sweetlime ( musambi) chicken

SWEET LIME CHICKEN

Yesterday my husband landed up with 2 dozens of mosambi ( sweet lime ) as Hyderabad is flooded with this fruit. as Hyderabad is the biggest producer of Mosambi in India. The sweet lime he got was neither too sweet nor too sou. So thought of using it wisely rather than eating it forcefully, just because it has good amount of vitamin C in it. So came up with an idea to infuse chicken with sweet lime juice and make a yummy starter.

Ingredients :  

750 gms of skinless chicken

10 sweet limes

1/2 cup honey 

1 lime 

2 Tsp of curd

20/25 pieces of garlic pods

3 tsp of sesame seeds

2 red chilly

salt according to taste

oil 

Procedure :

1. Marinate the chicken with lime juice,salt and half tsp of chilly powder for 1/2 an hour

2. Make juice out of 10 to 11 sweet limes  ( pl ensure that the seeds are taken out well else it will give a bitter taste ) 

3. Grind ( coarsely ) the red chilly and garlic.

4. Shallow fry the marinated chicken

5. Take a Pan, to it add 2 Tsp of oil and heat it and then add the grind chilly garlic paste. Stir it for minute, then lower the flame, add the bitten curd and salt to it . Ensure you stir it well in the pan and them slowly add the sweet lime juice which you have prepared earlier . Make sure you mix well with the spatula. slowly increase the flame and add the fried chicken. Boil it for around 10 min on medium flame .

6. When the gravy starts sticking to the chicken pieces and starts acquiring a thick consistency as shown in the picture. Now add honey & sesame seeds stir well and switch off the flame. 

PS : In case you want it more spicy or hot add chilly flakes from the top and serve.

Enjoy it with a glass of good wine.....

Sweet Mango Pickle (Aam ka chunda)

When you get hold of lots of raw mangoes...first thing which comes to my  mind is let's prepare sweet and sour mango pickle and preserve it for the whole year in the fridge. 

A bengali meal is never complete without chutney served at the end of the meal. Whenever I have this preserved pickle in the fridge it becomes so easy for me to just add some spices and date palm and add 3-4 tbsp of this pickle and just boil it make it a typical bengali Amm Khejurer Chutney.

Let's come to Ingredients:

3kg raw mangoes

Sugar 500 grams

Gur or jaggery 500 grams

2lemons 

2tsp of turmeric

1tsp of chilly powder

1tsp of salt

Spices to be grinded:

10-12 dry red chilli 

2tsp of cumin seeds

2tsp of corriender seeds

1/2 TSP of methi ( Fenugreek)seeds

1tsp of fennel seeds(sauf( big ones)

PROCEDURE

1)Grate the raw mangoes add sugar salt ,turmeric powder, chilly powder .Mix well and keep it for half an hour

2)Now grind all the spices( dry red chilly cumin , coriander, Fenugreek and fennel)

3) Grind your jaggery well so that it's easily dissolvable.

4) Switch on the gas and add the grated mangoes .you will see lot of water has come out from the mixture...don't worry.cook well for 15 minutes and then add the jaggery. Now lower the flame and cook it for another 30 minutes or till it gets sticky .

Keep continuous stirring so that it doesn't burn at the bottom.Thats why I always prefer nonstick vessel

5) when it's almost done add the grinded masala and lemon juice .Mix it very well and stir it for another 5 minutes so that the mangoes absorb the spices well.

Switch off and let it cool.

Fill the bottles only when the pickle is cold.

If you store it in the fridge you can enjoy throughout the year but if you prefer to keep it outside then you have to consume it within 2 months

3 kgs of Mangos

grated mango marinated with sugar,turmeric powder and salt

grinded jaggery 

massalas : cuminseeds, corriender seeds, dry red chilly, fennel seeds

cook in low flame for 30 minutes

Cook till its concentrated enough

 Many of us specially Gujaratis love to have this mango pickle along with parathas..,or puri.

Note@ Bengalis : Amer Chutney : Use 4 tea spoon of the above pickle, add 5 grated date palm, 1 tsp of tamarind  juice and boil in one cup of water and sprinkle bhaja massala from the top., your Bengali Chutney is ready.