A popular Newari food, buff choila, is loved by everyone. It is a famous non-veg food in Nepal, especially in the Newari community. It is served at Newari party with beaten rice, black-eyed beans, potato pickle, cooked vegetables, and many other traditional Newari items.
There are varieties of choila: buff choila, chicken choila, and veg choila. Veg choila is made with soya chunks. Veg choila doesn’t have a meaty taste, but it has a choila-like flavor.
Every Newari house has its own choila recipe. The process of making choila can slightly differ. Though the recipe for making choila may be different, but every recipe tastes as good as others.
This choila recipe is quite easy to make. You don’t need a lot of ingredients to make choila, just the right technique can help in making mouthwatering choila. Follow every step mentioned to get the desired taste.
Buff Choila Recipe: Ingredients
- Boneless buff meat – 500 grams
- Ginger – about 2 inches
- Garlic – 5 to 6 cloves
- Tomatoes- 3 medium size
- Salt- 1 tablespoon
- Turmeric powder – half teaspoon
- Fenugreek seeds – 1 teaspoon
- Dried red chili – 6 to 7 pieces
- Oil – 6 tablespoons
- Green garlic – half cup
Buff Choli Recipe: Instructions
Step 1:
The first step is to boil boneless buff meat. Take a pressure cooker, put 500 grams boneless buff meat, pour water, add half teaspoon turmeric powder and half tablespoon salt. Stir it. Put on the pressure lid and cook the meat for 7 to 8 whistles.
Step 2:
Check whether the meat is cook properly or not. You can use a fork to check. If the meat is not cooked, you can cook it for few more whistles.
Step 3:
Transfer the cooked buff meat to the bowl and let it cool.
Step 4:
Now you have to fry dried red chili. For that, you need to take a pan and heat two tablespoons of oil.
Step 5:
When the oil is heated, add seven dried red chilies. Let them fry for about 30 seconds. Stir while frying.
Step 6:
After that, add six garlic cloves and roughly chopped garlic. You need to fry it for another half minute. Don’t fry them for more than 30 or 35 seconds. Frying these spices for a longer duration can lose taste. Ensure you are stirring while frying.
Step 7:
Transfer the fried spices to the bowl. Allow the spices to cool. You will need them in the coming steps.
Step 8:
In the same oil, you can fry tomatoes. Roughly chop three medium-size tomatoes and add them to the oil. Tomatoes are cooked so that you don’t get a raw flavor of tomatoes in choila. Cover the pan with the lid and allow them to cook for 3 minutes on low flame. You don’t have to stir, just let them be there for few minutes.
Step 9:
Turn off the flame and put the pan aside. You will need the pan in the next step. Cover the pan with a lid so that dirt won’t come in contact with oil.
Step 10:
Now you need to chopped boiled buff meat. It might have been cool by now, you can hold it and start chopping into medium pieces. You don’t have to be precise while chopping. You can chop the meat into any shape.
Step 11:
After the meat is chopped, you need to fry them in the same pan you used in the previous steps. Add three tablespoons of oil and heat it in a medium flame.
Step 12:
When the oil is heated, add the chopped meat. Keep stirring the meat so that all the sides are cooked evenly. Fry them in low-medium flame. You need to fry the meat until it turns reddish and gets crispy.
Step 13:
Transfer them in the plate.
Step 14:
Now you need to make a paste for buff choila. Take the fried whole spices (dried red chilies, ginger, and garlic cloves), and fried tomatoes, then put them in the blender and blend until you get a smooth paste.
Step 15:
After the paste is ready, transfer it into the bowl. Add half tablespoon salt and give it a mix. You can increase or decrease the salt according to your taste.
Step 16:
Now you need to combine paste and fried meat. In the bowl of paste, add the fried meat. Use your hands to rub each piece of meat with the paste.
Step 17:
Again you need to heat three tablespoons of oil in the pan. After the oil is heated, add one tablespoon of fenugreek seeds. You need to do this process in low flame.
Step 18:
After the fenugreek seeds turn black, turn off the flame and add half a teaspoon of turmeric powder. Pour it in the bowl of meat. Use a spoon to mix. After a while, you can also use your hands to massage the meat. This ensures that masala enters each piece of meat.
Step 19:
After that, you need to add finely chopped green ginger. Again use your hands to mix.
Now buff choila is all ready to serve.