Soto Madura - Madura Island style soup

Soto Madura is a spicy beef soup that has it's roots on Madura island (North East of Surabaya).

Ingredients:

• 4 kemiri nuts
• 3 shallots, sliced
• 2 garlic cloves, sliced
• 1 tsp. salt, or to taste
• ¼ tsp. white pepper
• ¼ tsp. turmeric
• a ½-inch piece of fresh ginger, sliced
• 6 cups of water
• 1 lb. boneless beef chuck
• 2 stalks of lemongrass
• lime slices
• 2 Tbs. raw rice, soaked in ¼ cup water for 10 minutes
• 2 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and sliced

Directions

1. In a food processor, chop fine the nuts, then blend them with the shallots, garlic, salt, pepper, turmeric, and ginger to form a paste.
2. In a large pot, combine the paste with the water, beef, lemongrass, and 1 lemon slice and bring mixture to a boil over moderate heat.
3. In the food processor, blend rice mixture to coarse consistency and add this to the beef mixture.
4. Cook the soup covered, over low heat for 1½-2 hours, or until the beef is tender.
5. Adjust the seasoning.
6. Serve the soup hot, garnished with egg and lemon slices

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Brinjal Paratha

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक करा

These days I end up making parathas too often. Simple reason being, then you dont need to cook other 3-4 items and also ajoy loves parathas. So its good for me too and for him too.. especially on busy weekdays. So here is something I came up with Brinjal. I had tried this lot of times but I think yesterday was the best one with perfect combinations :) Hence its finally making its way out here :)


Ingredients
1 Medium Sized Brinjal
2 Cup Wheat Flour
1 Spoon Red Chilli Powder
1/4 Spoon Turmeric Powder
1/4 Spoon Jeera Powder
1/4 Spoon Corriander Powder
2-3 Spoon Corriander Leaves
Salt to taste
Oil

Method

• Broil the brinjal in the oven at 500F for 25minutes. Let it cool down
• Remove the cover and smash the brinjal.
• Add red chilli powder, turmeric powder, jeera powder, corriander powder, finely chopped corriander leaves and salt to taste.
• Add wheat flour and make the dough out of it.
• Apply a spoon of oil and knead well and keep aside for 20-30 minutes.
• Make lemon sized balls and roll the 3 fold parathas and cook them on the tawa.
• Serve hot with curd and pickle

Notes
You can roast the brinjal the way we do it for Bharata on the stove. Or you can bake them in the oven but I found that broiling functionality in ovens here is much better than baking when you need the item to be cooked without it oozing out its juices. The last few times I baked the brinjal it oozed lot of juice and then I had to add too much of wheat flour and the parathas lacked the brinjal taste in them.

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