Egg Biryani

Egg Biryani

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

I have been stocking eggs for a while now. So for a while i was thinking of recipies that i could try and then thought let me cook something which is a meal in itself so that i dont have to cook anything else :) Here is the recipe..


Ingredients6 Eggs
1.5 Cup Rice
1 Onion
2 Spoon Cashews
2 Tomatoes
1/4 Cup Pudina Leaves
1/2 Cup Corriander Leaves
1/4 Spoon Ginger Paste
1/4 Spoon Garlic Paste
2-3 Green Chillies
1/4 Spoon Garam Masala
1/4 Spoon Jeera Powder
1/4 Spoon Corriander Powder
1/4 Spoon Cinnamon Powder
2 Pinch of Cardamom Powder
2 Pinch of Cloves Powder
A Pinch of Nutmeg Powder
A Pinch of Turmeric Powder
1 Spoon Red Chilli Powder
5-6 Cloves
5-6 Cardamoms
1 Cinnamon Stick
Salt to taste
Oil
Ghee

Method

• Soak rice in the water and keep aside
• Hard boil 3 eggs and cut them into halves and keep aside
• Heat oil and fry the slices of onions in it and keep aside.
• In same oil, fry the cashew nuts and keep aside
• Again in same oil, fry the halved hard boiled eggs and keep aside
• In same oil, add the remaining 3 eggs
• Keep stirring conitnuously, and cook till the eggs form flakes and oil separates out
• Add turmeric powder, a pinch of cardamom powder, cloves powder, nutmeg powder, half of cinnamon powder, red chilli powder, salt to taste and stir well. Keep aside
• In a pan heat oil and add finely chopped tomatoes and cook them till they are almost done.
• Add pudina leaves and all the corriander leaves except a spoon of them
• Add the garam masala, finely chopped green chillies, jeera powder, corriander powder, ginger paste, garlic paste, a pinch of cardamom powder, a pinch of cloves powder and remaining cinnamon powder
• Stir well and cook till compeltely done and keep aside
• Cook rice in same water till almost done and keep aside
• Heat ghee and add cinnamon stick pieces, cloves, cardamom
• Add this mixture to the rice
• Now grease the cooker or the pot that can go in cooker with ghee
• Add half of rice
• Mix tomato-masala and egg masala and layer it on top of rice
• Layer the remaining rice over this
• Spread onions and cashews on top of this
• Cook it till rice is compeltely done
• While serving mix this rice and fried egg pieces and serve

Notes
I layered the biryani in a pot and cooked it in cooker putting very little water and without a whistle. This helped in non sticky - non burnt biryani
If you are planning to layer the biryani in cooker itself you might want to use the trick of layering boiled potatoes so that biryani doesnt get burnt. More details in Chicken Biryani Recipe

Tagged

Tagged

I have been tagged by Hunterwala. Actually its been a while since I have been tagged, and I thought I will post this one that night itself but somehow missed it and Piyush has beaten me in this :(

Last movie seen in a theatre?
Jaane Tu Ya Jaane na. Ajoy not here so not watching many movies these days.

What book are you reading?
Readers Digest

Favorite board game
Fussball

Favorite magazine
Readers Digest

Favorite smells
That of earth when it rains

Favorite sound
Ringtone of my old Moto Razr

Worst feeling in the world
While seeing off the near and dear ones

What is the first thing you think of when you wake up?
Am I late :)

Favorite fast food place
Subway

Future child's name
Not yet thought :)

Finish this statement. "If I had a lot of money I'd..."
Travel all around the world

Do you drive fast?
Not at all

Do you sleep with a stuffed animal
No, but I have the softtoy hanging above my bed.

Favorite Drink
Cane Juice

Do you eat the stem of broccoli?
No, I dont eat broccoli itself :)

Storms - Cool or Scary?
Cool since I havent experienced any :)

If you could dye your hair any color, what would be your choice?
Brown

Name all the different cities/towns you have lived in:
Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Plantation(Florida)

Favorite sports to watch
None, would rather prefer participating in it

One nice thing about the person who sent this to you
He is fun to be with

What's under your bed?
Nothing :)

Would you like to be born as yourself again?
Yes

Morning person or night owl?
Both

Over easy or sunny side up?
Easy

Favorite place to relax
At my mom's place in pune

Favorite pie
Choco Fudge

Favorite ice cream flavor
Custard Apple but only from Sujata Icecreams from Pune

You pass this tag to:
Arati, Atul, Naveen, Nitin, Sameer

Of all the people you tagged this to, who’s most likely to respond first?
Atul

Another Award

Another Award

I am delighted to receive another award - Wylde Women Award :) My second award, quite fast and keeping me in happy and award hangover mode :) Thanks to Kitchen Flavours of Yummy Food who has passed on this to me.

The purpose of the Award is to send love and acknowledgement to women who brighten your day, teach you new things and live their lives fully with generosity and joy.

The rules and other details about the award present on the blogsite.

