Re: Help me pls...need easy recipes
Khanapakana.com has some good recipes of various chefs/people that come on tv. I just look at Farah's or occassionally Rahat's, you can see the video as well as follow recipe so it becomes much more easier for frst time or learner cooks. Other than that, desicookbook.com has some basic pakistani dishes too.
Start with simple dishes. Mine was keema aaloo. Different sort of Pilaou such as matar pilaou, chicken pilaou, channa pilaou, keema pilaou are very simple too, you just need to learn 1 and you can make all these with very less variations and provides you variety too, one week one aort of rice from above, the second week another.
Another simple recipe which i completely love is aaloo channey (chick peas) cooked. It is delicious and very easy.
Boil Chick peas or to make it easier, buy the ones which are already boiled and come in cans.
In oil, fry ginger (more than you'd put in a normal salan), garlic till golden brown.
In a chopper (food processor), grind 2/3 tomatoes and 2/3 green chillies. add this mixture to the fried ginger garlic and add very little water. Add red chilli powder 1 tsp (or according to taste), 1 tsp salt (or according to taste), and some haldi (turmeric powder) and bhoon/fry for a bit.
Add potatoes (cut in to whatever size you want, i use baby or new potatoes which are better for health), 2tsp cumins seeds, 2tsp ground corriander powder (sookha dhaniyya), 1tsp kalwanji and a small piece of cinemon stick (bark) and bhoon for a while till you can smell the spices.
If chick peas were not fully boiled earlier, add them at this point and bhoon for a bit more. add some water and let it cook on low heat till potatoes are cooked and mixed.
Add corriander and green chillies before serving!