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Pepper Grilled Chicken

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Here’s Pepper Grilled Chicken recipe. It’s delicious and simple.

Mummy would add pepper to the chicken to spice it up in a simple manner. The flavours make it hard to resist. Do try it out this weekend 🙂

Noorsrecipes pepper grilled chicken

Ingredients

  • Chicken legs – 6 pieces
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
  • Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
  • Pepper powder – 2 tsp
  • Garam masala – 1/4 tsp
  • Soya sauce – 1 tbsp
  • Lemon juice – 2 tbsp
  • Salt – 1 1/2 tsp or as required
  • Oil – 6 tsp

 

Method

  • Mix all the ingredients from ginger garlic paste to oil in a small bowl to make the marinade
  • Wash the chicken thoroughly and make slits with a sharp knife on the chicken legs
  • This is done to coat the marinade well in the chicken
  • Allow to marinate for about 3 – 4 hours or overnight in the refrigerator
  • Preheat oven to 400 degree Fahrenheit. Cover the baking tray with aluminum foil and place the chicken pieces. Brush some more oil on the chicken if required
  • Bake for about 40 minutes, 20 minutes on each side. Time may vary depending on the oven
  • Serve hot and enjoy the juicy chicken legs just like that

Pepper & Lemon Chicken

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Ingredients

  • Chicken – 500 gms
  • Thinly sliced onions – 1 medium
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
  • Slit green chillies – 3-4
  • Lemon – 1
  • Coriander leaves finely chopped – 2-3 tbsp
  • Black pepper powder – 11/2 tsp
  • Turmeric powder – a pinch
  • Oil – 2-3 tbsp
  • Salt – as required

 

Method

  • Heat oil in a kadai
  • Add the onions and fry till slightly brown
  • Add the chicken and ginger garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes
  • Now add the green chillies, turmeric powder, pepper powder and salt. Mix well and fry for a minute
  • Add a little water and allow to cook till the chicken is tender
  • Once the chicken is cooked, add the lemon juice according to your desired tanginess and finely chopped coriander leaves
  • Mix well and cook for another 2 minutes. This is a semi gravy dish and goes well with dal, rice or roti

Spicy Kheema Pav

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Mum’s spicy Kheema Pav will leave you asking for more!

You can also use it as a stuffing for Samosa 🙂

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Spicy Kheema Pav by Mum 🙂

Ingredients:

  • Mutton Kheema/ minced meat – 1 cup
  • Bay leaf – 1
  • Cinnamon sticks – 2
  • Cloves – 3
  • Oil – 3-4 tbsp
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1tsp
  • Finely chopped onion – 1 medium sized
  • Finely chopped tomatoes – 1 large
  • Finley chopped green chillies – 2-3
  • Finely chopped coriander leaves – 2 tbsp
  • Fresh green peas – 1/3 cup
  • Potato – 1 small (optional)
  • Red chili powder – 1 tsp
  • Coriander powder – 1/2 tsp
  • Cumin powder – 1/2 tsp
  • Garam masala powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Fennel powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Kasoori methi – 1 tsp
  • Pav bread – 8
  • Butter – 2 tbsp
  • Salt – as required

Method:

  • Heat oil in a kadai. Add bay leaf, cinnamon sticks and cloves and sauté for a minute
  • Add the finely chopped onions and fry till slightly brown
  • Then add ginger garlic paste and fry till the raw smell goes
  • Add green chillies and tomatoes and cook till soft
  • Now add all the powders including salt and stir well
  • Add kasoori methi and Kheema and fry until all the masalas are blended well with the meat
  • Cut the potato into small cubes and add if desired
  • Add green peas and mix well
  • Now add some water and cook on low flame
  • Once the meat is done, remove from fire and garnish with coriander leaves
  • Heat tava and toast the pav with butter
  • Serve hot with Kheema and finely chopped onions along with lemon wedges

Ramzan Special – Delectable Shami Kebab!

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It’s the month of Ramzan – the month of peace, prosperity, and good food!

