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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Dhan Shak & Brown Rice!

This is a Parsi Dish and very nutritious and is very adequate for a whole meal.

Serves 4 people.

For Dhan Shak
Ingredients:
3/4 cup of Tur Dal
1/4 cup of Chana Dal
1/4 Cup of Masoor Dal (orange colour)
Fistful of Methi (fenugreek)
Small piece of Pumpkin
2 Brinjals
1 potato
1 onion
6 cloves of garlic
fistful of pudina
3 tomatoes
1/2 tbsp of Ginger Chilly paste
Salt

Method:   Step1
1.Take all the ingredients and wash them and cut ingredients like pumpkin, Brinjal, Potato,Onion, Tomatoes into big pieces.
2.Put all the ingredients mentioned in the ingredients section in a vessel with water and put it in a pressure  cooker and remove it after 4-5 whistles.
3.Let it cool and grind it in a mixer.
4.Now purify the mixture using a Chaarni.(throw the waste away)

Ingredients required for Masala to be added in the above prepared Dhan Shaak
1 tbsp Dry Dhana (Coriander)
1/2 tbsp Jeera (cumin seeds)
4 pieces of laving (cloves)
1 big stick of cinnamon
2 elaichis
1 dry kashmiri mirchi (Red colour)

Method:
1. Grind all of this in a mixer and add it to the dhan Shaak prepared above in Step 1 and heat it for 10 mins.
2. Add Salt as per taste.
3. Make sure that the mixture is thick.

Your Dhaan Shaak is now ready!

For Brown Rice
Ingredients:
3 cups of rice
2 onion (cut in strips )
1 tbsp jeera
pinch of sugar
Salt

Method:
1. Soak the rice in water for 5-6 hours.
2. Put 1 tbsp of oil or ghee in a Kadhai.
3. Add the rice to the kadhai and saute the rice till they become hard and crunchy.
4. Remove it in a dish.
5. Now put 2 tbsp oil in a kadhai and add onion to it. Saute it till the Onion become brown.
6. Now add jeera and Sugar to make even more brown.
7. Now put the rice in the kadhai and add water and salt in it.
8. Till every grain of rice is seperated, heat the mixture.
    Your brown Rice is ready.

Now enjoy your brown Rice with the dhan Shak that you have Prepared.

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