Shahi vegetable kurma

I tried this as per the cook book of Ms.Mallika badrinath and it came out very well.

Ingredients:

Diced vegetables: Potatoes, carrots, beans, turnip, peas - 3 cups

Red chilli powder - 1tsp

finely cut onions - 1/2 cup

Ginger garlic paste - 1 tsp

Whipped cream (I used curd) - 1 cup

Bay leaf - 1

Cinnamon, clove - 3 in each

Soak the following in milk and grind it

Almonds - 10

Cashewnuts - 10

Poppy seeds - 1 tsp

cardamom - 3

METHOD:

Steam cook diced vegetables in pressure cooker.

Heat butter, ghee in a frying pan and add garam masala spices, grated onions, ginger garlic paste.

Fry till golden brown, add chilli powder, whipped thick curds and salt.

Stir in medium flame till ghee floats on top.

Add ground paste, cooked vegetables with enough water.

Cook till kurma becomes thick.

Serve hot with chappathi/nan.

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Mattar panner

This is a very famous dish, which is a gravy that is had along with Indian breads or rice.

Ingredients

list 1:

Panner (Indian cottage cheese) - 1 cup

Peas - 1 cup

onion - 1 (medium/small sized one)

list2:

Tomato - 3(riped ones)

Green chillies - 2

Ginger - 1 small piece

Garlic - 1 pod

list 3:

Jeera - 1 Tsp

cinnamon - 1/2 stick

cloves - 2 nos

list 4: (optional)

corn flour: 1 tsp

cream or thick curd: 1 tbsp

1. Heat the kadai, add little oil and fry the cut panner until it turns brown. Take it out and keep it aside.

2.  Make a paste of ingredients in list 2 and keep it aside

3. Pour some oil in the kadai, when heated add the ingredients in list 3 and then add finely cut onions and fry it until it sautes.

4. Now add the grounded paste and let it simmer for about 10 mins, until the tomatoes gets cooked well.

5. Add the peas. Add little water and cover it again for about 10 mins until the peas gets cooked

6. Add the panner now and then mix it well.

7. Mix 1 tsp of corn flour in little water and add it to the boiling gravy, so that it thickens and not watery. Boil it for 5 mins.

8. For richness you can add 1tsp of cream or curd