Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup onion
• 1/4 cup green beans
• 1/2 cup potatoes
• 1/4 cup capsicum
• 3 boiled eggs
• 1 cup basmati rice
• 3 green chillies
• 2 cloves
• 2 cardamom
• 1 tea spn ginger paste
• 1 bay leaf
• A pinch turmeric
• 1/2 tea spn kolhapuri masala/garam masala/goda masala
• Ghee
• Salt

Method:

Heat ghee and add bay leaf, cardamom, cloves.
Add ginger paste, finely chopped green chillies and all vegetables. Fry for few minutes.
Add rice and fry again for few minutes. Add masala powder, turmeric and fry again.
Now add water(about 1 and 3/4 cup), salt and cook till done.

Peel eggs and cut into small pieces (I discard yolks and just use white part). In another pan, heat some ghee and add little salt, pepper and tumeric. Saute them for a few minutes. Mix with rice before serving.

Serves : 2
Preparation time : 30mins

Fried fish with aromatic curry leaves
Ingredients:

• 4 big fish fillets (king fish, pomfret, salmon or tilapia)
• 1 tbl spn tamarind (do not use extract, it does not make thick paste)
• 4-5 big garlic cloves (if using smaller variety available in India, use about 8-10)
• 1 tea spn chilli powder (use more if you can handle the heat)
• 7-8 curry leaves
• Oil
• Salt

Instructions:

1. Make a thick paste of tamarind, garlic, chilli powder and salt.
2. Apply the paste to fish pieces and leave it for atleast 30mins.
3. Heat a tava and spread a little oil.
4. Cut curry leaves in few pieces.
5. Spread half of the leaves on the tava.
6. Keep the marinated fish on the curry leaves.
7. Spread remaining leaves on the top.
8. Fry from both sides till the fish is cooked through.
9. Serve hot with lemon and onion rings.

A spicy chicken curry made with a base of raw onions and tomato.
Ingredients:

• ½ kg chicken
• 1 and ½ cups onion
• 1 cup tomato
• 1 cup yogurt
• 1 tea spn garam masala
• 3 green chillies
• 1 tea spn chilli powder(optional)
• 4 cloves
• 2" cinnamon
• 1 bay leaf
• 2 cardamom
• 2 tea spns ginger-garlic paste
• A pinch turmeric
• 4-5 strands coriander leaves
• Salt
• Oil

Ingredients:

1. Add ginger-garlic paste, turmeric, a little salt and 2 tbl spn yogurt to chicken pieces and keep it aside for 30mins.
2. Heat a little oil and add cloves, cinnamon, bay leaf, cardamom. When a nice aroma starts coming, add ¾ cup onions, 1 tea spn ginger-garlic paste to it and fry till translucent.
3. Now add the chicken and fry for few minutes. add garam masala and salt. Mix well.
4. Make a paste of ¾ cup onion, green chillies, tomato to a paste and add it to chicken pieces, mix well.
5. Beat the yogurt well and pour it in chicken. If necessary, add the red chilli powder.
6. Cover and let it cook till chicken is completely done (you can cook in pressure cooker, I just cook on stovetop).
7. Garnish with coriander leaves(optional). Serve hot.

Ingredients: 

• 1 lb ground(minced) chicken (or mutton) 
• 1 tea spn ginger paste 
• 1 tea spn garlic paste 
• 3-4 green chillies 
• 3-4 strands coriander leaves 
• 1/2 cup onion 
• 1/2 cup potatoes cut into thin pieces 
• 1 tea spn chilli powder 
• A pinch turmeric powder 
• 1/2 cup tomatoes 
• 3 cloves 
• 2" cinnamon 
• 1 tea spn shah jeera 
• 2 cardamoms 
• Oil 
• Salt

Method: 
Make a paste of ginger, garlic, green chillies and coriander leaves. Apply this paste to ground(minced) meat and leave it aside for about 30mins. 
Heat oil and fry onion. Add potatoes, turmeric, chilli powder, tomatoes. Let it cook for few minutes. Now add the chicken, salt and let it cook. 
Make a powder of cloves, cinnamon, cardamom, shah jeera. Add the powder to chicken. Cook for a min and take off heat.
Serves : 3-4 
Preparation time : 30mins