mukho's kitchen

  Kaju Barfi /Kaju Katli(Cashew Fudge)  Preparation Time :15minutes Cook Time :15 minutes Total Time :30 minutes Ingredients: Cashews 1 cup 1/3 Cup Sugar 1/3  Cup water 1 Teaspoon rose water Ghee 1 Tablespoons preparation:   Grind the Cashews to make course powder.  On a wooden chaki( Wooden Polpat,chakla) , apply ghee and keep ready.  In a heavy bottom pan add sugar and water and make sugar syrup.  Now add cashew powder in the syrup. Keep string until the paste thickens and starts leaving the sides of the pan.  Take it out and knead it for 2-3 minutes and make a dough . Now keep the dough on the wooden chaki & Flatten it .  Keep a silver foil over it and flatten it using rolling pin(belan). Now you can cut with the knife, make square or diamond cuts   serve it after it becomes cool and little bit dry.   

Pomfret fry Preparation time: 15 mins (excluding marination) Cooking time: 10 mins Ingrediants 3 pomfret fish 1 lemon 1 tbsp red chilli powder 1/2 tsp turmeric Salt to taste 1 tsp ginger paste 1 tsp garlic paste 2 tspoon oil Method To marinate- In a bowl add the red chilli powder, lemon juice, salt, turmeric powder, ginger-garlic paste and then mix well. Add the fish in this mixture and marinate it and the keep it aside for 30 mins. Take a fry pan and heat oil and fry both the sides of the pomfrets till become golden brown. ...

 Nolen Gurer patalir payes(bengali kheer or Bengali rice pudding with date palm jaggery) Nolan gur ( jaggery) is famous in Bengal, it is made in winter, palm tree juice is made from mesh. The palm juice is also taken raw as tari(Bengali term) But there is no pair of this jaggery in Bengal, and I do not know that it can be found anywhere else in India. Prep Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 35 mins Total Time:50 minutes ingrediants 1/2 cup   gobind bhog rice(mainly available in West Bengal) 1 litre fat milk   ½ cup chopped dates palm jaggery  ( can add more to taste) 1  tej patta ( bay leaf) 2 tablespoons chopped cashews ( optional) 1 tablespoon  cherry - (for garnishing-optional) Procedure Wash the rice and keep aside. Add milk and bay leaf in a heavy bottom pan and bring it to a boil. When the milk starts boiling add  rice to it and start stirring continuously to prevent scalding .  Wait ti...

Chingrir Malai Curry /  Prawn Curry with Coconut Milk ingrediants 1/2 kg prawn 2 Cinnamon stick 2 chopped onions  1 chopped tomato 2 tablespoon garlic ginger paste 1 teaspoon chili powder 1 teaspoon garam masala 2 teaspoon  ghee 1 tspoon ghee 150 ml oil 4 number clove 1 tablespoon cumin powder 1 teaspoon  sugar 1 cup thick coconut milk 2 bay leaves 1/2 cup hot water  Method .Rub the prawns with  turmeric powder and  salt. Set aside for 10 minutes. Fry the prawns for 2 minutes and transfer to a plate and set aside. Heat oil in a pan and add whole spices and stir for 2 minutes.  Then add finely chopped onions, until they change light brown in color. Add ginger garlic paste, tomato,turmeric powder and chilly powder and salt to taste.  Spray little water and cook until their raw smell leaves and oil separates.  Add coconut milk and mix well.  Add prawns and cook for 5...

Bok Phooler pakora( Agastha flowers pakora) Bok phool scientific name is Sesbania grandiflora and in hindi it is  Agastha flowers. The flowers are mostly milkwhite in color . The leaves, roots,  flowers,bark,and overall plants are used for prepareing Ayurvedic medicines. In West Bengal it is known as Bok Phool. Ingredients: Bok phool 10 Mustard oil for deep frying Besan(gram floor) 1 cup Kalonji ¼ tsp (optional) Baking soda a 1/4 tspoon Salt to taste Method : 1.   Wash the bok phools gently. 2. In a bowl take besan , kalonji (optional), baking soda and salt, add water and mix to make a thick batter. 3. Heat oil in a Kadai /pan 4. Dip each bok phool in the batter and deep fry this bok phool one by one till golden brown in color. 6.  Serve hot with green chatney  

Sandesh the amazing sweet Sondesh is one of the most popular Bengali Sweets which is made with milk and Sugar or nolenGur.. There are so many verities of sondesh like jol bhora sondesh,   nolengurer sondesh, chocolate sondesh, Kora paker sondesh etc. If you came to Kolkata or anywhere in West Bengal then you have to had these famous sweet, you can get it from some famous sweets shop e.g Nokur,BhimNag,Nalin Chandra and so many countless shop. Sandesh Recipe preparation time 50-60 minutes Ingredients Milk - 1 liter  sugar(Powdered) - 1/3 cup Lemon - 1 Raisins - 15-20 rose water - 1 spoon mould-2 method 1.    First, we  will make chena, so take a pan put milk and bring it to boil .Turn off the flame and add the lemon juice slowly and keep aside while stirring gently. Then allow it to rest for 2 minute,it will be curdled completely when water is separated fully, strain it by the help of a muslin cloth and ha...