Veg Keema with Soya – How to Cook in Microwave

Enjoy the taste of a non-veg food while still remaining 100% vegetarian. Soya beans can you give you the taste of a non-veg dish, if used appropriately. A wide variety of items can be made with soya, giving you an array of options to choose. Veg keema is one such dish cooked specifically with soya. Cook soya with onions and tomatoes with a careful selection of spices, and you are done with the recipe of soya keema. Here is a microwave version of the recipe.

Ingredients

• Soya: 1 cup (soaked in water)
• Onions: 2-3 (chopped)
• Tomatoes: 2
• Turmeric Powder: ½ teaspoon
• Red Chili Powder: 1 teaspoon
• Garam Masala Powder: 1 teaspoon
• Curd: ¼ cup (whipped)
• Oil: 2 teaspoons
• Salt: to taste

Spices to Make a Paste

• Green Chili: 2
• Ginger: ½ inch long
• Garlic: 5 flakes
• Cumin Seeds: 1 teaspoon
• Coriander Powder: 1 teaspoon
• Aniseeds (Saunf): 1 teaspoon
• Coriander Leaves: 1 fist

Method

1. Take the oil and chopped onions in a bowl.
2. Put the bowl in the oven and heat at micro high for 3-4 minutes.
3. Keep stirring.
4. Make a paste of all the spices – green chilies, ginger, garlic, cumin seeds, coriander powder, aniseeds and coriander leaves.
5. Cut tomatoes in fine pieces and add it to the mixture of spices.
6. Grind to make a paste of tomatoes and spices and add it to the fried onions.
7. Heat the mixture at micro high for 2 minutes.
8. Now mix in it whipped curd, turmeric powder, red chili powder, garam masala powder and salt.
9. Heat the mixture again at micro high for 2 minutes.
10. Take soya chunks out of water and squeeze to remove water.
11. Add soya to the mixture of spices.
12. Add a little water also and heat at micro 450 for 5 minutes.
13. Soya keema is ready. Garnish it with coriander leaves.

Stuffed Bhindi Recipe – The Spicy Vegetable with Besan

There can be a number of ways to cook stuffed bhindi – spicy, non-spicy, and with or without besan. The present recipe of vegetable uses spices as well as besan. If you are a lover of spicy food, then I am sure you will like stuffed bhindi. So, here we go with the recipe.

Time

25 minutes

Serves

4 People

Ingredients

• Bhindi (Lady’s Finger): 300 grams
• Besan: 1 tablespoon
• Oil: 3 tablespoon
• Onions: 2 (chopped
• Garlic: 4 cloves
• Saunf Powder: 2 teaspoons
• Coriander Powder: 2 teaspoons
• Red Chili Powder: ¼ teaspoons
• Turmeric Powder: ½ teaspoons
• Amchur Powder: ½ teaspoons
• Garam Masala: ¼ teaspoons
• Ginger: 1 inch long (grated)
• Asafetida: 1 pinch
• Cumin Seeds: ¼ teaspoon
• Salt: to taste

Method

1. Wash bhindi and remove the stems.
2. Make a cut along the length of the bhindi.
3. Heat 1 tablespoon of oil in a pan. Put cumin seeds and asafetida.
4. When the cumin seeds begin to pop, add chopped onions and garlic.
5.  Fry the onions till they become light brown.
6. Now add besan and roast a little.
7. Mix all other spices in a plate and add these to the mixture in the pan.
8. Cook all these ingredients for a minute. Now you have the stuffing ready.
9. Take each bhindi in turn and fill spices through the longitudinal cut.
10. Now heat again two tablespoons of oil in the pan.
11. Add bhindi in the hot oil and stir with a spoon.
12. Cover the lid and cook for 5 minutes at the medium flame.
13. Flip over the bhindi and cook for 3 more minutes.
14. Open the lid and sauté for two minutes.
15. Stuffed bhindi is ready. Serve it with paranthe, roti or naan.

Tandoori Chicken Recipe – The Microwave Version

You need some kinds of oven to make tandoori chicken. If you have a microwave oven, then there can’t be a better way to make this extremely popular Indian dish. This is one dish that is not just popular in the country but also in Europe and Americas. If you love grilled barbeque, then you are going to like the recipe of Tandoori chicken. Here is the one.

