Choruibhati Style(Jungle style) Egg Curry with Somenath dada's Recipe:
It has been a long time ,I couldnt able to update my recipes.So,first of all I am apologising to all of my dearest freinds.Due to my daughter's final term exam,her annual day program at school and due to some household responsiblities and moreover due to the interruption in the broadband services I didnt get time or scope to seat in front of my laptop and write the recipes.
Thank you very much for your patience .I would like to request all my friends to keep an eye on my food page,I will update all the pending recipes one by one.
Anyway I should come to the point now.Today I am sharing the recipe of "Dimer Jhol"(Egg Curry) in Somnath dada's style.
Dimer Jhol or Egg Potato curry is one of the soul food of Bengal.At my home,most of the time though I use eggs for breakfast or evening snacks ,sometimes whenever I feel very lazy, I opt this for lunch and dinner also.Because egg preparations always requeire a very minimum effort yet satisfy our taste buds completely.
It's my privilage that through a social networking site I have come in contact with few wonderful food lovers friends. Their preparations,presentations,innovations inspire me in all the ways.This time I was inspired by Somnath Dada's "choruibhati style dimer jhol" (Jungle style Egg Curry). The recipe is slightly different from the usual ones,as it is very rich and has an excellent rich aroma.I modified it slightly in my own way and the reslut was really good.
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
- Big Size Eggs(Hen or Duck) - 4 pcs
- Potato- 2 medium, (diced )
- Tomato- 1 medium(chopped)
- Onion - 1 medium, (paste)
- Onion - 1 medium(thin sliced)
- Ginger - 1 inch
- Garlic - 4-5 cloves
- Green chillis:1-2( as per choice/optional)
- Turmeric Powder- 1 tsp
- Red Chilli powder:1/4 tsp(as per choice)
- Cumin Seeds - 1tsp
- Coriander Seeds:1.5 tsp
- Cinnamon Stick:1
- Cloves:2-3
- Green Cardamom:3
- Bay leaf:1
- Mustard Oil
- Water:1 cup(or little more)
- Salt:As per taste
- Sugar: For caramelisation
- Garam masala Powder:1 tsp
Process:
- Wash,peel and dice the potato in quarters.Heat little mustard oil in a pan and fry the diced potato with turmeric powder and salt till golden yellow in color .Keep them aside.
- Now hard boil the eggs,deshell them and in the similar way fry them golden yellow and keep them aside.
- Now,make a paste of ginger and garlic together.Add few green chillies while making paste (optional)
- Chopped the tomatoes finely.
- Dry roast the cumin,coriander seeds and the red chilli.Pound them coarsely.
- Now add the mustard oil in the kadhai and heat it.
- Add little sugar and caramalise it.
- Add the bay leaves,cinnamon,cloves and the cardamoms.
- When the aroma comes out, add the onion paste .Saute until it turns into translucent golden.
- Add the grated ginger, garlic and chilli. saute for a few more minutes.
- When the oil starts to release add the sliced onions and saute it for few more time.
- Now add tomato paste, pounded coriander and cumin, turmeric and chilli powder and saute.
- Sprinkle a little water to avoid burning at the bottom.
- Add the fried potatoes.
- Keep cooking until the nice golden color comes out.
- Add 1 cup of water . Mix well.
- Cover and cooking until the potatoes become soft.
- Add the fried eggs. Mix with the gravy check seasoning (salt, sugar) and cover and cook in medium for 5 minutes.
- Uncover and increase the flame to adjust the gravvy
- Sprinkle little garam masala powder .
- Turn off the flame and serve with rice/roti/paratha or puri.
Enjoy Your Food..!!!
Rich Eggless Chocolate Cake....!!
It was a friday afternoon and I just prepared a simple veg curry and roti for dinner as friday is considered to be a complete veg day at my home. So,I was thinking hard,how could I make this begining of the weekend into a special one.On the fridays,some special foods,late night movies,sometimes little shopping at the end of the day are the usual features of my family and I know,everybody after ending a busy and stressful week ,want to indulge themselves in their own ways,specially on the friday evening.
Therefore I thought that I should go for a eggless cake preparation as cake is such a thing which turns a very ordinary day into a special one.
As chocolate is the most favorite flavour of both the " D " s at my home, I chose to prepare Rich Eggless Chocolate Cake for them.And DD just loves to enjoy chocolate cake with his favorite tea,Earl Gray.Then I made a quick search,whether I had all the necessary ingredients for the chocolate cake and if there were sufficient amout of earl gray tea bags in my kitchen pantry.Oh ,yes,everything was there so,without wasting time,I just started to prepare those.
And I know,now you are quite curious about the result. It was really really good and the li'l D told me,"mamma,ummmmm lovely,thank you for the yummy cake" and DD expressed his satisfaction with his smile.That was all I wanted to see.
Here is the process of preparation of the rich eggless chocolate cake..
