Ingredients:

• Gongura – 2 Cups
• Shrimp – 40 Medium or Small(Cleaned & Divined)
• Tomato – 1 Medium – Cut into small pieces
• Onion – 1 Medium – Cut into small pieces
• Ginger-garlic Paste – 1 Table Spoon
• Red Chili powder – 1.5 Tea Spoon
• Green Chilies – 5 cut into long lengths
• Turmeric Powder – 1/4 Tea spoon
• Clove Powder – 1/8 Tea Spoon
• Salt – to taste
• Coriander Leaves – Handful
• Oil

Method:

1. Cook gongura leaves in 1/4 cup of water for 15 minutes, grind coarsely and keep it aside
2. In a heavy bottom sauce pan put 8 table spoons of oil . Once oil becomes hot, put the onion, green chilies and saute for couple of minutes.
3. Add ginger garlic paste to the pan and fry until the raw smell goes off.
4. Put the turmeric, chili powder, salt, clove powder, tomato pieces, shrimp and a cup of  water and put the lid and let it cook for 15 minutes or like a thick gravy curry.
5. Slowly put the grounded gongura stuff and mix it very well with at this point. Check the salt and you can adjust it.
6. Put the alf of the coriander leaves and let it cook on slow heat so that curry will not burn.
7. When it looks like a medium thick gravy take it off from the heat and garnish it with remaining cilantro leaves.

Tip: It goes very well with white rice.

My Paternal grandma is such a great cook who always makes all hot and spicy food specially in winter months and during rainy days.

Although my mom is a good cook, we always look forward to eat spicy food from my Grandma especially my dad loves her hot and spicy Hara Emli ka Machhi(Green tamarind with Fish).

Ingredients:

• Fish – 1 lb
• Tomato – 1 large – Cut into small pieces
• Onion – 1 medium – Cut into small pieces
• Green Chillies – 8 – Cut into small pieces
• Green Tamarind Paste – 5 Table Spoons
• Ginger garlic Paste – 2 Table Spoons
• Turmeric Powder – 1/4 Tea Spoon
• Fish Masala Powder – 1/4 Tea Spoon
  •  Methi – 10
  • Curry Leaves – 20
  • Coriander- 1 Table Spoon
  • Cumin – 1 Table Spoon
  • Dry roast the above 4  and store in a air tight bottle.
• Chilly Powder – 1.5 Table Spoon
• Salt to taste
• Oil
• Coriander leaves

Method:

1. Take a Skillet and pour oil. Let it bring to a heat and put the green chillies & onion and fry until they look translucent and then put the ginger garlic paste.
2. Let it saute until the raw smell goes off.
3. Now lower the heat a bit and put turmeric, chilly powder, fish masala powder and salt and saute.
4. Put the tomato pieces and green tamarind paste mix and pour 1 cup of water and add  Fish pieces gently. Let it cook on medium heat until all the water is evaporated.
5. You need to let the curry to burn a little bit(means let the bottom Masala on the skillet become little brown)
6. Put the Cilantro.

Tip: Don’t grind the tamarind to a paste. Grind it coarsely. You should have a texture when you put this in Curry.

Serve it with hot white rice.

Ingredients:

• Shrimp    – 1/2 Pound
• Salt & pepper    – 1/2 Spoon
• Lemon Juice    – 1/4 Spoon
• Olive Oil 

Method:

Ingredients:

• Napa Cabbage     –  1.5 Cup thinly cut
• Peas                    1/2 Cup
• Red Chillies Flakes – 1/2 Table Spoon
• Shallots                1 cut thinly
• Garlic Cloves        – 2 cut thinly
• Ginger                – 1/2 Spoon
• Shrimp                – 10 fry & keep them aside
• Eggs                  – 2
• Soy Sauce            – 1/2 spoon
• Salt & Pepper        – up to you
• Peanut Oil
• Cooked Rice        – 2 cups
• Cilantro            – Handful
• Green Onion        – Spring Onion – 1 cut thinly

1. Put the pan and the peanut oil and put the Shallots and garlic and then put the ginger and fry a bit
2. Now put the cabbage and let it cook(You need to have the crunch in the cabbage)
3. Now put the Peas and Salt, Pepper and toss it a bit
4. Now take this cabbage stuff and put that in a plate
5. Now put some oil and fry the shrimp till they turn in pink color.
6. Out some salt & Pepper while Frying and when it is done pour on top of the Cabbage Stuff.
7. Now put some oil and 2 eggs like omelet in the frying pan when it becomes like a omelet put the cooked rice in the pan and mix it well
8. Now put  the cabbage and Shrimp stuff on top of the rice mixture and now put the 1/2 spoon Soy sauce on top of the Fried rice and mix it well.
9. Garnish it with Cilantro and Green Onions.