Oregano Chicken

Oregano Chicken 

This is a chicken dish with an  Italian flavour.   I innovated
this dish from the Lemon chicken recipe of my Samsung Microwave
cookbook and a recipe which I had long time back cooked by my
sisters mother in law.

Ingredients
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• Chicken - 250 gms  (boneless breast piece, cut in small pieces) 
• Curd -    3 -4 Table spoon 
• Cloves - 3-4 
• Black Pepper - 3-4 
• Salt - to taste 
• Ginger-garlic paste - 1 tea spoon 
• Onion - 1 
• Butter - 1 Table spoon 
• Black pepper Powder - to taste 
• Oregano - to taste 

Procedure
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• Marinate the chicken for 30 minutes to 1 hr with curd, cloves, black pepper and ginger-garlic paste. ( If you marinate longer it may be even better.
• Now put butter in the frying pan and melt it.
• Next  fry the onion (finely cut) in butter till soft and then put the marinated chicken and fry till the oil comes out and chicken is tender. 
• This is a dry dish but one can put very little warm water if one wants a bit of gravy. 
• Put Oregano and black pepper powder from top 

The version which my sisters mother-in-law used to cook was using
more curd and butter and only black pepper powder. But I found adding oregano gives it a nice taste.
Since this is not a gravy dish often at the end I mix pre-cooked Basmati rice in this at the end and fry the whole thing together for 2-3 minutes.
In this way the juice gets inside the rice and makes it a chicken-rice combo dish.

Kalojirer-jhol (Fish)

Kalojirer-jhol  (Fish) 
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This is the easiest fish curry to make and tastes wonderful.
It is made with Rohu fish and  is a staple diet in every Bengali household.
I believe that this is a dish that you just can't go wrong with.

This is the first fish-dish that I learnt from my mother.
This was just after my  B.Sc exams. My mother was going
out for two weeks with my grandmother and grandfather and
our cook left just before that. So this was one of the dishes
 that my mother taught me before leaving..


Ingredients
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1. Kalonji (Nigella seed)
2. Green Chilly
3. Turmeric
4. Coriander leaves

Procedure
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• Fry the fish (not too fried) . 
• In a pan take mustard oil and heat it.
• When heated put the nigella seeds and Green chilly. When they spur ,mix turmeric mixed in water and bring to boil.
•  Add the fried fish fishes and simmer for a while. 
• Add the fresh coriander leaves from top and after 1-2 minutes put some mustard oil from top.

It has the tangy smell of mustard oil and coriander and tastes really great
with rice.

Quick Sahi Paneer

This is a very easy Paneer recipe which I often prepare if I call vegetarian guests or my cook does not come.


Sahi Paneer
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Ingredients

1. Onion 2 - cut in small pieces
2. Capsicum 1 -- cut finely
3. Tomato 2
4. Paneer 250 gms
5. Coriander leaves
6. Rasoi Magic Sahi Panner Masala 3 tsp
7. Milk
8. salt to taste

Procedure
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Fry Onion and Capsicum in white oil.
Then put grated tomato ( If you have time then it is best to use
pureed tomato, fried, cooled and then pureed in mixer) and fry well.
Mix the shahi paneer masala in milk and stir until it dissolve.
Then put this mixture with the onion-capsicum-tomato. Bring to boil.
add little water and then put the Paneer and keep at low frame for few minutes.
Add coriander leaves from top.
(Another variant of this is to first warm little ghee/white oil and
whole garam masal (cardamom, cinnamon and clove) and when the smell
comes put the onion and fry). If I want
the coriander flavour to come  I do  not use whole garam  masala.
One can also add Kasuri-Methi for a different flavour.
If there are guests then I put fresh cream on top of this.