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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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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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.

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.

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.