EID ki dawat

Chili Chicken

Ingredients
3 1/2 lbs boneless chicken (cut into 1 1/2 inch square pieces)
5 tablespoons tandoori spice mix
7 tablespoons lemon juice
1 jalapeno (sliced)
7 leaves curry leaves (kari patta)
2 tablespoons red food coloring
3 1/2 tablespoons red chili paste
2 tablespoons oil (optional)

Directions

1In a pan add the chicken & stir fry till its half cooked or the water dries up.

2Next add 2 tablespoons tandoori spice mix & 4 tablespoons lemon juice & cook on high heat till the chicken is completely done.

3Now add the remaining tandoori masala, lemon juice, red food color, & red chili paste. Cook for 5 minutes on high medium heat.

4In the end add jalapeno, curry leaves (kari patta) and oil & simmer on medium heat for another 5 minutes.

5Your chillie chicken is done. Serve with rice, naan or parathas with chutney, raita & salad.

Boneless Chicken Biryani is basically how I make Sindhi Biryani. Instead of using chicken with bones I buy Chicken strips or Chicken breasts & cut them into strips.

**Sindhi Biryani/Boneless Chicken Biryani

Ingredients
**1-1 1/2 kg mutton/ Chicken cut into small pieces/ Chicken strips
1 kg basmati rice (soaked in water for atleast 1/2 an hour)
1/2 kg potato (cut into large chunks)
1/2 kg tomato (chopped)
250 g yogurt
1 teaspoon red chili powder
4 teaspoons salt
3 medium onions
2 teaspoons garlic paste (Lehsan)
2 teaspoons ginger (Adrak)
8 green cardamoms (Chhoti Ilaichi)
4 black cardamom pods (Bari Ilaichi)
10 cloves (Laung)
10 pieces black pepper (Kali Mirch)
1 teaspoon cumin seed (Zeera)
1 cinnamon stick (Dalchini)
2 bay leaves (Tez Patta)
250 g oil
6 green chilies
2 tablespoons coriander leaves (Dhaniya)
2 tablespoons mint leaves (Podina)
2 pinches yellow food coloring
10-15 prunes (Aaloobukharay)
3 teaspoons salt
3 bay leaves
3 cinnamon sticks
2 black cardamom pods

Directions

1Slice the onion and fry it in oil until it is light brown. Take out 1/4 of it and keep aside.

2Add Garlic (Lehsan), Ginger (Adrak), tomatoes, prunes (Aaloobukharay), salt, chili powder, cloves, cardamoms, Black Pepper, (Kali Mirch), Cumin Seeds (Zeera), and cinnamon to the remaining fried onions.

3Fry this until the tomatoes are tender and the water is dry.

4Then add meat, yogurt and water (if desired) and cook on medium heat until the meat is tender and the water has evaporated.

5On other side boil the potatoes until they're half cooked.

6Now, add green chillies, mint, coriander leaves, and the half boiled potatoes to the meat. Simmer for 2, 3 minutes. Your meat curry is done.

7Boil the rice with salt, bay leaves, cinnamon sticks and black cardamom and drain the water off when the rice is half done.

8Layer the curry with the rice in a pot in one on one layers. Sprinkle the food color, fried onions, and chopped mint leaves on top of the last layer.

9Close the lid tightly making sure no steam passes out of the pot and cook on low heat until the rice is done.

10Gently mix it before serving.

11Serve with Raita.

For Haleem I just use Shan spice mix.

Re: EID ki dawat

This Eid we have a pot luck at my cousin's house with five families bringing food and 2 other familes from out of state will be guests...the menu is as follows:
chicken biryani
fresh goat qorma
qeema alu kababs
oven ke chicken tikkay
naan khataai
lab-e-shireen
brownie sunday
You can see we are BIG on desserts :)
I'm going to make the items in bold...

Hi Proto,

do you add any water to this at all? or is dry fry

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chicken biryaani
mutton karahi
chow mein (chinese noodles)
dahi bharay
haleem
kabobs
salad
naan

Secret ingredient?
Does that mean you won't be sharing the recipe here? :(

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I am thinking abotu making yakhni palao, Shumaisa's murgh malai, and chipsy's dessert if I get the recipe on time!

Which one? Naya wala? :D

Chilli chicken is kind of dry right?

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I need help with my menu:

So far I have:

Chicken pattees
Peri Peri chicken wings
Bombay aloo
Chickpea curry
Keema with green peppers and chillies
Chargrilled veg and feta cous cous salad
Parathas
Seviyaan muzaffar
Cake

My question is I want to make another curry, but what shall I make? I think chicken would be better as my husband and his family prefer chicken to red met, but if you have recipies and suggestions for either please let me know.

Also should I make rice? What kind?

hehe yes because it doesn't require cooking :$

what are you making for eid?

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can someone post the link to chipsy’s recipe being dicussed ?? :bummer:

hein yeh kisi recipe hai no cooking :p

i wonder

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who knows if chipsy wants us to post the recipe or not.. it took me a while to ge that from her.. you can all try too :D

We're having guests over and making the following:

Pulao
Prawn masala
Bihari kabab
Malai chicken
Masala chops.

Moti-chor laddo ki kheer
Kaddu ka halwa

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My mum’s Pakistan so I guess we will be dinning out :bummer:

Can you post the recipe for the moti-chor ladoo kheer?

tumko kiuN nahiiN le gaiiN saath lol…sochne kii baat hai :hmmm: :rotfl:

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^ Itna matt socho, Kia faaida damagh pe itna zorr daalne ka !

She didnt take me because I didnt wana go lol

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We always go to my grandmas place for our Eid.

On the menu is:

Starters

-Lamb Kebabs
-Spring Rolls
-Spicy Roast Chicken

Main

  • Rice (usually with either lamb, keema or chicken in it)
  • Chicken Salan
  • Lamb Salan or Kofteh/Andeh
  • Naan

Salads, Yoghurts etc too

Dessert

  • Usually sweet rice or gajar halva or kheer.
  • Cake
  • Mithai

All the families that attend usually contribute in some way with the cooking.

Can't wait for Eid now, I'm hungry!! This food talk really isn't helping with my rozah today :D

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Although there is not going to be much prep, somehow to entertain the guests, we will have chicken n veg macaroni salad, sweet dahe phulkian, alu n chana chat, fruit salad, crookettes and shami kebabs. Sawayyan and some dryfruit cake might be served as dessert. Chicken plau, chappal kebabs in lunch and haleem (since any curry made of fresh meat passes off some very strange odour hard to stand) along with some fried keema and rus malai in dessert will follow in dinner.