Indian quick and easy recipes
Crispy rice chakali/chakli
Marathi style “Chakli”/”chakali” or even called as “murukku” in south india is the traditional snacks mostly prepared during festivals like Diwali. This chalki is a deep fried snack made from rice flour, gram flour or mixture of lentils flours. This one of the most famous Diwali faraal and today i am sharing my favorite family recipe of instant chakli.
Wishing you all again a happy fun filled and a safe diwali.
PREPARATION TIME 15 minutes
COOK TIME 30 minutes
SERVINGS 22 to 25 chaklis
INGREDIENTS (1 cup = 250 ml)
2 cup rice flour (chawal ka atta)
1 cup besan (roasted gram flour)
1 tbsp hot cooking oil
¼ teaspoon turmeric powder (haldi)
½ teaspoon ajwain (carom seeds)
2 teaspoon red chili powder or add as required (lal mirch powder)
¼ cup tablespoon sesame seeds – white or black (safed til or kala til)
¼ cup lukewarm water – add as required
oil for deep frying
salt as required
Directions || How to make Instant cripsy rice chakali.
- In a bowl add rice flour and gram flour .
- Next add the carom seeds, sesame seeds, turmeric powder, red chili powder and salt.
- Mix everything with a spoon.
- Heat butter or oil in a bowl or small pan.
- Add the hot butter or oil to flour mixture.
- heat water till it starts boiling.
- Allow it cool till it turns lukewarm then add the water in parts to the flour mixture. mix with a spoon.
- Add more hot water as required and begin kneading to a firm dough
- Cover and let the dough rest for 15 minutes.
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Directions making instant chakli:
- apply some oil in the chakli/murukku maker and place a portion of the dough inside it.
- tighten the lid and press the chakli maker to prepare the chakli. move in rounds to get a spiral shape.
- Break the dough towards the end and press it to the last concentric circle of the spiral.
- Heat oil for deep frying in a pan,lift the chakli gently and slid into the hot oil.
- Fry 3 to 4 chaklis at a time. don’t over crowd the kadai or pan while frying.
- Fry the chaklis till it turns golden in color.Drain them well to remove excess oil.
- Fry the remaining batches in the same way. once the chaklis are cooled at room temperature, then store them in an airtight box or jar.
- serve the chakalis as a snack with chai or you can just have them plain.
Bread Patties(cutlets)
Bread patties is very simple yet tasty patties made with bread , veggies and spices.
This makes a very yummy light lunch or snack. If you have some really great or leftover breads and some veggies, you got to try this recipe at home.These Bread Patties fall exactly in that category. They’re crisp and crunchy outside, soft, melt-in-the-mouth inside,
and make for a delicious snack to enjoy at teatime, whether by yourself, or even at a the party.
Serve the Bread Patties (Bread Cutlets) along with tomato ketchup or Green Chutney to add zesty flavour.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Servings 12 bread patties
Ingredients
5 to 6 slices of bread
1/2 cup chopped green onions
1/2 cup shredded carrots
1/2 cup spring onions
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 tsp ginger paste
1 green chilies
1 tsp chopped coriander leaves
1 tbsp pudina(mint) leaves
1 tsp salt
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp garam masala powder
1/2 cup rice flour
1/4 cup water
salt as required
oil for deep frying
Directions || How to make bread patties
For bread patties:
Take 5 slices of bread and break them.Mash them well.
Add chopped onions, minced garlic,carrots,spring onions,1 green chilly, coriander leaves, mint leaves,salt,
red chilli powder , garam masala powder ,rice flour and salt.
Add 1/4 cup water and mix very well first.
Then begin to knead to a smooth dough. you may not need to add more water
Onions helps in binding the dough. if you are not able to bind to a dough, then sprinkle some water and knead to
form a smooth dough.
Divide the dough in to small or medium sized balls and then flatten them. keep aside.
for frying patties:
Heat oil for shallow frying in a pan.
Now add patties one by one the prepared vadas in the hot oil.
Fry the bread patties till crisp and golden.
