Bitter gourd stuffed with onions and spices Ingredients – serves 4 4 bitter gourds – they are ripe and ready to cook when are bright green 2 tbsp oil or ghee – one to be used for the filling, the second for frying the stuffed gourd 1 tsp crushed coriander seeds 1 tsp cumin seeds…
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Shepherds Pie the PunjaBee way
This is my twist on the traditional Shepherds Pie Serves 4-5 1 tbsp cooking oil 1 tsp crushed coriander seeds 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 large finely chopped onion 1 tsp garlic paste 1 tsp ginger paste Half a kilo lamb mince or 500g veggie mince 1 heaped tbsp tomato puree mixed with 3 tbsp…
Aloo Palak
Using Asda’s British Belle Potatoes and Mild Tender Baby Spinach A delicious combination of creamy potatoes cooked with coriander and fennel seeds, baby spinach and more! Recipe listed below. I used Asda’s Baby Spinach and British Belle Potatoes Ingredients – Serves 4 360g Mild Tender Baby Spinach – washed and chopped 4-6 potatoes – peel,…
Gosht Beliram
With Tims Dairy Gosht meaning red meat and Beliram being the famous historical head chef in Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s kitchen, was renowned for being the best cook of that time. And who was Maharaja Ranjit Singh? Popularly known as Sher-e-Punjab – the lion of Punjab – he was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire…
Mattar Paneer
Indian cottage cheese cooked with peas and spices Ingredients 300g of paneer cut into 2cm cubes and soaked in water – If you prefer the paneer fried, then fry in a little ghee or oil in advance and set aside 1 tbsp ghee or cooking oil of your choice 1 tsp cumin seeds 1 tsp…
Achari Tinde ~ aka as Apple Gourd
Tinde aka Apple Gourd, a seasonal vegetable, can still be available in grocery stores now. Recipe – Feeds 4 6 x apple gourd peeled and cut into wedges, remove any hard seeds 1 tablespoon mustard oil 1 tablespoon ghee 1 teaspoon cumin seeds 1 teaspoon crushed coriander seeds 2 small or 1 large sliced onion…
Malai Chicken Kofte
Malai Chicken Kofte are the healthy alternative to Lamb Kofte. When I lived in Cyprus, I found chicken mince a lot easier to source than in the UK, but since returning I have found it is available in a lot of the major supermarkets now. You can of course, buy chicken fillets and then mince…
Achari Chicken
Achari Chicken is one of my favourite chicken recipes, the flavours from it are just outstanding. Two teaspoons of the Achari Masala is all it takes to turn the ingredients in the pan into a bittersweet broth (find the recipe for the masala in the top of the Spice Box in the menu). I use…
Palak Paneer
Indian cheese cooked in a thick spicy spinach sauce Palak Paneer is a lovely combination of velvety spiced spinach cooked with delicious cubes of paneer. Many people choose to fry the paneer before adding it to the spinach – however I prefer to toss it in with the spinach as it cooks, which makes it…
Achari Masala
Achari Masala is my favourite masala and I try never to run out of it, although whenever I make it I have to send half of it to my son-in-law in the Highlands, he loves it! Achaar is the Punjabi word for ‘pickled’, be it mango (aam), carrot (gajjar), ginger (adrak) or chilli (mirch) or…