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Sooji Ka Halvah
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The word halvah finds its roots in the Arabic language and refers to many dense or compact desserts.
Originally, halvah was either flour based or used various nuts with sugar, milk and butter to create a sweet gelatinous, or hardened nutty dessert. It is commonly believed that this kind of halvah was introduced to the settlers in India through trade with the Middle East and Asia Minor during the expansion of the Mughal Empire.

The book Sweet Inventions says,
The origin of Indian halvah is unmistakably Middle Eastern; the name itself is originally Arabic (halwa, meaning sweatmeat). In the Middle East there are two types of halvah, an older type made with flour, and a more recent variant that substitutes a nut or a sesame seed paste.
The former halvah in today’s subcontinent is called sooji (semolina) halvah. It has the consistency of a dense brownie or a slightly crumbly cake and is made by frying semolina in ghee and adding syrup. A Mughul era recipe calls for equal parts flour, ghee and refined sugar.
There are dozens of variations in halvah, but sooji halvah reigns supreme, it is quick, delicious and a subcontinental household favourite. The recipe I share with you today comes from my dear mother’s kitchen. Here it is from my kitchen to yours.

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Ingredient
1 ½ cups sooji
½ cup ghee
½ cup mixture of chopped almonds and raisins
3 cups hot water
½ cup full cream milk
½ cup sugar
5 to 10 green cardamom

Method

Heat ghee, adding sooji. Keep stirring until it changes colour to a golden hue, adding almonds and raisins.
In a separate pan, bring to boil milk, water, sugar and cardamom.
Add the water mixture to the sooji mix, stirring at all times. Cook on low to medium heat until halwah leaves pan and thickens in consistency. Serve warm.
 
yaar koyee khaas cheez dikha jo indian food say different ho.. ye sub kuch toh hum khatay he rehtay hai
 
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........ Roz mara k koftay ka salan


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Roz mara k koftay ka salan

Ingredients

Mince ½ kg
Onion 1 large
Ginger garlic 1 tbsp
Chili powder 1 tsp
Allspice 1 tsp
Coriander powder 1 tsp
Roasted gram 2 tbsp
Almonds 8 to 10 grinded
Poppy seeds 1 tbsp
Method for kofta

Put altogether in the chopper and grind finely, make into balls adding little water. Keep aside.


Ingredients for salan

Oil ½ cup
Onion 1 large blended
Ginger garlic 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Chili powder 1 ½ tsp
Turmeric ½ tsp

Coriander powder 2 tsp
Allspice ½ tsp
Yogurt ¾ cup

Method
Heat oil add blended onion and ginger garlic paste, fry well for 5 minutes, add all the dry masala with yogurt. Fry well add koftas and cook till firm. Add 1 cup water for gravy and let it cook for 10 minutes. Serve garnish with chopped coriander.
 
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Kabuli Pulao ( widely cooked around Peshawar area )



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Kabuli Pulao

Ingredients

Rice 750 gm soaked for 30 minutes
Mutton ½ kg
Ginger garlic 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp + 1 ½ tsp
Water 2 cups
Oil ¼ cup
Sugar 2 tbsp
Raisons ½ cup
Carrots 1 thinly sliced
Brown onion ½ cup
Grind coarsely
Black cardamom 2
Black pepper 8
Cinnamon 1 inch piece
Cumin 1 tsp


Method

Boil mutton with ginger garlic paste, salt and 2 cups water till mutton tender and water dries. Heat ¼ cup oil add 2 tbsp sugar and caramelize till light golden, add 3 to 4 cups water with 1 ½ tsp salt, add in the soaked rice. Cook on high flame till boiling and half water dries, then add to it coarsely grinded whole spice masala mix well and leave it on dum. In another pan heat 2 tbsp oil fry raisons and remove then in the same oil add 1 tbsp sugar, slightly caramelize, add in carrot and keep aside. In another pan heat ¼ cup oil add ½ cup brown onion and boiled mutton. Fry till light golden, now add fried mutton on top of the cooked rice surrounded by fried carrots and raisons. Serve hot.
 
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Kata Kat

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Ingredients:

  • Mutton’s Chops 12
  • Mutton’s Kidney 10-12
  • Garlic Whole 8-10 clips
  • Tomato 4
  • Onion 2
  • Red Chili Powder 1 Tbsp
  • Ginger Garlic Chopped 1 Tbsp
  • Yoghurt 1/2 Cup
  • Kasuri Methi 1/2 Tbsp dry
  • Mint Leaves 1/2 Bunch
  • Hot Spices 1 Tsp Powder
  • Green Chili 6
  • Lemon 2
  • Oil \ Ghee 1/2 Cup
  • Salt As per Taste

Method:

  1. Apply Whole Garlic on goat’s Kidney , wash it after 20 minutes and put it in the net and then cut it into small pieces. Cut onion , tomato, Pudynh , green chili and ginger into tiny pieces . boil chops and cut into slices after separating bones from it.
  2. Put kidneys and chops on a pan and cover it for 5 minutes ,when there is enough steam now mashed them with a plain spoon , then put tomato , red chili , onion , chopped ginger garlic and yoghurt into it and cover it again for 10 minutes.
  3. After 10 minutes add fenugreek , Pudynh , hot spices and 4 spoons of oil and cover it again .
  4. After 5 minutes add again 4 spoon oil , salt , chopped ginger , green chili and lemon juice in it and mashed whole ingredients thoroughly .now it is ready to serve
  5. If u want to add Brain in it , just boil the brain and separates its veins , then cut it into pieces and add it in the end .
 
Sarson Ka Saag


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  • 1 kg Sarson ka saag
  • 1 cup Makai ka aata
  • 1 Packet Butter
  • 4 Green chilies
  • 8 cloves Garlic
  • 10 whole red chilies
  • 1 tsp Turmeric powder
  • to taste Salt
Ingredients for Baghar

  • 4 cloves Sliced garlic
  • 1/2 Packet Butter.
  • 3 tbsp Oil
Method
Soak 1 kg finely sliced sarson ka saag with 1 tsp turmeric powder. Now rinse thoroughly and add to a cooking pot. Also add 10 whole red chilies, 8 cloves of garlic and salt to taste. Allow cooking until water dries up and then grind in a chopper. Add a cup of makai ka ata and 1 packet butter to a pan and stir together. Fry 4 finely sliced cloves of garlic, 1/2 packet butter and 3 tbsp oil to prepare baghar. Take out saag in a serving dish and top with prepared baghar. Serve with makai ki roti
 

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