Ingredients:
- 1 tin condensed milk
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups flour( maida)
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup cocoa
- 150 gm oil( 1 cup)
- 1 tdp sodium bi barbonate( mitha soda)
- 2tsp baking powder
- 2 tsp vanilla essence
Process:
- Grease a round cake tin with little butter and sprinkle 1 tbsp flour to dust it.
- Preheat your oven to 150-300 degree Celcium
- Sieve flour,baking powder and soda bi carb together ,keep it aside.
- Beat oil,sugar and essence till well mixed.Add cocoa.
- Add milkk and condensed milk,beat well.
- If the mixture ,looks curdled beat oder hot water.
- Add flour in 2-3 batches ,mix well after each addition.
- Beat well for 4-5 minutes till the mixture is light and fluffy and of a soft dropping consistency.Add a few spoons of milk,if the batter is too thick.
- Transfer the cake mixture to the prepared tin
- Level the mixture.
- Bake it at 150-300 degree celcium for 1 hour.
- Insert a clean tooth pick in the centre of the cake,If it comes out clean,switch off the oven.
- Remove the cake from the oven after 5-10 minutes.
- Then unmould it and serve it with your favorite fruit dipped with chocolate sauce.
- This is a cake for converting into a blackforest or truffle cake.
Enjoy Your Food...!!
Aluposto...Potato Cooked in Poppy Seed Paste.....Soul Food of A Benagli...!!!!
For a bengali " alooposto and garom bhat ar ektu daal"( potato cooked in poppy seed paste along with daal and the steaming hot rice) is always heavenly delicious .And I am quite sure that most of the bengali people would like to leave the most costly food for this simple delicious preparation.
Posto or poppy seed or khaskhas is the most useful ingredient in a benagli kitchen.Aluposto is one of the very famous ,traditional and delicious bengali preparations where small potato cubes are cooked in the gravy of the poppy seed paste.Since our childhood ,we believe as well as enjoy this preparation as our most comfort food when served with steaming hot rice,associated with daal and other curries.The recipe is very simple but the taste is always fingerlicking good.
Ingredients:
- Potato: 2 medium(cut in small cubes)
- Poppy Seed paste: 4-5 heap tbsp
- Turmeric Powder
- Salt
- Green chillies
- Oil:2-4 tbsp(Taste of the most of bengali preparations are best when cooked with the mustard oil but white oil is also good.)
- Chillli Powder: 1 tsp( as per choice)
- Water: 1- 1 1/2 cup
Preparation:
- Soak the poppy seeds in 1/2 cup of water for 10 minutes and then make a smooth paste with the help of a grinder.
- Peel,wash and cut the potatoes in small cubes.
- Now heat mustard oil(white oil is also good) in a thick bottomed kadhai.Add the green chilllies and the potato cubes.
- In medium heat slightly fry the potatoes. During frying add little salt and turmeric powder and the red chilli powder( optional).
- Then add the poppy seed paste and mix the paste very well with the potatoes.
- Add one cup of water in the kadhai and cover it.
- In the medium flame cook it until the potatoes become soft.
- Increase the heat slightly and cook until a thick dry curry is formed.
- Turn off the flame.
- Sprinkle little raw mustard oil over the curry.
- Serve it with steaming hot rice and daal.
Enjoy Your Food..!!
Summer is almost here and there is a scorching sunlight outside.During this season,the best way to keep the body cool , is to drink lots of water and juices.In these days,I really remain worried about my daughter,because after the school hours when she comes to home,she really looks very exhausted and tired and moreover,she doesnt want to drink enough water.
Therefore sometimes,specailly after the school hours I like to give her some refreshing drink which not only helps to keep her body cool,but also enhances energy and provide some nutrients as well.
This Banana Berry shake is a very easy preparation which requires a minimum fuss inside the kitchen.As strawberries are still availbe in the market and this is my daughter's most favourite fruit,I made Banana Strawberry Shake for her.
Here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
- 1 cup cold milk
- 1 cup chopped strawberries
- 1 very ripe banana,peeled and chopped
- 1 cup chilled unsweetened yoghurt
- 1/2 cup vanilla icecream
- 2 tbsp straeberry crush
- 2 tbsp sugar(or as you want)
- 4-5 ice cubes.
Process:
- In a mixer put all the ingredients together and blend until smooth.
- Serve immediately.
Enjoy Your Food...!!!
Soya Egg Roll....A helthy Snacks for You and for Your Little one..!!
I should have included this recipe in my "Kids Special" album as this is a very ideal snacks recipe for the little children. I prepare it most of the time for my daughter and try to find out a way to make my daughter eats soyabeans.
Soyabean is known as the "king of the beans".It contains a large number of nutrients and health care benefits. It enhances immune functions,improve intelligence,strengthens human tissues and organs,improves energy,whitens skin,prevents cancer,prevents oxidation,reduces blood fat,prevent deafness,brings high blood pressure down.
I have given the egg chicken roll recipe few days ago.This egg soyabean roll is almost same as that .With the soya granules I tried to make a healthy yet,very delicious preparation.
