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An all time favourite recipe for fish loving Bengalis...It is prepared with onion paste, sometimes yogurt is also added. Here is the recipe for typical Bengali Rui (Pona) Machher Kalia (Rui Fish Curry)..... Ingredients: rohu fish: 250-300 gms / 6-8 pieces bay leaves: 2 ginger paste: 1 tsp garlic paste: 1 tsp onion paste: 2 tbsp tomato: 1 (finely chopped) green chilli: 1-2 pieces (slit) salt to taste turmeric: 1-2 tsp garam masala: 1/2 tsp mustard oil for cooking sugar: 1 tsp water: as required for gravy Procedure: Wash the fish pieces, apply salt and turmeric and coat well. Heat oil in non stick kadai and shallow fry the fish. Keep aside the fried fish pieces. Heat oil (add a little more oil, if required) again and add sugar. Reduce flame when the sugar starts to caramelize, add the bay leaves, green chilli. Add the onion paste, saute a little, add the ginger and garlic paste, mix well and saute a little more. Add chopped tomatoes, turmeric powder and salt and mix all the spices. Add a...

A nutritious and filling Chicken Soup prepared in microwave.....a perfect dish to savour on a cold day... Ingredients: chopped chicken: 1/2 cup water: 3 cups cornflour: 1 tbsp (mixed with 1/2 cup cold water) butter: 1 tbsp milk: 1/2 cup garam masala: 1/4 tsp salt to taste freshly ground black pepper cream: 1 tbsp (whipped / beaten) Procedure: Place butter in a microwave safe bowl and microwave at 100% power for 30 secs. Add chicken pieces, water, salt & garam masala and microwave at 80% power for 4-5 mins. Allow to stand in the oven for 5 mins. Take out the bowl, remove the the chicken pieces from the stock and shred to small pieces. Add the shredded chicken pieces, milk, cornflour mixture to the stock and microwave at 100% power for 3-4 mins. Allow to stand for 5 more mins. Remove from oven and transfer to a serving bowl. Garnish with cream and freshly ground black pepper and serve hot. Sending this soup to MEC-Potluck Party , hosted by Sri of Cooking 4 all Seasons.

Ganesh Chathurthi special dishes (Festive Cooking) from various regions across India were finalized as Indian Cooking Challenge for the month of August' 2009. Each member was supposed to try out apart from dishes famous in their homestate atleast one more from another state. Well! all the recipes were new to me and I tried the following recipes... Panchakhadya (from Maharashtra) Boorelu (Sweet filling dipped in savory batter from Andhra) Kudaalu (from Andhra) Panchakhadya Ingredients: Grated Dry Coconut / Copra - 1 cup Sugar - 4-5 tbsp powdered Poppy seeds - 2 tbsp Dried Dates - 4-5 Cardamom powder - 1/2 tbsp Mixed Nuts (almonds,cashews, pistachios) - 4-5 tbsp coarsely powdered pinch of nutmeg powder (optional) Method to prepare : Heat a thick bottom pan/ Kadai and dry roast the grated coconut on low flame till it starts turning golden. This takes about 4 -5 mins, once done set it aside. Dry roast poppy seeds and grind them coarsely after cooling them for 5 minutes. Pit the dr...

Some people just don't learn from their mistakes.... Well Sarmila of Samayal Blog copied my Eggs in Milk recipe and wrote as Egg curry with Milk . After my notification, she changed the recipe with a new one, which I stated in my earlier post . Still not satisfied, I happened to browse further and came across this site, Indian Cooking by Sagari. She wrote about Egg Korma with coconut milk and to my surprise the new recipe at Samayal Blog is none other than the recipe of Sagari (I found out her copied work through spelling mistake of turmeric). I have notified Sagari also on this.... You can find Sagari's recipe out here: 1) Egg Korma with coconut milk 2) Same recipe at Sify by Sagari, Egg Korma And moreover, lots of other recipes are copied from various food sites as mentioned below: Fabulous Fruit Salad Fabulous Fruit Salad at Samayal Blog, copied from here Summer Fruit Salad Dal Biryani Dal Biryani at Samayal Blog, copied from Hungryzone (she even attached the same p...

Well folks, I didn't think my post on plagiarism will have such a quick effort on Sarmila, the writer of Samayal Blog . Just now, she changed the whole recipe of Egg Curry with Milk , my word-word copied version of Eggs in Milk , replaced milk with coconut milk (how convenient and so very original!!!!). But maybe she do not know that the name of the post is still the same " http://www.samayalblog.com/index.php/egg/egg-curry-with-milk ", coz even if you edit / modify your post & post title, the original post title (code) remains the same. I notified the writer by posting a comment on the original post, she smartly deleted my comment and modified my recipe as stated below: Ingredients: 100 gms / 4 eggs 2 cups water (to boil eggs) 1 cup / 250 ml milk 4 tbsp onion paste (2-3 large onions, made into a paste) 2 tsp ginger paste 2 tsp garlic paste 1 green chilli 2 tbsp white oil 1 ? tsp salt (to taste) 1 bunch fresh coriander leaves, finely chopped Method: Add water and pre...

Friends, these days I am not getting enough time for blogging but always following the nice recipes of you fellow bloggers. Just the other day, while checking Sanghi's blog, Sanghi's Food Delights! , I came across a note on Plagiarism and her writing on one person hosting a food blog named 'Samayal Blog' . Her Classic Chicken photo was copied and put as Bachelor chicken and the writer Sarmila has even sent it to an event First Cooked Food Event , hosted by Shama. As a victim of plagiarism, we all have every right to let others know that our posts (recipes) were stolen and reproduced as someone's own work! These days, I think everyone knows how much time and effort goes into writing a post. I always thought, whren I started blogging, if this were to happen to me, I?d be upset, hurt and didn't have any idea of what to do. Well just out of curiosity, I happened to browse through the other posts of this Samayal Blog, and came across this post on Eggs, a post called...

The great thing about pizzas are that you can add whatever you want to them and they still taste good (in the course, you invent unique pizza of your own). All you have to do is to prepare the dough correctly. My son likes to have pizza with lots of cheese as toppings. So here is the recipe for classic cheese pizza . Pizza Dough warm water (110-120 degrees F): 1 1/4 cups active dry yeast: 1 packet sugar: 1 ? tbsp flour (sifted) 3 ? cups salt: ? tsp olive oil / butter flavoured oil: 2 tbsp Toppings: Tomato sauce: 4-6 tbsp Mozzarella cheese (shredded / grated): 6 tbsp Parmesan cheese (grated): 1 tbsp Olive oil: 2 tbsp Dried Oregano seasoning (crumbled) (to taste) Freshly crushed black pepper (to taste) Red chili flakes (to taste) Procedure: To make the dough: Dissolve yeast and sugar in water. Allow to sit for 8-10 minutes (builds a good froth, so make sure this is in a 2 cup or larger container, glass is best as it holds the heat nicely). In a bowl, mix the sifted flour and salt. S...