August 2004
Monika's Bangladesh cooking event lesson

1. PRAWNS WITH MUSTARD SEEDS:

No dish could be more typical of Bengal than this one! It is simple to cook yet quite distinctive!

Ingredients 　(will serve for four people):

• 2 tbs whole black mustard seeds
• 450 grm prawns with shell but no head
• 60 ml Salad oil
• 4 hot dried chillies
• 3 fresh green hot chilles
• seasoning with turmeric,chilli powder . and salt

How to cook:

peel prawns but leave their tails on.Heat the frying pan over a midium flame,now put the hot chillies stir once and put the prawns on ,now when the prawns turn pink put the spices and green chillies. Stir on a midium heat for 1-2 minutes and let the sauce be a bit thicker.

Note: Eat the hot chillies only when you do know what you are doing!

2. CHICKEN WITH ALMONDS ,CASHEW NUTS ,CURD (yoghurt),
AND RAISINS:

Ingredients: (serves:6 people)

• 1.6 kg chicken,cut into serving pieces( leg pieces)
• 200 ml oil
• 7 whole cardamom pods
• 6 whole cloves
• 5 cm cinammon stick 2 bay leaves
• Cashew nuts, almonds and raisins -each 26 grams
• Curd 200 grm
• 4 Green chillies
• Ginger-20 grm
• 2 onions
• 2 whole garlic pieces

How to cook:

Mix the chicken with all the spices except nuts and　curd. Put them on mudium heat, don`t stir at all, let them be boiled.

Mix the nuts with cardomann and sugar( 2 tablespoons). When the chicken gets boiled, mix the card and nuts with them. Leave them on the flame( low) for another 10 minutes.