What is your favourite Indian recipe?

Question

Please provide a link or recipe. No desserts please! (appetizers, curries or chicken dishes preferred.) Thanks

Answer 1

Malai Kofta
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Ingredients:
Gravy:
125 gms. cream
75 gms. khoya or paneer
150 ml. milk
50 gms. cashewnuts
3 tsp. white pepper powder.
2 1/2 tsp. sugar
2 tsp. grated ginger
1/4 tsp. nutmeg powder
1/2 tsp. turmeric powder
1 tsp. garlic crushed
1" cinnamon
6 cloves
6 cardamoms
salt to taste
3 tbsp. ghee

Kofta:
50 gms. khoya
50 gms. paneer
5 medium potatoes
20 gms. cashewnuts
20 gms. raisins
4-5 green chillies chopped fine
1/2 tsp. ginger grated
1 tsp. coriander chopped
1/2 tsp. cumin seeds
salt to taste

Garnish:
1 tbsp. grated cheese or paneer
1 tbsp. chopped coriander

Method:

Koftas
Boil the potatoes, peel and smash them.
Mix together all the ingredients except raisins and cashews.
Take a ping-pong ball sized dough in hand.
Flatten. Place 2-3 cashews and raisins in the centre and shape into a ball.
Repeat for remaining dough. Keep aside.

Gravy:
Roast the cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg and cloves together.
Dry grind and keep aside. Wet grind all the other ingredients, except ghee, to a paste.
Heat ghee in a skillet, add powdered spices and fry for 2-3 seconds.
Add paste and fry further for 5-7 minutes stirring well.
Add 2 cups water and simmer on low for 15 minutes.
Warm the koftas either in the oven or on the tava.
Optional: You can deep fry the koftas also.
To serve place warm koftas in a casserole.
Either pour boiling hot gravy on the koftas or pour and bake in hot oven of 5 minutes.
Garnish with grated cheese and chopped coriander.
Serve hot with naan or parathas.
Making time: 45 minutes.
Makes: 10 koftas with gravy.
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Masala Vada
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Ingredients
1 cup yellow gram (chana) dak
1/2 cup onion finely chopped
1/2 cup coriander finely chopped
1/2 cup dill leaves finely chopped
3-4 green chillies finely chopped
1/2 tsp. cumin seeds

Method
Wash and soak dal for 3-4 hours.
oil o deep fryKeep 2 tbsp. dal aside, grind the rest,coarsely.
Mix all other ingredients, including whole dal.
Add 2-3 tbsp. hot oil to the mixture.
Heat oil, make pattie shaped rounds with moist palm.
Let carefully into the hot oil.
Fry first one side then the other till golden brown.
Serve hot with green chutney, tamarind chutney, or ketchup
Making time: 20 minutes (excluding soaking time)
Makes: 15 vadas (approx.)

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Answer 2

well.it's Matar Paneer...i know it's very well known in India..but here's the recipe anyway....

Ingredients:
Serves 4
1 Lemon
1 tsp Coriander powder
4 cups Milk
400 gms Green peas (shelled)
1 tsp Garam masala powder
Salt to taste
2 tbsps + to deep fry Ghee
2 large sized Onions
1 inch piece Ginger
1/4 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Red chili powder

Method:

Boil milk twice on high heat and add juice of one lemon. The whey will separate from paneer. Drain the whey, tie up paneer in a muslin cloth and hang it up all day to allow excess water to drain away. Place the muslin with the paneer under a heavy weight to ensure that all the moisture is squeezed out. This will flatten the paneer into a flat round cake when removed from the muslin. Cut the paneer into strips or cubes. Heat sufficient ghee in a kadai and deep-fry till light brown. Drain onto an absorbent paper. Peel, wash and chop onions and ginger finely. Heat two tablespoons ghee in a pan and add chopped onions and ginger. Sauté till lightly browned. Add turmeric powder, red chili powder, coriander powder, salt and peas and cook, adding a little water, till the peas are tender and a little gravy remains. Add the fried paneer, garam masala powder and boil for five minutes. Serve hot with chapattis.

Answer 3

Chicken Tikka Masala!
I know that this is technically not authentic indian, but rather the British take on chicken tikka where they have added a curried masala sauce. But regardless of what it is exactly, it's incredible with a side of garlic naan bread and as much chutney as you can get your hands on.

Answer 4

Well try, seekh kabab or chicken malai tikka for appetizers.

Curries: Go with Methi (Fenugreek) flavored chicken, butter chicken, or even palak (spinach) chicken.

Enjoy cooking or eating!!

http://www.syvum.com/recipes/incindex.html

Answer 5

Butter Chicken with Nan bread.

Answer 6

Italian beef and lasagna

Answer 7

chicken rice

Answer 8

Fish Biryani. Try it it is delicious.

Answer 9

chicken kurma/korma

Answer 10

CORN !
BOIL,ROAST,EVEN FRY !!
NO LINK NEEDED