Give Me Your Recipes: INDIAN!

Does anyone have any healthy Indian recipes? Can anyone recommend some good powders, or recipes that use chicken or pork or even veggies marinated in yogurt/spices? I LOVE Indian food - I want to cook it healthily and with good fats! Can anyone help?

Get some different masala spice mixes - like garam masala or tandoori masala.

Tandoori chicken:
use skinless, bone in  chicken. cut slashes into it, pretty shallow, in a criss cross pattern all over it. Take about 1/4-1/3 of a cup of tandoori masala and mix it into a paste with some salt, garlic (minced), and about a cup of yogurt. Rub it all over the chicken, making sure to get it in the slash marks. Put it in a shallow tub, make sure the chicken is covered, and marinate overnight.

The next day, grill or bake the chicken pieces.

I'm a wimp, so I like it with chippitah (kind of a whole wheat indian tortilla) and cilantro.

I've made Hyderabadi biryani from a mix before and it was pretty good. Same thing with Chicken Tikka Masala. I can't remember the company, but the boxes were all yellow or orange or red and looked generic. We also buy bottled curry sauce sometime, but it's just soooo salty. But I guess for a quick throw together meal, it suffices.

My favorite Indian dish is Chicken Saag and I've yet to try to make it at home. I might just leave it to the experts.....

http://caloriecount.about.com/aoifes-fish-cur ry-recipe-r249775

You don't have to make this with fish - chicken or veg alone will also taste yummy.

Cauliflower & Chickpea Curry

Curried Chickpeas with Spinach & Tomatoes

Idli (steamed lentil & rice dumplings)

If you live in a city, you may have an indian store or a health food store that sells the mixes.  It's super cheap... some of the little prepared dinners are so cheap (Healthy Choice prices and much tastier) and really hit the spot when craving indian.  They also keep a long time in the cabinets.  Stretch it with a little brown rice and make 2 servings if you want.

miss_cas, what do you mean "mixes" - like Tandori, Tikka Masala, etc? I'm going to an organic store today that I know has some and I hope to get them - I think it is Patak brand.

I actually used a Shere Khan mix today for dinner-- their Chicken Tikka Masala-- and it was pretty darned good for a lazy, no effort meal!  I bought the packet at World Market for $2.99 and added chicken and vegetables.  It made plenty for two with a good dose of sauce left over to top my veggies tomorrow.

I too hope to eventually cook Indian food from scratch, but I haven't yet gotten there!  I wish you luck and hope to share recipes in the future!

http://www.cookinglight.com/food/reader-favor ites/20-five-star-chicken-recipes-00400000001 031/page5.html

This is a recipe for Chicken Biriyani.  I made it last night and it was SO good!!  My picky fiance even liked it.  Oh, and get the saffron, it's well worth the cost!  

Hi!  I LOVE Indian food.  It's my favorite.  I often look up recipes and then make it "Chris" style.  I try to modify and make it by combining recipes and sometimes replace certain ingredients with healthy alternatives.  I am vegeterian, so I am pretty creative.

Here are 2 websites I have used in the past.

  http://food.sify.com/

http://www.indianchild.com/indian_recipes.htm

hey, im from kashmir, india and one of the most tastiest and wonderful dish is mutton balls( minced meat) in yogurt marinate.................check out this site for the recipe...if you don't prefer meat, then you can use chicken well!

http://food.sulekha.com/cuisine/kashmiri/mutt on-balls.htm

i'm pakistani and i love some of my mum's food but god, does she overdo it on the calorie factor

i watch her and make my own version

the simplest chicken curry:

fry some onion in low-cal spray or olive oil until translucent
add a teaspoon of garlic and however much chilli you want
and cook this until it's browned a bit - chilli powder needs to be cooked really well so that the raw flavour is eliminated and you get a deeper flavour
sorta how you can cook the rawness out of flour
add the chicken and fry this off a little
add water or stock and then just leave to simmer and reduce!
the amount of onions will add do depth of sweetness and thic ness of the sauce
you can do this exact thing with basically any meat or vegetable

at the garlic and chilli stage you can add; ginger, cumin, tumeric, etc.. for different angles of flavour. ginger goes really well with chunky veg and chicken and i don't even like ginger

important; 1 minute before it's done, throw in a handful of chopped coriander/cilantro, this is essential in most dishes in our family haha

and stir in yoghurt at the end too if you want