BM # 27 Day 17 Seasonal : Winter Spinach or Paalak is a green which is really green and fresh in winters. The taste and the look of the spinach is definitely different from the summer spinach, which comparatively looks dull . It is during winters that we make these Parathas, which are stuffed with spinach…
Dal Pakwan | Sindhi Breakfast
Dal Pakwan | Sindhi Breakfast is a scrumptious breakfast. Sindhi Families serve it for special occasions like weddings, Diwali or when you have some guest coming over. Many families feast on it on Sunday’s too. Dal Pakwan is a combination of fried crispbread and boiled yellow lentils. We temper the lentils with cumin seeds and…
Holi re Holi !!
BM # 27 Day 5 Occasion : Holi Festival Holi, the festival of colors is one of the major festivals of India. It is celebrated with lot of zest and different states follow different traditions. Every state has something special to be served on this unique festival. On the Holi day ,normally friends and…
Varo – Sindhi Sweet for Indian Cooking Challenge
Every month Valli announces a traditional Indian dish for the Indian Cooking Challenge.Sometimes these dishes are unheard, sometimes challenging, and at times simple yet pleasing but traditional. I hate to miss this monthly event, as I feel I get to learn about various cultures too.For this month Valli made it very easy ..she let us…
Pickled Baby Onions
BM # 20 Day 3 For the third day of this marathon I wanted to cook something with a different variety of onions, but somehow my love for baby onions and this particular pickle, made me post this. A meal without onions is kind of incomplete, specially a north Indian meal.This is a pickle which…
Mehun wara Chawaran (Tinda Rice) au Bhe’ Patata Gesh mei (Lotus Stem Curry)
BM # 20 Day 1 For the first week of BM # 20 I have chosen to cook with onions. Strange people hate to cut onions where as I enjoy chopping them .All I need is a sharp knife. When you cut onions peel away the dry outer layer, but avoid cutting into the…
Sai Bhaji | Sindhi Sai Bhaji | Bhuga Chawara | Spinach with Brown Rice
Sai Bhaji | Sindhi Sai Bhaji is a popular wholesome Sindhi dish made with Spinach, greens, veggies and lentils, that is delicious as well as nutritious. Sai in Sindhi means green and bhaji is a vegetable, the name Sai Bhaji has been derived from these two words. Cooking the Sai Bhaji in a Sindhi household…
Methi Mattar wara Chawaran / Fenugreek, Peas Pulao
BM # 19 Day 1 For the last week of this BM , I shall make meals which shall be cooked in almost 30 minutes, may be less!! Cooking requires a little bit of planning and it is done in a jiffy.I normally work with 3 burners at one go.The microwave and the kettle…
The Sunday Lunch..Sindhi Kadhi Chaawara
BM #16 Day 2 The Sunday lunch in a Sindhi home is sindhi curry served with plain white rice and fried potato crisps.This curry is spicy and sour…with lots of veggies……wonderful flavour and absolutely delicious!!The sweet boodi is served along with this meal.Nothing else is served with this..no accompaniments..no chapatti!!With changing times and lifestyles…
Sindhi Thaali
BM # 15 Day 5 Sindhi community is renowned for diverse food stuff though this is fact that Rice and Potato are the staple Sindhi food, Onion and Tomatoes are highly used in most dishes. The daily food in most Sindhi households consists of wheat-based flat-bread (phulka) and rice accompanied by two dishes, one…