Khawosay Recipe

 

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Khawosay

  • Servings: 4-5
  • Difficulty: Easy

Khawosay is a famous main course dish in the Memon Community around the world. It was originally an appetizer dish in Thailand. It consists of Boiled Spaghetti , Yogurt Curry, Chicken Curry and some garnish on top. 🙂

Yogurt Curry

Ingredients

  • 250g yoghurt
  • 3 cup water
  • 1/2 tsp turmeric (haldi)
  • 1tbsp green chilli paste
  • salt to taste
  • 4 tbsp Besan (ground chickpea)
  • 1tbsp kasuri methi (dried fenugreek leaves)
  • Tarka: curry leaves, 3/4 red chilli balls, coriander

Method

  1. First take a pot and add yogurt, turmeric, green chilli paste and besan with 1/2 cup water and mix well. Once its all combined well, put 2.5 cups of water and let it cook in a low flame for 30 minutes.
  2. Important: I didn’t put salt in the beginning. I will put it once the curry is almost ready.

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  3. When its cooked, add salt to taste, dried fenugreek leaves and cook it a little more.
  4. Tarka: put oil in a pan. add red chilli balls, and curry leaves and make them hot. it will take less than a minute so stay alert. Then add the hot tarka on the curry and cover the pot with the lid for 5 minutes.
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    It will look like the above picture.

Chicken Curry

Ingredients

  • 500g boneless chicken
  • 3 onion
  • 2 tomatoes
  • All spices:
    • 4 cloves
    • 4 green cardamom
    • 1tsp black cumin (zeera not powder)
    • 4 black pepper balls
    • 2 Star anise (phool)
    • 1 Cinnamon stick (taj)
  • 1tbsp Ginger and garlic paste
  • 3.5tbsp red chilli powder (I like it little spicy)
  • salt to taste
  • 1tsp turmeric ( haldi)
  • 2tsp coriander powder

Method

  1. In the pot add oil and onion and let it turn to a slight brown color.
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  3. Add tomatoes, boneless chicken and all the other ingredients in the list above. leave it on a medium flame for 20 minutes. Stir in between so that it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan.
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  5. Once the oil comes on top, low the flame and cook it for 5 more minutes. It will be ready for serving. 🙂

Boiled Spaghetti

Ingredients

  1. 1 packet Spaghetti (1/2kg)
  2. 1tsp salt
  3. few drops oil
  4. 4 cups water

Method

  1. Bring water to a boil, add the spaghetti, salt and oil and let it cook.
  2. Once cooked, drain the water twice so that the spaghetti becomes cold faster.
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Servings

You can either put these separately in the table or assemble it together in a tray.

To assemble, first put the noodles, then the yogurt curry and then the chicken curry.

Garnish with coriander and Shan Chaat Masala 🙂

Enjoy 🙂

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