Spicy Crab

Serve for 4 persons.

Ingredients and Content

• Crab (medium size) 500 gm
• Black Pepper 3 teaspoon
• Garlic 2 flakes
• Fenugreek 2 teaspoon
• Onion big size 2
• cloves 3
• cinnamon 1 piece
• Tomatoes 4
• Coconut milk 500 ml
• Coriander leaves,(Chinese parsley, Celentra all refer to this grand fragrant herb) chopped 2 tablespoons
• Lemon 1
• salt,as required
• chili powder 3 teaspoon
• oil

Method

Wash the crabs thoroughly and set aside.Powder the fenugreek seeds and grind the pepper with garlic to a paste. Grind the tomatoes and extract the juice.Slice the onions. Pour oil in a wok,and after the oil is hot, add cloves, cinnamon and fenugreek powder. Now add garlic paste and stir for 2 minutes. Add onions and fry till golden brown. Add tomato extract and the crabs. Mix well and allow it to boil for a few seconds. Pour the coconut milk, salt and let the crab cook in it, till the gravy dries out. Garnish with coriander leaves and halves of lemon.

Chicken Fry

Serve to 4 persons.

Ingredients and Contents

• Chicken 500 gms
• Chilly Powder 5 tablespoon
• Cornflour 3 Tablespoon
• Maida flour 2 tablespoon
• Allspice powder 2 tablespoon
• Garlic paste 2 tablespoon
• Red colour powder, 2 teaspoons
• Chopped Chinese parsley, 4tablespoon
• Salt, as required
• Oil, 200 ml

Method

Pressure cook the chicken for 10 minutes and set aside the stock. Mix all the above items, except the oil, with the chicken and marinate for atleast 30 minutes. Heat the oil in a wok, and deep fry the chicken pieces and garnish it with chopped Chinese parsley.

Spiced Beef with Mushroom

To Serve for 4 persons.

Ingredients and Contents

• Beef 500 gm, cut into Bite Sized Pieces
• Button Mushroom 200 gm,
• Small Onions 10
• Peas 100 gm
• Black Pepper, Freshly Ground, 2 tbls
• Chili Powder 1 tbls
• Garlic, 30 Flakes, Crushed
• Tomato 6
• Clove 4
• Bay Leaf 3
• Cinnamon 4
• Chinese Parsley (Cilantro) 1 cup
• Salt 2 Teaspoon
• Green Onion 2
• Green Chili 4
• Ginger 1 inch piece

Method

Grind 5 onions with about 15 flakes of garlic, pepper, salt and green chilies, add chili powder to this. Marinate beef in this for over 2 hours in normal temperature. Add oil and fry the remaining garlic and onion, add the spices and after a few minutes, add the beef with its sauce, cover the wok. Grind the tomatoes and after some time, add it to the beef. Pour little oil into another wok, add onions, chopped green onions, ground ginger and fry. Add quartered mushroom into this wok and fry till mushroom reduces in volume by little. Meanwhile the first wok, with beef must have cooked for atleast 20 minutes, and the sauce must have reduced to half. Add the contents of the second wok and heat through for about 3 minutes.

Garnish with Chinese parsley. Serve hot with Nan or Bread.