Cooking is a great job!

Cooking is a great job! I am sure that I don’t have to tell you this, because you know a delicious dish brings a lot of smiles around you, it brings your energy back and helps to recover your fatigue. It’s all about being inspired to cook and inspire others to cook. So cook something great today for your loved one and feel the happiness when they like the food. If you have any great recipe, please share with others and inspire others to cook. If you have a cooking website, that is great way to let others know about your secret formulas! Also you may let me know about your website or recipe so that I can share the same with my friends.

Let me share a cooking website of my friend Avijit having some great recipes there. I would suggest you to check this link for his website:

http://web.me.com/avijitmukherjee/BengaliCook/

Fish Curry with Cauliflower and Potato (Bengali Style)

Fish Curry is the most favorite in Bengal. There are thousands of ways to cook fish. Here is one of the common fish curry recipe in Bengal. Try this and let me know if you like it.  Please rate and comment on my video; also subscribe to my website/ channel for regular updates.

Preparation Time:
10 minutes

Cooking Time:
30 minutes

Ingredients:

Fish : 4 pieces (I have used tilapia, you can use rohu or katla also)

Potato : 1 medium size cut into small pieces

Cauliflower : 4 medium size pieces

Onion : 1 medium size sliced

Tomato : 1 small size sliced

Green chili : 1 pieces cut into half

Cilantro : 1 small bunch for garnishing

Cooking oil : 5 tea spoon

Ginger garlic paste : 1 tea spoon

Panch Phoron : 1/2 tea spoon (fenugreek, mustard, kalonji, fennel & cumin)

Turmeric powder : 1/4 tea spoon

Cumin powder : 1 tea spoon

Coriander powder : 1 tea spoon

Chili powder : 1/2 tea spoon

Whole Garam Masala : cinnamon (1 piece), cloves (2 pieces) and cardamom (2 pieces) grinded  

Salt : to taste

Sugar : to taste

Method:

1. Get fish pieces into a bowl. Mix little salt and pinch of turmeric powder with it.
2. On the oven heat a frying pan and add 2 and 1/ 2 tea spoons oil on it.
3. When the oil is hot, put fish pieces on the pan to fry.  
4. When the side is brown color, it is fried, flip them to fry the other side.
5. Pick fired fish pieces from the pan and keep separately. 
6. There will be some oil left on the pan to fry potato and cauliflower slightly. Add them on the pan. If the color is brown then the side is done, flip the other side to fry.
7. Keep fried potato and cauliflower separately.
8. Put a bigger pan on the oven for the curry. 
9. When the pan is hot, add remaining 2 and 1/ 2 spoons oil. 
10. Now when the oil is little hot, add panch phoron on the oil. 
11. Mix panch phoron with the oil and then add onions and green chili with it. 
12. Fry onions slightly and then add ginger garlic paste with it. Mix the paste properly with onions until the onion is brown color.
13. Now add tomato on the pan.
14. Add salt and sugar, mix all these together and put a lid on it to soften tomatoes quickly. Leave it for 3 minutes.
15. After 3 minutes open the lid and now press boiled soft tomatoes using the spatula to mix it with onions.
16. Then add turmeric powder, cumin powder, coriander powder and chili powder with it. Mix them with the remaining spices and let it cook again for 2 minutes.
17. After 2 minutes when all these spices are mixed well together, add slightly fried potato and cauliflowers with them.
18. Mix the gravy with potato cauliflower and add 1 cup of water. Put a lid and allow potato cauliflower to boil properly. It will take approximately 4 – 5 minutes on medium heat. 
19. Check periodically to see if there is sufficient water to boil them. Press one potato with the spatula to check if boiled. 
20. When the gravy with potato and cauliflower is ready, add fried fish with it.
21. Again the fish will be boiled with the gravy for approximately 4 minutes so that it will soak some of the gravy to being a great taste together. Some more water can be added at this point to make sure that some gravy will be left after boiling and it is not sticky.
22. After 4 minutes, the fish curry is boiled. Sprinkle grinded garam masala on top and transfer the curry to a serving bowl. 
23. Garnish with cilantro and enjoy this Bengali style fish curry with steamed rice.

