Mom’s lentils with rice and bacon are bomb. Even if you usually don’t like that stuff the way she prepares them… you would love them.
Also her ceviche… Delicious.
Mom’s lentils with rice and bacon are bomb. Even if you usually don’t like that stuff the way she prepares them… you would love them.
Also her ceviche… Delicious.
Jheenga (prawn) biryani. Now y’all might know about biryani as its pretty famous. But might not have heard of it with prawns. Its pretty special and I’ve had it maybe 5-6 times in my life and it hits every time.
Yeah frozen is an option but all our food is pretty much farm to table, so we’ve gotten it from another city a few times but it’s not particularly common.
Its more delicate in flavour and less spicy than mutton, beef or chicken biryani. Also no potatoes (pls don’t fight here over this folks).
But sea food is a winter thing and prawns aren’t common here. Also my mom claims to be allergic to fish (she isnt), she’s often had seafood and only later found out it included fish and just gone oh. She claims to be allergic after once 30 years ago she got sick after having fish at a wedding…
So the few times I’ve had it my grandma cooked it. But she doesn’t really cook so it’s infrequent and prawn prep is hell too.
If you can get this somewhere near you, absolutely try it!
Are you Marathi by any chance? Jhinga or the alternative word Kolambi or Sungott is what I hear from Marathi or Konkani people, and not people from the North. I’ve never heard of river prawns growing in India, to be frank.
BTW, we also make Mangalorean yetti biriyani over here in the South. It is nothing like the Hyderabadi biriyani with it’s Mughlai influence. You could consider it as more of a casual biriyani.
Across the border mate. You got the wrong country there. Yeah in Punjab here there’s no prawns, but you can get em in Sindh which is south, neighbouring Gujarat.
Although I’m not sure if y’all count Gujarat as western or southern.
They’re counted as western. Any group in India who speak Dravidian languages are considered as South Indian.