This Ramzan, we are trying our hand at some of Mum’s yummiest dishes. Try them out and make your Iftar all the more special.

Get set on a gastronomical adventure!

noors recipes shami kebab

Ingredients

  • Mutton Kheema – 2 cups
  • Chana dal – 1/2 cup
  • Egg – 1 large
  • Ginger garlic paste – 2 tsp
  • Garam masala – 1/2 tsp
  • Coriander powder – 1 1/2 tsp
  • Cumin powder – 1 tsp
  • Red chili powder – 1 tsp Pepper corns – 10-12 Green chili – 4-5
  • Coriander leaves – handful
  • Mint leaves – 15 leaves
  • Oil – 2 tbsp + for frying
  • Salt as required

Method

  • Pressure cook the Channa dal for 2 whistles using little water
  • Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a Kadai. Add ginger garlic paste and saute for a minute
  • Add the washed and drained kheema and fry. ( You can also soak the Chana dal for an hour and boil the kheema and dal together)
  • Once the raw smell goes and water dries up, add all the masalas, pepper corns, salt and fry well until the kheema is almost done
  • Add the cooked Chana dal and fry for some time
  • Remove from fire once the kheema is completely done. Allow to cool
  • Transfer the kheema mixture into a mixer jar along with fresh coriander leaves, mint leaves and green chillies.
  • Grind it without water for a few seconds
  • Then add the egg and grind it for a few more seconds. Transfer the mixture to a plate, make small balls and flatten them
  • Chill in the refrigerator for half an hour
  • Shallow fry or deep fry as you wish
  • Use one beaten egg to dip the kebab before you shallow fry if you wish to
  • Squeeze some lemon on top of the kebabs and serve with dahipudina chutney and onions

Palak Murgh / Spinach Chicken

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Ingredients:
  • Chicken – 500 gms
  • Spinach/ Palak – 2 bunches
  • Onion finely chopped – 1 medium
  • Tomato finely chopped – 1 medium
  • Garlic finely chopped – 1 large clove
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
  • Yogurt – 2 tbsp.
  • Cumin seeds – 1/2 tsp
  • Coriander powder – 1 tsp
  • Red Chili powder – 3/4 tsp
  • Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Garam masala powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Green chilies – 3-4
  • Lemon juice – 3 tbsp.
  • Oil – 2-3 tbsp.
  • Salt As required
Method :
  • Wash the chicken thoroughly and marinate it with yogurt, ginger garlic paste and all the powders including salt.
  • Heat oil in a Wok. Add the cumin seeds, once it splutters add finely chopped garlic, fry for a few seconds and then add the finely chopped onion and fry till slightly brown.
  • Add the tomatoes and fry for sometime.
  • Now add the marinated chicken and mix well and allow to cook.
  • Meanwhile wash and coarsely chop the spinach. Blanch the spinach. ( Boil some water in a vessel. Once it comes to boil add the spinach and cook for about 2 mintues. Strain the water and immediately place it in a bowl with very cold water for 2 mintues. Remove from the bowl)
  • Grind the spinach along with green chilies to a smooth paste.
  • The chicken would be almost cooked in the masala by now. Add the spinach paste and lemon juice to the chicken. Adjust salt if required. Mix well. Cover and cook  for 10 mintues on low flame.
  • Serve hot with roti or rice

Spicy Mutton Sukha/Mutton Dry

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Mutton Sukha or Mutton Dry is a dish that you can’t get enough of! Delectable, and spicy, Mum would make Mutton Sukha quite often. The various flavors are a treat you can’t resist!

