Category: Main Course

Veg Manchurian – How to make Manchurian

Veg Manchurian is nothing but vegetable dumplings prepared in an Indo-Chinese style. This veg manchurian recipe of mine is gravy based, but you can try non-gravy version too, in case you are not a big fan of this soupy version. Veg manchurian is made of dumplings made of carrot, cabbage and capsicum primarily.

If you having the dry version, then it is a great starter and when you making this gravy one, it is fabulous as main course. You can serve it with rice or noodles and certainly an instant hit with your guests.

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Best Shahi Paneer Recipe (Restaurant Style)

Shahi Paneer (शाही पनीर ) is a delicious North Indian preparation of succulent pieces of Cottage Cheese or Paneer that cooked in rich gravy of onion, tomatoes coupled with few cashews. It is simple and quick to make and is ready within 30 minutes, making it a perfect dish, which can impress everyone and anyone. Shahi paneer has been the main stay of Indian cuisine since Mughal era. A good restaurant style shahi paneer is true celebration of taste. Pair this shahi paneer with butter naan or any other Indian bread and if you gluten intolerant, enjoy with rice. I hope you will find this shahi paneer recipe easy and useful, do not forget to bookmark it.

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Lauki Kofta Curry Recipe – Lauki ke Kofte

Lauki / Doodhi kofta (लौकी के कोफ्ते) or bottle gourd kofta is a commonly made main course curry in northern part of india. The soft, melt in mouth dumplings made out of lauki dipped in onion tomato based gravy make anybody to drool for them. It contains many vitamins and minerals, such as, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, Vitamin A, C and folate. Ayurveda recommends cooked lauki or bottle gourd for better digestion. It is cooling, calming, diuretic and anti-bilious. This kofta curry is of course the easiest way to feed lauki / bottle gourd to the person who don’t like to eat normal lauki curry. I hope you like this lauki kofta recipe, it details how to make lauki ke kofte.

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Chicken Yakhni Pulao Recipe

Chicken yakhni pulao is a traditional pulao where chicken is cooked with long grained rice in the chicken broth. Talking of pulao and rice based dishes, I have previously shared recipes of veg pulao, navratan pulao. However I never got around to share the authentic recipe of chicken yakhni pulao. Unfortunately, yakhni pulao is not as popular as biryani, however I believe that a good yakhni pulao can compete with biryani in the simplicity of taste it offers.

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Rajma Masala Recipe – Kidney Beans Curry

Rajma Curry or Red kidney beans Masala – Rajma does not need any introduction for an Indian household. Likewise Kidney beans is widely known term in west too. Having said that Rajma has not been so popular as Chole (Chick Pea) or Samosa in west. Objective of my recipe here is to familiarise this to my audience in west as well as for the from Indian subcontinent to suggest how to make restaurant style authentic punjabi rajma masala. This recipe is suitable for Vegans and is gluten free (If you ignore Asafoetida or use GF version of it).

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Palak Paneer Recipe – Step By Step

Palak paneer (पालक पनीर) is a vegetarian dish which originates from the Punjab region of northern part of India. Soft Paneer cubes simmered in not so spicy spinach gravy make this recipe a dish full of nutrients. This palak paneer recipe is an excellent example of nutrition packed meal, thanks to spinach and paneer. Who says veg food does not have proteins?

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Butter Chicken Recipe – Step by Step

If someone is a chicken lover and loves curry, it is little less likely that the person would have not heard of this extremely popular scrumptious chicken curry called “Butter Chicken”.  Murg Makhani or Butter Chicken (बटर चिकन) is one of the most popular Indian chicken recipe. This butter chicken recipe is loved by everyone for its mild flavour and deliciously rich gravy. This dish is hugely popular across the globe for its taste, though it is believed that butter chicken originated in Punjab state of India.

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Easy Matar Paneer Recipe – Restaurant Style

Make creamy, rich, and delicious matar paneer at home with this recipe.

Matar Paneer is by all means one of the most popular Paneer recipe. To make matar paneer, matar and paneer are cooked in Indian spices. This recipe is from North-Indian Cuisine.

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Baingan Bharta Recipe – Mashed Aubergine Curry

Baingan bharta recipe – Raise hand if you love aubergine. Now raise hands if you do not love aubergine. Reason for both of you groups need to raise hand is that immaterial of you liking aubergine or not, everyone loves this roasted aubergine, tossed in spices, aka known as “Baingan ka Bharta”.

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Pav Bhaji Recipe – How to make Best Pav Bhaji

Pav Bhaji (पाव भाजी) is a spicy curry of mixed vegetables (bhaji) cooked in a special blend of spices and served with soft buttered pav (white rolls slightly toasted with butter). It is any Indian food lover’s dream to have hot bhaji with a piece of buttery shallow fried bun and some chopped onions. I hope that with this Mumbai style Pav bhaji recipe of mine, I have done justice to the authentic taste of pav bhaji.

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