• A to Z Of Sindhi Food

    When I started working on my project about documenting ancient, traditional as well as lost recipes from Sindhi cuisine, a few years ago, the biggest challenge I faced was the lack of accessible information  about the same. The limited documents that I could access, were in Sindhi, a script that I never could learn, despite of trying umpteen number of times, since my childhood. I felt stuck up. So the only way to move forward was to learn the Sindhi script and to make sure that I don’t give up this time, I took up a challenge; The AlifBe of…

  • Gogru Ji Khatain|AlifBe~48

    You can check the Insta reel about how to make Turnip pickle here! The 48th Consonant of Sindhi Alphabet is ء, called as ‘Hamzo’ in Sindhi. Hamzo or Amdhro as some call it, is often used as a glottal stop. It is, many a times, used as a vowel glide (when two vowels glide into one another), in a word; for example as in ‘Ma-u‘ (Mother in Sindhi), Mitha-i (sweet) etc. So basically a hamzo is placed in between the two vowels in a word that doesn’t ends with ‘A’ as in Alaph (Alif) ! . There are some set rules…

  • Chap Chatni~ SweetTamarind Dip

    Chap Chatni (Chap-p chutney)… the name itself evokes a wave of nostalgia; of the times when sneaking out of the school gates to buy eatables during the recess (lunch break) was common. The carts loaded with seasonal Indian berries (Remember Ber/ Hiramoti?), cucumber, raw mangoes, fresh tamarind, starfruit etc would be buzzing with the kids buying stuff in a hurry. Of course there were Vada paos, Samose, Barf gola (Chuski), lemonade etc that our moms never approved of but were still bought with our ‘barely existing pocket money’! You can read more about the childhood memories of food sold outside…

  • Kagzi Lemon Pickle for Alifbe~23

    The 23rd letter in Sindhi Alphabet (AlifBe) is  ذ  i.e  ज़  in Devanagari and in Roman Sindhi it is Z as in  Zebra ! Ideally this Z i.e ذ  is used in words that are not of Sindhi Origin. This Z is known as ‘Zaal‘ and is used in words like ‘Zaro‘(means ‘little’) or  Kaagaz (Paper). Since no Sindhi Vegetarian dish starts with this particular Z (There are 3 more ‘Z’s in Sindhi) I was about to skip this one . But I realised that there is one traditional Sindhi pickle called ‘leemun Ji Khatain~’ (Lemon/lime Pickle) made using Kagzi…

  • Saandhano For AlifBe Of Sindhi Food ~10

    In my first post of AlifBe series I have mentioned that the 52 letters of Sindhi Alphabet, known as AlifBe or Alaph Ambhu, could be divided into sixteen basic shape groups. A short recap: ا  (अ/A) is the only letter in first shape group! ا as in ‘Attack’ or ا as in Atte Ja Ladoon The following 9 letters come under the second basic shape group characterised by a boat shaped base with varying numbers and positions of dots. Also kindly note that different literary authorities follow a slightly different sequence of these letters. ب  (ब/B) as in Baby or as…

  • Tamate Ji Chutney For AlifBe ~ 8

    We are now at the 8th letter in The AlifBe (Sindhi Script) series! AlifBe of Sindhi Food is a series of blog posts where I proceed alphabetically, as per  Sindhi Alphabet ( AlifBe) and I share a corresponding Sindhi Vegetarian dish, the name of which starts with the same letter of the ‘alphabet’. So not only we learn a new letter every time, but also the pronunciation of each consonant, recipe of a dish and some interesting facts too. I also share short videos about the formation of each consonant i.e how to write it in  Sindhi. And if you…

  • Bheendi Pickle For AlifBe~5

    The next letter in AlifBe for Sindhi food series is ڀ   i.e Bh or भ as in Bharat or Bhutan. Please Note: If you don’t wish to read further but want to directly move to the recipe of Bheendi Pickle, then kindly click here! Else, do read on…… If you remember previous posts then you nay have noticed that except first letter ا (A), rest three letters covered so far ; ب (B), ٻ (B^), پ (P) have same basic shape while the number of dots vary! The fifth letter is formed using the same basic shape having 4 dots…