Rice  Pakora

Ingredients:

Rice  : 1 cup (boiled rice from day before)

Salt  : To taste

Red chili  : half teaspoon

Yoghurt  :2 cup

Onion  :1 (finely chopped)

Garlic Paste : 1 tablespoon

Gram Flour : 1 cup

Green chilli : 3 to 2 (well chopped)

Cumin Powder :   A pinch

  Oil : for deep fry

Mothed :

  Take a bowl  put  boiled rice & pour  yoghurt over it .Cover the bowl & let it  soak for 2 hours. After  two hours add gram flour ,red chilli , chopped onion, garlic paste, green chili,

cumin powder & mix  them  well. Now heat  oil. Make shape of pakora  and fry it  all.

Sever :

Sever it with kepchup  or chilli sauce.

Wild life in Khyber Pakhtun Khwa

Pakistan

Khyber Pakhtun Khwa (KPK) is one of the richest provinces amongst four of the existing ones. KPK is famous for its rich & diverse culture with a great topographic diversity. It has vast plains, broken lands, low hills and high mountains of Himalaya-Karakorum, Hindukush, Koh Safaid and Suleiman ranges. Today, me going to talk about the wild life at KPK.

KPK supports 94 species of mammals out of the total 158 species found in Pakistan. Three of the six species endemic to Pakistan, namely: Whooly flying squirrel, Murree Vole, and Indus River Dolphin, are also found in KPK.

KPK has 453 birds’ species out of total 660 birds species present in Pakistan. There are 42 species of reptiles out of 174 species of reptiles present in Pakistan.

Important Wildlife species of the province are Indus Dolphin, Snow Leopard, Straight Horned Markhor, Western Horned Tragopan, Cheer Pheasant and Asian Cobra.

Me belong to Hazara which is famous for its silk route, wild life and beautiful hill stations. Kohistan inhabits a small population of the Markhor. In the Thakot, Kohistan area we can easily spot the Blind Indus Dolphins playing on the surface of Indus River.

As we move forward towards Mansehra, we have various kinds of birds like pheasants, doves, sparrows, quails, pidwegeons, etc. We also have two kinds of crows here: Mountain crows and white crows.

 The animals found in the Abbotabad region are deer, leopards, lions, monkeys,etc.

This is my little effort to highlight a few species of mammals and birds of hazara. Hope you liked what I wrote.

                                                                                                                                 

Maleeha Hayat

Roast Chicken With Sweet Corn

Ingredients:

 1 Chicken (cut into pieces) for 4 people

2 Tablespoon Ginger paste

2 Tablespoon Garlic paste

1 ½Tablespoon Green chilli paste

4 Tablespoon Yoghurt
1/4 Teaspoon Turmeric powder

Half cup Sweet corn

Salt to taste

Half cup cooking oil

Fresh Coriander  to garnish

Method:

         Take a bowl add chicken ,ginger paste,garlic paste ,greenchilli paste,yoghurt, sweet corn, salt,oil and marinate the chicken for half hour.

Place the marinated chicken in an ovenproof dish.

Add some butter on the top of the chicken mixture.

Cover it with lid or foil.

Bake at 180 degree for 35-40 minutes, then remove the cover and bake 5-10 minutes longer.At the end garnish  with fresh coriander leaves.

Serve:

         Serve hot.