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Food Recipe #3 : Bajra Khichdi

Bajra Khichdi is a scrumptious dish with an earthy flavour and serves as the perfect meal.

Ingredients :
Bajra – 1/2 cup
Yellow moong dal – 1/2 cup
Ghee – 2 tsp
Cumin Seeds (Jeera) – 1/2 tsp
Turmeric powder – 1/2 tsp
A pinch of asafoetida (Heeng)
Salt as per your taste

Method :
Soak bajra for 8 hours, wash it properly, strain the water. Put bajra in a cooker, add 4 cups of water and salt as per your taste, cook till 6 whistles. Now add moong dal to it, give 2 more whistles.
Heat ghee in a pan. Add jeera, now add tumeric and heeng. Add khichdi to it and cook for 2-3 minutes. Bajra Khichdi is ready.
Serve it with raita, papad and pickle.

The recipe serves four people. Relish your meal with this dish.

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Food Recipe #2 : Schezwan Thread Paneer

A delicious snack prepared in minimum time.

Schezwan Thread Paneer

Ingredients :

Paneer – cut into long sticks (250 gms)
Schezwan sauce- 3 tsp
Soya sauce – 2 and a 1/2 tsp
Red Chilli sauce- 2 tsp
Salt- to taste
Black pepper – 1 tsp crushed
Noodles-boiled
Cornflour
Oil- for deep frying

Method:

Mix all the sauces ,salt and pepper.
Marinate paneer sticks in it for 20 mins.
Add some cornflour in boiled noodles.Take one piece of marinated paneer.
Wrap noodles around the paneer.Deep fry it.
Schezwan paneer thread is ready to serve.
Serve it with tomato ketchup.

It serves four people. Relish this with a cool drink.

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Food Recipe #1 : Bihari Style Mutton Curry

Mutton Curry in a Bihari Thali

Bihari Style Mutton Curry :


Ingredients
Mutton – 1 kg
Onion – 1/2 kg
Garlic – 2 pods
Ginger – 1.5″ piece
Bay leaf – 3
Black cardamom – 2
Green cardmom – 3
Black pepper – 8 wholes
Cinnamon – 1/2″
Whole red chilli – 2-3
Salt according to your taste
Cumin powder – 4 tsp
Coriander powder – 3 tsp
Tumeric powder – 1 tsp
Garam masala powder – 2 tsp
Red chilli powder – 2 tsp or according to your taste
Mustard oil 100 – 150 gms and 50 gms for marination.
Raw papaya – 2″ piece or betel nut – 1

Method :

Roughly chop onion,crush ginger and one garlic pod roughly. Mix it with mutton.
Add all masalas except whole garam masala and garam masala powder, salt and oil in the mutton. Keep it for half an hour.

Heat oil in kadai. Add whole garam masala. put marinated mutton in kadai. add one whole pod of garlic in it.
Cover it with the lid. Mutton will start cooking in its own juice. keep storing in between. You can cook it in pressure cooker.

Raw papaya will help mutton to cook properly. you can use betel nut instead of papaya. cook it for 50 min. to one hour. Add garam masala powder. cook for some more time.
Mutton is ready to serve.

It can be cooked in earthen pot also.

It serves 6 people. Experiment with your skills and enjoy this delicacy from Bihar.

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