Green Tomato Fry(কাঁচা টমেটো ভাজি)

Ingredients:

1. Green tomato-4 medium(cut into 8 pieces)
2. Green chili-5-6 pieces or your choice
3. Onion-1 medium(chopped)
4. Turmeric powder-1/2 ts
5. Sugar-1 ts
6. Oil-around 4 ts
7. Salt-1/2 ts or your choice

Procedure:

1. Wash and cut tomato.
2. Heat oil in a pan. Add chopped onion and stir until tender. Add green chili and stir. Add tomato, turmeric powder and salt. Stir well. Cover the pan with lid. Cook in medium heat around 5 minutes  or until tomato become tender.
3. Remove the lid from the pan. Add sugar and fry around 2/3 minutes.
4. Place tomato to a serving bowl and enjoy with plain rice.

Egg Pulao(ডিমের পোলাও)

Ingredients:

1. Basmati rice-2 cup
2. Egg-5 beaten (for polao)
3. Egg-2 hard boiled(for garnish)
4. Tomato-3 medium(chopped)
5. Onion-3 medium(chopped)
6. Green chili-5 (whole)
7. Red chili powder-1 ts
8. Cumin powder-1 ts
9. Ginger paste-1 Tbs
10. Garlic paste-1 Tbs
11. Cardamom-4/5 pieces
12. Cinnamon stick-2 pieces
13. Bay leave-3 pieces
14. Nutmeg powder-1/2 ts
15. Coconut milk-2 cup
16. Food color-1 pinch(dissolve with 2 Tbs water)
17. Ghee-2 Tbs
18. Oil- 2ts
19. Salt-1 and 1/2 ts or according to your taste
20. Water-around 3 cup

Procedure:

1. Wash rice and drain water.
2. Heat oil in a pan. Saute 1/3 chopped onion. Whisk egg with 1/4 ts salt. Add the whisk egg to the onion and make scrambled. Remove from the pan and keep aside.
   
3. Heat ghee in a deep bottom pan. Add bay leaves, cinnamon and cardamom. Stir for a while. Add 2/3 onion and fry until it turns light golden. Add ginger and garlic paste, tomato, salt, all powder ingredients and coconut milk, and stir it until oil separate. Then add rice and mix it carefully with the gravy around 5 minutes.
4. Add 3 cup hot water,stir. When it start to boil, cover the pan with lid. When the rice is almost done add scrambled egg,toss gently. Add food color and keep it in a very low heat.(If needed you can add little hot water to the rice)
5. Cook until the rice gets well cooked.
6. Slice the hard boiled egg. Garnish and serve.(before serve mix gently)
   

Fried Rice

Ingredients:

1. Basmati rice-2 cup
2. Shrimp(medium size)-10/12 piece
3. Onion(cut in cube)-1/2 cup
4. Egg-3(beaten)
5. Ginger paste- 2 ts
6. Garlic paste- 2 ts
7. Carrot(cut in cube)-1/2 cup(optional)
8. Beans(cut in cube)-1/2 cup(optional)
9. Cauliflower(cut in cube)-1/2 cup(optional)
10. Green peas-1/2 cup(optional)
11. Sweet corn-1/2 cup(optional)
12. Green chilli-2/3 piece
13. Ajinomoto/Tasting salt-1/2 ts
14. Salt-2 ts or your taste
15. Soy sauce- 1 & 1/2Tbs
16. Oil-1/4 cup

Procedure:

1. Boil around 3 cup of water in a pan. Add vegetables and pinch of salt into the boiling water and boil it around 3-4 minutes. Then remove from the pan and drain water through a strainer.
2. Wash rice. Add 5-6 cup water and cook until it become almost done. Remove from the pan,drain water, then rinse with cold water and keep in the strainer to drain water.

3. Heat 1 Tbs oil in a deep pan. Add beaten egg and scramble it, then remove from the pan and keep aside.

4. Now heat the remaining oil in a medium heat and then add onion into it and stir until it become soft. Then add ginger paste, garlic paste and shrimp, and stir it for 2 minutes. Add all vegetable, green chilli, salt, tasting salt, soy sauce, and stir it for around 2 minutes.

5. Then add the rice, scramble egg and gently mix them with vegetable.
6. Now cover the pan and keep it in low heat for around 15/20 minutes.
7. Then turn off the heat and enjoy your delicious fried rice.

Doi Begun(দই বেগুন)

Serves- 4 persons

Ingredients:

1. Large eggplant -1 (around 4oo-500gm)
2. Red chili powder-1/4 ts
3. Turmeric powder 1ts (for fry)+1/4 ts
4. Cumin powder 1/2 ts
5. Coriander powder 1/2 ts
6. Ginger paste 1/4 ts
7. Yogurt-200gm
8. Onion paste-1 Tbs
9. Cardamom-2 pieces
10. Green chili-4 pieces
11. Sugar-1 ts
12. Salt-1/2 tsp(for fry)+1/2 tsp or according to your taste
13. Oil-for fry+3Tbs

Procedure:

1. Cut eggplant into round shape pieces,wash and drain water.
2. Rub 1/2 ts salt and 1ts turmeric powder on the slices of the eggplant(both side) and and keep it for 10 minutes.
3. Heat oil in a fry pan and fry the eggplant slices until cooked and golden brown color on both sides.
4. Beat the yogurt and set aside. Heat 3 Tbs oil in a pan.Add cardamom and stir for a while. Add 1/4 ts turmeric powder,1/2 ts salt,red chili powder,cumin powder,coriander powder,ginger paste,onion paste and green chili. Stir for a while and add little water.
5. When oil comes out by the side of the pan add beaten yogurt,sugar and 1/2 ts salt to it, reduce heat and stir.
6. Add fried eggplant pieces,mix it with the gravy and cover with a lid.
   
