Quick n Easy Indian Cooking, Recipes and Specialities

Posted by Hrishi on Oct 1, 2011

Indonesian Sauce

This is my first post of the series “Flavours of Indonesia” and I though why not start with the very basics of Indonesian cuisine which is its sauces. Indonesian food is famous for its chili sauces called Sambal. The cuisine is also known for its sweet soy sauce called ketjap (kecap) manis. In this post I will features these two sauces that can be used...

Posted by Hrishi on Aug 28, 2011

Sweet Chili Chicken

My wife has turned vegetarian now so it is getting difficult for me to cook meat these days. So what I do, is to make the main dish vegetarian and the side dish something with meat. From that came this recipe. I cooked a vegetarian fried rice and with that cooked sweet chili chicken. But by all means all you meat eaters, make this a main dish if you...

Posted by Hrishi on Aug 16, 2011

Shahi Dal

Shahi dal or you may call it Dal Makhani is a black lentil preparation with red kidney beans. In my variation, I have used the four bean mix. It has not changed the taste of the dal a lot but has certainly changed the texture. It is more chunky and I like it chunky. If you don’t like chunky, I would suggest just use the red kidney beans and black...

Posted by Hrishi on Aug 9, 2011

Spinach Linguine with Marinara Sauce

We usually see a lot of things on sale in a store or online and then buy them. It turns out later that we had no need for that item at all. One of these items is the pasta making machine. After letting it sit in the pantry for 6 months, one fine day we decided to give it a go and make our own fresh pasta. Now along with pasta come the sauce so here is how we made...

Posted by Hrishi on Aug 7, 2011

Stir Fried Lamb with Honey and Soy sauce

I was not a big fan of honey and meat in a single preparation but when I had the Soy Honey Stir Fried Lamb, I was not only impressed with it but hung up on trying it at home. It is effortless to make but has loads of flavours to tingle your taste buds. I am also hooked on to adding sesame seeds in all stir fried dishes. They go very well with dry...

Posted by Hrishi on Aug 6, 2011

Fried Prawns

Fried prawns is a quick and easy starter if you are having friends over. It is a perfect Christmas Dish and goes very well with beer or chilled white wine. Ingredients: 1 Kilo raw peeled prawns ½ teaspoon red chilli powder ½ teaspoon turmeric ½ teaspoon cracked black pepper 2 tablespoon rice flour 1 egg salt to taste oil to shallow fry Preparation...

Posted by Hrishi on Jul 25, 2011

Sukka Mutton | Stir Fried Goat with coconut and spices

I would like to introduce to you the Gem of Kolhapuri cuisine, “Sukka Mutton”. This is one of my favourite meat preparations. There are plenty of restaurants in Kolhapur where you get a Kolhapuri Thali which serves sukka mutton. My favourite place is Shetkari dhaba at Phulewadi, Kolhapur. Sukka mutton or Stir fry goat has to be accompanied by “Tambda...

Posted by Hrishi on Jul 17, 2011

Kolhapuri Kat

My home town Kolhapur is most famous for 3 things. Kolhapuri Chappal, Sukka Mutton and chamchamit Misal. Until recently there were very few fast food joints in the city for the simple fact that if people were hungry, they would go and eat Misal any hour of the day. If it is lunch or dinner you have sukka mutton and bhakri as the preferred choice. While I will feature Kolhapuri sukka mutton and tambda...