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Ingredients:

• 5 medium sized prawns, shelled and de-veined
• 1 stick lemon grass
• Lemon zest of 1 lime
• 3 tsp lemon juice
• 1 tbs fresh cream
• 1 tbs white wine (optional)
• Salt to taste
• ½ tsp chopped onions
• ½ tsp butter
• A few crisp arugula or iceburg lettuce leaves

Method

Saute onions in butter till they are glossy. Add white wine, lemon zest, and lemon grass. Add 1 cup of water. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add prawns and salt to the boiling lemon flavored stock, reduce flame and simmer for two to three minutes till prawns are just done. Remove prawns to a platter and keep aside. Reduce the cooking liquid till it is of syrupy consistency, add cream. Strain, put the prawns back into the reduced stock, simmer for half a minute, add lemon juice. Check and correct the seasoning. Arrange the prawns around arugula/crisp lettuce leaves, pour sauce on top of the prawns and serve immediately.

As usual, here is another great recipe for a great Eastern dish called  “Norther Thai Squash Soup With Banana Flower” .

Ingredients:  

• 300gm butternut squash
• 1 litre vegetable stock
• 1 cup beans, cut into small pieces
• 50gm banana flower (optional)
• 1tbs Thai fish sauce
• 25 raw shrimps
• A bunch of fresh basil
• 150gm shallots sliced
• 2 fresh green chillies, seeded and finely chopped
• /2 tsp  shrimp paste

Method:

first make a chilli paste by making a puree or pounding the shallots, green chillies and shrimp paste together. Add salt to taste. Now dice the squash into  neat cubes. Heat the stock gently in a large pan. Stir in the chilli paste. Add the squash, beans and banana flower. Bring to boil and cook for 15 minutes. Add the fish sauce, shrimps and basil. Bring to simmer point, and then simmer for three minutes. Serve in bowls accompanied by rice.

You are done!

Ingredients:

• 1 ½ kg spare ribs

• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 medium sized onions, diced
• 2 tbs butter
• 1 cup chopped tomatoes
• 1 celery stick, chopped
• 1 cup ketchup
• 1 ½ tbs grated jaggery
• ½ tsp Tabasco sauce
• A pinch of dry mustard
• 2 cups stock (chicken or mutton)
• Salt and pepper to taste

Method:

Rub ribs with garlic/ place in a baking pan and roast for 30 minutes at 350 degree F. Cook onion in butter. Add the remaining ingredients and stir. Cover and simmer for one hour. Pour sauce over the ribs. Cook for 45 minutes more, basting frequently. Serve with a green salad.

Done.

Our endeavor is to collect recipes of delicious Indian items and present them to our valued visitors who love Indian delicacies.

So here goes another Indian delicacy- “Butter Chicken With Almonds”

Ingredients :-

• 1 tandoori chicken
• 1 kg tomato
• 1-inch piece of ginger
• 2 medium sized onions, finely chopped
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 tbs kasuri methi
• 2 tbs tomato ketchup
• 1tsp red chilli powder
• 100 gms cream
• 50 gms butter
• 50 gms almond
• Green chillies
• Salt to taste

The Method:-

Make your almond paste. Puree the tomatoes and ginger together. Heat the butter, and fry the almond paste. Add a bay leaf, and the onions. Fry them for two minutes. Now add the tomato-ginger paste, slat and red chilli. Cook for a while. Put the ketchup, add the tandoori chicken to the sauce and simmer for 5-7 minutes. Now add the cream. Simmer for 2 minutes. Dry roast kasuri methi on a tawa, crush it with your hands and add to the chicken. Garnish with the green chillies.

You can have your chicken now.

As told by Rahul Verma on Graphiti Magazine.