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After a long gap , once again Odia Khana Khazana is back with a new and delicious recipe named " Pakudi Tarkari " also known as Pakodi Tarkari.

Also read : How To Prepare Odisha Moong Dali Tarkari ?

Pic : Pakudi Tarkari

Ingredients Required :

One bowl for preparing pakodas
Besan / Gram Flour based on the number of people
2-3 indian bay leaf / Tej Patta
Green chillie - 2-3-4 based on your taste
Sabji Masala - 1 teaspoon full
Salt
Turmeric Powder
1 Tea spoon full of coriander powder/ Dhaniya powder
1 Tea spoon full of cumin/jeera powder
1-2 Full Onion
1-2 Tomatoes

Preparation Steps :

Part I : Preparing Pakodas

Put 2-3 cup of gram flour/besan in the bowl
Add 1/2 tea spoon full of coriander powder
Add 1/2 tea spoon full of Jeera powder
Add 1 cup of well chopped onion , you can add more than it if you are Onion lover.
Add 1/2 or 1 full tea spoon full of well chopped green chilli for making the pakoda spicy.
Add 1/2 tea spoon full of turmeric powder
Add 1/2 tea spoon full of sabji masala. It will create a special taste to the item.
Add salt based on your taste.
Now add good amount of water and mixed everything till it turned into a good gravy type.
Leave the mixture for 1/2 hour. This will help the entire thing to get mixed with each other and you will get perfect mixture ready.
Create small-small pieces out of this mixture and put it on a plate.
Fry them till they turned gold colour. Remember you have to fry till your see gold colour.
Pakoda is ready .....tannn...tanaaaa.... :)

Part II : Preparing Recipe

Put a pan on the burner and add some refined oil and let it heat for sometime.
Add some green chilli, chopped onion and fry till everything get well fried.
Add the Indian bay leaves and fry it till they turned into golden brown colour.
Add tomatoes ( well chopped ) in it. Add salt and mix it.
Leave the item for 5-10 minutes and check if tomatoes got well mixed.
Add turmeric powder 1/2 tea spoon full, 1/2 tea spoon full of sabji masala and cook the mixture till everything get into a nice gravy.
Add little water so that you get a good gravy and leave it for cooking for 5 minutes.
Now add the prepared Pakodas in this cooked gravy.
Your pakudi tarkari is ready to serve....... !
Present to your family and enjoy it ;)

Next time if you have similar kind of recipe, do share it and let us know how you prepared it.

Odisha Famous Chicken Curry

Today I am going to share secret recipe about how to prepare chicken curry which Odia people prepare. This chicken curry is otherwise called as " Chicken Tarkari " which we call " Aainsa Tarkari "

Odisha chicken curry is very different from rest chicken curry in the way we don't use too much oil nor use any kind of coconut products or coconut oil to prepare. Chicken curry is different in the sense we Odia people use masala and other ingredients which I am going to explain down.

Ingredients Required :

In Odisha we prepare Chicken curry in two different style :

1) Chicken curry along with potato or 2) Simple Chicken Curry

Now the one I am going to share is the 1st one. Let me share the ingredients along with other things needed to prepare the curry. This is for two person, hence I have taken 500gm fresh chicken.

500 gm fresh chicken - Wash it properly so that unwanted things get removed
3-4 Potatoes - Cut each potato into 4 pieces
Green chilly - chop down the green chilly as per the above image
2-3 Onions and chop down into small square pieces
3 Medium size tomatoes and chop down into small-small pieces so that while preparing the curry, it will get mixed up easily, saving time.
2 pinch sugar
2 spoon full of chicken powder/meat powder
2 spoon full of turmeric powder
3 spoon full of salt
1-2 spoon full of red chilli powder
1 small ginger-garlic paste

Step 1 : Preparing or we call it Chicken first stage operation.

Here fresh washed chicken is well mixed with 2 spoon of mustard oil+ 2 spoon full of salt + 1-2 spoon full of turmeric powder.

It is then kept for 1/2 hour so that everything get well mixed.

Step 2: Second Stage Operation

Switch on your gas/stove and put the curry pan and heat it.
Pour 3-4 spoon full of mustard oil and let it for heating
Add 1/2 spoon ( or may be 2 pinch ) of sugar in the heating oil and stir it uniformly so that sugar get well mixed and you will see a reddish brown colour.
Add the chopped onions , green chillies and fry for some time. Add 1 spoon full of salt and fry till onion get golden brownish colour.
Add ginger-garlic paste and mixed it well with the fried onion. Fry for some 5 minutes till you get ginger-garlic fry smell
Once you see ginger-garlic has well mixed and fried with onion-chillies, add 2 spoon full of turmeric powder, 2 spoon full of red chilli powder, 2-3 spoon full of chicken masala( powder) if you don't have chicken powder, you can also use meat masala with same quantity.
Fry the above for 1-2 minute till everything get well mixed.
Now add chopped tomato pieces and mixed it well. Add 1 spoon of salt so that it gets quickly mixed. You have noticed I am adding little-little salt in every part. this helps in completing the curry in a uniform manner.

Once you get a complete paste ready with tomato, you can either add little water to increase the paste quantity.

Add chopped potatoes in the paste

Fry potato with the gravy till you see potato got soft and gravy has well mixed
Add the chicken ( which is left to mixed with oil, turmeric powder and salt )
As you can see in the above pic, chicken is then keep fried with the prepared gravy along with potato and it is continued till we see complete water has been drained out from chicken and you can see the masala, potato and chicken is seen mixed well.
Now you have two choice how you want to have this curry either you can prepare this without water and keep frying chicken with gravy till potato is cooked properly. Or second is mixed it with enough amount of water and prepare the one which I did.

Why Potato is added ?

Potato is added as per your taste as I told earlier and it is also added so that while cooking we can easily calculate if chicken is well cooked or not.

After adding enough water as per your requirement, cover the pan with a plate and let it for 10-15 minutes for cooking.

Once you find potato is fully cooked and it is soft, its sign that our chicken is ready. Add corriander leaves pieces. This gives extra aroma to your chicken curry.

Now your chicken is ready and you can serve to your family members, friends and enjoy the taste.

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