Mushroom ki Rogan josh

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My all-time-twist was to add mushrooms here, and yes, they tasted very great with rogan josh spices.  The entire building (with almost six individual flat) was filled by this aromatic spice and overall it was an divine combination.  Apart from the heat driven by degi mirch here, I am also adding saffron threads to bring out the richness of this rogan josh...  You can also try  other mushroom recipes here like Mushroom stir-fry, Mushroom theeyal, Malvani khumb curry, Khuskhuswali khumb, Laal khumb, Mushroom dopyaza, Mushroom jalfrezi.

Mini garlic pizza

Garlic is my all-time-favourite.  So, I just tried out the same with pizza and I luved it!!  The combo with pizza, cheese worked out quite well!!!

Ingredients required

• Readymade pizza base-1
• Cubed paneer and capsicum - 1 cup
• Amul cheese slice - 2 (or as required)
• Garlic finely sliced - 25 pods
• Soy sauce - 1/4 tsp
• Chilly sauce - 1 tsp
• Tomato sauce - 2 tsp
• Pinch of salt
• Sugar - 1/2 tsp
• Oil, as required

Baby corn tikka -Quick bytes

   This quick starter can be prepared in a jiffy, a surprising treat indeed ;)

So, as anybody could have guessed the basic ingredients are One cup baby corns, 2 tsp finely chopped spring onions (for enhanced flavour), 2 tsp hung curd, 1 tsp chicken tikka masala, 1/2 tsp ginger-garlic paste and salt to taste.

Just marinate baby corn with curd, ginger-garlic paste, spring onions.  Adjust salt, refrigerate for four to five hours

Bake them in pre-heated oven till they are golden brown, crispy and done... Enjoy ;)

Mili-juli subzi

Mili-juli subzi is an combination of seasonal vegetables & Paneer cooked on milk, creamy onion-tomato gravy

Ingredients required

• One cup of quartered onions
• 2-inch ginger piece
• 6 pods of garlic
• 11/2 cup tomato puree (made from three tomatos)
• 2 tsp dry kasoori methi 
• 2 cups of mixed chopped vegetables like carrot, green peas, capsicum, Beans, baby corn, cauliflower
• 1/2 cup of boiled, de-skinned potatos, quartered
• 1/2 cup of paneer, cut into thick slices
• 1/4 cup milk/ cream
• 4 tsp butter

Nattukodi pulusu

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Now coming back to our awesome pulusu,  pulusu is most important liquid meal of Andhra cuisine.  The major component added  in any 'pulusu' dish is Buttermilk/Imli, in order to impact a sour taste. This watery sour stew used to be prepared by villagers during sankranti festive.   Country chicken is cooked with onion, tomato, imli, kaalimirch and other home available ingredients on mud pots.  Though cooking on mud pots takes a longer time (than indalium-based or aluminium based cookwares) the claypot impacts a heavenly flavour on the dish, by itself.  The food cooked on mud pots is quite refreshing and does not need too much of fat/oil to do the sauting,, so  I must say that mud pot is a 'blessing in disguise'

     Though I didn't find a place to look for country chicken here at hydi, I did find a mud pot  :)  :)  I hereby, finally present u  broiler-chicken mingled with traditional pulusu spices, cooked on  simmer flamed mud pot.