I would like to pass on this award to:

• Diksha
• Nivedita

Congratulations girls and enjoy it :)

Pineapple Sheera

Pineapple Sheera

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

This item was something I tasted in bangalore. It was so common there for bfast or weddings. This item was must in the menu.. I didnt eat that much when I was there because it either use to be too sweet or not much of pineapple taste. This week when I got nice riped pineapple, i thought of trying this. And the result was wonderfully tasty and sweet enough for my tooth


Ingredients
1.5 Cup Pineapple Pieces
1 Cup Rawa
8 Spoon Sugar
2 Spoon Ghee
2 Spoon Cashews
2 Spoon Raisins
2 Pinch Saffron
2 Spoon Milk

Method

• Warm the milk and mix safron in it. Keep aside.
• Boil 4 cups of water in a pan
• Add pineapple pieces to it and let them cook on the medium flame
• Parallely heat the ghee in the another pan
• Fry the cashews and keep aside
• Add rawa to the ghee and fry it with constant stirring till it turns light brown
• When the pineapple is cooked, add the (only) pineapple pieces to the rawa and keep stirring
• In the remaining water from the cooked pineapple add 2 spoons of sugar and boil it
• Add this boiling water to rawa pineapple mixture and cook with constant stirring
• When the sheera thickens, add sugar, safron milk, raisins and cashews and stir well till it thickens

Notes
Fry rawa and cashews on lowest possible flame so that you dont end up burning them.
Adjust the sugar quantity according to your taste, but this was the best taste i got with 8 spoons of sugar, the pineapply - sweet one.

Salted Peanuts

Salted Peanuts

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

Since I was small I use to prepare this and we loved watching saturday and sunday evening movies on DD while munching these.. Back then I wasnt so good at understanding the cooking techniques so many times they would be soft instead of crispy nuts. After a while the failure rates increased and i left the job of preparing these. But last week I just thought of preparing with my newly developed senses of cooking and results turned out really nice. And above all the results are consistent.. I did try them quite a few times after that to verify :)


Ingredients
2 Cup Groundnuts
2 Spoon Salt

Method

• Roast the ground nuts till they are completely done.
• Mix salt with a cup of water
• Put the groundnuts in the sieve and run them through the salted water
• Remove the excess water
• Quickly put the groundnuts back in the hot pan and roast on high flame with constant mixing till they are completely dry

Notes
The process of running the salty water through hot and roasted groundnut should be done quickly so that the nuts dont soak the water.

Date And Walnut Cake

Date And Walnut Cake

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

This weekend when Seema arrived, I planned to try this cake on her and ended up baking this for her and her inlaws :) Thankfully it turned out good and was so nice that it got over in just one serving :)


Ingredients
2 Cup Seedless Dates
1 Cup Walnut pieces
1.5 Cup Maida
1 Cup Butter
1 Cup Sugar
2 Eggs
1/4 Spoon Lemon Juice
1/2 Spoon Baking Powder
1/4 Spoon Eating Soda

Method

• Wash the dates and chop them into small pieces
• Mix dates, walnuts, 1/4 spoon baking powder, eating soda and 4 spoon of water. Keep it overnight
• Next day morning, beat the butter and sugar together
• Beat the egg in separate bowl
• Mix little egg, litte maida and little dates and walnuts mixture at a time. Continue till all maida, eggs and date-walnut mixture is completely mixed into the butter-sugar mixture
• Mix the lemon juice and 1/4 spoon baking powder
• Mix it with the cake batter.
• Heat the oven to 200C
• Prepare the pan for baking the cake by coating it with butter, puting a butter paper of the size of the bottom of the vessel on it and applying butter again to the paper. Pour the cake batter in the pan
• Bake the cake in microwave + convection mode at 180W and 180C for 30 minutes

Notes
The batter was little thick so I added around 3-4 spoons of warm water in the batter just before pouring it into the pan

Layered Jelly

Layered Jelly

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

Ajoy and myself we both love jelly a lot. There was time when I use to prepare it almost daily. It felt so good to eat it in the hot summer days. But last week i had this great idea of having layers and i experimented it and it turned out really nice. But I prepared it in one big steel bowl so could not take any snap. So yesterday I tried it again and put it in to small round icecream cups. And here is the output, attractive, tasty and simple to prepare nice dessert :)


Ingredients
1 Cherry Flavour Jelly Mix
1 Pineapple Flavoured Jelly Mix
1 Litre Water

Method

• Boil the 500ml of water and mix it with cherry flavoured Jelly mix
• Set it into ice cream cups but filling only half the size.
• Now boil remaining water and mix the pineapple jelly mix
• Set it on top of cherry flavoured jelly in the ice-cream cups filling them completely.
• Refrigerate it once completely set
• Serve in the cup as it is or cut them into shapes and serve.

Notes
The cherry flavoured jelly should be completely set before pouring the pinaepple jelly mix.
Also while pouring pineapple mixture on top of cherry jelly, one needs to be very very careful as otherwise portion of red jelly might come out and mix in pineapple jelly. So pour it slowly so that it flowes over cherry jelly without any damage.
I had prepared the strawberry and orange layed jelly earlier but i think this looks and tastes best. You can try other options that you like. You can add mode layers as well.
I used Weikfield Jelly Mix to get prepare the jelly and custard, if you use different brand the recipe for jelly might be different.