Suhanjhro/Suwanjhro or Moringa (Drumstick) flowers are nutritious edible flowers and are generally found in Mumbai markets from around December to February. It is time consuming to clean (pick), wash and cook the flowers and not many appreciate the earthy flavor of Drumstick flowers. I love Moringa flowers and I generally have it in two ways..either cooked as a Moringa-lotus stem curry called as Suhanjhro (Suwanjhro) in Sindhi (Click here to check the recipe) or else in the form of a Raita. My mom would often boil the flowers and refrigerate a portion of it, to make the raita, later. Many…
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When I started sharing some Sindhi Thali spreads onĀ Instagram (Sindhirasoiofficial) and Facebook page (Sindhirasoi.com), I started receiving many requests to share the recipes of each dish presented in the Thali. So I thought to share the details of all the Thali meals in a blog post for easy reference! Most of these meals were cooked across the year, though some are from the distant past. I haven’t meticulously planned the menus of these Thalis and the dishes were cooked depending on the seasons and availability of the ingredients during the lockdown, in the past year or so. Hence some…
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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…





