• Chola Dabhal|Garbanzo beans Curry with bread|Sindhi Breakfast

    Many Sindhis  begin their Sundays with a visit to  roadside food cart for a hot, king sized, breakfast, fit to celebrate the holiday mood. The  breakfast served on a lazy Sunday morning, at almost every nook and corner of Sindhi localities, happens to be either Dal pakwan, Dal moong, or else Chola Dabhal (Chola = Chickpeas or Garbanzo beans, and Dabhal = Bread). The cart selling this curry-bread, have a hot stove with a large Aluminum container, filled with Spicy garbanzo curry cooked in Indian style Onion and tomato curry, oozing with flavors of roasted Garam masala powder, arranged on…

  • Patate Ja pakoda~Just For You

    Firstly, sorry for the late replies (and even for no replies) to you mails dear visitors, I still have much backlog to attend to and I will do that ASAP. Darn the internet connection (I know, I know by now you all are sick of this excuse of mine, so am I, with these damn service providers) Well here I am again with this sinful food called Patate ja pakoda (potato fritters), an absolute favourite of my son.Though he gets to indulge these on ration basis, I like to let him have these on special occasions. And this time the…

  • Sindhi Batan(batar)Papdi Chaat

    Please note: You can find a better recipe of Batan papdi chaat and more details in the latest post of mine. Just click here! This post was written and shared on this blog in July 2008, when there was no mention of this Chaat anywhere online  or in books or  any other accessible published documents. There was no information available on the Batan/Button and though these were very popular in Ulhasnagar, then, many Sindhis from else where hardly knew about this chaat that was probably invented in Ulhasnagar. The popular Dilip Chaat Centre in Kopri, Thane, would refer  this  as…