Palak Paneer Kofta

Ingredients:

For Kofta:

Paneer crumbled or grated

Few crushed dry fruits

Cheese cube grated -1

Salt to taste

Pinch of sugar

All purpose flour ( for binding)

Cornflour for dust

For Spinach gravy:

Chopped onions

Crushed garlic pods

Chopped tomato

Coriander powder

Kasuri methi

Salt to taste

Turmeric 

Sugar( optional)

Cream

Oil

Method:

1. Put spinach in boiling water with little salt cook it for few minutes and immediately remove in cold water to maintain green color.

2. Make a paste of spinach.

3. For kofta - 

a- Knead paneer well with salt , pinch of sugar, garam masala and all purpose flour ( for binding only).

b- Mix crushed dry fruits and grated cheese together for stuffing in koftas.

c- Make a ball of paneer , stuff with dry fruit mixture, dust with cornflour and fry them in medium hot oil.

4. For gravy -

a- In a pan heat oil , put chopped onion , crushed garlic and chopped tomato. Sauté for few minutes .

b- Add all the dry masalas written in the list. Cook for few minutes .

c- When oil oozes out from masala add spinach paste. Cook for few minutes .

d- Add cream and koftas in gravy and simmer it for few minutes. 

e- Switch off the gas and your dish is ready to serve.

Pomfret er Jhaal ( Pomfret Fish Curry)

There are so many authentic and mouthwatering recipes Pomfret . But sometimes feels to have some light curry with plain rice. Here is one of the simple recipes of pomfret i.e Pomfret er Jhaal (Pomfret fish curry).

Let us begin with the recipe:

Ingredients:

4-5 Medium size Pomfrets
2 Onion chopped
5-6 cloves of garlic pods chopped
Small piece of ginger
Two big size Tomatoes chopped
Few green chillies
Chopped coriander
Salt to taste
Turmeric
1/2 tsp black cumin(Kalonji)
1 tsp jeera(Cumin) powder
1/2 tsp dhaniya(coriander) powder
Red chilly powder(optional)
Little Sugar(optional) to balance taste
Oil  (I used Mustard oil)

Method:

Clean and wash the fish . Marinate it with salt and turmeric, Keep it aside.
In a big pan Put some oil and heat it.





Now put  black cumin seeds(kalonji) after that add chopped onion ginger and garlic together.'




After few minutes add salt and  spices mentioned in ingredients with little amount of water . When oil oozes out put chopped tomatoes. Wait for a while till the tomatoes cooked.



Put marinated fish in the masala in slow flame and cook one side for few minutes and flip them to another side. After some time add water (consistency according to you) .




After well cooked put few green chillies and chopped coriander.



Serve with piping hot rice.

Salmon Avocado Salad

Salmon is the healthiest with good source of Omega-3 fatty acid fish . Mostly little grilling or saute is the best option for this fish and if we cook more it will become hard, so cook little . In this salad I little saute and flakes the Salmon . Here you can use Chicken instead of Salmon and you can use this mixture of your sandwich also. Okay ,Let's begin our recipe. 

Salmon - 3 Fillets
Boiled Eggs -2
Avocado -1
Walnuts
Almonds
Cranberry
(You can use any other nuts like pumpkin seeds , pistachios etc.)
Olive oil
Salt to taste
Black Pepper powder
Lemon juice

Salmon saute with some salt and pepper and flakes it.
Roughly cut the boiled Eggs and and Avocado.
Crushed the Walnuts and Almonds.
Then mix every ingredients except lemon juice.
At last add lemon juice and garnish it with Coriander.

Coriander yogurt chutney (little Italian style)

Usually I call this chutney "Indian-Italian Pesto" . Here idea is an Indian but execution little Italian way. Hope you will like it. This chutney you can eat in many ways . You can mix it with pasta also and you can call it Indian pesto Pasta or you can use in sandwiches or for marination .  Here I coarsely ground not fully ground. So you can get every bite of ingredients.

Its very easy and simple to make . All measurements according to you:

Coriander leaves

Few Mint leaves (optional)

Garlic cloves

Green chillies

Walnuts

Yogurt

Olive Oil

Lemon juice and

Salt

Coarsely grind everything . Not make too much runny chutney , it should be semi -liquid.

