Mixed Vegetable Jalfrezi

Tried this although with different vegetables (can't remember which ones now as it was a while back). Turned out nice (not phenomenally great - but good).

500 gms vegetables (lightly boiled) carrots, potatoes and tinda(!), green beans, egg plant (coaked in water-raw) and capsicum

Eggplant cut like steak fries

2-3 medium tomatoes pureed

1 big onions boiled and pureed (12 need 1/2 cup)

1/2 tsp ground zeera (coarse crushed)

red chili 1-1.5 tsp

haldi 1/2 tsp

adrak lehsan

salt

dahi 1/3 cup

1/2 tsp sugar

1/2 tsp garam masala
Heat oil in a kadhai, add eggplant and fry until a little soft. Add the rest of the veggies and saute.
Remove veg's and set aside. Fry onion puree in remaining oil. Add 1 tsp adrak lehsan paste.
Add turmeric, chili pdr and tomato puree. Fry. Add 1 tbsp ginger.
Add yogurt. Keep frying. Add vegetables. Cook for a while and dish out.

Halwa Puri

1/2 kg Potato - boiled with skin and mashed very coarsely with hand (should still have chunks)

1/2 tsp haldi

saunf, methi dana, kalonji, rai, and white zeera (1-sawa tsp equal qty of each)

Add salt, haldi to potato, top with water. Add all the masala. Add 3-5 small button red chili (some lightly crushed). Cover and cook for a while os the potatoes can absorb the spices.

For puri:

1kg maida

1/2 chp ghee only not oil

salt

water

Knead until not too soft and not too soft.

Halwa:

Add sugar (1 cup or so), add a little orange food coloring and add some water

Add rava and cook until thickened. Add ghee. Add crushed cardamom and a little rose water.

Chicken Korma

Have tried this out and it turned out awesome and very close to the real deal (just with a little more gravy)
Slice and fry 3 onions till golden brown

sawa kilo - 1kg chicken

3-4 med potatoes sliced into thick rounds (if desired)

red chili paste (chili's cooked in water and blended) dried chili or red chili pdr

1 tbsp adrak lehsan paste

Dhaniya pdr

Garam masala (whole 12 pepper,4-5 small elaichi, 2 big elaichi (crushed), 7 long,1 inch dalchini, 1/2 bay leaf)

Jaifil javetri and elaichi pdr 1/2 - pone tsp

Leave onions in pan. Add chicken to the pan. Add potatoes after chicken becomes whiter. Keep frying.

Add chopped adrak (julienned 1 pc), 2-3 tsp dhaniya pdr, 4 tsp red chili paste. Keep frying.

Add salt and the whole garam masalas, adrak-lehsan paste, 1 tsp ground each black zeera and white zeera. Fry.

Add 120 gms (1 cup) dahi beaten and fry. Bhuno for a while.. Add a little water to form a gravy. Cover and cook.

Add rose water 2 tsp. Mix and serve. Garnish with adrak

Choley and Naan

Ingredients and Method:

1/2 kg Chickpeas cook with 1 tsp baking soda and retain water. Add 1/2 tsp baking soda again and 2 tsp garam masala. 1 tsp black pepper. Mash a little bit with a spoon. Cook on slow heat.

Cook 1/2 hour. Should be thick with some gravy.

1 kg atta/AP flour, add 1tbsp yeast, 1 tsp baking soda, 2 tsp salt. Mix and Set aside to lead. Then make the naan (flatten with moistened finger tips). Sprinkle with black sesame seeds, white sesame seeds or khus khus.