Baigan Methi Recipe
Ingredients:
1 green chilli slit
salt to taste
1/2 bunch fenugreek leaves (methi)
3 baby brinjals
1 tsp cumin seeds
oil for frying
1 pinch sugar
How to make Baigan Methi :
• Cut brinjal into cubes.
• Wash methi leaves thoroughly,
• Cut roughly and keep aside.
• Heat up oil in a kadhai.
• Deep fry the brinjal pieces and set aside.
• Heat up 1 tblsp oil in a pan.
• Mix in cumin seeds and slit green chilli.
• Once the cumin seeds begin to crackle,
• Mix in the washed methi leaves.
• Cover and stir fry for a while.
• Mix in salt and a pinch of sugar and stir fry till done.
• Mix in the fried brinjal and stir fry for another 2 minutes.
• Serve hot.
Methi Aloo Recipe
Ingredients
4 Potatoes (boiled, peeled and diced)
1 bunch Fenugreek Leaves (chopped)
¼ tbsp Turmeric Powder
¼ tbsp Cumin Seeds
¼ tbsp Red Chili
Salt to taste
Oil for cooking
How to make Methi Aloo
- Heat oil in a pan and add cumin seeds. Allow it to splutter.
- Add salt, red chili and turmeric powder and sauté it for 2 min.
- Immediately add diced potatoes and fenugreek leaves to the above. Stir the contents and cover the pan.
- Let it cook for 5 minutes on medium flame.
- Aloo Methi is ready to serve.
Chicken Methi recipe
2 tblsp oil
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 cup yogurt
2 bay leaves
750 gms chicken
2 tblsp kasoori methi
1 tblsp coriander leaves chopped
2 tblsp ginger chopped
1 tblsp garam masala powder
2 tblsp green chillies chopped
salt to taste
2 cup onion chopped
1 tblsp coriander powder
2 tblsp garlic paste
- Clean, skin, wash and cut chicken into medium sized pieces.
- Heat up oil in a pan.
- Mix in whole garam masala and bay leaves.
- Stir fry until cardamoms starts to crackle.
- Mix in cut onions and stir fry until transluscent and soft.
- Make sure to stir continuously.
- Mix in cut ginger, garlic paste, turmeric powder, coriander powder and cut green chillies.
- Stir fry for a minute.
- Mix in chicken pieces and beaten yogurt and stir fry on a high flame heat up for 7-8 minutes.
- Mix in kasoori methi, garam masala powder, cut fresh coriander, salt and three fourths cup of water.
- Cover the pot and stir fry on a low heat up for ten minutes.
- Serve hot.
Methi Ke Gatte Recipe
1 tsp red chilli powder
2 cup fenugreek leaves (methi) chopped
1 tsp coriander powder
3 cup bengal gram flour (besan)
salt to taste
3 1/2 tblsp mustard oil
Tempering
3 1/2 tblsp Mustard Oil
1 tsp Mustard Seeds
1 Red Chilli crushed
1 tsp Coriander Powder
1 tsp Dry Mango Powder (amchur)
1 tsp Garam Masala Powder
1 -2 pinch Asafoetida
- Mix everything methi, gram flour, asafoetida, red chilli powder, coriander powder and salt.
- Mix in mustard oil and enough water to knead into a firm dough.
- Divide into equal parts and roll into cylinders.
- Boil some water in a pot and mix in these cylinders (gattes) for 15 – 20 minutes.
- Drain, cool and cut into 1″ long pieces.
- Heat up oil to smoking point.
- Take off the heat up and cool slightly.
- Heat up again, mix in asafoetida, mustard seeds and when the seeds crackle, mix in the gattes.
- Sauté.
- Mix in coriander powder, crushed red chillies, garam masala powder and amchur powder.
- Stir to mix well.
- Serve hot.
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