Archive for March, 2008

Vegetable Kurma



50 gms French beans- Remove strings and cut into half inch pieces.
50 gms carrot- cubed
50 gms potato- peeled and cubed
50 gms shelled peas
50 gms turnip or knol khol- peeled and cubed

Pressure cook the vegetables with minimum water and required salt and keep aside.

Grind together:-

3 medium onion peeled and chopped
3 green chillies
1″ piece of ginger- peeled and chopped
A fist ful each of mint leaves and coriander leaves- washed and chopped
4-5 garlic pods- peeled
1 tsp garam masala (alternately, you can use 2 each of cardamom, cloves and cinnamon)
1 tsp aniseed
salt for the masala

Soak and grind separately:-

6-7 whole cashews
2 tsps poppy seeds (khus khus)

Blanch in hot water, peel and grind:-
2 medium tomatoes.

Heat oil in a pan, add the ground masala and fry till oil oozes out, add the vegetables, ground tomatoes and boil for some time. Finally add the cashew/khus khus paste, blend well and remove from fire. Adjust salt if required.

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Dal Makhani




Whole urad- 125 ml- soak overnight in 500 ml water
Fresh Curd- 80 ml
Green chillies- chopped- 1 tsp
Ginger- chopped- 1 tsp
salt 1/2 tsp

Wash, drain the urad, add 250 ml water and cook in the pressure cooker till soft with curd, chillies, ginger and salt as above.

Onion-1 medium
Tomato-2 medium
Boil both till soft and puree.

Oil- 2-3 tsp
Jeera- 1 tsp
Peppercorns- 2
cardamom-2
cinnamon- 1″ piece
green chilli- 1 chopped
ginger- 1″ piece chopped

Heat oil in a pan, add jeera, allow to crackle, add all the above items one by one and fry well. Then add tomato-onion paste and fry well. Add the pressure cooked urad and the following spices/ condiments.
1 tsp each of red chilli powder, chaat masala, coriander powder, mango powder, sugar and salt. Then add tomato puree ( 1 tomato), 1/2 cup milk, one cup water and mix well. Simmer on low fire. You can add a drop of red food colour (optional).

Garnish with chopped coriander leaves, green chilli and ginger juliennes, garam masala powder, butter and/or cream.

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NoMachine NX cursor woes on Mac

Mac OS X (Intel) has a problem when using NX client (and possibly vnc, I haven’t checked). The mouse cursor turns yellow and is impossible to see on white background xterms.

Fortunately there is a fix:
http://www.nomachine.com/tr/view_notes.php?commid=110&id=TR07D01424
http://lists.apple.com/archives/x11-users/2006/Mar/msg00061.html