Bihari Kabab

Ingredients
4-5 chicken breasts or 2 pounds chicken tenders
1/2 packet Laziza Bihari Kabab Masala
1/3 cup mustard oil
2 tablespoons ginger garlic paste
2 cups plain yogurt
1 cup fried onion
Cilantro for garnish 

Directions

1. Cut chicken breasts in to 2 to 3 strips of chicken. Flatten the pieces with a meat tenderizer.If you are using chicken tenders, then you do not have to cut the chicken into strips. Flatten the chicken tender pieces. 
2. In a separate bowl, mix the masala, mustard oil, ginger garlic paste, yogurt, and onion together to create a marinade. 
3. Add chicken to the marinade and let it sit for 30 minutes or more.
4. Once marination time is complete, cook chicken with the marinade over medium heat and covered for 30 minutes.
5. Once cooked, add salt and more masala if needed. This depends on your taste. 
6. Turn off heat.
7. To get a smoky taste, heat up a piece of charcoal on the grill. Once the piece of charcoal is hot, place it in a small steel bowl/cup. Place the bowl/cup on top of cooked bihari chicken. The heat should be turned off at this point. Pour oil on the charcoal. This will cause the charcoal to let out smoke. Cover the pot of chicken and let the charcoal sit for no more than 5 minutes. This will give a smoky grilled flavor. 
8. Garnish with cilantro and serve. 

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Habshi Halwa

Ingredients 
4 cups instant non-fat dry milk 
2 cups sugar
1 cup unsalted butter
2 cups milk
1 cup walnuts, chopped
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
For garnish, pistachio 

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350F degrees
2. Mix dry milk, sugar, butter, and milk in a non-stick cooking tray. If you do not use a non-stick cooking tray, then it will turn into a sticky mess!
3. Place cooking tray in oven and stir every 10 minutes until milk has completed evaporated and mixture has caramelized. This usually takes an hour and half.
4. Take the cooking tray out of the oven and mix in walnuts and nutmeg. 
5. Garnish with pistachio. 
6. Serve once cooled. You can leave the habshi halwa outside or place it in fridge. 

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Thawa Chicken

Ingredients
1 pound boneless chicken tender or chicken thigh
1/3 cup oil
2 medium onion, chopped
1 tablespoon roasted cumin seed
1 tablespoon roasted coriander seed
1 to 2 teaspoons red chili powder
1 teaspoon amchur or dry mango powder
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1 small red or green bell pepper, chopped
3 tablespoons tomato paste
3 tablespoons ketchup

Directions

1. In a pan, heat oil and saute chopped onion to a light golden brown.
2. Cook chicken in pan. 
3. Once chicken turns white from the outside, add roasted cumin seed, roasted coriander seed, amchur/dry mango powder, and white pepper.
4. Taste to see if want to adjust anything to your taste. Cook for 5 minutes
5. Add bell pepper, tomato paste and ketchup. Cook for 5 minutes.
6. Taste and add salt if needed. 
7. Serve. 

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Dood (Milk) Halwa

Vegetable Gelatin

In a separate plate, take a couple spoons to check if milk hardens.

The agar agar should completely dissolve. It should not look like this.

DOODH (MILK) HALWA 

Ingredients

1/2 gallon milk

1 cup sugar

Pinch of pink food color

1/3 packet of agar agar (1.5 ounce pack)

2 tablespoons sliced pistachio

Directions

1. Boil milk and sugar together.
2. Add a pinch of pink food color or any other color of your choice.
3. Once milk is boiling, reduce heat to medium and add agar agar*. 
4. Occasionally whisk milk and agar agar. It will take about 20 to 25 minutes for the agar agar to completely dissolve. 
5. In a separate plate, take a couple spoons of milk out and let it cool to check if it will form in a jello/gelatin like texture. If it does not harden, continue to cook for another 5 minutes on low heat. If it does not harden at all and is a liquid, add more agar agar. 
6. Pour milk into a glass dish and sprinkle pistachio. Let it sit out until it cools. Once cooled, put dish in the refrigerator. 
7. Serve cold. 

Recipe Notes

*Agar agar is a type of vegetable gelatin. This will get the milk to set to a jello. Be sure to only use 1/3 of the packet, which is approximately 1/2 an ounce. If you use too much, the end result will be too hard. If you use less, the dood halwa will not harden to a jello like texture. You can always add more agar agar later. You can find this at a Chinese/Asian grocery store.

Enjoy!

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Naan

Makes 22 naan

Ingredients
2 cups water
2 cups milk
1 tablespoon yeast
5 tablespoon sugar
1/3 cup oil
2 egg
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
2/3 cup yogurt
1 teaspoon baking powder
9 cups flour

Directions

1. Warm water and milk to 110F to 115F degrees or luke warm. Do not boil or overheat. 
2. Sprinkle yeast and sugar over milk-water mixture. Let it sit until milk-water mixture becomes frothy. If it doesn't forth, dump out the fixture and start over.
3. In a mixer, combine oil,egg, salt, yogurt, baking powder, milk-water mixture together. 
4. Add 3 cups of flour at a time to the mixer and beat for 1 to 2 minutes until combined. Repeat this step until you have added in all of the flour to the mixer. 
5. Cover mixer bowl with plastic wrap and place in a warm area for 1 to 2 hours. 
6. Take flour out of bowl onto a floured counter top. Make approximately 22 round dough balls. 
7. Cover dough balls with clean towel for 30 minutes. This allow the dough to rest and will give a softer naan. 
8. Take a dough ball and roll it out to a circle/oval shape. 
9.  Heat grill to 450F degrees. Preheat with pizza stone for 10 minutes. Then place the naan on the pizza stone for 1 minute on one side and flip over for 10 to 15 seconds. Take off the grill. 
10. Serve warm or place in refrigerator/frozen for later.

Enjoy!

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Crispy Fried Chicken

Ingredients
Chicken Tender Dry Rub
2 pounds chicken tenders
1 to 2 teaspoon Cajun Seasoning
1/2 teaspoon season salt
1/2 teaspoon mustard powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika

Chicken Tender Breadcrumb Mixture
1/3 cup breadcrumbs
1/3 cup all purpose
1 egg
1 cup buttermilk
1/2 teaspoon Cajun Seasoning
1/2 teaspoon season salt
1/2 teaspoon mustard powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/2 cup panko
1/2 cup breadcrumbs

Directions

1. Coat chicken with all dry ingredients for 3 hours to 24 hours. 
2. Mix breadcrumbs, all purpose flour, egg, buttermilk, and dry rub ingredients together.
3. In a separate plate/bowl, mix panko and breadcrumbs together to make dry breadcrumb mixture. Crush panko in your hands so the breadcrumbs are more granular.
4. Add chicken tender pieces in small amounts to the wet breadcrumb mixture and coat chicken completely. 
5. Add coated chicken to the dry breadcrumb mixture. Shake off excess breadcrumbs.
6. Fry for 5 minutes at 350F degrees. 

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Garam Masala

Prep Time: 3 minutes Cook Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients
1 tablespoon black pepper
1 tablespoon cumin seeds
2 cinnamon sticks (break in half)
5 black cardamom
12 green cardamom
5 cloves 
4 star-anise 
1/2 of a nutmeg
3 mace of nutmeg/javanthri
4 bay leaves

Directions

1. Roast all items in a pan over low heat for approximately 5 minutes. Stir occasionally. 
2. Add all ingredients to a coffee grinder/magic bullet and turn it in a powder.
3. Store in jar for future uses. This will not go bad. 

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