Amarnath Leaves Stir Fry / Lal Shak Bhaja

Hello everybody ,

Today my post  will be on a quick and easy to make recipe . Frankly speaking cooking was not my forte until I got married. Ever since I got married , I took up to cooking . In my initial days , I used to call up my mom , aunts , granny for recipes ; ( not to mention recipes that are available online ) ; have helped me a great deal. But more or less all recipes were a little tiresome. Most recipes on net resemble a WAR like situation. (so complicated ). Its good for those who have the passion for cooking. I hate spending too much time in my kitchen. As I am a laid back person and very lazy by nature , I came up with an amalgamation of a few ingredients/spices and ended up cooking the same recipes taking not more than 30 mins. Most of my recipes that I will be posting from now on will not take much of your time and hopefully my recipes will be of great help to all the working women & men , and even the hostelites. Happy cooking guys !!!!

Its winter and all you get to see in the local market are leafy vegetables. So I grabbed a few bunches of amarnath leaves / lal shaak as we bengalis call it. and decided to prepare Amarnath Leaves / Lal Shaak Stir Fry for dinner. So here is the recipe .

Preparation Time : 5mins
Cooking Time : 20mins
Servings : 2

For Tampering :  
  • oil ( 2 tablespoon )
  • whole cumin seeds (1/2 teaspoon)
  • dry red chilli  ( 2 )
  • crushed garlic ( 5 to 6 cloves )
  • salt to taste

Step 1 : chop and wash the leaves ( 1 bunch ) thoroughly in running water. ( repeat the process a few times )
Step 2 : get your ingredients ready for tampering.
Step 3 : crush the garlic ( as shown in the pic )



Step 4 : heat oil in a wok.
Step 5 : add red chilli , whole cumin seeds & crushed garlic. ( give a quick stir )

Step 6 : immediately add the leaves and salt ( as shown in the pic )


Step 7 : now cover and keep cooking till the water coming out from the leaves get dried up.


Step 8 : open the lid and give a stir in between checking the consistency.


Step 9 : in this step you can add 1 teaspoon red chilli powder and give a stir ( if you like your dish to be hot )
Step 10 : let it cook until the water gets completely dried up.


Step 11 : your amarnath leaves / lal shaak is ready to be served. serve it with steamed rice or roti .


Step 12 : just drizzle a few drops of mustard oil over it before serving. ( i like it that way ).

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Manali Trance : A Gateway to Heaven

Image
It was time for our annual trip and we decided to visit such a place that remains covered with snow during winters. Since in India not all cities are privileged to witness snow or snowfall ; its kind of a bliss if you get to witness such luxuries. Now, since blessings and luxuries are not that easy to avail , we will have to work a little hard for that (especially in India). So we decided to visit manali ( India ), a beautiful small town that remains snow capped anytime during the year and especially during winters. Then lets start our journey. We started from shealdah railway station ( kolkata ) , our rajdhani express was scheduled for 4:50 pm. All the way train was running just on time but due to fog it started running late a few kilometers from Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh ). We reached Delhi ( our destination ) at around 3 :30 pm whereas we were supposed to reach at 10 :30 am ( the scheduled time ). However , it did not make much of a difference to our trip as we anyways still had
Read more

golondo steamed chicken curry

Image
hello, my fellow readers Its been quite sometime I have not posted any of my simple and yet mouth watering recipes. So , today I am in full mood to share one of my simplest recipe.  Monsoon has arrived in India and during monsoons every woman of the house becomes lethargic. We all love to be served during this period rather than to serve. It's not our fault ladies it's the weather's fault. It was one of those days when you and your husband pushes the other to go to the kitchen and prepare atleast something eatable for lunch. Finally, I took the initiative to approach the dreading kitchen and our semi loaded fridge where I luckily found chicken in the freezer and mind you chicken is the easiest thing to cook out of all other dishes in the world (according to me). So how about preparing a lazy dish on a Sunday afternoon where you will only have to marinate the stuff and it will be ready. MAGIC! Let me remind you this is the same chicken dish I learnt from my friend's
Read more

Catla (Bengal Carp) Curry Recipe/ Katla Maacher Jhol .

Image
Hi one and all , I try updating my blog and keep posting on a regular interval of two days . So today , i have come up with yet another simple recipe . Being a bengali if i dont post a fish recipe , my family for sure will discard me . Fish is like a staple food for bengalis . We eat fish like 365 days a year . Ya you have read it right. I am sure you must be giving expressions like ( WHAT THE FISH ) !!!!! Never mind its a long story with fish and bengalis. And yes you have guessed it right today i will be posting a fish curry recipe. Since i believe in hassle free cooking  , my recipe will take hardly 30mins to cook. On a regular basis for lunch and dinner we bengalis eat either rohu fish ( salmon ) or katla fish  ( bengal carp ) . I will be preparing today's fish curry with bengal carp since that is what my husband bought from the fish market last night. You can cook the recipe with any other fish as well. So , here is the recipe. Preparation time : 5mins Cooking time :
Read more