Serves

4-5 People

Time

20 minutes (Not including the time for marination)

Ingredients

For Chicken

• Chicken (leg piece): 8-10
• Butter: 2 tablespoons

For Marination

• Vinegar: 2 teaspoons
• Salt: 1 teaspoon
• Curd: 2 tablespoons
• Chili Sauce: 1 tablespoon
• Ginger: 1 inch long
• Garlic: 10-12 cloves
• Garam Masala: 1 teaspoon

Method

1. Wash chicken leg pieces and poke them with a fork.
2. Grind ginger and garlic and make them a paste.
3. Mix all ingredients of marination in a bowl.
4. Add the chickens and marinate for 5-6 hours.
5. Put the marinated chickens at the oven’s high rack.
6. Take water in a bowl and put it just below the chickens.
7. Now grill for 8-10 minutes.
8. Flip over the chicken leg pieces and apply butter using a brush.
9. Grill for 4 more minutes.
10. Tandoori Chicken is ready.
11. You can serve it with onions and lemons.

Samosa Chaat Recipe – The Bihari Style

Even though I have eaten many other kinds of chaat, this particular samosa chaat is central to my taste. It is so simple to make but so delicious in taste. Eat it and you will forget everything else. The main ingredients for this chaat are samosa and chhola, which you can prepare at home or have from the market.

I generally get samosa from the market, but like to make chhola at home. If you don’t know how to make chhola, then here is a recipe  for the same. Without much further introduction, the recipe for Bihari samosa chat is as follows.

Time

10 minutes (Not including time for making samosa and chhola)

Serve

       

Four People

Ingredients

• Samosa: 4
• Chhola: 250 grams
• Dahi (curd): 1 cup
• Onions: 2
• Chili Powder: 1 teaspoon
• Tomato Sauce: 2 tablespoons
• Amchur Powder: ½ teaspoon
• Tamarind Juice: ¼ cup
• Chaat Masala: 2 tea spoon
• Salt: to taste

Method

1. Mash samosa in a bowl.
2. Add chhola and dahi and mix them well.
3. Cut onions and mix them in the chaat.
4. Now add tomato sauce and sprinkle amchur powder and chilli powder.
5. Add tamarind juice and sprinkle chaat masala.
6. Samosa chaat is ready.
7. If you like you can garnish it with a little more curd, tomato sauce and onion slices.

Sabudana Khichdi – How to Make in Microwave

Sabudana Khichdi is a typical Indian recipe, especially prepared during festivals. It is generally used to break the fast. Navratra is just of one of the occasions when it is prepared almost every home in India. You might know how to cook sabudana khichdi, but here we tell you how to make in a microwave oven.

Ingredients

• Sabudana: 1 cup
• Potatoes: 2
• Green Chilies: 4-5
• Ghee: 1 tablespoon
• Cumin Seeds: 1 teaspoon
• Salt: to taste
• Sugar: to taste
• Groundnut Powder: ¼ cup
• Coconut: 2 inch long piece

Method

1. Soak sabudana in water for about 3-4 hours.
2. Make thin slices of potatoes.
3. Roast groundnut powder.
4. Chop green chilies and grate coconut.
5. Mix ghee, cumin seeds, green chilies and potatoes in a bowl.
6. Sprinkle a little water and put the bowl in the oven at micro high for 3 minutes.
7. Mix well sabudana, sugar, salt, and groundnut powder.
8. Add this mixture to the cooked potatoes.
9. Cook all these ingredients at micro high for a minute.
10. Let these ingredients cook at micro 20% for 10 minutes.
11. Stir the mixture from time to time.
12. Sabudana khichdi is ready now.
13. Garnish it with grated coconut.

Butter Chicken Recipe – How to Cook it in a Microwave Oven

Also known as Murgh Makhani, Butter Chicken is a classic Indian recipe. There exist several versions of recipe, but one thing is common across all recipes. Chicken is marinated, from one hour to overnight, and soaked in butter, along with a number of spices unique to India. The selection of spices may vary. However, while cooking it in a microwave oven, you don’t need such a large variety of spices. Only a handful will do as is demonstrated in the following butter chicken recipe.

