LUCKNOW KA MAKHAN

LUCKNOW KA MAKHAN:

This is a delicious sweet dish of Lucknow .
The ingredients are: milk,sugar dry fruits and silver foils(chandi ki warak)
The only market of this delicious dish is  GOLE DARWAJA,CHOWK,LUCKNOW
{My ancestor's house is one Kilometer from this place in a colony Sondhi Tola, more than five hundreds years old.}

                                                     LUCKNOW KA MAKHAN

 

GOLE DARWAJA,CHOWK,LUCKNOW

KHATTI PALAK (Sour Spinach ) ki Chatni

KHATTI  PALAK (Sour Spinach ) :

KHATTI  PALAK (Sour Spinach ) : This type of spinach is cultivated in a limited area of KANPUR DEHAT, UTTAR PRADESH. Its leaf and stem are bitter sour in taste just like (KACHCHI AMBIYA) unripe mango. This KHATTI PALAK is used as CHATNI, not like vegetable.

 

Leaf of the KHATTI PALAK

  

Seeds of KHATTI PALAK

Process to cook : Wash the PALAK two three times with water and chop it . Put pan on the burner. Pour half a spoon of cooking oil in the pan and add HING (Asafoetida or asafetida) , chopped green chili and ginger(quantity as per taste). After few seconds add the chopped Palak and two tea spoons of water in it and close the lid of the pan. Keep the flame of the burner at slow. After five minutes, remove the pan from the flame. The CHATNI of KHATTI PALAK is ready to serve.

 

The appropriate season of its cultivation is November to January .

KALI (buds)KACHNAR KI SABJI & RAITA

KALI  (buds)KACHNAR KI SABJI & RAITA :

                                 
                     Buds of KACHNAR  (Bauhinia variegata)and its flower

Put buds of KACHNAR in the boiling water in a container and close the lid of the container and let it cool down. On cooling down, filter the water and remove the water content of the boiled buds.

Prepare Masala (gravy) of your taste and then add the boiled buds in it and let it cook for five minutes. The vegetable would be ready to serve.

The boiled KACHNAR buds could be used for another dish  the RAITA. Processed the curd for preparing the base of RAITA i.e. put salt ,black piper, cardamom powder, green chili/red chili as per taste then add boiled KACHNAR buds.

KACNAR buds are very good for health.

                                                            (The tree of KACHNAR)