Ingredients:

• Chicken legs – 6 pieces
• Onions(chopped) – 2 nos
• Tomato paste – 3 tbsp
• Garlic powder – 1/2 tsp
• Ginger powder – 1/2 tsp
• Chicken Masala powder – 2 tbsp
• Chilly powder – 1 tsp
• Salt – As reqd

Method:

• Basically it reduces the time & effort chopping tomatoes/ginger/garlic etc
• Heat oil in a pressure cooker.
• Fry the chopped onions until golden brown.
• Add the rest of the ingredients and stir along with chicken.
• Pour 1/2 glass of water and let the pressure cooker whistle 2-3 times

Sending this recipe to FIRST COOKED FOOD EVENT –AUG’09 , Hosted by shama

Ingredients:

• Whole moong – 2 cups
• Onion – 1 no
• Green chillies – 4 nos
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Salt – 1 tsp

Method:

• Pressure cook onions, green chillies and whole moong, till the moong is cooked.
• Heat oil in a frying pan.
• Add mustard seeds and allow them to crackle.
• Add the cooked ingredients and stir for a little while.
• Add salt along with enough water for gravy.

Ingredients:

• Sliced Mushrooms – 1 pack
• Ginger paste – 1 tsp
• Garlic paste – 1 tsp
• Onion – 1 no
• Tomato – 1 no
• Coriander powder – 4 tsp
• Masala powder – 4 tsp
• Chilly powder – 2 tsp
• Salt – 1 tsp
• Coriander leaves(optional) – 4 stems

Method:

• Wash mushrooms in warm water.
• Heat oil in a pan.
• Add ginger and garlic paste and stir, till brown.
• Add chopped onions and stir, till onions are cooked.
• Add coriander powder and
  masala powder and stir, till the smell of masala powder comes out.
• Add one or two chopped tomatoes, chilly powder and stir well, till tomatoes blend well.
• Add mushrooms, cover the pan with a lid and cook on a low fame,
  till mushroom is cooked.
• Secret to cooking mushroom well is that you should not cook mushroom in water. Mushroom, itself has a lot of fluid which comes out when heated up. Hence it gets cooked in its own fluid.
• Add water and salt as required and stir well, till everything blends.
  Garnish with coriander leaves.