Weekend special home cooking

A chicken dish packed with beautifully flavored spices and a tang of pomegranate  Ingredients Chicken boneless 750 gms  Anardana ( dried pomegranate seeds ) 2 tsp  Curd - 1 cup Coriander powder - 1 tbsp  Cumin powder - 1 tbsp Red chili powder - 1 tbsp  Salt to taste Onion finely chopped -  2 cup  Garlic paste - 1 tbsp  Ginger paste - 1 tbsp  Cinnamon - 2 inch stick Cloves - 6 Green cardamom - 4 Black cardamom - 2 Bay leaf - 1 Shah Jeera - 1/2 tea spoon Oil - 3 tbsp Method Soak dried pomegranate seeds in 1/4 cup water for one hour . Make a smooth paste . ( You can also mix powdered anardana with 2 tbsp water  ) I have taken boneless chicken but you can take jointed chicken as well or may opt as per your choice .   Cut chicken into 2 inch sized pieces  Rub anardana paste and salt in chicken and leave aside for 30 minutes  Add curd , red chili powder , coriander powder and cumin powder  in chicken , mix well and leave to 2 hours ( if y

A lip smacking dish from Haryana .  A state with ground to earth simple food .  An easy to make , filling and tasty dish . Can be served in breakfast or main meal . Ingredient  Millet flour ( bajra ) - 2 cup  Wheat flour - 1 cup  Boiled Potato - 3 ( Grated and mashed) Curd - 3/4 cup  Oil - 1 cup  Spices  Salt to taste  Onion finely chopped 1/2 cup Green Chili  finely chopped -  1 table spoon  Coriander leaves finely chopped - 2 tbsp Carom seeds ( ajwain) -1 tsp Ginger powder ( sonth) - 1 tbsp Ginger finely chopped - 1 tbsp Turmeric - 1 tsp Method  Mix all spices and flour , mashed boiled potato and curd . Add 1 tbsp oil and kneed the dough .  Ideally it should not require any water .  If too dry then add little more curd or few spoons of water . If too wet then add few spoons of millet flour .  Make a soft dough Please do not let this dough stand for long otherwise it will be soggy .  Prepare it just before you  are ready t

A tasty snack from the state of Gujrat . Perfect with a cup of hot masala tea on winter or rainy evening . Ingredient Besan (Chick pea Flour ) - 2 cup  Semolina - 2 Table Spoon  Fenugreek leaves -  2 cup , cleaned and finely chopped  Coriander leaves -  1/2 cup  Oil to fry ( 250 ml ) Water - 1 cup Spices Black Peppercorn whole- 1 tea spoon roughly crushed Coriander seeds - 1 tea spoon roughly crushed  carom seeds - 1 tea spoon  Jaggary - 1 table spoon Coconut grated - 1 table spoon Green chili -  chopped - 1 table spoon  Salt to taste  Baking powder - 1 tea spoon Soda - 1 tea spoon Turmeric - 1 tea spoon  Method In a bowl take 1/2 cup water and 1 table spoon oil and whisk  Add all spices and whisk ( add baking powder and soda at end)  Add Fenugreek leaves and coriander leaves  Add Semolina and besan  Slowly add water and keep mixing to make a thick batter  Heat oil in a deep pan or fryer  Drop small balls ( say one tea spoon size )  .  These wil