Indian Masala Tea or Masala Chai

Preparation Time:

1 minute

Cooking Time:

5 minutes

Ingredients:

Milk : 1 cup

Tea : 2 tea spoons

Sugar : 1 tea spoon

Clove : 2 pieces

Cardamom : 2 pieces crushed

Bay Leaf : 1 leaf

Method:

1. Put a tea pan on the oven in medium heat.
2. Pour milk on the tea pan.
3. Add bay leaf, crushed cardamom, cloves, sugar and tea.
4. Let it boil for 4 minutes.
5. When the color of tea is light brown, pour the tea on a cup using tea strainer.
6. Serve hot.

Egg Poppy (Dim Posto)

Preparation Time:

5 minutes

Cooking Time:

20 minutes

Ingredients:

Boiled Egg : 3

Poppy Seed : 6 tea spoon

Onion : 1 piece medium size

Cooking oil : 3 tea spoon

Ginger garlic paste : 1 tea spoon

Green chili : 2 pieces

Salt : to taste

Turmeric powder : 1/4 tea spoon

Sugar : to taste

   

Method:

1. Cut boiled eggs into half.
2. Shred onion, a shredder or blender can be used.
3. Grind poppy seed nicely in blender.
4. Cut green chili into half.
5. Heat a pan on medium heat and put 1 and 1/2 tea spoon oil on the pan.
6. When oil is hot, put boiled eggs on the pan to fry. Keep the cut yolk sides facing the pan first.
7. Make sure that the surface of the egg is light brown before frying the other side.
8. When the other sides of eggs are also fried, keep them aside.
9. Again add 1 and 1/2 tea spoon oil on the pan.
10. When the oil is hot, add shredded onions and fry it for 1 minute.
11. Add green chili with onions and fry for 1 minute.
12. Add ginger garlic on the pan and again mix them until the mix is nice brown color (approximately 3 minutes).
13. Add turmeric powder and mix it properly with the mixture on the pan for 1 minute.
14. Now the mixture with spices is ready, add 2 cups of water and mix it properly.
15. Add salt and sugar to taste.
16. Put a lid on the pan and let it boil for 10 minutes.
17. When the gravy is properly boiled and thick, add grinded poppy seeds.
18. Mix poppy seeds nicely with the gravy.
19. Now take the gravy in a serving bowl and put all boiled and fried eggs on it.
20. Egg Poppy (Dim Posto) is now ready to serve.

Here below is the video recipe. Please prepare this delicious dish, enjoy it with rice as side dish and provide your feedback: 

Healthy Green (Turnip, Cabbage, Kale) - Saag Recipe

Preparation Time:

5 minutes

Cooking Time:

16 minutes

Ingredients:

Kale : 1 bunch (approx 1 lb)

Turnip Greens : 1 bunch (approx 1 lb)

Cabbage : approx 0.5 lb

Garlic : whole garlic, skin removed 2 pieces

Water : 4 cup

Salt : to taste

Method:

1. Chop kale greens into small pieces
2. Chop turnip greens into small pieces 
3. Chop cabbage greens into small pieces
4. Crush 2 pieces of garlic
5. Put all these green leafs into a microwave safe bowl
6. Add 4 cups of water
7. Add a little salt to taste
8. Boil them in microwave for 8 minutes and drain excess water
9. Heat a pan on the oven
10. Put the crushed garlic on the pan and heat for 15 seconds
11. Add all the boiled leafs from bowl on the pan
12. Mix and heat them well for 2 minutes
13. Put a lid on the pan and let it cook for another 5 minutes
14. The Healthy Green dish is now ready to serve     

Please chcek the video of this preparation here: