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Recipe: Lamb Daleem - Suhel Johar

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Recipe: Lamb Daleem Ingredients • 750 gm Mutton, finely chopped or minced • 150 gm Yellow split Peas (dried) • 115 gm Lentils • 80 gm Oat meal • 2 tbsp Maize flour • 4 tsp Jeera • 1 big Onion • 4 tsp Masala • Shallot • Lemon • Salt and Pepper, according to taste • Green Coriander Method • Bring the split peas, lentils and salt to a boil and cook for 30 minutes. • Finely chop the mutton pieces and marinate with salt, pepper and maize flour. • Fry the onion in a large bottom vessel and add the mutton. • Cook the meat for a few minutes, until all its water is evaporated, and then add the masala and Jeera. • When the Dall is ready, add the mutton and 2 litres of water and cook for 30 minutes, in a pressure cooker. • Then, add the oats, diluted in a glass of water. Bring to the boil, until it thickens to a nice soup. •Serve Daleem with d eep f ried onion slices, ginger juliennes, chopped mint or coriander leaves, s
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Recipe: Chicken Qorma - Suhel Johar

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Recipe: Chicken Qorma Ingredients • 1Kg Chicken  • 1 tbsp Cumin Seeds • 4 tbsp Coriander Seeds • 1-2 tsp Red Chilli Powder • 6 tbsp Ghee • 2 middle-sized Onions, chopped • 5 Black Cardamom pods/ Cinnamon sticks • 4 Cloves • 3 Bay leaves • 1 Fresh Ginger, grated • 4 Garlic Cloves (minced) • 1 cup fresh Yogurt Method • Grind the cumin and coriander seeds in a spice mill, combine with the red chilli powder and place near the stove. • Heat the ghee or clarified butter in a large, shallow pan or a wok. • Stir in the onions, cardamom pods, cinnamon, cloves and bay leaves. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until the onions begin to turn reddish brown, about 15 minutes. • Add the ginger and garlic and cook, stirring constantly and scraping the bottom of the pan, until the onions are reddish brown. • Mix in the ground spices and cook, stirring constantly, for about 10 seconds, or until the spices release their fragrance. • Dry the chicken with paper towels a
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Recipe: Chole Bhature - Suhel Johar

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Recipe: Chole Bhature   Ingredients For Chole: •250 gm White Chick Peas or Kabuli Chana   (so•aked overnight) •1 medium sized Onion •2 medium sized Tomatoes •2 Green Chilli •Ginger – 1 inch long piece •½ tsp Cumin Powder •½ tspDry Mango Powder (amchur) •1 tsp Po•megranate Powder(anardana powder) •1 tsp Coriander Powder •1 tsp Red Chilli Powder •¼ tsp Turmeric Powder •½ tspAsafoetida (hing) •1 tsp Garam Masala •2 tsps Chole Masala •4 tbsps Refined Oil   •2 tsps or as per taste Salt •2 tsps Green Coriander (finely chopped) Ingredients For Bhature: •500 gm Wheat flour •50 gm Maida or All purpose Flour •100 gm Curd •3/4 tbsp Salt •3/4 tsps Baking soda   •Oil – for deep fry Method – How to Make Chole •Take pressure cooker and put chickpea, salt and 4 cup water, now cook it for up to 6 to 9 whistle on a medium flame. When chickpea done drain out extra water and keep aside. •Take a grinder, in grinder put tomatoes, green chilli and grinds it to ma
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Movie Review – Raid – by Suhel Johar

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RAID  Impresses And Engages Only In Bits And Parts, Not A Compelling Watch Though! The biopic mania in Bollywood continues with Raid . Of late every other film is either based on a real life character or a true life dramatic event. Raid directed by Raj Kumar Gupta (who has earlier made films like Aamir , No One Killed Jessica , Ghanchakkar ) relies on his firm footing as a man of consequence to pitch itself as a tribute to the IT department's unsung heroes. The story of Raid , a period crime thriller, is inspired from a true event involving a brave and incorruptible Income Tax Officer Sharad Prasad Pandey who raided the house of a businessman Sardar Indra Singh in the year 1981 and seized cash and gold worth Rs 1.6 crore. This raid ran for 18 hours and 45 people in it were constantly sitting just to count the notes. Ajay Devgn plays Amay Patnaik, an income tax officer known for his integrity. He's a stickler for rules and is someone who has been transferred
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Jackie Shroff's short film wins cash prize in Los Angeles.

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Jackie Shroff's short film SHUNYATA wins cash prize of $1,000 at Best of India Short Film Festival in Los Angeles. The 22-minute fiction film directed by Chintan Sarda was selected to be in top six from amongst thousands of entries and was played at a theatre in Los Angeles for a ticketed event for a week. An industry based jury then adjudged it the best film. The prize includes a cash prize of $1,000. In Shunyata , Jackie is seen as hitman Madhur, who leads a gloomy existence with regrets. He is friendly with a child, who lives on the street and sees him getting into the world of crime. Jackie Shroff's tired body language and inherent street smartness makes him believable as the gangster with a conscience in the short film. One can believe that he is cold-blooded by practice, and that the warmth he had suppressed for so long surfaces only at the sight of the boy. Simultaneously, he looks irredeemable – an unforgivable product embodying the worst of India’s teemi
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Trailer:October

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OCTOBER, Varun Dhawan-Banita Sandhu’s Unusual Love Story Seems Intriguing And Heart Tugging.   After Badrinath Ki Dulhania or Judwaa 2 , Varun Dhawan is back in yet another romantic avatar, but with a difference. The Shoojit Sircar film looks deep and intriguing and also stars debutant Banita Sandhu. Varun Dhawan’s next film October looks intriguing to the core, and this we can say after watching the trailer of this Shoojit Sircar directorial. The film which also marks the debut of Banita Sandhu is ‘a story about love’. Varun, who is currently shooting for Sui Dhaga launched the trailer of October with his team in Mumbai today. Varun has played convincing romantic roles before. Be it in Dilwale , Badrinath Ki Dulhania or Judwaa 2 , he has managed to strike the right chord with his viewers. But this time, the actor is seen playing a sweet yet mischievous boy, trying to get into the hospitality industry. Varun portrays a hotel management student who is working in a f
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Trailer: Omerta

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OMERTA   Looks At What It Means To Be A Fundamentalist. Director Hansal Mehta, who unveiled the gritty trailer of the film on Wednesday, says his idea behind making an “uncomfortable film” is to make the audience face the truth. The film, starring Rajkummar Rao, is based on British-Pakistani terrorist Omar Saeed Sheikh. Omerta takes a look at this complex paradox of a man called Omar Saeed Sheikh. Mehta while launching the trailer confessed that it was a difficult subject to choose and a challenge to make. “However, with an actor like Rajkummar, no challenge seems insurmountable and this was the ideal film to hurtle us out of our comfort zone to make something that is uncomfortable. “But that is the burden of truth – it is uncomfortable and it must be faced.” According to Mehta, Omerta looks at what it means to be a fundamentalist and for someone to pick up a gun with the intent of killing in return for an afterlife in paradise. The National Award winning actor R
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