A PINCH OF HING

Ingredients: 1 Mango 2 glass liquid soda pinch of peppermint. Preparations: Take a bowl mash mango now add half of soda and  peppermint stir well pour in serving glasses.  Garnish with mango cubes .No need add sugar.  If you want you may add.

Ingredients: 500 gm- chicken 1/2 tsp-turmeric powder  1/2 tsp-garam powder 2 tbsp- curd 1/2 tsp -ginger garlic paste 1 pinch chopped mint leaves  salt to taste Oil for fry Preparations: Cut the chicken into small chunks.  Add all above ingredients to chicken except oil and mix well. keep in refrigerator for 2 hours.After 2 hours toss  until they are  coated on all sides. Heat oil in shallow pan add  marinated chicken.Cover and cook in low flame without steering the chicken for 5 min. After 5 min. remove the cover Sprinkle some water and then  flip them over a few times until the pieces are coated nicely with  all spices. Cook the chicken for several minutes on each  side until they are golden brown.sprinkle some more water if needed.  It should be cooked all the way through by the time they get  brown on the outside.  So cook in low flame only.Low flame cooking is called dum. Dum biryani,dum murg,dum gost

Ingredients: 10 -purple long brinjal 1 pinch-asafoitida 1/2 tsp -mustard and cumin seeds 1/2 tsp -fenugreek and fennel seeds 10 to 12-curry leaves 1/2 tsp -black pepper 1/2 tsp-sambar powder 1 tbsp - tamarind paste 1/2 tsp -turmeric powder 1/2 tsp-red chili powder for stuffing 1 tbsp - sambar powder and salt mix oil salt Preparations: Wash and slit the brinjals into four keeping the stem  portion in tact. In a separate small bowl add sambar  powder and salt mix well  take a little portions of this mix and stuff  in each brinjal and keep aside. In a cooker heat the oil . In low flame add asafoitida,mustard , cumin fenugreek,fennel,curry leaves and black pepper when it  starts spluttering,Then add the stuffed brinjals and gently  mix it with the oil. now add tamarind paste,chili powder,turmeric powder, and  sambar powder and take palm full of water sprinkle over the brinjal. Cover it  and allow to 2 whistles on