Bengali Veggies Chorchori

This Chorchori is my childhood memory. Mostly Mom used to make this after I came back from the school . Every vegetables dish she used to make healthy as well as tasty. I enjoyed it with hot rice and ghee .

Chicken Bharta

After a long time I am posting some recipe. Home style Chicken Bharta . I am not saying it tastes like restaurant style . But I tried my hand to make it nearly restaurant style , not so rich but little healthy. Using boiled Chicken breasts and simple masala or spices . My little boy eats very well ,when this kind of preparation I served him .So no trouble for mom.

Greens with Mushrooms and Tofu/Paneer

Nowadays getting more greens and fresh vegetables that is why I like Summer . Experimenting with these greens I love it. Eat more fresh and healthy food in this season . Especially for kids, they need lots of nutrition in this growing age. They do lots of physical  and mental work . This dish specially for my little boy who loves to eat tofu in any form . So I do not do every time same recipe of tofu for him , I do experiments with Tofu . But if you don't prefer Tofu you can use here Paneer(Cottage Cheese).

Zucchini and Pumpkin Ghonto

Do you know the dish Ghonto? Like Muri Ghonto(with fish head), Badakopi Ghonto(with cabbage) or Lau Ghonto(with bottle gourd). Ghonto is nothing but simple vegetarian or non- vegetarian recipe with the use of less spices. Most popular dish in Bengal. Here I made Zucchini & Pumpkin Ghonto same as Lau or Loki(bottle gourd ) Ghonto. In my childhood my mom used to make this with Bori Or Badi (dry lentil dumplings). Here I used small prawns instead of Bori , but if you don't eat prawn you can skip it . It is completely optional.

Bengali Style Chena Kofta Curry (Chanar Borar Dalna)

We all know that Bengalis are fond of fish curry and rice. But some of the few dishes in Bengali cuisines are pure vegetarian . Mostly these dishes prepare on some festivals/Puja . In my household I prepare it many times without any occasion . My family loves to eat paneer or chena twice or thrice in a week . But nowadays, I don't get enough time to cook varieties because something new has added in my life. As per I know my passion is cooking, so whenever I'll cook something different or occasional food, I will share with you. This time very common and prepare in every Bengali household ,I am going to share with you. In Bengali we called it Chanar Borar Dalna which is a little sweeter in taste because we Bengali loves to sprinkle some sugar in every Bengali dish  ,we feel that it tastes good . 

Creamy Mustard Pomfret

I've been away for a long time from my blog and very late to update ,so no excuses and trying to update my blog more often . Today I am going to share my recipe with one of my favorite fish Pomfret . Mostly I select medium size of Pomfret in gravy and bigger one for grill because I feel it has more taste than bigger one in gravy. This gravy is good with prawns also. This time I used very few ingredients to make this gravy. Now I want to share it with you . Lets look at the recipe and let me know how it comes out?

Chocolate Gujiya

Wishing you all a very-very happy and prosperous Diwali .

 What do we crave in festivals? Some rich good food and celebrate our joy with variety of sweets. Whenever festivals come we all have an excuse to eat lots of sweets . So on festive seasons no dieting , just we want to eat varieties of homemade or purchased sweets . But I know that Gujiya is very common sweet in every Indian festivals , which is traditionally made by khoya and coconut . But here I did some variation with filling , just some experiment . I hope you would love this little experiment with Gujia .       

Chicken Bhurji

I love to cook and eat chicken ,but I don't like to eat the chunky fibrous part of chicken in curry because this part is very chewy not tender . So whenever I buy chicken I separate out the chunky fleshy parts . And in the traditional chicken curry I use only the tender parts . With the chunky parts I try to make variety of dishes . And in this category I cooked Chicken Bhurji . Very easy to cook I just boiled fibrous part of chicken with milk , onion paste and ginger-garlic paste . And mix it with some vegetable and its ready to eat.  Let's start with the recipe.

Crispy Tofu Avocado salad

Sometimes we eat only salad in our dinner ,because it is light and easy to digest at night.This salad was our Friday night dinner. Yes only salad . Because me and my hubby fond of salad . For me Salad preparation is little tough because we've to think more for dressing . I feel good and healthy dressing will make salad more tasty and healthy too .I know that tofu doesn't have its own taste, so to make tasty I shallow fried it . And I made it little spicy too. This is very simple salad . If you eat this salad only in your dinner/lunch then I am sure you won't need anything extra .