Here is the process:
Ingredients:
For the Stuffing:
- Soya Granules:1 cup
- Capsicum: 1(chopped)
- Onion:1 medium(chopped)
- Garlic:4 cloves(crushed)
- Cabbage:1 cup(chopped,I use purple cabbage)
- Eggs:4 ( beaten,one for each roll)
- Tomato Ketch-up
- Soya sauce
- Chilli sauce
- Salt to taste
- Lime juice
For the Paratha:
- Flour/Maida: 1 cup
- White oil:2 tbsp
- Salt: A pinch
- Water.
For the Roll:
- Onion: 1/2 (sliced)
- Cucumber:1/2(sliced)
- Green Chilli:2(chopped)(Optional)
- Kasundi
- Tomato Ketchup
- Salt
- Black Pepper Powder
- Tissue Paper.
Process:
Stuffing:
- At first boil some water in a pan and add the soya granules for 15 minutes and add little salt.
- After sometime the soya granules will absorb water and swell.
- Then press them little to remove the extra water and after draining the water keep th soya granules aside.
- Then add little white oil in the pan and add all the chopped vegetables into it.
- Sprinkle salt and cook them on medium flame until they become little soft.
- Now add the tomato ketchup,chilli sauce(be careful while you are prepararing for your kids) and the soya sauce.
- Combine them very well and add the pe soaked soya ganules.
- Mix the soya granules very well with all the vegetables
- Cook for 5-6 mins until a soft stuffung masala is done.
- Keep it aside.
Paratha:
- Take the flour mix it with the oil and salt and make a soft dough with water.
- Divide it into few equal balls.
How to Prepare A Roll:
- Now roll the flour dough with the help of the rolling pin ,with some dry flour and make few medium sized, round shaped parathas.
- Heat a flat tawa or pan and cook the both sides of the paratha only for 2-3 mins .Keep them aside.
- Now beat the eggs with little salt.
- Then heat the same tawa again and sprinkle some oil on it and add 1/4 th of beaten
egg on it.
- Immediately swirl the egg
to form a roti size omlette.
- Before the egg sets, place a roti on the egg and
press it gently.This will help the roti to stick to the
omlette.
- Flip the roti when the egg is done and cook for 2-3
minutes. you can add little more oil at this time to make roti fried or roasted.
- Now place the paratha on a flat plate .Add the soya stuffing on the omlette side.
- Add the chopped cucumber and the onions,little lemon juice,kasundi(optional) ,tomato ketchup,sprinkle little salt and black pepper powder.
- Now roll the paratha along with the tissue papaer at the outer side to wrap it.
- Close the lower end of the roll with the tissue paper.
- Hold tightly and enjoy your beautiful healthy snacks and let enjoy your little one with his/her favourite fruit drink.
Enjoy Your Food..!!
Noodles for Kids...!!!
It is so delightful for a mother to see her little boy/girl has eaten his/her tiffin completely at school or at home.But I know,like me ,most of the moms have the same problem,same complain that their kids dont eat properly . Moreover,we the moms,always want to give our children a healthy food and strictly stop them to take few foods which they really like,because these are not so good for their health.
But we forget that they are really very small and they cant understand the neccessity or the advantage of the healthy foods.They only want to eat those preparations or food which satisfy their taste bud.Therefore ,most of the time we used to fight with our little ones ,during their meal time.
Keeping that in mind,most of the time I try to prepare something for my daughter,which not only good in taste but also provide some nutrition.In this list noodles is almost at the top.
I prepare it in a very simple and easy way and my daughter very happily finishes it during her lunch time ar school.
Here is the process.
Ingrdients:
- 2 cups boiled noodles( I used maggi noodles)
- Red,Green,Yellow Bell pepper:1 cup(chopped)
- Maggi Masala Powder:1/2 tsp(I used the masala provided with the packet of the maggi chicken noodles)
- Eggs:2
- Onion: 1 medium( chopped)
- Spring Onion: 1/4 cup(chopped)
- Green peas: 1/4 cup
- Garlic : 4 cloves(crushed)
- Cabbage: 1/2 cup chopped( I used Purple Cabbage)
- Soya Sauce:1 tsp
- Tomato Ketch up: 2 Table Spoon
- Salt: As per taste.
- Olive Oil:4 tsp( white oil may also be used)
You may add any vegetables of your choice...even paneer or chicken may also be used.
Process:
- Boil the noodles first ,then drain the water with the help of a strainer and keep them aside.
- Chopped all the vegetbales carefully.
- Beat the Eggs.
- Add little oil in the pan , add the egg and scramble it,sprinkle little salt and keep it aside.
- Heat rest of the oil in the pan and add the crushed garlic and saute it for 1 min.
- Then add all the vegetable escept the spring onions and fry them on medium heat until little soft.
- Add salt and the tomato ketchup to the vegetables and mix well.
- Then add the boiled noodles and mix it with all the vegetables.
- Now add the maggi masala and the Soya sauce.
- Combine all the ingredients very well and turn off the flame.
- Add spring onions and the scramble egg on the top.
- Serve it with your kid's favorite drink and favorite sauce.
