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Garlic-Basil-Ginger Chicken by ChandraMukhi Ganju


Garlic-Basil-Ginger Chicken (Non-Kashmiri) Serving size: 3-4 people Ingredients * 1lb. boneless breast chicken * 4-5 cloves of garlic * 1 piece of ginger * 1 chopped onion * ¼ tsp of turmeric powder/hald/lideri * ½ tsp tsp. of chili powder/merchwangan * Zeera/cumin seeds * ½ cinnamon/dalchini * 2 tsp. tomato paste * 2- tbsp. of oil * Salt to taste * Basil leaves, Cilantro/dhania Method: * Wash and cut chicken into small square pieces. * Grate or make paste of ginger and garlic. * Put oil in a pan and add chopped onion. * Saute until brown. * Add chicken, ginger and garlic paste. * Cook on medium-low heat until water dries completely. * Add tomato paste and all the spices given above. * Stir well and add basil leaves. * Cook chicken for 3 minutes and simmer for 5 minutes. * Check for tenderness of chicken. * Garnish it with cilantro and serve.

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Comments

I have the same storey to tell.

Added By vijay kaul

This is well written Sakhshi. I like the style. Write more often. Blessings.

Added By BL Dhar

Very touching. Could not control my tears. I could relate with u as I am also daughter of Ram Chander and Barbarsha and know exactly where your house was.

Added By Chandra Ganju

I shed a tear. It's beautifully written Sakshi...it touched my soul.

Added By Hether Khosa

This article reflects the internal struggles of our children--youth in general--who are growing up in exile far-removed from their motherland. While trying to forge ahead along with the mainstream, they yearn to reach out to their roots in an attempt to find their real identity and their role in the very diverse situations they find themselves in. The pressure on our youth is immense, to be the future torch-bearers of our rich culture and traditions. May God guide their journeys.

Added By Shashi Razdan

Lovely, lovely article Jiggi Didi. Makes me want to go back "home." :)

Added By Shirin Razdan

Great lines from the nostalgic heart but to no purpose. We must move on in life. All of us as we have found new roots & we must crop up deep in the soil. Donot cry on the split milk.

Added By Ashvani koul

Ahhh...have gone thrice to Karan Nagar. The same thought!! What if someone shoots us down?? Yet the pull of the motherland takes me back repeatedly, just to stare at the gate and come back. I know that if the gate opens the illusion will be destroyed - there is no papaji or bobji there anymore. I would rather go stare at the door n come back and let the illusion be. this article touched a raw nerve...beautifully written.

Added By Geetanjali Dhar

well written.could not control tears rolling down from my eyes after reading "Woh mera ghar hain".

Added By Vikas Bhat

The title of this news should had been... "Tumhe apne ghar tak pahunchne ke liye, gairon se raasta poonchna pada"

Added By san pandita

Its very notstaligic,this summer i too want to revisit my roots, i dont knw, what would i do, if someone would ask me " Aapka waha kaun rehta hai" but i really admired, when she would have said, " Woh Mera Ghar hai" Yes, Our Home is still in our Kashmir, we only live concrete here outside it. And we promise we would back one day.. Its a promise i have given to myself.

Added By Vithal Chowdhary

Time must have come to a stand stil for a while.This was our home and now belongs to somebody else.It was not a willing deal.

Added By Ajay kaul

Very touching and was very much moved by it Hope homo sapiens shall serve humanity well , will not do anything which will shame humanity

Added By Javeed Tramboo

We the kashmiri pandits had to facethis no body on this earth will he lp us,we are self centered and individualist,we donot thinkcollectivlyas marwari's and sindhi do,for so many years now what have we achieved except our memories of our mother land.only one think we could do is by the greatness of shri Bala shahib Thakra the education of our children,i admire him,for muslim cong. is spending. we stand on where.This is my veiw point

Added By vijay kaul

Excellent .Really tears felt in my eyes when I thought of my home while reading lines .Again beautifully expressed & writen.

Added By KEWAL BAZAZ

Brilliant write up. Congratulations! Life is a string of memories that knit together a person; some painful, some pleasuresome and the rest indifferent. Home identifies security, the nest for nightfall. Blessed are those that make that call successfully.

Added By R. P. Sapru