How to cook Nepali Kwaati

kwati is the famous Nepali soup which is the mix combination of different beans and herbs and spices. Specially consumed  on day of  Hindu Festival "JANAI PURNIMA". In the Newari society  kwati has been highly consumed. Today i am going to present a easy recipe for the kwati and i am sure it will help you to make kwati at home and enjoy it.

Methods  

• Wash and soak the beans more than a day  
• Mise en place: blend the ginger garlic, cut the onion in to dice or slice, cut the tomato either fine or slice, if you want good flavor prepare the stock ( vegetable or meat) 
• Set a pressure cooker let it to heat add oil, add lovage seeds, add bay leaf, onion, turmeric powder, ginger garlic paste, garam masala, cumin and coriander powder, tomatoes and let it cooked till come to gravy. 
• Add mixed beans and fry it. 
• Add stock and cover it and let it cook. Beans must be cooked oil and tender on touch. 
• Finally your dish is ready, enjoy your meal. 

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Culinary Herbs

1. Basil 

green basil leaf

dried basil

2.Parsley

3. Cilantro (coriander or Chinese parsley)

4. Mint

5. Rosemary

6. Thyme

7. sage

8. Chives

9. Dill

10. Oregano

11. Tarragon

12. Chervil (french parsley)

13. Curry leaves

14. Fenugreek

in Hindi or Nepali it is known as mithi or methi

15. Lemon thyme

16. Lovage

17. Marjoram

18. Pink pepper

19. Summer savory

20. Shiso

21. Thai basil

source : google and Wikipedia 

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Chinese Cuisine

Introduction of Chinese Cuisine

Chinese cuisine is one of the most famous and diverse

cuisine in the world. The gastronomy of china is

considered as one of finest and greatest in the world.

Chinese food shows the culinary culture of china that is

normally found like balance in taste, flavor and texture

where hot balance cold, pickled balances fresh and savory

balance sweet. We all know that Chinese culture is the

oldest civilization as in the world. Chinese cuisine is the

oldest and finest cuisine in the world. They were the first

discovers of fire. They only introduce the first method of

cooking that is spit roasting. In Chinese cuisine gathering

with out food was consider incomplete and improper.

• Chinese cuisine is one of the most famous anddiverse cuisine in the world.
• Chinese food shows the culinary culture of chinathat normally found like balance in taste, flavorand texture where hot balance cold, pickled balances fresh, savory balances sweet.
• We all know that Chinese culture is the oldest civilization in the world . Chinese cuisine is the oldest and most finest cuisine in the world.
• They were the 1st discovers of fire and introduce the method of cooking that is spit roasting.
• The development and diversity of the delightsof Chinese cuisine are also representative of China's long history.
• With each dynasty new recipes were created until the art of food preparation reach its peak during the Qing Dynasty.
• Chinese cuisine is bright branch in Chinese culture and it is also dominant one in the field of world cuisine.

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Top 5 chefs

1. Gordon James Ramsay,  (born 8 November 1966)
He is a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality. Born in Scotland, he grew up in Stratford upon Avon, England. His restaurants have been awarded 16 Michelin stars in total.^[1][2] His signature restaurant, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in Chelsea, London, has held 3 Michelin stars since 2001. Ramsay is known for presenting TV programmes about competitive cookery and food, such as the British series Hell's Kitchen, The F Word, and Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, along with the American versions of Hell's Kitchen, Kitchen Nightmares, MasterChef, MasterChef Junior, and Hotel Hell. In 2015, Forbes listed his earnings at $60 million for the previous 12 months, and ranked him the 21st highest earning celebrity in the world.

2. Massimo Bottura (born 30 September 1962)
He is an Italian restaurateur and the chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant based in Modena,^[1] Italy which has been listed in the top 5 at The World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards since 2010 and received top ratings from ESPRESSO, Gambero Rosso and the Touring Club guides.^[2] Osteria Francescana was ranked 2nd World's Best Restaurant at the S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards 2015. In June 2016 Osteria Francescana is No. 1 in The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2016.

3. René Redzepi (born 16 December 1977)
he is a Danish chef and co-owner of the two-Michelin star restaurant Noma in theChristianshavn neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. His restaurant was voted the best restaurant in the world in 2010 San Pellegrino Awards, 2011, 2012 and 2014. Redzepi is noted for his work for the reinvention and refinement of a new Nordic cuisineand food that is characterized by inventiveness and clean flavours.

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Cooking

introduction                                       

Cooking or cookery is the art, technology and craft of preparing food for consumption with the use of heat. Cooking techniques and ingredients vary widely across the world, from grilling food over an open fire to using electric stoves, to baking in various types of ovens, reflecting unique environmental, economic, and cultural traditions and trends. The ways or types of cooking also depend on the skill and type of training an individual cook has. Cooking is done both by people in their own dwellings and by professional cooks and chefs in restaurants and other food establishments. Cooking can also occur through chemical reactions without the presence of heat, most notably with ceviche, a traditional South American dish where fish is cooked with the acids in lemon or lime juice.

Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity unique to humans. Some anthropologists think that cooking fires first developed around 250,000 years ago, although there is evidence for the controlled use of fire by Homo erectus beginning 400,000 years ago.

The expansion of agriculture, commerce, trade and transportation between civilizations in different regions offered cooks many new ingredients. New inventions and technologies, such as the invention of pottery for holding and boiling water, expanded cooking techniques. Some modern cooks apply advanced scientific techniques to food preparation to further enhance the flavour of the dish served.

Methods

There are very many methods of cooking, most of which have been known since antiquity. These include baking, roasting, frying, grilling, barbecuing, smoking, boiling, steaming and braising. A more recent innovation is microwaving. Various methods use differing levels of heat and moisture and vary in cooking time. The method chosen greatly affects the end result because some foods are more appropriate to some methods than others. Some major hot cooking techniques include:

Roasting

Roasting

Roasting – Barbecuing – Grilling/Broiling – Rotisserie – Searing

Baking

Baking – Baking Blind – Flashbaking

Baking 

Boiling

Boiling – Blanching – Braising – Coddling – Double steaming – Infusion – Poaching – Pressure cooking – Simmering – Smothering – Steaming– Steeping – Stewing – Vacuum flask cooking

Frying

Fry – Deep frying – Hot salt frying – Hot sand frying – Pan frying – Pressure frying – Sautéing – Stir frying

Steaming

Steaming works by boiling water continuously, causing it to vaporise into steam; the steam then carries heat to the nearby food, thus cooking the food. By many it is considered a healthy form of cooking, holding nutrients within the vegetable or meat being cooked.

Smoking

Smoking is the process of flavoring, cooking, or preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood.

source: Wikipedia 

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