Friday, 24 February 2012

Cauliflower Cheese Recipe


Here is a recipe on how you can prepare Cauliflower Cheese.

Ingredients needed to prepare the dish is given below:
  • Cauliflower – 1 medium size
  • Flour – 4 tablespoon
  • Butter – 2 Tablespoon
  • Milk – 1 cup
  • Cheddar Cheese (grated) – 1 Cup
  • Salt and pepper as per requirement

Method of Preparation

  • Cut cauliflower into medium-sized florets
  • Take 300ml of water and get it to boil in a pan
  • Add salt and then the cauliflower florets and cook for two to three minutes
  • Take the pan out of the heat and drain the water out
  • In order to prepare the sauce, melt butter in a pan, stir the flour and cook it gently by stirring constantly for about one minute.
  • Take the pan out of the heat.
  • Stir the milk gradually.
  • Come back to the pan and stir cook the mixture until it begins to thicken a little.
  • Now mix 3/4 of the cheese into the sauce and seasoned it with salt and pepper as per your requirement.
  • Take the cauliflower in a baking dish and pour the sauce over it.
  • Sprinkle the remaining cheese and grill it until the cheddar topping bubbles and coats the cauliflower

Now your delicious cauliflower cheese is ready to serve. Serve it hot with bread.

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Monday, 13 February 2012

Ginger Chicken Wings – How to Prepare


Chicken is always the choice of meat when it comes to the preparing non-veg dish. Today I came up with the Ginger Chicken Wings. Below are the ingredients and the method of preparation.

Here are the ingredients needed to prepare ginger chicken wings:
  • Chicken Wings (skinned) – 10-12 pieces
  • Fresh Root Ginger (crushed) – 1/2 teaspoon
  • Natural Low-fat Yoghurt – 3/4 of a cup
  • Tabasco Sauce - 1 teaspoon
  • Tomato Ketchup – 1 tablespoon
  • Garlic (crushed) – 1 tablespoon
  • Lemon Juice – 1 tablespoon
  • Coriander Leaves (Fresh) – 1 tablespoon
  • Oil – 1 tablespoon
  • Onions (medium sized) – 2 pieces
  • Fresh Root Ginger (shredded) – 1 tablespoon
  • Salt – 1 teaspoon

Method of Preparation

  1. Take the chicken wings in a non-metallic bowl. Take the yoghurt, crushed ginger, Tabasco sauce, salt, tomato ketchup, crushed garlic, lemon juice and half of the chopped fresh coriander leaves in a separate bowl. Mix everything in the second bowl together and pour the mixture over the chicken wings and stir the mixture making sure that the chicken wings are coated completely by the mixture.
  2. Heat the oil in a kadai (Indian Pan) and fry the onions until it turns soft.
  3. Put the chicken wings and cook it over a medium heat. Stir occasionally for 10-15 minutes.
  4. Now add the remaining chopped coriander leaves and the shredded ginger and serve hot.

Lo! You have learned cooking another Indian Dish. For more easy way of learning how to cook Indian dishes, you may download Indian Cuisines iPhone application for iTunes. Click HERE to visit the download page.

Tuesday, 17 January 2012

Samosa Recipe


Here is a recipe to one of your favorite snacks of all times, Samosa. I know some of you would have already knew how to prepare samosa but this blog post is for those who would like to learn making popular dishes of the Indian Cuisines. Here is how it goes on how to prepare samosa.

The ingredients needed are:
  • For the cover
    • A cup of plain flour (Maida)
    • 2 tablespoon warm oil
    • water (for kneading dough)
  • For the Filling
    • 2 potatoes (boiled, peeled and mashed)
    • 1 onion chopped finely
    • 1/2 teaspoon of crushed garlic
    • 1/2 teaspoon of crushed ginger
    • 2 green chillies
    • 1 tablespoon finely chopped coriander
    • 1/2 lemon juice extracted
    • 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
    • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric powder
    • 1/2 teaspoon ground/crushed coriander seeds
    • 1 teaspoon red chilli powder
    • Oil for deep frying
    • Salt to taste

Preparation Method

Dough preparation: Take the flour in a large bowl, make a well in it and add oil, salt and a little water. Mix them up until it turns crumbly. Add water little by little kneading the dough until its pliable. Cover up the dough with moist cloth and keep it aside for fifteen to twenty minutes. Now, beat the dough on a work-surface and knead again. Cover it again by the moist cloth.

