KHURMA RECIPE - Central Indian Dessert Receipes

Ingredients
1 cup: White flour or maida
2 cups: Whole wheat flour or atta
4 tbsp: Ghee
2 cups: Sugar
A pinch of salt
Method
Make a stiff dough of the flours, ghee and salt.
Roll 1½ inch thick. Cut squares.
Deep fry till golden. Drain.
In a saucepan boil sugar and water till you have a thick two-strand chasni. Keep it warm on the stove.
Dip in the squares in the chasni and drain quickly.

LAVANG LATA RECIPE - Central Indian Dessert Receipes

Ingredients
2 cups: White flour
1 cup: Sugar
4 tbsp: Ghee
2 cups: Water
Nutmeg powder
Elaichi powder
Cloves
Dry coconut, grated
Almonds or cashews or pistas, chopped
Raisins
Oil for frying
Method
In a saucepan, boil sugar with water till you have a two-string sugar syrup. Keep warm on the stove.
Make a hard dough with ghee and water. Roll the dough in circles.
Fold the three edges in to make a pocket and fill with a random mix of coconut, raisins and nuts and tiny pinches of nutmeg and elaichi.
Close the fourth flap and anchor with a clove.
Deep fry in oil on low flame.
Dip in chasni. And drain

KUSLI RECIPE - Central Indian Recipe

Kusli is a special preparation of the people of Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. It is prepared with maida (white flour), ghee and sooji (semolina). It is too yummy. This sweet dish is fast and easy to cook. Try to prepare it yourself and you will love the taste. The ingredients and method of preparation is given below.
Ingredients for Kusli
For the Covering
Maida (white flour): 1 cup
Ghee: 2 tbsp
For the Stuffing
Sooji (semolina): ½ large cup
Powdered sugar: 1 large cup
Badam (almonds, ground): ½ large cup
Khismish (raisins): ½ large cup
Dried coconut, grated: 3 tbsp
Elaichi powder: ½ tsp
Ghee: 3-4 tbsp
Method for preparing Kusli
First make a stiffish dough with flour, ghee and water. Roll out it into smaller circles. Keep it aside.
Fry sooji in ghee and add raisins, elaichi powder and badam to it. Let it cool.
Next, take a small quantity of the stuffing, approximately three tea spoon, in the centre of each circles. Fold it in half and edge it with fork.
Fry it deep at average flame and heat it till it turns pink and not red.
Serve this sweet dish hot.

MACHHER JHOL RECIPE - Fish Receipes

Ingredients
500 gm: Fish (of your choice), cut into 2 ½ cm/1" thick slices, diagonally
1 tsp: Turmeric
½ tsp: Salt or to taste
Grind Together
1 ½ cup: Onion, roughly chopped
1 tsp: Garlic, chopped
2 tsp: Ginger, chopped
2-3: Dried red pepper
½ tsp: Turmeric
1 tsp: Salt or to taste
To Proceed
½ cup: Mustard oil
1 tsp: Onion seeds
¼ tsp: Cinnamon, broken in small pieces
Coriander leaves for garnish
4 pcs: Cloves
4 pcs: Green cardamoms
1-2: Bay leaf
2-3: Green chillies, slit lengthwise
3 cup: Water
Method
Wash the fish and apply the ½ tsp salt and 1 tsp turmeric over all the pieces.
Heat the oil in a heavy based saucepan, and fry fish slices in it, first on one side, then the other, over high heat, till a golden colour.
Lift the fish out of the oil, and keep aside.
In the same oil, add the onion seeds, cinnamon, cloves, cardamom and bay leaf, stir fry 2-3 times, and add the ground paste.
Sauté till fat separates then add the green chillies and stir fry a few times. Add the water and bring to a boil and then simmer for about 15 minutes, uncovered.
Add the fish just before serving, bring to a boil (by which time the fish should be cooked through, otherwise simmer till done).
Serve hot garnished with the coriander leaves.

CHETTINAD CHICKEN RECIPE - Chicken Recipes

Ingredients
1 kg: Chicken
1 1/2 cup: Onion
1 cup: Tomato
20 cloves: Garlic
1 big piece: Ginger
2 tsp: Pepper
2 tsp: Cumin seeds
2 tsp: Fennel (Jeera)
¼ cup: Coriander Powder
½ small cup: Chilli Powder
Cloves (lavangam) as required
Tamarind as required
Salt to taste
5 tsp: Oil
HOW TO COOK CHETTINAD CHICKEN

Wash the chicken and cut to pieces.
Mince garlic and ginger.
Powder pepper, cumin seeds and fennel together.
Fry the powders lightly and keep aside.
Season cloves in oil in a frying pan, add onion and tomato.
Sauté well adding minced garlic and ginger.
Add chicken with little turmeric powder and cook for 10 minutes.
Add chilli /coriander powders, salt and mix well.
Pour 4 cups of water and boil.
When chicken is half boiled, add the half fried pepper, cumin seed and fennel powder and mix well.
When the gravy thickens to a paste, remove from fire.
Serve hot.