Mutton Sukha

Mutton Sukha
Image Credit: Mujahid Khaleel

Ingredients

  • Mutton – 300 gms
  • Tomato –  1 large
  • Coriander leaves – 1 cup
  • Green chillies – 5-6
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
  • Red chili powder – 3/4 tsp
  • Coriander powder – 3/4 tsp
  • Garam masala powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Pepper corns – 10-12
  • Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Curry leaves – 12-15
  • Oil – 4-5 tbsp or as required
  • Salt – as required

Method

  • Wash the mutton thoroughly and cut into small pieces
  • Grind all the ingredients from tomato to pepper corns including salt  using very little water  into smooth paste
  • Heat little oil in a pressure cooker and add the mutton pieces and fry for sometime. ( mutton leaves some amount of water, fry until this water is dried up)
  • Add the ground masala to the mutton  and fry till the oil separates
  • Add a little water and pressure cook till the mutton is soft and tender. You can prepare in an open vessel too instead of the cooker
  • Heat a little oil in the Kadai. Add the curry leaves then the cooked  mutton and roast it.  Roast it well and make it completely dry. Make sure not to burn
  • Serve it with Dal and Rice or Roti

Note :
Adding curry leaves gives a different flavour to the mutton.
There is green chili, red chili and pepper added to this  dish . The spicier the better.

Mutton Cutlet

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Noor’s Recipes turned one year today. Here’s moms yummy Mutton Cutlet recipe. Enjoy with your family and friends!

Mutton Cutlet

Mutton Cutlet

Ingredients:

  • Minced mutton / Mutton Kheema – 1 cup
  • Finely chopped onion – 1 small
  • Ginger garlic paste – 3/4 tsp
  • Green chilies – 3-4
  • Turmeric powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Garam masala powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Black pepper powder – 1/2 tsp
  • Red chili powder – 1/2 tsp
  • Coriander powder – 1/2 tsp
  • Cumin powder – 1/2 tsp
  • Boiled potato – 1 medium sized
  • Coriander leaves – a handful
  • Corn flour – 1 tbsp
  • Egg beaten – 1
  • Maida/flour – 1/2 cup
  • Bread crumbs – 1/2 cup or fine semolina/suji – 1/2 cup
  • Oil – 2-3 tbsp + for shallow fry.
  • Salt – as required

Method:

  1. In a pan add about 2-3 tbsp of oil and saute the finely chopped onions.
  2. Add ginger garlic paste and green chilies ( finely chopped green chilies or green chili paste ) and saute for some time.
  3. Add the minced mutton, salt and all the powders and fry them well.
  4. Cook on medium flame until the Kheema is done.
  5. Remove from fire, transfer to a bowl and allow to cool.
  6. Mash the boiled potatoes, add it to the Kheema mixture along with, finely chopped coriander leaves and corn flour  and shape them into cutlets.
  7. Take 3 plates. Add maida/flour to the first plate, add 1 beaten egg to the second plate and bread crumbs or semolina/ Suji in the third plate.
  8. Coat the cutlets first with the flour on both sides, then with eggs and lastly with bread crumbs/semolina.
  9. Instead of  step 7 and 8, you can add 1 beaten egg into the Kheema mixture, shape them into cutlets, roll the cutlets with bread crumbs or semolina/suji. 
  10. Refrigerate for 30 mintues.
  11. Shallow fry on both sides until golden . Transfer to a plate. Squeeze some lemon on top.
  12. Serve with mint chutney, cucumber and tomato slices along with some French fries or corn.

Mutton Kofta

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Mummy’s Mutton Koftas were always a treat! They just melt in your mouth and keep you wanting for more! The kids will love it too and don’t seem to make a fuss.

Do try them out  ðŸ™‚

Mutton Kofta Image Courtesy: Mujahid Khaleel

Mutton Kofta
Image Courtesy: Mujahid Khaleel

Ingredients:

  • Mutton kheema – 1 cup
  • Fried gram – 2 tbsp
  • Green chillies – 3-4
  • Red chilli powder – 1 tsp
  • Pepper corns – 1 tsp
  • Cumin seeds – 3/4 tsp
  • Coriander powder – 1 tsp
  • Garam masala powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
  • Fresh coconut -2 tbsp (4 tbsp if you like to use more)
  • Onion – 1 tbsp ( optional)
  • Fresh coriander leaves – a handful
  • Salt – as required
  • Oil for deep frying
  • Lemon – 1 small

Method:

  • Wash the kheema thoroughly and drain the water completely using a strainer
  • Grind the kheema and keep it aside in a bowl. Grind the fried gram in a separate mixer jar
  • Mix this with the ground kheema and keep it aside
  • Grind all the remaining ingredients till salt into a smooth paste
  • Mix this with the kheema. Shape into small balls
  • Heat suffient oil in a Kadai and deep fry the Koftas till they just turn  golden brown
  • Squeeze some lemon on top and serve with some raw onions

Methi Murg

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For all those who just can’t get enough of chicken, here is Methi Murg, delicious and simple recipe by Mum.

