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Durga
Puja is the time for celebrations and delicious delicacies are always
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| PAROTA |
Ingredients:
500gms
Flour, 2 tbl spoon refined oil, salt according to taste, warm water
to knead the flour, 1 tablespoon dahi
oil to fry |
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Steps:
Sieve
flour and salt together. Mix oil and dahi. Add water and form
into a dough. Knead dough until soft and pliable.
Divide into eight equal parts. On a floured board, roll one dough
into a large round. Then smear a little oil and fold it first
into half, then into quarter.
Now roll it again symmetrically on all sides, into an eight inch
porota.
Heat oil in a flat pan.
Fry porota in gently simmering oil until lightly browned on both
sides.
Drain well before serving.
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| BANDHAKOPI |
Ingredients:
Cabbage-
500gms, sliced, Potatoes- 2, cut in small cubes
Oil- 1/2 tablespoon, Turmeric paste- 1 tablespoon
Chilli paste- 1 teaspoon, Cummin paste- 1 and one fourth tablespoon
Coriander paste- 1 tablespoon, Ginger paste- 1 teaspoon
Ghee- 1 tablespoon, Bay leaves- 2, Garam masala- to taste
Salt- to taste, Sugar- to taste
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Steps:
Fry the
cubed potatoes in hot oil until light brown
-Remove from oil and keep it aside
-To the hot oil in the pan add the sliced cabbage and sprinkle salt
-Stir and cover the pan
-Cook for 5 min.
-Remove cover and to the water given out by the cabbage add the
masala pastes.
-Stir and fry until masalas are well blended with the cabbage.
-Add 1/4 cup of water to cook the potatoes.
-Add a sliced tomato and fry
-Add salt and sugar to taste
-Simmer over medium until the potatoes are cooked and there is almost
no gravy left.
-In a frying pan heat a tablespoon of ghee
-Add the bay leaves and garam masala.
-Stir and pour it on the cooked BandhaKopi.
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| MUNG
DAL |
Ingredients:
250
gms of mung dal., 10 small whole pearl onions.
4 slit green chillis., 1/2 cup milk., 1-2 teaspoons of sugar., salt
to taste., 1tablespoon of ghee.
4 bay leaves., 1/2 teaspoon whole cumin seeds.
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Steps:
-Fry
the dry mung dal in a pan over medium heat until delicately brown.
-Wash and put mung dal to boil.
-After 10 mins add the onions, green chillis and salt.
-Simmer until
dal is cooked.-In a separate pan, heat ghee and fry the bay leaves
and cumin seeds for a few minutes.
-Pour the dal
and simmer for 5 minutes.
-Add 1/2 cup
of milk and sugar.
-Remove
from fire.
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| MALPOA |
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Ingredients:
Smolina-50gms,
Flour- 240gms, Water as required, Large black Cardamom seeds- 3
or 4, Oil for frying, Sugar-250gms, Water-500ml
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Steps:
-Whisk
together, the flour and semolina adding enough water to make a thick
batter.
-Add the cardamom seeds, a pinch of salt and sugar and stir well.
-Heat oil in a small pan.
-Deep fry one spoonful of batter at a time into mildly simmering
oil.
-The batter spreads to make malpoas of 5 inch diameter.
-Soak in prepared syrup.
-Remove from syrup to serve.
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