Filling Preparation: Heat three tablespoon of oil, add garlic, ginger, coriander seeds and green chilli. Stir fry the mixture for a minute, add onion and saute it till onion turns light brown in color. Now add coriander, turmeric, salt, lemon, garam masala and red chilli powder. Stir fry the whole mixture for two minutes, add potatoes and stir for another two minutes. Let it cool and keep it aside.
Fig. How to make samosa dough

Once the above is done, you can proceed with the following:
  • Make flat, thin round dough of 5 inch diameter
  • Cut it into two halves
  • Run a moist finger along the diameter, join and press together to make a cone (as given above in the picture)
  • Put a tablespoon of filling into the cone and seal the third side
  • Make five to six pieces
  • Put it in hot oil and deep fry them on low to medium flame till the dough turns light brown (if fried on high flame, samosas will turn out oily and sloppy)
  • Drain out oil
  • Serve it hot with tomato sauce (Green and red tamarind chutney is perfect)

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Friday, 13 January 2012

Tuna With Crackers


I love Tuna, everybody loves Tuna. So this blog post for today is for those fish lovers especially Tuna lovers. Today's recipe is “Tuna With Crackers”

Below are provided the ingredients you will need in order to prepare the dish:

Ingredients for Tuna Spread
  • 400 grams Tuna Fish
  • 2 tablespoon Olive Oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon Oregano
  • Pepper as per requirement
  • 3 tablespoon Fresh Thick Cream
  • Salt to taste
And prawn chips or crackers for serving.

Method of Preparation
  1. Cut fish into small pieces
  2. Heat oil in a pan and fry fish pieces over medium heat for two to three minutes
  3. Add spices and blend the whole mixture
  4. Take a mixing bowl, add cream, mash the mixture with the back of a wooden spoon or blend them coarsely using a blender.
  5. Now you can serve it with the crackers of prawn chips.
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Monday, 9 January 2012

Fried Rice With Mint and Egg


Since the day I started this blog, I came to know that I haven't posted a single recipe on egg. Sorry to those egg fans who'd have been waiting for it to come. Sooner or later, here it is. Today, I will be posting a recipe on how to prepare Fried Rice With Mint and Egg.

Here is the list of ingredients you would need to prepare this recipe:
  • Boiled rice – 2 cups
  • A bunch of mint (pudina) leaves (ground to form a paste)
  • Eggs – 2
  • Freshly chopped coriander
  • A big onion sliced in thin and long pieces
  • Five green tomatoes cut into thin long pieces
  • Green chilli paste
  • Salt to taste
  • For Seasoning
    • Mustard
    • Half a spoon of black pepper (ground)
    • Cumin (Jeera)
    • Curry Leaves
    • Five to six spoons of vegetable oil

Method of Preparation

To begin with the preparation, start by heating the a pan on medium heat. Add oil on it and then the mustard seeds. When the mustard seeds start popping, add cumin, curry leaves and ground pepper and fry the mixture or a minute. Then, add the onions, fry for a minute thereafter, add the cut tomatoes and fry for another two minutes. After this is done, add green chilli paste and eggs. How should you add eggs is given here.
Crack the eggs into the pan (make sure that pieces of the cracked shell doesn't go into the pan) and bet them till it blends well with the tomato and onion pieces. Fry the mixture for two minutes again.

In the meantime, cook the rice in a rice cooker. Then mix the cooked rice with the mixture prepared above and fry for round about five minutes. The dish is now done.
Garnish with freshly chopped coriander and serve hot. Impress yourself and your guest.
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Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Spicy Tea - Recipe


What do you crave for most in winter? We always yearn for things hot and spicy. And when we talk about tea, spicy tea is what we would like to have in winter when the weather is extremely cold. Keeping this in view, I’m posting the recipe for Spicy Tea which I’m sure that you’d love.

Here are the ingredients for preparing Spicy Tea:
·         3 to 4 teaspoon tea leaves or 4 teabags
·         A small piece of dry ginger. If dry ginger isn’t in handy, you may use fresh ginger.
·         3 to 4 cardamom pods
·         3 cloves
·         A small piece of cinnamon
·         A teaspoon of fennel seeds (saunf)
·         A piece of two of black peppers (this however is an optional ingredient)
·         Sugar
·         Milk

If you’ve got the above ingredients ready, you can start preparing your Spicy Tea and the method of preparation is given below.

