absolutely experimental, but it turned out to be good. So posting it in this blog.

Serves 4

Ingredients:

Chicken (murgi): 1kg

Onions (peyaj): 5 medium sized ones

Tomato: 2 medium sized

Potato (aalu): 4 pieces

Mustard oil (sarser tel): 4 tablespoon

Ginger garlic paste (aada-rasun baata): 2 tea-spoons

Garlic (rasun): 4/5 cubes

Turmeric powder (haluder guro): 1 tea-spoon

Chilli powder (sukno lankar guro): 2 tea-spoons

Kasuri methi: 2 tea-spoons

Salt to taste

Preparation:

· Wash the chicken well. Take chicken, two onion cut into halves, tomatoes, 1 tea-spoon of ginger and garlic, and water to cover the chicken in a deep bowl. Boil the chicken; keep aside the boiled chicken and onions. Keep the chicken stock apart.

· In a kadai, pour the mustard oil and heat it. Add the diced potatoes and fry. Keep the potatoes aside after they become golden brown.

· Add diced onions in the oil and fry for 1 or 2 mins. Add garlic ginger paste and the garlic cubes and fry one more minute. To the fried spice add chicken and the boiled onions. Add the stock along with the turmeric and chilli powder. Cook for 7 minutes with a lid over the kadai. Add the fried potatoes.

· Check if the chicken has softened, add more stock if required.

· Add crushed kasuri methi and cook for 1 minute.

· Serve hot with rice, roti , paratha.

Chicken Kasha

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Serves: 4

This is my first post here in this webpage, so let’s start with some spicy thing. One of my favorite dishes – Chicken kasha.

Ingredients:

Chicken -1kg

Curd(doi) – 150gm

Onions(peyaj) – 4 big ones

Garlic(rasun) – 5/6 peeled

Ginger(aada) -10/20gm

Turmeric powder(halud) – 2tsp

Chilli powder(lankar guro) – 3 tsp

Vegetable or mustard oil – 2 big tablespoons

Salt to taste

Procedure

First of all clean the chicken very well, let it be under running tap water for at least 5mins. Take the chicken in bowl and then add the curd, 1 big tablespoon of ginger garlic paste, 2 tea spoons of chilli powder , 2 tablespoon of onion juice(chop one onion and grind it in a mixer) and salt . Keep it aside for 3mins.

Heat the oil in a kadai, sauté the chopped onions, and garlic till they become golden brown. Keep aside one-fourth of the onions for garnishing later. Put in the rest of garlic – ginger paste into the sautéed onion and ginger, and just fry for a minute or so. Add the marinated chicken to the kadai and pour 2 cups of water. Put a lid and cook for few minutes.

Check after 5/6mins whether the chicken has become got cooked. If it still seems to be stiff , add some more water and cook for sometime more.

A great smell will fill up your kitchen when it’s cooked. Turn off the stove. Put the cooked chicken in a bowl and garnish it with the fried onions.

Enjoy it with rice, chapatti or paratha.

An addendum

Those of you who are still in love with potatoes can add 2/3 big sized potatoes to it. Cut the potatoes into one-fourth size. Fry till it becomes golden (don’t over fry it) and keep it aside. After adding the chicken, wait for 5mins and then add the fried potatoes to it.