10 Winter Special Sindhi Dishes

Alka Keswani — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:49:07 +0000

Winter season in Mumbai is a boon for those who love to eat a variety of greens/leafy vegetables. Sarson ka Saag, Bathua, Saag of Hara bhara, fresh Methi, Paalak, green garlic etc make our meals so refreshing. Winters also bring a bounty of red juicy Carrots, plump pods of Peas, Kand, tender Radish and Sweet potatoes in the markets. Walking down the lanes of vegetable markets in this season means walking down the memory lanes, pausing at the carts loaded with winter produce, admiring the array of colors, sniffing the freshest vegetables and fruits, picking the best from the lot, remembering the food your parents/grandparents cooked, drooling at the thoughts of savouring your favorite seasonal food and eagerly heading towards home with the bag full of nostalgia. Winter season in Mumbai evoke memories of my Mother cleaning (picking) drumstick flowers by tilting the aluminium winnow to collect the rolling buds at one end. Memories of the friends in the neighbourhood chatting while enjoying Sawa Phota or the Choliya (fresh Garbanzo beans) picking pods from bunches of the Saag, memories of the family gathering on a Sunday evening to savour boiled D^adhri (Pods), the wonderful moments spent with the Aunt K in the neighbourhood slurping ‘Aur Jo Ras‘ made by her on a cozy winter afternoon eyeing on the preparations being done for making Thoom Ja Vada to be savoured as evening snacks. Here are 10 Winter Special Sindhi dishes that I would like to share with you all. Do try these, if you are blessed enough to find the seasonal produce in the markets around you. The list includes the winter special sweets that Sindhis love to indulge in! Suhanjhro Traditional Sindhi style curry made using Drumstick flowers or Sahjan ke Phool. It is a very delicious and nutritious curry though cleaning Moringa (Sahjan) flowers is a time consuming process but it is totally worth it. Do check the recipe here! Pali Pali or the fresh tender leaves of chana (Hara Bhara saag) cooked in rustic desi style is not a dish but an emotion, particularly for the elderly Sindhis who would often talk about the Golden era when the pali was cooked on logs/sigri, mashed (Ghotna) crazily with wooden whisker and was had with Chanvar Ji maani (Roti made from rice flour) and home made white butter, a pure winter bliss! Do check the recipe of this saag here! D^adhri The tender pods of Khesari, boiled and garnished with loads of amchoor and coriander powder are one of my most favorite snacks to enjoy at leisure. Have you ever tried these? Find more details about D^adhri here! Sawa Phota Fresh pods of Chickpeas/Garbanzo beans, also known as Choliya or Har bhara in local languages are either boiled and spiced up or roasted with spices. The boiled Sawa Phota are one of my most favorite Winter special Sindhi dishes. Thoom Ja vada Deep fried patties/tikkis made with pounded fresh green garlic, chillies, coriander leaves, flavored with Annardana and basic spices i.e the Thoom Ja Vada are simply irresistible and the garlic lovers would vouch for it. If it sounds interesting to you, then do check the recipe here! Vataran Ji Lilotari Vatana or fresh green peas rule the vegetable markets during winters.Do you, like me, buy the pods in bulk,shell and stock the peas for the rest of the year? If you have some fresh peas in your refrigerator then I would suggest trying this Vataran Ji Lilotari, a curry loved by Brahma Khatri Sindhis. Do check my blog post about the Brahma Khatris and about the Vataran Ji Lilotari here! Gogrun Ji Khatain Turnips and green garlic, both found during winter season are pickled with mustard seeds to make this lovely yellow colored kanji pickle. If you haven’t tried this pickle yet, then I would suggest you to grab some turnips and garlic and make this ASAP! The recipe of Sindhi style Turnip Pickle is shared here! Saandhyal Gajrun Saandhan in Sindhi means to preserve or to conserve something. Saandhyal Gajrun is a tangy, sweetish pickle made using juicy red carrots, mustard oil, Rai dal and basic spices. Do check the recipe of lip smacking Sindhi style carrot pickle here ! Khorak (Khhoraak) For Sindhis Khorak is an ultimate Khurak to ward off the evils of seasonal allergies and to boost the immunity. A mix of roasted flour, poppy seeds, dry fruits/nuts, ghee and edible gum makes Khhoraak an ideal sweet to consume in cold weather as it gives warmth and energy too. Find the recipe of Khorak here! Majoon Yet another body and soul warming sweet dish, Majun/Majoon, not to be confused with Majoun, a Unani medicine made using Cannabis, is a sweet made around Diwali and is had through out the winter season. A delicious mix of Chhuhara (dried dates) dry fruits/nuts, ghee, sugar and mawa and much more, this is a must try! Check the recipe here! Which one of the above mentioned Winter special Sindhi dishes is your favorite?

