• Thoom Ja Vada~ Fresh Green Garlic Patty

    In my last post, when I shared some of my memories about Aunt K, a Chhapru Sindhi in our old neighbourhood along with her recipe of Thumaro, I was not sure if I would share another recipe starting with the same letter ٿ  or Th~  since I am picking only one recipe per Sindhi Alphabet. But I couldn’t resist this one as this is a seasonal dish and the green garlic, the star ingredient here, is just about to disappear from the markets. So a wise person will make hay while the sun shines and a foodie like me would…

  • Bitto Lolo for AlifBe~3

    Third letter of #AlifBe i.e Sindhi ‘alphabet’ is very interesting. The consonantal sound of this letter 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 letter 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…

  • Besan Ji Aani For Alif Be~2

    #Alif Be of Sindhi Food~2 The second letter of Sindhi is ب as B in Baby!As mentioned in the previous post, the Sindhi ‘Alphabet’ is divisible into 16 basic shape groups. In the first shape group we have just one letter ا i.e ‘A’! In the second shape group there are 9 letters with similar basic shapes, followed by two more letters that are similar to some extent. And yet each letter is unique because of the position and number of dot/s in each letter. So the 1st letter of this group, which is the second letter of Alifbe is…