7. Let it cook for few minutes in low heat.
8. Doi begun is ready to serve. Serve with polao, biryani or parata.

Cabbage Niramish(বাঁধাকপির নিরামিষ)

Serves:6-8 persons

Ingredients:

1. Thinly chopped cabbage-1/2(6-8cup)
2. Potato-1 large(peeled and small cube)
3. Turmeric powder-1 ts+1/4 ts
4. Green chili-6-7 pieces or according to your taste(slitted from middle)
5. Whole red chili-4-5 pieces
6. Cumin powder-1 ts
7. Ginger paste-1 ts
8. Bay leaves-2 pieces
9. Panch foron-1 ts
10. Sugar-1/2 ts(optional)
11. Oil-around 6-8 Tbs
12. Salt-1 ts +1/4 ts or according to your taste

Procedure:

1. Heat 2 Tbs oil in a pan. Add cubed potato. Sprinkle 1/4 ts turmeric powder and 1/4 ts salt to it. Fry until light golden color comes out. Remove from the pan and set aside.
   
2. Add rest of the oil in the pan. Add panch foron. Stir for a while. Then add bayleaves,green chili and red chili. Fry a little.
3. Now add chopped cabbage and rest of the ingredients.Fry the cabbage with the masala for couple of minutes. The cabbage should be nicely coated with the spices. Add the fried potato. Stir well. Cover the pan and cook in lower medium heat until done. 
4. Before remove from the pan add sugar and mix well. Serve with luci, roti or parata.

Mashed Fish and Garlic(মাছ রসুনের ভর্তা)

Serves:4-5 persons

Ingredients:

1. Tilapia fillet-2 piece medium (you can use any other fish fillet or boneless fish)
2. Garlic cloves-12-15 (chopped)
3. Onion-1/2 cup(chopped)
4. Green chili-5-6 pieces chopped or according to your taste(you can use whole or crushed red chili)
5. Turmeric powder-1/2 ts
6. Red chili powder-1/2 ts
7. Coriander leaves-2 Tbs chopped(optional)
8. Mustered oil-around 3 Tbs
9. Salt-1 ts or according to your taste

Procedure:

1. Add turmeric powder,red chili powder and 1/2 ts salt to the fish fillet. Mix well and keep it for 10 minutes.
2. Heat oil in a pan. Add fish and fry both side until light brown color comes out.Remove from the pan and set aside.
3. Add chopped onion,garlic,1/2 ts salt and green chili to the remaining oil in the pan. Fry until onion and garlic become soft. Add fried fish and stir. Break the fish while stirring. Fry around 3-4 minutes. Remove from the pan. Add coriander leaves and mix well. You can make small round ball before serve.

Kacci Biryani(কাচ্চি বিরিয়ানি)

Ingredients:

1. Mutton-1 kg
2. Bashmati rice- 1/2 kg
3. Potato(cut in cube) - 3 medium size(around 250gm)
4. Onion - 1 cup(chopped)
5. Yogurt - 1 cup
6. Milk- 1 cup
7. Cinnamon stick -4 pieces
8. Cardamom-5-6 pieces
9. Clove-3-4 pieces
10. Bay leaf- 4 pieces
11. Garlic paste-1 and 1/2 Tbs
12. Ginger paste- 1 and 1/2 Tbs
13. Garam masala powder- 1 ts
14. Cumin powder- 1 ts
15. Red chili powder- 1 ts
16. Black pepper powder- 1 ts
17. Nutmeg powder (Jaifol)- 1/2 ts
18. Mace powder (jaiotri)- 1/2 ts
19. Aloobukhara/Dried prune-7-8 pieces
20. Raisin -10 pieces
21. Keora water-1/2 Tbs
22. Sugar-1 ts
23. Ghee- 1/2 cup
24. Oil- 2 Tbs
25. Salt- 2 Tbs or according to your taste

Procedure:

1. Clean and wash the mutton properly and keep them on a strainer to drain the excess water.
2. Now take the mutton in the pan (try to use an ovenproof  heavy pan with heavy lid), add yogurt, salt, sugar, half of the ghee, ginger paste, garlic paste, whole masala (cinnamon, cardamom, clove, bay leaf) and all powder masala. Mix all these things well with mutton, cover it and keep it aside to marinate for around 2-3 hour.
3. In the mean time fry the potatoes lightly in oil and keep it aside. Then fry the chopped onion till it get nice golden color and take them out on a paper towel to soak extra oil and keep aside.
   
4. Wash rice and cook it half and drain through a strainer to drain water.
5. Now add milk on the top of the mutton and then spread the rice on it.Then spread the fried potatoes , fried onion, rest of the ghee, aloobukhara/Dried prune, raisin, keora water one by one on the top.
   
6. Then cover the pan with lid. If the lid is not tight enough, seal the edge with flour dough.
7. Now preheat the oven to 375 degree F. Then put the pan in the oven and bake it around 20 minutes and then  reduce the heat to 350 degree F and bake it around 45-50 minutes.
8. Then turn off the oven and leave it for around 30 minutes.
9. Now carefully open the lid and slowly mix the biryani from the bottom to top to make an even mix of mutton and rice in the biryani.
10. Serve your biryani hot and enjoy