Have this lip-smacking dish with roti or rice.

Picture Courtesy: Mujahid Khaleel

Picture Courtesy: Mujahid Khaleel

Ingredients:
For marination :

  • Chicken – 500gms
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1 tsp
  • Curd – 2-3 tbsp
  • A little salt

For gravy:

  • Onion finely chopped- 1 large
  • Whole garsm masala- 2 cloves,2 cardamom 2 cinnamon
  • Bay leaf -1
  • Tomato (1finely chopped, 1 puree) -2 large
  • Ginger garlic paste – 1tsp
  • Kasoori methi – 2 tbsp
  • Chilli powder – 1tsp
  • Turmeric powder -1/2  tsp
  • Coriander powder – 1 tsp
  • Garam Masala powder – 1/4 tsp
  • Cashews – 2 tbsp
  • Cream – 3 tbsp
  • Green chillies – 4
  • Ginger jullienes – 1 tsp (optional)
  • Coriander leaves – few
  • Salt as required

Method:

  • Marinate chicken with ginger-garlic paste, salt and curd for 30 minutes
  • Heat oil in a kadai, add whole garam masala and bay leaf
  • After few seconds add finely chopped onion and fry till golden brown
  • Add ginger-garlic paste, fry, add chopped tomatoes and tomato puree
  • Fry till the oil separates and raw smell goes
  • When masala is done, add marinated chicken and cook for few minutes
  • Add chilli-coriander-turmetic-garam masala powders
  • Crush kasoori methi, add it to the chicken , mix well, cover and cook
  • Grind the cashews to a paste, add it to the chicken and cook for sometime
  • Now add cream, ginger-jullienes, slit green chillies, fresh corainder, and cook for a few more minutes untill the chicken is cooked
  • Serve with hot plain paratha or rice

Paya / Lamb Soup

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Paya soup is the tastiest and healthiest of all soups. Mom used to prepare this often when we were kids. This is very good for growing children and new mothers. My Granny  says paya soup was prepared traditionally on charcoal overnight and tastes the best.

Photo Courtesy: Mujahid Khaleel

Photo Courtesy: Mujahid Khaleel

Ingredients
  • Lamb trotters (paya) – half a dozen
  • Onion                              – 1 small
  • Tomotato                         – 1 medium
  • Ginger garlic paste          – 1 tbsp
  • Green Chillies                  – 5-6
  • Red Chilli powder             – 1 tsp
  • Pepper powder                 – 1 tsp
  • Garam masala powder     – 1/4 tsp
  • Coriander powder             – 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder             – 1/4 tsp
  • Coriander leaves            – 2 tbsp
  • Water                              – 5 glasses
  • Salt                                 – as required
  •  Oil                                 –  1 tsp
  • Coconut paste                – 2 tbsp ( optional)
Method:
  • Wash the paya thoroughly by soaking them in luke warm water with a little salt for sometime.
  • Heat 1 tsp oil in a pressure cooker and fry the onions, ginger garlic paste, tomato and chilies for 2 minutes.
  • Then add the paya and fry for some more time till the raw smell goes.
  • Add all the powders and coriander leaves.
  • Fry for 2 minutes. Add the water.
  • Allow it to boil and pressure for about 1 hour on low heat.
  • Remove from fire. Serve in a bowl with some more pepper powder if desired.
  • Add coconut paste if you want the soup to be a little thicker to be served with rotis.
Mom used to serve us paya soup with rice rotis. Serve with any rotis you like 🙂