Showing posts with label kashmiri red chili. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kashmiri red chili. Show all posts

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Kashmiri Fish Curry

Winters have just started to hit me to a point where I have no option but to hide behind a blanket all day and everyday like I'm a rich millionaire but I really need to get out of the blanket and make some money because I am broke.

I don't even know why I said what I said above but this is fish season whether you like it or not I will give you a fish recipe and this time from Kashmir.

This recipe is called Kashmiri Fish Curry and though you'll see that it is cooked in many different ways if you try to search for the recipe I here by do not claim that this one is authentic or accurate by any means.

Ingredients:

500 gram boneless fish (I used red snapper) cut in cubes

2 medium onions finely chopped

4 medium tomatoes finely chopped

1 piece of ginger finely chopped

10 cloves of garlic finely chopped

1/2 cup yogurt

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon Kashmiri red chili powder

1/2 teaspoon turmeric

1/2 teaspoon amchur or khatai powder

1/2 teaspoon coriander powder

2 green chilies thinly sliced

7 cashews (grinded plus add water to make paste)
chopped cashew and coriander leaves for garnish

1/4 cup oil









Heat oil on medium high heat in a non-stick pan.

Put chopped onions, ginger and garlic in it and fry until they are brown.









Now you gotta add salt and rest of the masalas like you add masala to family politics and gossip about others.

After you add the masalas, grind the cashews make a paste of it by adding a little water and add it to the pan.









Mix the masalas well and add chopped tomatoes.

Fry the tomatoes for 3-4 minutes and then add yogurt and let it cook until the oil starts to come above.

Then add the green chilies.








Now its time you enter the fish in the dish but you should keep in mind that the fish should be dry before you cook it or else it will break as fish meat is very delicate after it gets cooked and its nearly effortless to break it like its effortless to break hearts.

Add the fish and let it cook on medium heat.

Give a gentle stir to see if all the fish is cooked.

Then cover it and cook it on low heat for 2-4 minutes.









Kashmiri Fish Curry is read to be served now.

Garnish it with chopped cashews and coriander leaves.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you from my mother land Kashmiri Fish Curry.



Sunday, August 16, 2015

Gushtaba

My ancestors come from a land far away known as Kashmir which obviously makes me a Kashmiri.

The weather of Kashmir is cold and usually the places where the weather is cold the food is heavier in terms of calories so the human body can cope with the extreme climate.

Kashmiri cuisines are mild in taste but rich in flavor with exotic ingredients.

One of the most tasteful Kashmiri recipes which I've tasted many time but made for the first time myself is Gushtaba.

Gushtaba is made of milk, yogurt, khoya meatball of chicken/mutton/beef and desi ghee.

YES it sounds like 6 million calories but its completely worth it.


Ingredients:

1 kilogram finely mice mutton (850 gram meat + 150 gram fat)

1 cup yogurt

1 cup khoya

half liter milk

4-6 dried red kashmiri mirch

4 tablespoon desi ghee

2 table spoon saunf powder (1 for the mince mutton and other for the gravy)

2 teaspoon black pepper (1 for the mince mutton and other for the gravy)

2 teaspoon salt (1 for the mince mutton and other for the gravy)

2 teaspoon garam masala (1 for the mince mutton and other for the gravy)

2 tablespoon of finely chopped mint leaves.

2 cups of mutton broth (chicken broth can also be used)









Put 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon black pepper and 1 tablespoon saunf powder in mince meat, mix the mince mutton and make meatballs which are also known as koftas.

NOTE - If you laugh at my koftas I will break your koftas.

Refrigerate the koftas for 15 minutes.






After 15 minutes put two cups of chicken/mutton/beef stock in a pan and steam cook the koftas for 15-20 minutes.






Meanwhile but milk, yogurt, khoya, kashmiri red chilies in a blender and make the gravy mixture out of it.

Put the gravy mixture in a non stick pan and start cooking it on medium heat. Adding 1 tablespoon saunf powder, 1 teaspoon black pepper and 1 teaspoon salt.










After the meatballs/koftas are cooked add them in the gravy and cook them for 15-20 minutes more.

Add desi ghee and finely chopped mint leaves and cook for 5 more minutes.






Gushtaba is ready and it looks beautiful than any gori I have ever met in America.






Eat it with naan but a true Kashmiri will recommend it with Kashmiri Pulao which I will make sometime later.

MAKE SOME NOISE FOR GUSHTABA.



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