101 Ways To Prepare Curries
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Curries remain an Indian speciality--and certainly have a lot of contribution in making Indian food popular all over the world! This superb collection brings you exotic recipes with a special flavour! Even your good old Aloo Matar would taste a lot better if prepared with directions given here! Or why not try someting totally new? Some Glimpses: *Chicken Curry *Rogan Josh *Fried Pomfret *Fish Curry *Mince-ball Curry *Goan Liver Curry *Mattar Paneer *Aloo Matar In addition also find here a long list of highly tempting curries not tried by you before. Also included is a glossary of food and Cookery terms and medicinal properties of vegetables.
Aroona Reejsinghani
Aroona Reejhsinghani is a renowned gourmet, who has over 125 cookbooks to her credit. This has fetched her a place in the Limca Book of Records (1991) and the American Book of Honour. She was congratulated by the Guinness Society for her unique achievement. She began her career as a freelance hournalist at the age of 16 and since then she has contributed several articles on beauty, health and cookery for leading newspapers and magazines like The Times of India, The Indian Express, Femina, Eves Weekly, Manorama, Deccan Herald, among many others. In 1999, Aroona Reejhsinghani received the National Award for Excellence from the All India Freelance journalists Association in recognition of her contribution towards freelance journalism. She also received the 2000 Millenium Award from the American Biographical Institute, USA for being the most memorable personality of the century
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I loved this book. Few regional curry, I was not aware of. Very simple, I also tried some of them and it worked very well. Tips are very essential for day to day kitchen handling.
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101 Ways To Prepare Curries - Aroona Reejsinghani
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Introduction
India is famous for its curries. In fact, it is the home of an endless variety of curries, each better than the other. Indians relish hundreds of curries made with vegetables, meat, fish, prawn and eggs. Every State in India has its own special way of preparing curries, therefore, each curry has a unique flavour. For example, in Southern India, curries are made with coconut, as their base. And in Kerala where coconut grows in abundance, coconut oil is also used for cooking. Bengal specializes in fish curries prepared in mustard oil. In Punjab, which is greatly infuenced by Mughal cuisine, one comes across many exotic curries prepared with onion and tomatoes as a base. In Punjabi curries, coconut is rarely used. Curries are always served with plain fluffy boiled rice and papads which are either fried or roasted.
In India, majority of the people are vegetarian, hence there is a greater variety of delicious vegetarian curries prepared with dais and a variety of vegetables, curds and buttermilk. But this does not mean that there is very little to choose in case of non-vegetarian curries. Indian meat curries, in fact, take many forms. Like kofta curries, ground meat is shaped into balls and cooked in a deliciously rich sauce or curry. Then, there are korma curries — spicy and delicious, keema curries — which is ground meat cooked with peas and decorated with hard-boiled eggs.
In this book, I have chosen for you a wide variety of flavours — some simple, some exotic, some extraordinarily delicious. This book contains recipes for some special curries made and enjoyed in every part of India. The aim is to make people relish curries of a particular region even if they don’t belong to that region. Even the foreigners can try these recipes to relish a unique taste. Here for you is a distinctive selection of curries which are as distinctive as different wines in different bottles.
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PUNJABI CURRIES
Punjabis are acclaimed as gourmets the world over. Their fondness for rich food has led to the development of an abundant variety of spicy and colourful curries. In Punjabi curries, vegetables do play an important role, therefore many of their vegetarian curries are quite unique. Some curries are particular to Punjab, like pakoda curry which is prepared by cooking round fluffy balls of gramfour in a rich yellow curd curry. Non-vegetarian Punjabi curries mostly comprising fish, chicken and mutton have distinct Mughlai infuence on them in appearance and taste. They will satisfy any gourmet.
VEGETARIAN CURRIES
BESAN KOFTA CURRY
Ingredients (Serves 4)
1 large onion
4 flakes of garlic
2 big tomatoes, pureed
1 tsp. garam másala
¼ tsp. turmeric powder
1 tblsp. dhania-jeera powder
Salt and chilli powder to taste
For Koftas
250 grams besan or gram flour
½ tsp. cumin seeds
1 ½ tblsps. melted ghee
1 tsp. crushed pomegranate seeds
100 grams grated onions
Alubhukharas or dry plums, seeded
Preparation
Mix together all the kofta ingredients except plums, without adding water. Turn the ingredients paste into balls around the whole plums. Deep fry the balls to a golden colour. Grind onion and garlic to a paste. Heat 2 tbslps. ghee and fry the ground paste to a golden colour. Add to the paste all the spices and tomatoes and cook till the ghee separates. Then add 2 cups of water, bring slowly to a boil and keep boiling gently for 5 minutes. Then add koftas and boil for 5 more minutes. Serve hot decorated with coriander leaves.
DAHI KOFTA CURRY
Ingredients (Serves 6)
2 large tomatoes, pureed
1 large onion
8 flakes of garlic
¼ coconut
1 tblsp. dhania-jeera powder
¼ tsp. turmeric powder
Handful of coriander leaves
Salt and chilli powder to taste
For Koftas
250 grams curd
50 grams gramfour or besan
25 grams mixed finely sliced nuts like almonds, raisins, cashewnuts, walnuts, pistachios
1 tsp. grated ginger
¼ tsp. garam másala
Handful of chopped coriander leaves
Salt, lime juice and chilli powder to taste
Preparation
Grind nuts, ginger and coriander leaves to a paste. Mix with garam másala, salt and lime juice and set aside. Put curd in a clean piece of cloth and tie loosely. Hang the bag for a couple of hours to make all the liquid drip through. Mix salt, curd and gramfour, and knead to a smooth mixture. Form the mixture into small balls around the ground paste made earlier. Deep fry the balls to golden colour. Grind onions, garlic and coconut to a paste. Heat 4 tblsps. ghee and fry the paste to a golden colour. Add to the fried paste, spices and tomatoes and cook till ghee separates. Then add 2 cups of water, bring the mixture to a boil, and keep boiling for 5 minutes. Now put in koftas, reduce heat to simmering and boil for 5 more minutes. Decorate with chopped coriander leaves.
BHIEN CURRY
Ingredients (Serves 4)
250 grams bhien or lotus stems
250 grams peas, boiled
100 grams tomatoes, pureed
4 flakes of garlic, 1 large onion
1 tblsp. dhania-jeera powder
4 green slit chillies
Handful of coriander leaves
A few curry leaves
¼ tsp turmeric powder
¼ tsp. garam másala
Salt and chilli powder to taste
Preparation
Clean, wash, slice and boil bhien. Grind onion and garlic to a paste. Heat 3 tblsps. ghee and fry the paste to a golden colour. Add tomatoes, spices, curry leaves and chillies to the fried paste and cook till the ghee separates. Then add vegetables, mix well and then pour in the coconut milk. Simmer over a gentle fire till the curry turns a little thick. Decorate with chopped coriander leaves.
BHIEN KOFTA CURRY
Ingredients (Serves 5)
For Koftas
250 grams bhien, cleaned, sliced and boiled
1 small onion minced
Handful of coriander leaves
2 green chillies, minced
3 tblsps. gramfour or besan
A few mint leaves
½ tsp. ground cumin seeds
Salt and chilli