To begin, bring two cups of water to boil. Add the ingredients above apart from milk and sugar and boil the mixture for about fifteen seconds. Let the mixture stand for a minute and in the meantime, warm the milk in a pot. Pour tea into cups by filtering it through a sieve. Now, add milk and sugar to your liking. Your Spicy Tea is ready and you can enjoy sipping it.

If you think you are one of the lazy lots and don’t want to spend much time preparing the ingredients, you can take the above ingredients (except for milk and sugar) and grind them coarsely. Then, you just have to boil water add tea and a teaspoon of the ground spices. And the rest is as above.

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Thursday, 22 December 2011

Preparing Indian Masala Tea (Chai)


Masala Chai is one popular tea in India. It is preferred by all from all corners of the country. Today, I’ll tell you (those who still don’t know how to prepare the same) how to prepare it. Here it goes.

First you have to prepare the masala (mixture of spices) and here is how you prepare the masala. Take the following things:
1.       A cup of dried ginger
2.       ½ cup of green cardamom (elaichi) pods
3.       A Tablespoon peppercorns
4.       Six or seven 2” cinnamon sticks
Now, grind the spices together and your masala is done.

For the tea, take a cup of water and put to hear. Add one and a half sugar, a quarter teaspoon of the masala you prepared two pinches of cardamom powder and a teaspoon tea leaves. Allow the mixture to simmer till the aroma emanates. Now add a cup of milk and then bring the tea to boil. Now allow it to simmer for another two minutes. Take it off from the flam an cover it. Keep it aside for two minutes. Drain the leaves from the tea and the tea is ready to be served.

Isn’t it easy?

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Tuesday, 22 November 2011

Meat Durbari - Recipe


It’s been a long time since I haven’t posted any recipe or updates on Indian Cuisines iPhone application. Today as a continuance to my months old posting, I’ll be posting a recipe on Meat Durbari. First, you need to get the ingredients from the market. The ingredients are given below.
·         1 kg Leg of Lamb
·         2" piece Cinnamon
·         1 tablespoon Mustard Seeds
·         2 tablespoon Poppy seeds
·         1 tablespoon Sesame seeds
·         1 Bay Leaf
·         2 - 4 dried Red
·         4 Cloves
·         2 Brown Cardamoms
·         10 Black Peppers


You will also need to make a paste consisting spices and the ingredients for making the paste is given below.
·         1 big sized Onion
·         1" ginger
·         2 fresh green chilies (split lengthwise into halves)
·         2 tablespoon chopped coriander Leaves
·         3 - 4 Garlic cloves (peeled and coarsely chopped)
·         3 tablespoon Clarified Butter (Ghee)
·         3 tablespoon Wine Vinegar
·         1 tablespoon tomato puree
·         175 ml warm water
The paste is prepared by mixing the above ingredient thoroughly in a bowl.

How to Prepare Meat Durbari
·         Trim off excess fat from the meat
·         Cut the meat into 2” cubes
·         Rub or smear the paste (previously prepared) on the meat
·         Marinate it for 4-6 hours or leave it for an overnight inside the refrigerator
·         Make a smooth pulp of garlic by crushing the garlic and salt together
·         Melt Ghee or clarified butter over low flame
·         Add onions and ginger
·         Fry the mixture for over medium flame until onions become soft
·         Add garlic paste (prepared above) and fry further for 2- 3 minutes making sure that the mixture is frequently stirred
·         Add meat and cook with the mixture until all sides of the meat are brown in color
·         Add water to the mixture and allow the mixture to boil
·         Cover and let it simmer until meat gets tender
·         Add the puree, green chilies and coriander leaves
·         Turn the flame to medium and cook for 3-4 minutes by stirring it continuously
·         Remove the pan from the flame.

Now your delicious Meat Durbari is done. You can now serve it hot.

Friday, 5 August 2011

Veg Indian Dishes - Vegetable Biryani



Rice is the staple food of India and has occupied a significant space in Indian Cuisines. Like India lot of other countries have rice as their staple food and have been trying various ways t prepare rice and make it tastier and interesting. Today I will be giving you an easily explained recipe to another Indian vegetarian dish, vegetable biryani.

