Hey as I told you I will share few Indian recipies with you. Here is few Hydrabadi dices.
Later I will share few bengali recipies for sure
MIRCHI KA SALAN
• Ingredients: 250 gms green chillies (slit); 4 onions (chopped): garlic pod; 1 tsp coriander seeds; 1 tsp cumin seeds; 3 tbsp sesame seeds; cup of peanuts; 1 tsp poppy seeds (khus khus); 10 gm ginger (julienne); 2 tsp desiccated coconut; tsp fenugreek seeds; 1 tsp turmeric powder; 1 tsp red chilli powder; 1 tsp jaggery or sugar; 75 gms tamarind pulp; 10 curry leaves; 1 cup oil; salt to taste
• Method: Mix all the spices and jaggery, and grind them into a fine powder. Roast onion, ginger, garlic and grind this into thick paste. Now heat oil in a pan and temper it with curry leaf. Add onion paste and cook till it turns light brown. Add the spices, powder and chillies. Cook till the gravy gets thick. Serve hot.
DUM BIRYANI
• Ingredients: 1 kg mutton (medium cut); kg long grain rice; 250 gm onion paste; 2 tsp ginger paste; paste of one raw papaya skin; 1 tsp crushed peppercorn; tsp cumin powder; 6 cloves; 2 black cardamom seeds; 4 cups yogurt (whisked); 1/3 cup ghee; 1/3 cup oil; cup coconut milk; pinch of saffron; salt to taste
• Method: Mix salt, saffron, onion paste, ginger paste and papaya paste. Rub the mixture into the meat and keep aside for an hour. Mix all the ground spices and little saffron with half quantity of yoghurt and apply on meat. Take heavy bottomed pan and place the meat in it.
Wash the rice and mix it with the rest of the yoghurt, water and little salt. Cover the meat with rice and seal the lid with dough. Cook it on slow flame for about 30 minutes. When the rice is almost done, sprinkle some milk and ghee over it and serve hot.
KHAJOOR KA HALWA
• Ingredients: kg fresh dates; 2 cups of milk; 250 gms sugar (optional); 50 ml ghee; 1 1/3 split gram lentil; 6 almonds; 6 green cardamom seeds; 10 pistachio nuts (crushed); varkh (optional)
• Method: Boil the dates, lentil and almond together, strain and ground into coarse paste. Heat ghee in a pan and slowly add the paste, cardamom powder and milk. Add sugar if needed or simply garnish it with crushed pistachio nuts and varkh.
NALLI KA KORMA
• Ingredients: gm lamb bone marrow ; 250 gm mutton (cut into medium-sized pieces); 3 onions (finely sliced); 1 tsp ginger paste; 1 tsp garlic paste; 1 tsp red chilli powder; 1 tsp turmeric powder; 1 tsp coriander powder; 1tsp black pepper corn; 1 tsp water melon and musk melon seeds; 500 gm yoghurt (whisked); coconut (desiccated) ; cup vegetable oil; salt to taste
• Method: Soak the desiccated coconut in one cup of water for a few minutes. Later, squeeze the milk from it. Now add salt, pepper, turmeric, coriander, chilli powder, ginger paste, garlic paste and ground melon seeds to the yoghurt and beat well.
Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed vessel and add black pepper corn, lamb marrow and meat and cover. Cook while stirring occasionally for 45 minutes to an hour.
In another pan, take some oil and fry onion slices till they turn golden brown. Add these to the yoghurt mixture and mix well. Add cooked meat to this mixture, adjust seasoning and just before serving, add the coconut milk.