Caramelized Onion Rice | Bhuga Chawal
Bhuga Chawal is cooked in a stock prepared by sautéing and caramelizing onions along with some basic spices. The caramelization gives a distinctive color and taste to the rice.
Bhuga Chawal is cooked in a stock prepared by sautéing and caramelizing onions along with some basic spices. The caramelization gives a distinctive color and taste to the rice.
Crispy Potato Pakora is the perfect snack to dig in to on wintry or rainy days. These potato slices are coated in a spiced gram flour batter
and fried in hot oil. Have these Alu Pakora when they are just out from the sizzling oil.
Fried Meetha Chautha is made during the festive Shravan month. It is one of the sweet treats made during Thadri/ Satayain festival in monsoon. It has subtle flavors of cardamom and is crisp on the outside. Customarily it is either made in round shapes ‘tikki’ or quarters ‘chautha’. In today’s times, cookie cutters are used to give fancy shapes to these fried snack.
Savory Satpura is a variation of the regular Satpura made during the Thadri – Satayain festival in monsoon season. It bears resemblance to lachhedar paratha- flatbread with concentric circles.
Churi Laddus are traditional sweet balls made from wheat flour crumble. Basically, the whole-wheat dough is shaped into fist-sized lumps, fried, crushed and sweetened. Using warm ghee, balls are formed with deft hands. The entire process of making Wheat flour Crumble Sweet Balls is summed up in two stages. The first stage is to make the crumble ‘Churi’ and the second one is shaping the balls.
Besan ki Sindhi Kadhi is a sautéed gram flour curry that is simmered along with assorted vegetables, herbs and spices. Finally for a sweet sour mild kick, add tamarind pulp, a pinch of kokum, and jaggery.
Minced meat as well as some meat on bones is sauted with onions and spices to give a reddish brown color and typical flavors. This process of cooking and giving off a reddish brown to the meat is called bhuno-ing or bhunena method.
The edifice for the success of this recipe is bhuno-ing the mutton. Bhuno is a combination of stir frying, sauteing and stewing. This browning of the mutton is so skillfully done that there are no traces of the chopped onions or tomatoes.
"Cooking is not only an expression of creativity; it is a creation itself."
"Cooking is not only an expression of creativity; it is a creation itself."