Two Recipes That You Can Try For A Sunday Brunch

Preparing something delicious like paneer butter masala, chola dal, or gajar halwa for yourself, or your family makes for a relaxing and fulfilling activity on a weekend. Especially, if you have a knack for cooking and hours spent in kitchen pass by as a cool breeze does, then preparation for a Sunday brunch can be the right thing for you.

However, to make your Sunday brunch scrumptious and talked-about at least until the next one, you need some good recipes that you can go for. Here are two dishes that you can try for your next family brunch on a weekend-

Paneer masala (Cottage Cheese and Pea Curry)

A dish that is loved by almost everyone who has ever tasted it, paneer masala is a go-to brunch dish. To prepare this dish for 8 people, you will need-

1. 10cups whole milk
2. ¼ cup lemon juice
3. 10gms. ginger
4. 6flakes garlic
5. 1cup vegetable oil
6. 4medium onions (grated)
7. 1teaspoon turmeric powder
8. 2teaspoons red chilli powder
9. 1½tablespoons coriander powder
10. 1tablespoon cumin powder
11. 1tablespoon salt
12. 2large tomatoes (chopped)
13. 2¾ whey or water
14. 5cups peas (shelled or frozen)
15. ½teaspoon garam masala powder (coarse ground spices)
16. 1tablespoon coriander leaves (chopped) 

Preparation

Grind together ginger and garlic into a paste.

Heat oil in cooker for about 3 minutes and lightly brown paneer and remove. Leave ½cup of oil in the cooker.

Add onions and fry on high heat until golden brown.

Add ginger-garlic paste and stir for a few seconds. Add turmeric, chilli, coriander and cumin powders, salt, tomatoes, and ½cup of whey or water. Cook until tomatoes are pulpy and oil shows separately.

Add peas and stir-fry for about 2 minutes. Add remaining whey or water.

Close cooker and bring to full pressure on high heat. Reduce heat and cook for 1minute.

Remove cooker from heat and release pressure with slight lifting of vent weight.

Open cooker. Place it with peas on medium heat. Add paneer and simmer for about 5minutes. Stir in garam masala powder.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve.

Mutton Keema curry

For the meat lovers, this dish is probably one that can cheer them any time of the day. There are different versions of this recipe and the one prepared in Hyderabad is the best.

To prepare mutton keema curry, you need-

1. 500gms. minced meat/keema
2. 2tablespoon oil
3. 1tablespoon ginger garlic paste
4. 1tablespoon salt
5. ¼teaspoon turmeric powder
6. ½teaspoom red chilli powder
7. 2 onions (finely sliced)
8. 2 green chillies
9. 3 tomatoes (finely chopped) 
10. 1/2teaspoon garam masala or Keema masala
11. 1/2teaspoon black pepper corn powder
12. 1½cup water
13. 2tablespoon fresh coriander
14. ¼ teaspoon dried fenugreek leaves

Preparation

Add oil into a pressure cooker and heat it.

Add sliced onions, green chillies and stir until they are lightly brown.

Add ginger garlic paste.

Add mutton keema and roast it until there is no water left.

Add salt, turmeric powder, red chilli powder and roast it.

Add chopped tomatoes, keema masala powder, black pepper powder.

Cook until tomatoes turn soft.

Add 1½cups of water. Pressure cook the keema on low flame. Wait for three whistles.

Reduce the steam.

Add fresh coriander leaves and fenugreek leaves.

Switch off the flame once the keema is dry.

Serve with chapatti, roti, or paratha.