Posto chicken...hmmm???

After the success of chicken Pratima last week i took the venture of cooking one more dish. It's posto chicken. Chicken with poppy seeds. It was a semi gravy dish with posto as its main ingredient. Since i'm much more into spicy,oily foods i will rate it as 7.2/10.  But user customer rating says 8-9/10. so it was a pretty good trial...but the cook is not all that much satisfied. Try it out for yourself.

Ingredients:

Chicken - 250-300 g, cut to small pieces

Onion - 1 medium, sliced

Ginger - 1 tsp, grated

Garlic - 1 tsp, grated

Turmeric - 1/4 tsp

Red Chilli powder - 1/2 tsp

Poppy seeds/posto - 1 and 1/2 tbsp

Cinnamon/Dalchini - 1 inch

Green cardamom/elaichi - 2

Cloves/Lobongo - 4

Coriander leaves/Cilantro - 2 tbsp, very finely chopped

Green Chilly - 3-4

Salt - To taste

Oil - 3 tbsp

Preparation:

Grind poppy seeds with little water, salt, green chillies. If in the US, soak poppy seeds in warm water for easy grinding for as long as possible.

Dry grind cardamom, cinnamon, and cloves into a coarse powder (use a coffee grinder if available).

Cooking procedure:

 Heat oil in a kadhai. Add onions and fry for 2 mins.

 Add ginger and garlic paste and continue to fry for another 2 mins on medium high heat. Add turmeric + red chilli powder and fry for 1 minute or till oil separates. 

Add chicken and fry for 2 mins on medium heat. Then add garam masala powder  posto/poppy seed paste. Mix well and fry for 5 minutes. 

 Add 1/2 cup warm water and bring to boil. 

Cover and cook on medium low heat for 7-8 minutes or until chicken is cooked.

Garnish with chopped cilantro.

What a great success it was yesterday...

Yesterday i took a venture of cooking a chicken recipe which i downloaded from the net. It's name was Chicken Pratima. And i was a bit apprehensive about how good will it turn out to be. But dear friends, it was a pretty good success. Being honest i'm generally satisfied with what i cook, but yesterday i was quite overwhelmed. So here goes the simple recipe and i bet any one can try it out for themselves and i guarantee, you are gonna love it!!!!

      Ingredients:

Chicken - 1 kg cut into medium pieces

Onion - 200 g, finely sliced

Ginger - 1 and 1/2  tbsp, grated/paste

Garlic - 1 and 1/2  tbsp, grated/paste

Cilantro/Dhonepata - 1 and 1/2 cups

Green Chillies - 12 mildly hot (vary according to   the quality available)

Doi/Curd - 200 g

Tej Pata/ Bay Leaf - 2 small

Salt - To taste

White Oil - 2 tbsp

Mustard Oil - 4 tbsp

Ghee -1 tbsp                                                                                                                             

Coarsely grind the following together:

Whole Jeera/Cumin Seeds - 1/2 tsp

Whole Black peppers - 1 tsp

Cinnamon - 1 inch

Green cardamom - 4

Cloves - 4

Preparation:

Grind doi/curd, cilantro/dhonepata, and green chillies together with 1/4 cup water. In a bowl mix the chicken pieces with the paste made above, ginger, and garlic. Keep aside for 3-4 hours.

 Cooking procedure:

Heat 2 tbsp white oil and 2 tbsp mustard oil in a kadhai. Add the marinated chicken pieces along with the marinating masala and cook on low heat for 25-30 minutes or till the chicken is cooked. There should be enough water to cover the chicken so you may add warm water if required, especially if you have used a sheel nora to make dhonepata and chilly paste. No frying is done at this stage.

Keep aside the cooked chicken. The chicken should not be completely dry at this stage so keep some gravy when removing from heat.

In a kadhai heat 2 tbsp mustard oil and 1 tbsp ghee.

Add bay leaf and the coarsely ground masala.

Add sliced onions and fry on low heat to soften the onions (about 5 minutes).

Add the boiled chicken and cook on low fire for another 7 minutes until oil comes to the surface. Adjust water as per your desire. This is a semi-dry preparation.

When oil comes to the surface, remove from heat and garnish with slit green chillies and chopped cilantro/dhonepata.

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Save my mother and yours too...

The pain you bring to my eyes, is enough,

to keep me awake all night.

The pain you bring to my life, is enough,

to keep me away from light.

where are the green lush meadows

that we heard of, in fairy tales? 

Where are the daffodils and wild flowers of your garden?

All gone! It's us who gave you death.

It's us who took away your wealth.

It's us who caused the icebergs to melt and it's us who, unknowingly put you in the hand of death.

"Save the planet" is a slogan now, with banners and ad.

If we would not have been there, may be you would have been glad.

Look at you-Mother Nature-lonely,poor,

we your own children are going to kill you for sure!!!

Save my mother and save yours too.

What if it's late? Let's try a new.