Tuesday 11 September 2012

A Traditional Assamese cuisine

A Traditional Assamese cuisine by - Riju Das

Chicken with Pumpkin-

Ingredient-
1. Chicken 1/2 kg
2. pumpkin 200gm crunched
3. Onion-3 medium (Chopped)
4. Red chili 2
5.Garlic 1 tsn
6.Ginger-1 tsn
7. cumin(jeera) powder
8. Red chili powder
9. salt & turmeric
10. Garam masala & pepper powder.

Method-
Add ½ tspn salt, 1/4tspn turmeric,  1/4tspn chilli powder,  2 pinch of  sugar  with crunched pumpkin, and keep aside.
 Take a pan and heat 3tblsn of oil.
Add red chilies fry till blackest red colored. Now add chopped onion and fry 2min. Then add ginger-garlic paste.And fry till golden brown.

Add Chicken and fry  add salt, turmeric  1/2tsn, red chili powder1/2 tsn. Then  fry till oil visible in sides. now seam the gas and cover the pan for 10min.

Now add crunched pumpkin mixer and fry it for 5-6min. Than cover the pan again.
Check the pan time by time.

When Chickens were half boiled  remove the cover and fry it for few min in high flam.

When its become dry  add water for is curry. Boil it till its proper thickness.

Finally add  1/2 tsn garam masala and 1/4tsn pepper. boil for 5min.
Now its ready to serve.