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Bitto Lolo for AlifBe~3

Alka Keswani — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 20:29:33 +0000

Third letter of #AlifBe i.e Sindhi alphabet is very interesting. The consonantal sound of this alphabet is used in only a handful-of languages spoken across the world like: Ega or the West African language spoken in South central Ivory coast or Vietnamese, Zulu etc if I am not wrong. The alphabet is ٻ and is written as B^ in Roman Sindhi. In English language the sounds of consonants are articulated when the air from lungs move outwards and hence such sounds are known as pulmonic sounds (Try saying A, B, C, D….and you will be able to relate). But in some languages, and particularly in Sindhi language there are some consonants where the airstream direction is different. And one such example is b^. This unique alphabet with sound of “Voiced bilabial implosive stop” is difficult to pronounce unless learnt in early childhood. ‘Voiced‘ means the vocal cords vibrate when this sound is made. ‘Bilabial’ means that both the lips are brought together to create this sound. ‘Implosive’ means that the sound is produced by restricting airflow in vocal tract or by pushing the air inside and partially closing the glottis (Kanth Dwar in Hindi). Kindly refer to this video to understand the formation of this alphabet. Print Bitto Lolo for AlifBe~3 B^itto lolo is jaggery stuffed paratha, a winter speciality enjoyed with fresh white butter Ingredients 1 ½ cup whole wheat flour (chapatti flour) ½ cup finely crushed jaggery Water to knead flour Oil or ghee for shallow frying Salt to taste Few pinches of black pepper/red chilli powder, optional Method Add salt and pepper to the flour and using little water at time, knead soft dough. Let the dough rest for a while. Divide the dough into 2 portions. Roll one portion into a roti and place ¼ cup crushed jaggery on one half of the roti. Pull over the other half to make a semi-circle. Press the edges and by pinching and twisting all along the sealed edges make a gujiya kind of stuffed roti. Repeat the same with the remaining dough. Cook on a hot griddle, flipping intermittently and pouring some ghee, till brown specks appear on both sides. Serve hot with yoghurt or white butter. 3.5.3251 The jaggery used here is not your regular sugarcane jaggery. It is Patali/ Khejur Gur (DatePalm Jaggery) courtesy Mr.Arun Kumar Pandey, who patiently explained me about this jaggery. “This year we have made ‘solid’ khejur gur ( patali) at the WB project site. Solid is difficult to achieve and feasibly only when night temperatures are below 10deg C, the sap collected overnight in such climate is of highest quality and results in solid jaggery. It’s much sought after ingredient for makar sankranti in Bengal and used to make payesh, other traditional sweets ( pitha). It’s hard to get pure and is soft, delicate, prone to melting with temp change”. I simply loved the flavors and the texture of Patali and it worked so well in b^itto lolo too! If you wish to buy one of the best Khejur Gur (Date palm Jaggery) then try your luck @ : Trendy Taste, Irla Road, Vile Parle West, opp KVIC, Near Cooper Hospital, Mumbai – 400056 M: 9870005590 You can also order from their Chennai dispatch office: Mobile no: 7395984874 Or check out the website : http://www.pprpf.org And here is a video to give you a glimpse of the melted jaggery! Enjoy!!

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10 Winter Special Sindhi Dishes

Bitto Lolo for AlifBe~3