Reshma Aslam lists out these really easy-to-make delicacies.
The holy month of Ramzan is here and we begin with our special series of Ramzan recipes.
Reader Reshma Alam shares three recipes today.
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But for now, we begin with:
1. Shami Kebabs
Ingredients:
- 500 gm minced mutton
- Soaked 1 cup chana dal (baby chickpeas)
- 1 tsp ginger garlic paste
- 1 tsp chilly powder
- 1 tsp all spice powder (garam masala)
- 1/2 tsp turmeric powder
- 2 eggs
- Bread crumbs
- Oil for frying
- Salt to taste
Method:
- Take the minced mutton in a bowl. Wash it properly and drain out the entire water. Press the minced mutton using palms of both hands to remove left water.
- Add ginger garlic paste, chana dal, turmeric powder and salt to the bowl containing minced mutton.
- Cover with lid and cook till dal and minced mutton is done. When done, no water should remain.
- Grind it in a mixie to make smooth dough. Do not add water. Now add chilly powder, garam masala powder, to the dough and mix it well.
- The dough for Shami Kebabs is now ready.
- In a plate, spread bread crumbs. These bread crumbs will be used to coat the kebabs before frying.
- In separate bowl, whisk two eggs for the kebabs will have to be dipped in the eggs for the purpose of frying.
- Using hand, form small flat balls of kebabs.
- Now coat the kebabs with bread crumbs from plate and dip the same in the bowl of eggs. and deep fry it till the kebabs turn golden brown.
- Once the kebabs are fried, remove it from oil and keep it on tissue paper to remove excess oil.
- Now the kebabs are ready for serving and can be served with green chutney or tomato sauce depending on the choice.
Note: Shallow frying of kebabs
- Kebabs can be shallow fried also without coating with breadcrumbs and eggs.
- Just make small flat balls , take a flat tawa or a non stick frying pan, with very little oil, you can fry these kebabs.
- These kebabs are now ready to be served with chutney.
Photograph: Stu Spivack/Creative Commons
2. Chicken Harisa
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup wheat daliya. Soaked overnight
- 500 grams chicken with bones
- 3 chopped onions
- 4 to 5 green chilies paste
- 1/2 cup chopped coriander leaves
- 2 bay leaves
- 3 to 4 cloves
- 1 tbsp ginger garlic paste
- 4 to 5 pepper corns
- 2 inch cinnamon stick
- 1 tsp all spice powder (garam masala)
- 1 tsp cumin seeds (jeera)
- 1/2 cup Oil
- Cut lemon wedges
- Brown onions
- Salt to taste
Method:
- Take the chicken; boil it with 3 to 4 cups of water adding half the ginger garlic paste and salt. Boil for 30 minutes.
- When cooled, shred the chicken into small pieces and keep it aside. Keep the stock of the chicken also aside.
- Put soaked daliya into a pressure cooker with the chicken stock and cook it till two or three whistles.
- Pour oil in a vessel. Put cumin seeds, bay leaves, pepper corns, cinnamon sticks and let it crackle.
- Put the chopped onions and fry till they get transparent. Put the chilly paste, coriander, half ginger garlic paste and all spice powder. Add the shredded chicken to the mixture.
- When it mixes well, put the boiled daliya and stir it by keeping the flame of the gas low.
- Now the harisa is ready, and it turns out like a thick broth.
- When done, remove it in a bowl and garnish it with chopped coriander leaves, brown onions and lemon wedges.
Photograph: Rediff Archives
3. Shahi Tukda
Ingredients:
- 1/2 packet of any bread
- 1/4 kg ghee
- 1/4 kg unsweetened khoya
- 1/2 litre milk
- 1/2 kg sugar
For garnishing
- Sliced Almonds
- Raisins
- Yellow edible colour
- Silver varaq
Method:
- Cut the edges of the bread and keep aside.
- Heat ghee in a deep bottom pan.
- Fry all the bread slices in ghee till they turn golden brown. (Fry all the slices separately so it should not remain raw.)
- In another bowl, mix milk and sugar and put unsweetened khoya in it. Mix it well.
- Keep it on the gas and keep on stirring it till the quantity of the mixture reduces to half. Now add yellow colour mixed with little water.
- Remove it from the gas and let it cool for sometime.
- Arrange bread slices which are fried earlier in a tray.
- Pour the milk mixture on the slices of breads.
- Now the Shahi tukda is ready and needs to be garnished.
- For that purpose, spread the sliced Almonds, raisins and decorate it with silver varaq.
- Now it's ready to be served.
Photograph: Rediff Archives
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