Aakhol Ghor, the Assamese Cuisines and Foods from Assam

Its all about Food and Food Habits from the land of blue hills and red river, Assam.

Aakhol Ghor means Kitchen in Assamese. Assamese traditional Kitchens normally has two parts. First the dining area plus a small cooking space for tea etc. And the next bigger and more functional room is the actual kitchen with at least two earthen fire places (chowka).If you are a food lover you can hope to see a lot of authentic Assamese Recipes in this place......

DISCLAIMER

Some famous Chef of India once said, " India is so unique, one can find three different recipes for the same chicken curry in the three houses lined in the same row. Every kitchen and every cook in India has it's own cook book, unlike rest of the world."
I personally feel it is so well said. Even in my case, you might find small to big differences in your known method of cooking and the ones posted here. I call them true Assamese for two main reasons, one: because of the spices used, and two: my granny knew nothing beyond her village ( she did not believe that cauliflower can be green, which is Broccoli). So whatever she cooked was passed on over generation. And my Mom finds it hard to believe anything can be cooked beyond her traditional methods( she is best at it, though she makes excellent Indo - Chinese things, invented). So please feel free to put in your comments / correction. One thing I can assure is I have cooked all these ( everything) myself with my own hands at least once. So whatever is here is tried and tested. You are always welcome to do your bit of experiment !!!!!

Chicken with Vegetables

This is one of my personal favorite. It's healthy and good to taste.

1. Chicken - 500 gm
2. Salt - to taste
3. Ginger Garlic Paste - 1 tsp
4. Chopped Onion - one medium sized
5. Vegetables - Cauliflower, Carrot, Potato, Beans, Tomato, Parval / potol, Green peas; all of
these together should be half the volume of chicken.
6. Haldi - 1/2 tea spoon
7. sugar - a pinch
8. Green chillies - about 4 slit in length ( can be as per taste)
9. Mustered Oil - 2 Spoons.
10. 2 Cardamom and 1/2 inch Dalchini broken.

Method:
Mix the chicken and the rest of the ingredient in a pan. Do not add the vegetable and Ingredient 10. Take a pressure cooker. Add the chicken mixture followed by the vegetable. Place it on flame.When the pressure cooker heats up, heat the mustered oil separately and pour into the chicken. Fry till the chicken leaves water. Let the water dry up a bit. Add fresh water and whistle it to cook well. Once the pressure cooker is opened, add the garam masala.

Serve Hot with hot steamed rice or Roti.

2 comments:

  1. bhabajyotiNovember 10, 2008 at 6:51 AM

    great goin,,,plz keep it on,,, really liked ur recipes,,, tried sum of them,,, thanx,,, cheers !!!

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  2. assamese masterchefMarch 23, 2013 at 10:53 PM

    Mouthwatering and reminds me of my days in Assam.

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