Kali Mirch - by Smita

Celebrating Passion for Food

Chicken do pyaza-Murg do pyaza Recipe- Chicken Curry recipe

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Chicken Do Pyaza

Chicken Do Pyaza is a much liked Chicken recipe at my home and is one recipe that has never let me down. I have made and served Chicken Do Pyaza for my guests and my husband’s office colleagues and each time this recipe has attracted rave reviews from them. My journey with this dish is quite fascinating and needs to be mentioned and this is exactly what I intend to do in this post before we go through the recipe.

Dear readers, Chicken has always been a common factor in our food habits or I must say it has been the building block of our relationship. Being brought up in a Konkani household meant that seafood was a natural choice in a non-vegetarian meal for me.

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Laal Maans – A spicy and zesty mutton curry from Rajasthani cuisine

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Laal Maans

Any discussion about Indian cooking would be incomplete if one fails to make a mention of Rajasthani cuisine. However, as one begins to describe about the cuisine and cooking style of this desert state, the vastness of the topic becomes evident. Rajasthan means “land of kings”. It is the largest state of India by area in which a vast majority of land is the part of Thar Desert. The food that evolved in this state over the period of centuries was deeply influenced by geographical conditions.

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Gulab Jamun – Chasing Nostalgia

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Gulab Jamun

Diwali mornings, every year similar scenes would be played out in our one room kitchen home. Mom would cajole me, threaten me and finally forcefully drag me out of bed. I would be required to find my way to bathroom and get ready before Mom lights up the house with clay diyas. I would trudge across laboriously taking a slight detour and make my way to kitchen instead. I would find it on the corner of a table kept in a large vessel, tightly covered.

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Dry Fruit Lassi

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Dry Fruit Lassi

Lassi is a yogurt based drink that is more popular in north India and more specifically in Punjab. However, my first encounter with this drink happened in Mumbai, city where I was born. The street food in Mumbai reflects the cultural ethos of the city. The inhabitants of this city practice different faith, religion, have different food practices and often speak in different language that separates them in many ways but at the same time there are many common threads that keeps the city together and it reflects in its attitude and spirit also popularly known as Mumbaikar spirit. This feeling of oneness keeps the city together during times of peace and turbulence.

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Rabdi/Kesar Rabdi

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Kesar Rabdi

He would come pretty early in morning, cycling laboriously, with his paraphernalia that would add to the weight on his bicycle. He carried a big kadhai (pan), no not just big, a gigantic one, a large iron ladle, a fuel stove and enough fuel to last him the day. He would start with simmering the milk in that pan. I would mostly be in my slumber and would wake up to the pleasant aroma of milk, the milk that would had simmered for some time and filled up the streets with the aroma emanating from the pan.

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Dahi ka Halwa

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Dahi Ka Halwa

We all have grown up, listening to stories. There would be that one storyteller in the family, who would enthrall you with stories every night. I remember my Badi Maa (Father’s elder brother’s wife) was an avid story teller. We kids would play throughout the evening and when it would get darker, some elder would drag us back to home. At home, we would get restless and urge Badi Maa to finish off her chores, so she could spend more with us. More time would mean more stories.

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