A Sindhi’s love for Lotus stem dates back to pre-partition era and our forefathers loved the nutty flavored, woodsy looking, stringy/hairy stem of Lotus flower so much that they started cultivating it here in India, around their homes, and hence this Lotus stem or Beeh is still found mostly in Sindhi dominated areas.Those who grew up in areas like Ulhasnagar, Chembur, Khar, Pune, Indore or such other Sindhi populated places, might have tasted, the stuffed Beeh tikki. A signature Sindhi snack, Beeha Ji tikki, is now hardly available in Sindhi eateries and is seldom cooked at homes. I still remember…
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Singhyun or drumsticks (Moringa oleifera/Sem phalli ) is yet another favorite vegetable of Sindhis, and is used in variety of ways in day to day meals. Not only the pods of Drumstick tree are used in Sindhi cuisine, but the flowers; both fresh and dried are used to make delicious stir fries, semi dry subzi, raita etc. The pods, known as singhyun in Sindhi are added to the various curries like Sindhi Kadhi, ToorDal Kadhi, Seyal Bhaji, Singhyun patata and Bhughal Singhyun . What does the term Bhughal in Sindhi means? Bhughal means that the vegetable or meat is bhuno-ed…
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Summer time again! Time to live on juices, citrus fruits and watermelons! Time to indulge in icecreams and sherbet, to ditch that spicy oily food and relish instead, some khichdee, simple subzis and loads of curds or yogurt. When it becomes unbearable to work in kitchen for hours, simple quick fix meals come to my rescue. Stuffed parathas, Dalbaath, Khichdee, dal chaawal, onepot pulav, mixed vegetable rice etc are the preferred choice of meals at my home, during summers. And one thing that is mandatory with all these dishes, is curd/yogurt in its various avatars like, plain curd, lassi, chaach…
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The dreaded moment arrived..after enjoying two months of no alarm setting, no tiffin packing, no early- morning- rising, no school timetables and no studies, carefree days, its back to school routine…sigh ! Now with the life slowly coming back on a routine track, its time to plan menus ahead of each day, so as to avoid the hustle bustle and panic attacks every morning. With the kid making a face on spotting Poha, Upma, sandwiches etc, I wonder what to cook to appease his highly pampered taste buds. Can anyone help? Do share what you cook/ pack for your little…
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Recently when the on-going Food event LYRO was announced at SindhiRasoi, I received a sweet Email from Poonam , a really enthusiastic lady, who shared some cool tips and tricks of cooking and some suggestions for this website. One of her suggestion was to rename the Event LYRO (Link your recipes of …..) to LINK~Your Recipes of…..! I actually liked the suggestion, because LINK sounds much better than LYRO, so henceforth this event will be known as LINK. Thanks Dear Poonam for your wonderful Suggestion ! Coming to the LINK~Your Recipes of Potato, which was the first theme of LINK…
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Now that IPL is finally over(Thank God),overlooking all the crap that surrounds it now, I am in better control of myself and the kid.Though this year I managed to keep myself away from most of the matches, our little one ,who is a keen follower , cried buckets as soon as he SNIFFED the fishy fall of Mumbai Indians, a team he supported like anything, so much that he even insisted on wearing the MI T-shirt ,every time his favorite team was playing.I was disappointed too, but then the tender mind of our little fellow was deeply hurt and despite…
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Weather is getting It had been long since Life is pretty busy nowadays Waiting for the summer vacation…Darn……finding it hard to pen down my thoughts today. So many of thoughts arising and then dwindling in my mind..at times I wonder what to share with you all and what to hold back. There had been plenty of things going around but when I sit here to write, nothing clicks ..Sigh..the Irony of life ! Never mind, lets talk about the recipe then, for , that’s what you are here for , No? For today, lets save each one of you from…






