Chicken Pakoda

Chicken lovers go ‘gaga’…by the word gaga I don’t mean Lady Gaga but simply want to say, some people get very enthusiastic and excited…on hearing about CHICKEN PAKODA.

…all for the love of chicken…and…a plate full of chicken pakodas with some sauce like that of chilli and tomato and some fresh thin onion rings…and the magic of savouring…

Aloo-Beans Bhaja/Potato and Long Beans Sauté

Long gap and huh!!!

...watching me closely and reading my recipes…some known and some unknown friends…have also posted recipes like mine.

Not that it comes under plagiarism, but, every lady of her own kitchen has similar thoughts and very similar ways of cooking like someone else.

Aloo Paratha/Potato stuffed Indian rolled out flat bread

 

Parathas are my favourite. Bengalis like to make their typical simple triangle shaped parathas. Then there is the square shaped paratha. The round ones are there and not much to speak about Laccha Parathas which are occasional and special.

Kala Chana Fry – Masaledar Kala Chana…

This dish is really simple, but tastes great. Many people write off Kala Chana, but it is so nutritious. With so many nutritious values under its dark skin, this kala chana can be very tasty when cooked and served with some simple spices.

To make Kala Chana Fry, (a simple secret worth a mention, no great hurdle, no great burden, not very time consuming in preparing) first the ingredients –

Papdi Chaat – Easy to relate to Indian Street Food

 

Think of Chaat, the mouth starts salivating.

The very word ‘Chaat’ brings to the mind the taste of sweet, sour, spicy, sharp, strong, crunchy, munchy, and all tastes put together to create a good tasty plateful.

An outing on a weekend evening, eyes search the streets for the ‘phuckawallah/golgappawallah or a chaatwallah’ standing with his ‘thela’ to serve tasty, tasty street food.