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Chicken Chaap

 We Bengalees have a great effinity towards Mughlai cuisine. Anything cooked with rich mughlai spices definitely find their way to our household kitchen. One such recipe is chicken chaap . It is a very delicious dish which you can have with naan or Biriyani. So without wasting let’s start . Ingredients:- Chicken leg and thigh pieces - 4 (900gms) Yoghurt -300gms Onion  - 2 medium size Garlic -6-7 medium size Ginger-3 tbsp Green chilli -3 nos Cashewnut - 25 GMs Poppy seeds - 4 tbsp Charmagaj - 2 tbsp Turmeric powder -1 tbsp Chilli powder- 1 tbsp Keora essence -1 tsp Mitha Ittar-3 drops Mustard oil-4 tbsp Put all this ingredients except the keora and ittar into your mixing jar and give it a spin . This will be your wet marination mix. Now let’s move toward chaap masala . For it you have to take a fry pan and roast these following ingredients and grind it in a mixture. Chaap masala:- Shahi jeera -1tsp Shahi marich-1tsp Cloves-5 nos  Cardamom -4 pods Cinnamon-1 small stick Jay...

Apple Custard Pie

 Today being Valentine Day and I am down with flu made me a bit of innovative in my cooking .Besides  being diagnosed with borderline diabetes is really taking toll on me . It put a brake to all kind of baking and cooking sweet indulgences by me . But nothing could stop me today. Even if I could not taste it I decided to go for it and combine two thing custard and apple pie and make one dish . It is like killing two birds with one stone . So let’s start with the recipe. Ingredients:- Pie crust sheet -1 Apple -3 nos if small Milk- 1 1/2 cup Egg -1 Corn starch or flour - 3 tbsp Cinnamon powder-1tsp Lemon juice 2tsp Butter -1tsp Vanilla essence-1tsp Sugar Salt Procedure:- Take the pie dish and put the rolled out pie sheet on it . Pierce the sheet with your fork and keep it in refrigerator for 5 mins. Meanwhile peel off the apples and slice them into thin pieces. Take a pan and toss the apple with butter cinnamon powder lemon juice and two teaspoon of sugar . Let the apple soften ...