Make the perfect meal for family get together

New Delhi

Family meet-ups and get togethers make for a fun time to catch up with relatives and favourite cousins. These meets help in building bonds and rekindle family memories, so make these complete with a scrumptious meal.

Chef Pallavi Nigam and Chef Vicky Ratnani share recipes that are perfect for your family get togethers.

• Heat a pan. Drizzle little bit of oil. Add cinamon stick, bay leaf, jeera, sliced onion.
• Caramalize the onions. Add the lambs and sear till nicely brown.
• Add potatoes(sweet potatoes), red chilli powder, turmeric, crushed garlic, raisins and meat masala. Thereafter, add the lamb stock.
• Season it and put it on low heat to simmer for 2-3 hours till tender.
• Garnish it with chopped parsley. Serve it with peas pulao.

• Heat ghee/ oil in pan. Add in cumin seeds followed by peas and saute for a minute.
• Add in rice, adjust seasoning, toss well and serve.

Bafouri Ki Sabzi

• Soak the Dal for 6-8 hrs.
• Grind along with whole spice(ginger, garlic, kaali mirch daane, salt) and steam it in the form of dumplings.
• Heat oil and saute ginger garlic paste. Add in onion and cook till done.
• Add tomato puree and cook till dry.
• Add jeera, haldi, dhaniya powder, laal mirch, garam masala and cook till oil sperate.
• Add water and cook for a while.
• Add the dumplings and cook for few mins.
• Check seasoning. Garnish with coriander leaves. Serve with rice/paratha/roti.

Baked Almond Kofta

Ingredients for Crumbing

• Place the mashed potato in a bowl and add almonds, salt, pepper, nutmeg, milk, green onions, flour, and 2 eggs.
• Mix them well and refrigerate for 15 minutes. Now roll them into equal-sized koftas.
• Place flour, beaten eggs, and breadcrumbs separately in different plates.
• Cover each kofta with flour and dunk them in beaten eggs. After which give them a good roll in the breadcrumbs.
• Preheat an oven to 200 celsius and bake the koftas till golden brown. Serve hot.

• In a clean bowl take feta cheese and add chopped parsley and crushed black pepper in it.
• Chop half the almonds and combine with a little honey and chopped parsley.
• Make a small ball of the chopped almond mixture and cover it with feta cheese mixture.
• Mix it and make into round shape.
• Take roasted almond slivers in a clean plate, coat feta cheese with roasted almonds and keep it in the freezer for 10 mins. Serve chilled as a snack or with wine.