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Mom's Recipes - Part VII

Zeenat Q Biriyani 4 Ramadan. Have fun! Ingredients: 1 kg basmati rice [soak for 2hrs] 2 kg mutton 3 fat chopped onions 2 thinly sliced onions [keep for barista] 2kg Potatoes [soak for 1hr] ½ kg ghee 1 Aarong dahi [curds] 6 tbsp ginger paste Ground Dried Masala: *Heat all these in a tava, grind to smithereens and leave aside Joitree [screw-pine] Jaifol [Nutmeg] Black pepper corns Shah Jeera [cumin seeds] Red chillies Bay leaves Cardamoms [big 2/tiny 6] Heat pot on low heat, put ghee, ginger paste, dry masala, dahi, fat onions, salt, ground masala, and saffron with red food color. Add meat [beef/mutton]. Put on low heat and cook for 1½ hr. While beef is cooking, soak rice for 2hrs. Heat water in a big pot for boiling rice. Par-boil for fluffiness [only 2min]. Don't forget to boil the potatoes [and don't overcook the potatoes!] Strain and keep aside. Throw away the starch. In a big kadhai, add ghee, fry the thinly sliced onions until golden brown and crispy. Add the boiled potato...

Mom's recipes - Part VI

Dearest, Today we cook a Mughal beef dish. DAHI GOSHT [BEEF IN CURDS] Ingredients 1kg beef 1 container Aarong doi [500ml] 1/2 a lemon 1 big fat onion chopped fat fat 1 big fat onion chopped thin thin [for barista] :) 4tbsp ghee 2tbsp oil 1tbsp salt 2 bay leaves Masala paste ingredients: 1inch of ginger, 5 garlic cloves, 10 pepper corns,, 2 bay leaves, 4 red chillies Heat oil with ghee, fry thinly sliced onions, make golden brown barista. Take out all barista from pot and keep aside for garnishing. Place pot back on fire, and add cardamom, cinnamon [elaichi, darchini] onions, bay leaves, curds, salt, ginger garlic paste, masala family paste :) Add 3 mugs of hot water, and add beef. Once it comes to boil, lower the heat and simmer for 1.5 hours, or until beef is tender. Stir and wait until the beef is soft. Final stage: add sugar and barista. Serve hot hot with roti/paratha/white hot fluffy rice :) Cheers! Ramadan Mubarak to all!