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~*~ AloOo bukharey ki chatni ~*~
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Ingredients:
1 cup Sugar
1/2 lbs aaloo bukharay (Prunes)
1 drop Red Food Color (Optional)
Instructions:
Wash the Aaloo Bukharay throughly and soak them in some water for about 2 hours.
In a saucepan add about 1/2 a cup of water, the sugar and the Aaloo Bhukaray and cook it on low heat.
Add the food color if you want the sauce to take on a reddish tinge.
When the sauce is thick and the pits have been separated from the Aaoloo Bhukaray, remove from heat and put aside to cool.
Serve as a condiment
QUEEN VICTORIA
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Gol Guppay
Spicy & Tasty Pani puree
Ingredients:
- For Gool Guppay:
1\2 cup water,
2 cups semolina (suji), fine
- For Khata Pani:
1\2 teaspoon red chili powder
1\2 Bunch mint leaves
1 Bunch coriander leaves
1 teaspoon cumin seeds, zeera
- As per taste salt
1 teaspoon salt, black (kala namak)
2-3 glasses water
2-3 - green chilies
1\2 inch piece ginger, fresh or dry (sonth)
4 ounces tamarind, remove seeds
- Stuffing: -
1 cup chick peas, soaked overnight
2-3 medium potatoes
2 cups plain yogurt
How to Cook:
1. Mix sujji and water and kneed into hard dough. Cover the dough with a wet cloth and keep aside for at least 3 hours. Knead again until smooth and elastic. Divide the dough into four pieces. With a rolling pin Flatten each piece into a VERY thin sheet and cut into 2 inches circles with a cookie cutter.
2. Heat oil in a deep frying pan. Deep fry each circle until it is puffed and golden in color.
3. Blend all the ingredients for the dip together in a blender for few seconds and strain into a large serving bowl and adjust the seasoning with salt and chili powder. Discard the solids.
4. Boil the chick peas and potatoes. Cut the potatoes into small pieces.
5. Put the chick peas, potatoes, yogurt, and sweet Imli chutney in separate serving dishes.
6. Serve gool guppay with sweet imli chutney, peas, potatoes and yogurt.
Now if you are new to this world famous Pakistani snack and not sure how to have it then here is how to eat them.
Get hold of a gool gupa, make a hole on the top by pressing it with your thumb. Stuff in some chick peas and potato, dip it in khuta pani and umm... yummy
yummy! ......
You can also try with sweet dip and yogurt but I prefer with khuta pani.
Enjoy!