Ingredients

For Butter Chicken

• Chicken Breasts: 2 (sliced in cubes)

For Marination

• Brown Vinegar: 2 teaspoons
• Curd: 2 tablespoons
• Red Chili Sauce: 1 tablespoon
• Ginger: 1 inch long piece
• Garlic: 10-12 cloves (make it a paste)
• Garam Masala: 1 teaspoon
• Tandoori Color: ¼ teaspoon
• Salt: to taste

To Marinate Boned Chicken

• Ginger-Garlic Paste: ½ teaspoon
• Salt: to taste

For Gravy

• Onions: 2 (sliced and roasted)
• Tomatoes: 2
• Cashew Nut Powder: ¼ cup
• Butter: 1 tablespoon
• Ghee: 1 tablespoon
• Cheese Cubes: 2 (grated)
• Sugar: ½ teaspoon
• Salt: to taste

For Garnishing

• Coriander Leaves: one fist (chopped)
• Cheese: 1 teaspoon (grated)

Method

1. Mix all ingredients of marination in a bowl and let the chicken cubes marinate for an hour.
2. Put the chicken in a greasy dish and micro grill for 6 to 7 minutes.
3. Flip over and grill for 4 more minutes.
4. Take another bowl and put ghee and sliced onions.
5. Stir and fry onions for 3-4 minutes at micro high.
6. Boil tomatoes in yet another bowl at micro high for 2 minutes.
7. Cool down the tomatoes and peel.
8. Blend roasted onions and boiled tomatoes in a liquidizer.
9. Take boned chicken in a bowl and add ginger-garlic paste and salt.
10. Add two cups of water and cook boned chicken for 2 minutes at micro high.
11. Cook again for 5 minutes at micro 450. Sieve chicken stock.
12. Mix ghee, ginger-garlic paste, and the blended onions and tomatoes in a bowl and micro high for 2-3 minutes.
13. Add grilled chicken, grated cheese cubes, cashew nut powder, sugar, salt, butter and one cup of chicken stock.
14. Grill the mixture for 3-4 minutes at micro 450. Butter Chicken is ready.
15. Garnish it with grated cheese and chopped coriander leaves.
16. Serve it with bread or roti.

Chicken Tikka Masala Recipe

Chicken Tikka Masala is common food of every Indian restaurant. It is prepared with grilled chunks chicken which is rolled up spiced tomato sauce. Some people named it Indian version of Pizza when it is eaten with Naan Bread. You have to combine Ginger, Gram Masala, Cumin, Turmeric, Garlic and Coriander in a small container. Cord, salt and half of spice blend in other bowl and include Chicken and turn to coat.

 

Ingredients:

For the Chicken:

• 1 and 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts 
• 2 tablespoons peanut oil
• 1/4 cup plain whole-milk Greek-style cord
• 1 large clove garlic, minced
• 2 teaspoons fresh lime or lemon juice

For the sauce:

• 1 tablespoon ground coriander
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cardamom
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons ground cumin
• 1 and 1/2 teaspoons paprika
• 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
• 1 tablespoon grated peeled fresh ginger (from 1-inch piece)
• 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
• 1 large white onion
• 1 and 1/2 cups canned tomato puree
• 3/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup heavy cream 
• 1 and 1/4 teaspoons kosher salt
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

 

Method:

Chicken Tikka Masala Recipe is prepared in two steps, one is Tikka and other is Gravy. You have to grill the chicken properly for better flavors, if it is not possible you can use oven. Now go ahead for gravy process and follow the following.

• Cut chicken into smaller pieces.
• Mix all components with chicken pieces and keep it at least one hour.
• Grill chicken till golden brown color. Don’t overcook.
• Add ginger and garlic paste to fry a little.
• Add chopped onion and cook it to slightly caramelize the onions.
• Add chopped tomatoes when onions turn golden, keep cooking on medium flame.
• Add cumin and coriander powder and mix together
• Add salt and sugar according to requirement and insert chicken tikka pieces.
• Simmer it for 5 minutes on low flame heat.
• Increase heat and insert milk slowly. And continue it.
• Once the gravy is right color, reduce your oven flame.
• Serve with white rice.