Sweet & Spicy Capsicum Potato with Paneer / Prawn / Chicken / Egg White

Happy Rainy Days to all . I love these days . Green in all around , sky is cloudy and the best watch rain from balcony and eat hot Momo with spicy chutney. But rainy days make me little lazy , don't want to wake up early . And in kitchen I want to spend less time . So in less time I made this simple easy dish ,but if you add paneer / prawn /chicken / Egg white with it , it will taste more. Here I used prawns , but if you are using chicken , then use boneless part and chopped it into small pieces . You can use paneer or boiled Egg white also, don't use egg yolk because it will change the taste of your dish . Let's start with the recipe.

Spinach Walnut Kebab

Recently I tried a new experiment with Kebab . Its not any Non-vegetarian kebab, its only Veg and healthy kebab. Healthy because ingredients are Spinach ,Walnut and use very less oil to fry . I always knew that kebabs are mostly non-vegetarian but I was wrong, when I had very good veg kebab in one of the restaurant . That inspired me to make Vegetarian Kebab. I used here good handful of walnut , which is very good for our brain  . My kid doesn't like to eat much healthy food and always like to eat fast foods  like Burger,Chips etc. . And  this Kebab I gave him in the name of Burger . I think this is the common problem for all moms . Only moms can find out the tricks . And this poor mom also find out the way to feed his child healthy and nutritious . So this Kebab is dedicated to all Moms who is struggling like me to feed their children . 

Tofu Kofta Curry

Tofu is one of the most significant food items in East Asia and is abundant in supply . But it is difficult to cook according to Indian taste. In Korea Tofu is mostly eaten with Soy Sauce or Kimchi (kind of Korean pickle) . It looks similar to Paneer or Cottage Cheese but tastes a little bland to many Indians. Tofu is considered to be very nutritious and healthy, so it should be part of our regular diet. This point made me experiment with tofu and I came up with a simple Indian version of tofu dish . Hope this recipe makes you welcome tofu in your kitchen too.

Sweet & Sour Tomato Orange Chutney

I was rummaging through my fridge wondering if anything is left from last week's supply , then my eyes got stuck on some lovely cherry tomatoes . I bought a lot of tomatoes but I didn't use very much and didn't want to spoil them . So decided to make chutney that we can have with paratha or with simple rice menu .  In  bengali occasions no meal is complete without chutney . So this is bengali sweet & sour tomato chutney but with some variation .  In this I mixed some oranges and instead of Dates I used dried Figs , the simple reason for using Figs was that I didn't have Dates at home and my baby doesn't like to eat dried Figs , which happens to be very healthy too . So here goes the simple recipe .

Mutter Paneer / Cottage Cheese with Peas

My husband had been craving paneer for last few days . And I had no excuse because weekend was coming . Weekend means something special to eat and enjoy whole day with family and friends . So I decided to cook Mutter Paneer on Sunday night . Generally  I make paneer at home and keep in water to store it .In Mutter Paneer I don't use any onion and garlic . I don't want to say anymore about Mutter Paneer because I know it is one of the most popular dishes in every Indian kitchen . So friends I would like you to try my simple recipe and let me know how it comes out ?

Chewy Almond Macaroon

Ah! I love to bake macaroons because it doesn't take lot of time to prepare. Only four ingredients are needed to make them . One of the major advantage is that it doesn't need butter, it is made only by almond powder. If your guest gives you a surprise visit , then you can handle them by making these macaroons . Just you need to mix and bake it.

Greeny Fruity Nutty Chicken Salad

After Malai Kofta I decided to make something healthy. It's very difficult to eat something heathy because we  are mentally prepared that healthy isn't too tasty. And if we talk about salad then our first reaction would be Oh!Salad . But we can enhance taste of healthy foods by giving some twists . Yes we have to try and think a bit . So we can eat and live healthy. Here I roasted some chicken (I use boneless chicken) with some salt , pepper , dry parsley and some garlic cloves . You can use your marination also . Salad leaves you can get in any supermarket . So friends let's try something healthy and nutritious today.