• Recipes of Sindhi Pickles

    Since many of you have been asking for various Sindhi pickle recipes, I thought to make a post by listing all the pickle recipes here! Sindhi Pickles, like pickles from any regional cuisine, could be divided into sweet, spicy, oil based or water based (zero oil)! Sweet/Sugar based: Awran Jo Murbo: Super food Awla, cooked in Sugar syrup to make a delicious Awla Murraba or Gooseberry Conserve. Click here for the detailed recipe! Ambh Jo Kadhukas (Mango Jam/Chhunda) This Chhunda like Mango jam, cooked on a stove top is my MIL’s recipe and I make sure to replenish the stock…

  • Rabri~AlifBe~25

    The Dairy products could be divided in many types, for example, heat desiccated (khoya), heat and acid coagulated (paneer, cheese), clarified butter (ghee), frozen (Ice cream), frozen concentrated milk (Kulfi variant) and condensed or concentrated products like Rabdi, Basundi etc. In the spotlight today is the Rabri or Rabdi or as many Sindhis call it, Reb^di! Rabri is a concentrated, sweetened whole fat milk and is considered to be of high nutritive value. It is a traditional preparation and its variations are mentioned in ancient food manuscripts, in food related accounts from 16th century and even in popular Mangal Kavyas…

  • Raanh/Chauran ~AlifBe~24

    As mentioned many times in the AlifBe series, the 52 letters of Sindhi Alphabet are divisible into 16 shape groups and so far four shape groups are done and dusted! For the recap of the letters covered so far, please check this list! In the 5th shape group there are three letters and the first one in this group isر  in Sindhi, र in Devanagari, while in Roman Sindhi it is R as in Ratnagiri/Rajasthan etc. And the corresponding Sindhi dish is Raanh, also called Chauran and Chawli for AlifBe of Sindhi Food #24 Raanh or Black eyed beans are…

  • 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…

  • AlifBe Of Sindhi Food~ Recap of 4th Shape group

    In my first post of AlifBe series I have mentioned that the 52 letters of Sindhi Alphabet, known as AlifBe or Alaph Ambh~u, could be divided into sixteen basic shape groups. So far I have covered 22 letters that come under 4 different shape groups! To check the recap of 1st, 2nd and 3rd shape group, kindly check this  link! And now the recap of 4th shape group: د    (द/D~) as in Dehradun or as in Dal Dimma ڌ    (ध/Dh~) as in Dharamshala  or as in Dhaage Waara Karela ڏ    (ड/D^)  as in D^othiyun ڊ    (ड/D)…

  • Dhodho Chatni~ Alifbe~22

    Parsad (Prasad or an oblation) distributed in Sindhi temples or Tikana could be as unpretentious as Misri (rock candy) or as eye appealing as D^othee , it could be as sacrosanct as the Karah parsad (Kadah Prasad) or as revered as the Dona parsad of the Puj Chaliha Sahib Mandir (in Ulhasnagar). Mostly anything sweet is offered to the deities and a prasad is generally made from different kind of flours, ghee, sugar, jaggery, used in various combinations and proportions  and cooked in varying ways to make sweets of infinite flavors and textures. Fresh fruits too are abundantly distributed in…

  • Dabal Pakora~ AlifBe~ 21

    Alifbe of Sindhi Food, the series about A-Z of Sindhi food is now at the 21st letter; ڊ or D in Roman Sindhi and ड in Devanagari ! D as in Daddy, Dairy, Daily etc! And I couldn’t help but pick one of the most popular Sindhi street foods, the Dab^al Pakor^a (In Roman Sindhi) or Dabal Pakora (Pakora pao/sandwich) for ڊ ! The term Dabal is used for Double roti which could mean Pav/Pao or even the sliced bread, in Sindhi! Bread is being commonly used in Sindhi households since past many decades (probably even before the Partition happened)…