Recipe for vrat ke chawal

Ingredients:


2 cloves
3 cup water
2 cardamoms
30 gm ghee
2 tsp kala namak
1 tsp cumin seeds
1/2 tsp chilli powder
125 gms samwat ke chaawal
coriander leaves for garnishing
1 big size potato, diced
cinnamon stick, tiny piece

Method :

Heat up ghee, mix in cumin seeds, cloves, cardamoms and cinnamon.
When slightly coloured, mix in potato and rice.
Stir-fry till they look a bit fried.
Mix in salt, chilli powder and water, and bring to a boil.
Lower the flame and simmer, covered, for about 15 minutes or till cooked through and the water is absorbed.
Decorate with corinder leaves and serve hot.

Recipe for Aachari Aloo (pickled potatoes)

Achari Aloo (Pickling Potato) Recipe
In the olden days Masala from Mango pickles was added to boiled potatoes and simmer for a few minutes to make Achari (Pickling) Aloo (Potatoes). You can do that, or make it from scratch using pickling spices. This way you can control the spices. You can make it with any type of potato.

Ingredients
1. Mustard oil: 1 Tablespoon
Mustard oil gives the unique pungency characteristic of a mango pickle.
2. Ghee: 1 Tablespoon
3. Chopped Onions: 1 Cup
4. Salt: ¼ teaspoon
5. Minced Garlic: ½ Tablespoon
6. Ginger chopped: ½ Inch
7. Hari Mirch (Fresh Serrano peppers) sliced in half vertically: 3
Remove seeds and white membrane to reduce heat.
8. New Red Potatoes quartered: 1 Pound
9. Amchoor (Mango powder): ¼ teaspoon
10. Kasoori Patta (Dried Fenugreek leafs): 1 teaspoon
11. Water: ¼ cup
Pickling spices
1. Whole Fennel (Saunf): ½ teaspoon
2. Whole Fenugreek seeds: ½ teaspoon
3. Whole onion seeds (Kalonji): ½ teaspoon
4. Crushed Red pepper: ½ teaspoon
Crushed peppers have whole seeds. This is not same as chili powder.
5. Turmeric powder: ¼ teaspoon

Method
1. Heat mustard oil in a heavy bottom pan till it starts to smoke. Shut off heat
2. Add Ghee. Turn the heat back on. Add chopped onions and salt. Sauté till edges start to turn brown. About 4 minutes
3. Add Garlic, Ginger, and Hari Mirch. Sauté for about 1 minutes
4. Add potatoes. Sauté for about 4 minutes till potatoes start to turn brown.
5. Add remaining ingredients except water. Sauté another 3 to 4 minutes.
6. Add water. Bring to a boil. Cover. Turn down heat. Cook covered about 10 minutes or till potatoes or tender.

Enjoy!

Funny Bollywood song and dance

Alag - Part 1

Alag (Devanagari: अलग, Nastaliq: الگ; English: Different) is a 2006 Bollywood film starring Akshay Kapoor and Dia Mirza and directed by Ashu Trikha and produced by Subi Samuel. The film is also known as Alag: He Is Different.... He Is Alone... in some other sites, example IMDB. The film takes its premise and some plot elements from the American film Powder starring Sean Patrick Flanery, although the plots of the two films diverge significantly.

Akshay Kumar, Hindi Movie '' Dosti '' Part ( 1 of 13 )

Sharbani Mukherjee returns to Bollywood

Kin of the famous Mukherjee family, Sharbani Mukherjee is to begin all over again in Hindi films. She was believed to be one of the most promising actresses in the industry after the success of her debut film Border. But unfortunately fate did not smile on her for long.

She faced consecutive flops in her career after Border. Neither the family connection nor the stardom of the first film brought any big opportunity. On the other hand, her cousins Kajol [^] and Rani Mukherjee climbed the ladder, with one [^] after the other proving successful at the box office and continue to rule the industry till today.


After a small hiatus she has recently done a Malayalam film Sufi Paranja Katha. And soon she will be back in Hindi films with Sangeeth Sivan’s next. The yet untitled film is due for release in November.

Hope the brown-eyed girl succeeds to charm the audience this time!

Bollywood music

Bollywood films are generally musicals, and are expected to contain catchy music in the form of song-and-dance numbers woven into the script. A film's success often depends on the quality of such musical numbers. Songs from Bollywood movies are generally pre-recorded by professional playback singers, with the actors then lip synching the words to the song on-screen, often while dancing.


Most notable singers of Bollywood are Suraiyya, Noor Jehan, Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Geeta Dutt, Shamshad Begum, Alka Yagnik, etc among female playback singers and K. L. Saigal, Talat Mahmood, Mukesh, Mohammed Rafi, Manna Dey, Hemant Kumar, Kishore Kumar, Kumar Sanu, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam among male playback singers.

Remixing of film songs with modern beats and rhythms is a common occurrence today, and producers may even release remixed versions of some of their films' songs along with the films' regular soundtrack albums.