It is here. The bombay monsoons. Love them, hate them they are an inextricable part of the Bombay experience. If you ever do come here you have experience the lashing wrath of the rain gods.
I dislike the rains. Mostly because it makes travelling very difficult. I had to travel 1.5 hours to reach college from home. As college was on the other side of the city I had no idea how much it was raining there. It could be pouring here and all sunshiny at college. So during monsoons we would get up and frantically call the hostelites and anyone who lived near college to assess the situation.
After all this tamasha too, we would have to bunk college or the government would declare a holiday and many days would be spent at home watching movies, reading, eating soup, bhajiyas and having chai. Or better still days are spent wearing old clothes being soaked to the bone eating roadside samosas which always taste better in the rains.
Now that I have waxed eloquent I will shut up and get it the point. Which is this.
Mirchi stuffed with potato masala bhajiyas. The thing to have this monsoon.
I wont bother with a proper recipe, because there isn't one.
Just mix mashed and boiled potatoes with salt, and red pepper (mirchi) powder and stuff it in the fat green chillies that are easily available these days.
Dip it in a paste of gram flour and deep fry.
Have it with ketchup, mint and coriander chutney or kasundi.
We have ours with kasundi, which is my dad's greatest discovery to date.
Kasundi is a bengali mustard sauce which is amazingly pungent and just yum.
So if you are stuck home this monsoon just have these look out your window. If you are lucky you may see the neighbouring guys playing football in the mud! ;)
I dislike the rains. Mostly because it makes travelling very difficult. I had to travel 1.5 hours to reach college from home. As college was on the other side of the city I had no idea how much it was raining there. It could be pouring here and all sunshiny at college. So during monsoons we would get up and frantically call the hostelites and anyone who lived near college to assess the situation.
After all this tamasha too, we would have to bunk college or the government would declare a holiday and many days would be spent at home watching movies, reading, eating soup, bhajiyas and having chai. Or better still days are spent wearing old clothes being soaked to the bone eating roadside samosas which always taste better in the rains.
Now that I have waxed eloquent I will shut up and get it the point. Which is this.
Mirchi stuffed with potato masala bhajiyas. The thing to have this monsoon.
I wont bother with a proper recipe, because there isn't one.
Just mix mashed and boiled potatoes with salt, and red pepper (mirchi) powder and stuff it in the fat green chillies that are easily available these days.
Dip it in a paste of gram flour and deep fry.
Have it with ketchup, mint and coriander chutney or kasundi.
We have ours with kasundi, which is my dad's greatest discovery to date.
Kasundi is a bengali mustard sauce which is amazingly pungent and just yum.
So if you are stuck home this monsoon just have these look out your window. If you are lucky you may see the neighbouring guys playing football in the mud! ;)
Lovely!
ReplyDeleteI had read somewhere that Kasundi is India's reply to Teriyaki. Couldn't be more true.
Glad to see non- bengali's appreciating mustard as it should be :)
I love that mustard sauce. I'm going to find a bottle for myself soonish.
ReplyDeletePS: I love what you have done to your blog (template). :D
@Ashmita: Kasundi is epic! It makes my dad glow.
ReplyDelete@Nimi: Food Bazaar. That is where u will find it. I made the header myself. Some amateur photoshop-giri.