Mother's Day Special
Typical Sunday Lunch In A Parsi Household.
When your three years old makes a card for you, to make you feel special on Mother’s Day, it means the world! But when your twenty-one-year-old draws one and twenty-three-year-old fills it with colour or paints it, it leaves you at a complete loss of words! As for me, it sent me straight to cloud nine!
And to top it all, my son made his special momtini for me! In life it’s the small and simple things that move us the most. No wonder, I too wanted to surprise them with something really special; Nah! not for them, but to be the reason to bring smiles to their faces, brings me maximum happiness.
I decided to treat them to Parsi cuisine for Sunday lunch. It was the first time, I was foraying into Parsi food, hence began extensive research, on both net and youtube. After lots of deliberation, I jotted down the menu for the day.
Vegetarian Dhansak
Caramelized Brown Rice
Kachumber Salad
Jardaloo Salli Marghi
Desserts are the fairy tales of a kitchen. The mandatory, happily-ever-after to any meal. I wanted to surprise my son, to one of his favourites- Shahi Tukda!
A stalwart of Parsi Cuisine, inspired by ancient Persian cooking methods of impressively bringing hearty vegetables, a meat of choice and wholesome lentils together in one delicious pot of goodness and flavored with homemade-from-scratch-special-spice blend, Dhansak can easily win the award for ‘Incredible One Pot Wonder.’
The two traditional accompaniments to the worthy Dhansak Daal are long grain basmati rice cooked in caramelized oil with whole spices, and a Kachumber salad (which will remind you of Mexican ‘Pico de Gallo’ with cucumber and a dressing of red vinegar in place of lemon 😊)
Also made Jardaloo Salli Marghi, a spicy chicken curry with apricots. (The potato straws, I'd fried for garnishing, disappeared before the dish could even reach the servingware)
Spent the Sunday, complete Parsi way, with many many glasses of beer before the traditional dhansak and the mandatory nap afterwards!