Ingredients
  1. Basmati Rice – 2 cups
  2. Mixed Vegetables (potato, carrot, French beans, cauliflower/broccoli) – 1 cup
  3. Onion (finely sliced) – 3
  4. Green Peas – 150 grams
  5. Green Chillies – 2
  6. Cinnamon – 2 teaspoon
  7. Red Chilli Powder – 1 teaspoon
  8. Cloves – 4
  9. Cumin Seeds – 2 teaspoon
  10. Tomatoes – 4
  11. Black Pepper Powder – 1/2 teaspoon
  12. Vegetable Oil – 4 tablespoon
  13. Mustard Seeds – 1/2 teaspoon
  14. Dry Fruits (raisin and cashew nuts) – 3 Tablespoon
  15. Salt to taste

Methods of Preparation

Begin you veg biryani preparation by washing the basmati rice. Take the rice with a quarter cup less to four cups of water, add a little salt and two tablespoon dry fruits and cook it in a pressure cooker, a pan or in a microwave.

Cut the vegetables into small and thin pieces and have each of them fried separately in oil. Keep the fried vegetables aside.

Now, take a tablespoon full of oil in a pan, put mustard seeds, green chillies, black pepper powder, cloves, cinnamon and cumin powder in it and stir for half a minute. Thereafter, add the onions and saute for a minute until the onion becomes slightly pink in color. Add salt and red chilli powder and continue stirring. Further, add finely chopped tomatoes and fry until it is cooked perfectly.

Take the Yoghurt, put it in a blender for two rotations to make finer. Add the yoghurt into the pan, stir well and heat it for about ten seconds.

Add the fried vegetables, the cooked rice and mix them well ensuring that you take enough care to avoid the breaking of rice grain. Cook the mixture for three more minutes and your vegetable biryani is done. Garnish it with coriander leaves and dry fruits.

Serve your dish with raita and pickle. Now you have learnt another recipe from Indiancuisines iPhone application.

Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Non-Veg Indian Dish - Fish Korma


One thing good about fish is that they are good for the stomach since they are easy to digest. When this good protein source is blended with Indian Cuisines, the spices and the special Indian way of cooking fish. And here's yet another Indian non-veg dish, Fish Korma. The Ingredients needed and method of preparation follow.

Ingredients
  • Fish – 1 Kg
  • Curd – 1/2 Cup
  • Ginger Paste – 2 Teaspoon
  • Onion Paste – 1/2 Cup
  • Garlic Paste – 1 Teaspoon
  • Coriander Paste – 1 Tablespoon
  • Cardamom – 6 Pieces
  • Cinnamon – 1 Inch Stick
  • Green Chilli – 6
  • Salt – 2 Teaspoon
  • Ghee or Oil – 3/4 Cup
  • Kewra – 2 Tablespoon
  • Lemon Juice – 1 Tablespoon
  • Sugar – 1 Tablespoon


Methods of Preparation

First of all, know that for preparing Fish Korma, you may use large fish. Carps are best and ensure that you don't cut the fish into too small pieces. Add all ingredients apart from the green chillies and kewra into the cooking dish, mix them well, cover and heat in low heat.

Turn over the fish carefully when you think the other side is done. Add the kewra and the green chillies when the water in the cooking dish almost dries up and cook for another half an hour in a very low heat. When you see that the oil or ghee is floating up, your Fish Korma is done.

Now, you can serve your Fish Korma with tandoori roti and rice.

This is the easiest way I can depict the way of preparing Fish Korma. You may download Indian Cuisines, the iPad application or iPhone application for even easier way of learning the art of cooking.

Monday, 25 July 2011

Vegtarian Indian Dishes - Dum Aaloo


Dum Aaloo is one of the most common and popular Indian vegetarian dishes. It is well known within the Indian Culinary world. Today I will provide you the simple steps to prepare this dish and who knows you can win the hearts of your loved ones through it.



Indian Cuisines is vast and this dish is one which people would like to learn to prepare. Below are provided the ingredients and methods of preparation.

Ingredients needed
  • Aloo/Potatoes – 900 gms
  • Ghee or Vegetable oil for deep frying
  • Ghee – 1 Cup
  • Onion – 1 large (chopped)
  • Tomato Puree – 4 Tablespoon
  • Hot water – 4 tablespoon
  • Curd – 140 ml
  • Green Pepper – 1 (sliced with seeds removed)
  • Garam Masala powder – 1 teaspoon
  • Spices
    • Cloves – 4
    • Bay Leaves – 4
    • Black Peppercorns – 6
    • Green Cardamom – 4
    • Brown Cardamom – 1
    • A piece of Cinnamon Stick
  • Ingredients for making paste
    • A large onion finely chopped
    • 12 garlic flakes
    • Ginger – 2 tablespoon
    • Black Peppercorns – 6
    • Poppy Seeds – 1 teaspoon
    • Cumin Seeds – 1 teaspoon
    • Red Chillies (dried) – 2
    • Coriander Seeds – 1 tablespoon
    • Mace (ground) – a pinch
    • Nutmeg (ground) – a pinch
    • Turmeric – 1 teaspoon

Methods of preparation

Start off your dish's preparation by scraping the aaloo (potatoes), prick all over the potatoes and soak them in water with little salt for a couple of hours.