Sheer Kurma *** Eid Mubarak ***
It’s soon going to be that lovely time of hugging everyone wishing “Eid Mubarak” .During this occasion we never forget to take “Eiddi” (earnings) from elders neither we can resists yummy delicious beautiful tempting sheer Kurma. At my childhood I would go to my muslim friends home and finish bowls and bowls of Sheer kurma. After marrying into a muslim family, I realised that while Eid is much more than sevaiyan; it is incomplete without it. Right in the morning
we make a huge pot of Sheer Kurma to be served all day to our neighbors ,friends and guest visiting home to wish us.
Sheer kurma or Sheer khorma (Persian: ??? ??????), literally “milk with dates” in Persian.During my first Eid after marriage, my younger sister my law taught me how to make the true Sheer Kurma 🙂 Ever since then I always wanted to share this recipe with you all but finally this year I could come up with it.
Eid Mubarak to you all !!!!
Preparation time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 1 hour
Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
500 ml milk
1 tablespoon ghee
1 to 1.5 tablespoon sugar
½ cup broken seviyan
7 to 8 cashews,
8 to 9 almonds,
8 to 9 unsalted pistachios,
4 green cardamoms
100 ml condensed milk(optional)
Directions || How to make Sheer Kurma or Sheer Khurma
1.Boil the dry fruits (cashews,almonds, pistachois),
2.once cool , peel the skin out of each and finely chop them
3.In a pan. heat ghee and add chopped dry fruits and saute for 34 minutes stirring often.
4. In the same pan roast the seviyan till golden and keep aside. if you want then you can roast the seviyan in ghee also.
5. In a saucepan heat milk and let it come to a boil. lower the flame and simmer for 810 minutes till the milk slightly thickens.
6. Add the condensed milk
7. Next add the roasted seviyan and sugar to the milk and simmer till the seviyan are cooked and have become soft for about 8-10 minutes on a low flame.
8. The milk will also thicken and reduce in volume.
9. Add the whole dry fruit mixture and cardamom powder.
10. switch off the fire and stir.
11.Garnish with remaining dry fruits and dates.
12.Serve warm (some like it cold as well, so you might want to keep some in fridge also!)
13. you can also garnish sheer khurma with saffron strands or rose petals or dry fruits or powdered cardamom.
Chicken Dum Biryani
Chicken Dum Biryani is the most divine dish of all the non-veg dishes. Biryani is the most popular festive dish on the occasion of Eid-Ul-fitr.
Celebrations are incomplete without this authentic dish in any Muslim family.Though its derived from the Persian word ‘biriyan’, this delicious layered rice dish is slow cooked with spices, a choice of meats and flavoring agents is
not only popular across India but world wide.Loved by all food lovers across the world,
it is one of the royal dishes of India that reminds of the culinary heritage of the regal era of emperors Akbar and Shah Jahan and went on to occupy pride of place in the kitchens of the nawabs and nizams of India.
One of the most authentic and aromatic aromatic dish, biryani is sprinkled with rose water or saffron.If you cook this biryani with such precision that you are bound to make this dish again and again.
Prep Time: 30 mins
Marination Time : 3-4 hours(overnite)
Cook Time: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Yields : 1 kg biryani rice
Serves : 8-10
Ingredients
For Marination
1 kilograms chicken
2 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
1 tsp red chilli powder
1 tsp garam masala powder
5-6 pepper balls
3 tsp biryani masala
1 cup curd
1 tsp salt
For chicken masala
1 cinnamon stick
2 bay leaves
1 star anise
2 medium size onions finely chopped
1 tomato finely chopped
1 tablespoon garlic paste
1/2 cup fresh cream
For rice
1 kg basmati rice
2 green cardamom
1/2 cup ghee
1 bay leaf
For Garnishing
1 cup thinly sliced onion
2 pinches saffron
1 teaspoon chopped mint leaves
1 teaspoon chopped coriander leaves
How to make Chicken Biryani
Direction || How to marinade chicken
Step 1
Add all the marination ingredients in it. Rub well with your fingers so that the marination spreads evenly.
