I have a small gathering at my house on Sunday. It’s basically friends who’re coming over for dinner (with their families). Now we have these dinners every other weekend and this time it’s at our place. Food is always rather simple, 1 or two main dishes and then white rice and roti to go with it. We don’t really do appetizers or snacks etc. (I do however always make a special salad).
I have decided to make one dish of keema, aalu, matter, one daal dish and another dish with chicken. First I thought about just basic chicken curry (as I want this dish to be with gravy/shorwa) but that sounds too uhm boring to me. I thought about adding channa, but I know not everyone is fond of that (to be honest, even I don’t like it that much).
What other options do I have? What vegetable (?) can I add to a chicken saalan with shorwa?
Why don't you try Chicken Makhni? It's easy to make and goes very well with matar pulao as well as naan. Besides, it's just way too yummy (if made the right way).
Shinoo you can add bell pepper with chicken, but don;t make it too runny if you do. We don;t usually make shorba wali chicken and even if mum ever does its always just on its own without veges.
Shinoo I would probably steer clear of runny stuff for a dawat just cos it can get messy to eat. Shorba and rice don’t go too well and even having roti with it cannot be done without a bit of a mess. Most importantly if everyone is going to be seated at the table then its still ok but u never want ppl carrying around plates of shorba around ur house
^Yeah Femme I know what you mean!
Everyone is going to be seated at the table so It'll be ok.
I've decided I'm just gonna make chicken curry with a thick gravy. Won't make it too watery. :--)
^ I love salads! I'm known as the 'salad-girl' here cuz everyone else hates making salad so they end up asking me every time to bring the salad.
I don't do anything out of the ordinary, just like to try out ingredients that not everyone uses in salads and try new dressings every now and then.
Most people (here) just do the basic lettuce, cucumber, tomato and carrots salads. things.
I use all of the above basic ingredients and then add other stuff. Like I have one where I add cashew nuts, honey/mustard dressing, red cabbage, sweetcorn and kidneybeans.
Then I have another salad with feta cheese, olives, sour gherkins and a vinegar dressing.
Sweet salads where I add fruits (mango, pineapple etc). It just depends on what kind of food you're eating it with.
I also like to make it look 'pretty'. Like I have this huge morrocon bowl that I decorate with salad in 'layers'. Trust me, at every gathering I went to, the salad is always they first to finish ;-)
Shinoo, instead of making regular chicken salan with shorba, try chicken qorma instead. You dont need to put any veggies in it and the gravy is not too runny.
^Can you give me a good recipe for chicken qorma? I'll be making one whole chicken!
Aly-sam; I use mustard paste, preferably the coarse grounded one, where the mustard seeds are still visible!
Take 750 grams onion, slice it thinly and fry till light brown in 2 cups of oil.
Separate the fried onion from the oild and grind it and make a mix of it with 200 grams of yougurt.
Put following garam masala in the hot oil (make it hot again after separating the onion)
Zeera, Kali Mirch, Long, few sufeed illachies and tezpat. Fry for few seconds.
Now put 4 tablespoon of ginger-garlic paste in the hot oil , stir fry it quickly for 10-15 seconds and mix it thoroughly with the oil. Then put 1 Kg beef or mutton and mix it thoroughly with the mix. Now put following masala in it
Lal mirch (ground) 2 tablespoon
Dhanyia (ground) 2 tablespoon
Zeera(ground) 1 teaspoon
Qorma aroma masala mix 1 tablespoon ( mix of jaeful, jawatri, sufeed illachi and zeera)
Stir fry quickly for 8-10 minutes till oil separates. Put 50 grams of yougurt.
Then put water in appropriate quantity (that it covers the meat)
Simmer it till the meat is tender and most of the water evaporates.
Then put the yougurt and onion paste in it and put some kewra water and simmer for 10 minutes.
. I normally make chicken curry without anything aswell but I dunno … I want to add something