Now, dry the soaked potatoes on a cloth and meanwhile heat the ghee or the vegetable oil. Deep-fry the potatoes until they turn golden brown in color. Drain the oil from fried potatoes and set them aside.

Take a flame-proof pan, heat the measured ghee and fry onions with all the spices until the onions becomes golden brown in color. Now grind the ingredients to make the paste and mix them with the mixture in the pan. Cook for another 10 minutes. Put in the tomato puree, curd and salt and stir.

Now add the aaloo/potatoes, pour the hot water and cook over low heat for five minutes. Sprinkle over the dish with garam masala and pepper and cook for a few minutes. Garnish according to your choice.

Your Dum Aaloo is done and is ready to be served.



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Friday, 22 July 2011

Non Veg Indian Dishes – Murgh Musallam


Back from my slumber and this time with the recipe one of the most popular dishes in Indian Cuisines, Murgh Musallam. Below are the ingredients needed and the method of preparing the dish.

Ingredients:
  • Garlic – 10 flakes (crushed)
  • Ginger – 2 tablespoon (grated)
  • Curd – 1 cup (plain yoghurt would work)
  • Lemon Juice – 1 tablespoon
  • Chicken – 1
  • Rice – 1 cup (long grain)
  • Shelled Peas – 3/4 cup
  • Bay Leaves – 6 leaves
  • Ghee – 1 cup
  • Onion (large) – 2 (chopped)
  • Tomatoes – 225 gms (Peeled and sliced)
  • Hot water – 2 cups
  • Coriander – 3 tablespoon (chopped)
  • Spices
    • Garam Masala Powder – 2 teaspoon
    • Turmeric Powder – 1 tablespoon
    • Cloves – 8 piece
    • Black Peppercorns – 6
    • Brown Cardamom – 1
    • Red Chilli Powder – 1 teaspoon
    • Coriander Powder (roasted) – 1 Tablespoon
    • Cumin (seeds) – 1 teaspoon
    • Saffron strands – 1/2 teaspoon
  • Salt to taste

Methods to prepare Murgh Musallam

To begin, take 3/4 of garlic, 1/2 of the ginger, 1/2 the garam masala, 1/3 turmeric, half of the curd, lemon juice and one tablespoon salt and mix them thoroughly forming a paste.

Take the chicken, make small long cuts on it and smear the paste all over making sure that the paste seeps inside the cavity made by the cut. Keep the chicken aside for a couple of hours.

Half cook the rice with peas, 4 cloves, 1/2 teaspoon salt, garlic (remaining) 4 bay leaves and brown cardamom. This is to be stuffed in the chicken.

Take a saucepan, heat the ghee and fry the chicken until it becomes brown. Take care of the stuffing that it doesn't fall or come out. Drain the chicken.
Now, take another pan, fry half the onions in ghee with remaining cloves, 2 bay leaves and green cardamoms. Fry until golden in color. Now add the remaining turmeric and chilli powder.

Take the coriander, cumin seeds, remaining onion and grated ginger then grind them to make a paste.

Continue you frying the mixture stirring it for five to ten minutes until the ghee separates. Now, add the tomato and half teaspoon salt.

Add the chicken to the pan and baste with the mixture you just prepared. Add 300ml cups of water, cover it and cook under moderately heated (200°C, 400°F and gas mark 6) oven for an hour.

Before serving the Murgh Musallam, immerse the saffron in the remaining coriander leaves and garam masala powder.

And your Murgh Musallam is ready to be served.


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Monday, 4 July 2011

Apple Salad – Easy Breakfast


Most of us would have heard about apple salad. It is one sweet and refreshing breakfast. But do anyone of us knows how to prepare apple salad? I doubt it. It is one of the simplest recipes and today I am going to post on that. And as I said in the previous post this time it is a Indian vegetarian dish.