Ideally you should leave marinated chicken in the refrigerator overnight.
If you have sudden guests coming then, use a fork to bore holes in the chicken, marinate and keep aside for 1-2 hours.
Direction || How to cook rice for biryani
Meanwhile wash the rice thoroughly and soak it for 1 hour
boil the rice till its 3/4 th(75%) cooked and keep aside, spread on a plate. If you overcook your rice, it will turn pasty when mixed with the chicken.
Directions || How to fry potatoes.
Heat 2 tbsp of ghee in a pot.
Add potatoes cubes.
Fry till golden brown and keep it aside.
Directions || how to make chicken gravy masala
Thinly slice the onions and fry them in the same ghee. Reserve half of the onions and keep aside.
Remove the chicken from the refrigerator and allow it to come down to room temperature.
1. Heat ghee in a deep bottomed vessel. It should have a tight fitting lid.
2. Add bay leaves, cinnamon stick ,shahi jeera,mace,black pepper balls.
3. Saute it till nice aroma.
4. Add the thinly sliced onions. saute them on a low to medium flame, till they get golden.
5. Then add finely chopped tomatoes and let it cook well.
6. Once it gets mushy, add the chicken and curd and cook covered ,fried potatoes and stir for some 34 mins on a low flame.
7. Now add the biryani masala & red chilli powder. stir.
8. Now add water and salt. stir very well
9. Increase the flame and let the chicken cook well.
10.After 10-15 mins , when chicken is tender , add 1 cup fried onions and mint leaves.
11. Turn off the flame and keep the gravy aside.
assembling and layering:
1. In a small bowl take 2 tbsp milk. add saffron strands and mix well. keep aside for 10 to 15 minutes.
2. If cooking on stove than use the same pan in which you cooked the rice or a different one.
you can make as many layers you want.
3. Arrange half of the rice layer in the pot or pyrex bowl.
4. Now spread half of the cooked chicken gravy masala on top of the rice layer.
5. Sprinkle fried onions,mint leaves
6. Then again the rice layer,chicken gravy masala layer.
9. sprinkle mint leaves, 1 tbsp oil/ghee, saffron milk and fried onions.
10. Cover the pyrex bowl with an aluminium foil.
11. If using a pot, then cover the pan with a moist muslin cloth or aluminum foil. cover tightly with a lid.
12. You can bake the chicken biryani for 25 to 30 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 degree celsius.
13. If cooking on stove, then first heat up a tava/griddle and then keep the biryani pan on the tava. this way the
bottom of the biryani won’t get burnt. lower the flame and let the chicken biryani dum cook for 2530 minutes or till
done.
14. Serve chicken biryani hot with some raita or papad.
Baita Roti (Egg roti)
Baida Roti or Egg Roll is an awesome and delicious combination of eggs and chicken(meat) which is shallow fried in ghee. This yummy flavorful Indian bread stuffed with minced mutton or chicken should be a must go dish in the month of holy Ramadan. You can even prepare this dish for parties or get together s. Do watch this step by step video for
cripsy Baida Roti.
Preparation time : 20 minss
Cooking time : 20 mins
Serves : 4
Ingredients:
For the dough:
250 gm maida
1 tsp oil
Water
Salt to taste
For the filling:
250 gm minced chicken or meat(keema)
1/2 small onion, chopped
Half cup chopped fresh coriander leaves
2 eggs, beaten
Salt to taste
Directions || How to make Baida Roti
Mix the maida, oil, salt and water and knead it into a soft dough.
Make five to six equal portions from the dough.
Now, roll out each portion of dough into a thin, square-shaped chapatti.
Heat a teaspoon of oil in a pan or a tawa. Place the chappati on the pan.
Place some mince chicken or meat (keema) (you can watch my video how to prepare keema), in the centre of the chapatti.
Pour a spoonful of beaten egg,onions and coriander over and around the mince chicken.
Fold the sides of the chapatti to cover the meat and egg, like in a square packet.
Flip and pour some ghee around the folded chappati again. Fry till it turns golden brown in colour.
Your baida roti is done!!
Serve with green chutney.
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