The ingredients needed are:
  • 1/2 cup raisin
  • 3/4 cup of mayonnaise
  • A cup sugar
  • 3 bananas
  • 1 cup pecan
  • 1 cup sour cream
  • 5 red apples
  • 2 cups of mini marshmallows
  • A cup of sweet pineapple (chunks)

The method to prepare it is also one of the easiest and I don't have any idea is this a conventional dish or is it included in the Indian Cuisines. But why should we care? I'm helping you not to starve when mommy's not around. Here is the method.

Put whatever the ingredients mentioned above in a bowl and mix them well to blend. What's next is much more easy, put the salad in the refrigerator and refrigerate (what do we use a refrigerator for, silly statement by me). Voila! Your salad is done and ready to serve.

If you think my blog is helping you, the Indian Cuisines iPod, iPad and iPhone application will help you better. You can download it from iTunes or the Apps Store.

Friday, 1 July 2011

Mutton Biryani – Easy Recipe


Mutton Biryani
You know what I've got today? I've got Mutton Biryani recipe. This is for the meat lovers. Vegetarians have to wait for the next post again. By the way this is not according to the recipe given on Indian Cuisines iPad and iPhone application but is written according to how one would prepare without the help of the application. Here it goes.

Necessary Ingredients
  • 2 cups Basmati Rice
  • 1/2 kg mutton
  • 2 medium red onion (sliced)
  • 2 teaspoon Ginger-Garlic-green chilli paste
  • 1/2 teaspoon red chilli powder
  • 4 teaspoon ghee (as is traditionally) otherwise vegetable oil can also be used
  • 1/2 teaspoon kewra or mitha antar
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper (whole)
  • 5 green cardamom
  • 2 black cardamom
  • 1 inch cinnamon
  • 1 star anise
  • 2 mace
  • 1 nutmeg
  • 1/2 teaspoon sahi jeera
  • 1/2 teaspoon Whole White pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon clove
  • 1/2 teaspoon Turmeric
  • Salt to taste

Method of Preparation
Even though this method differs from what is given in the iPhone application but it will be of great help for those who don't have an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad.

To begin with, wash the rice, drain it and marinate it with green cardamom, black cardamom, cinnamon, anise, mace, nutmeg, sahi jeera, white pepper, clove, turmeric and a teaspoon of ghee. Mix them well and keep marinate it for one to two hours.

Cook the mutton in a pressure cooker with with water, preferred amount of salt and whole black pepper and make the cooker whistle once.

Take a thick bottomed pan, put a teaspoon of ghee and fry the sliced onion until the color changes to golden brown. Then, take half of the fried onions and keep it aside.

Add a teaspoon of ghee, ginger-garlic-green chilli paste and red chilli powder fry the mixture and add the cooked mutton which is already strained in the mixture. Fry it until ghee separates. The stock is also kept aside.

Now remove the mutton from the pan then add the marinated rice and mutton stock. In case the mutton stock is less for the rice to be properly cooked, add water. Cook the rice until it is perfectly cooked.

When the rice is cooked, mixed it with the cooked mutton, a teaspoon of ghee and kewra, mix well, garnish with the fried onions.

Mutton Biryani
Now, your Mutton Biryani is ready to be served. For more easy and visual aid to the recipe, download Indian Cuisines from iTunes.

*Image herein depicted may differ from the original dish.

Thursday, 30 June 2011

Indian Cuisines Popular Amongst College Goers


Indian Cuisines, the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone application developed by Oglacs is gaining popularity amongst college goers and accordingly rate of weekly downloads rises.


The reason behind its gaining popularity among college goers is believed to be because of the rise in interest of today's youth in culinary. Most of the college goers nowadays stays alone being far from home. They either stay with friends in a hostel or in rented rooms. Due to that they need to prepare food for themselves or they should have to settle with the not so hygienic and not so tasty restaurant food. This thereby triggers them to prepare food for themselves. They look for the easiest assistance and they are thankful that they have IndianCuisines an outstanding Indian culinary iPhone or iPad application. This application helps them to learn cooking Indian dishes both veg and non-veg.

Other features that drive them wild is the “Facebook share” and the “Get Famous” features. Through the former feature they can flaunt to their friends that they are using this iPhone application and they are putting it to good use and the later excites them since they are expecting to be featured in this application if in case the recipe they have shared with the developers is selected.

If you are one college goer and if you are staying away from home, away from mom's dishes, this is the application that will come to your rescue. Download IC from iTunes today.