The Pizzazzy

Saturday morning started with Cholle Bhature. Cholle tasted really great and although the bhatures didn’t turn out soft it tasted real great. A tip to make the cholle great looking as well great tasting is to tie half a tsp of tea leaves in a muslin cloth and add it to the cholle while boiling. This will give the chole the dark colour. And another is not to add any turmeric powder. In the bhatura I added the yeast and curd but the dough turned out little hard and I think I tied the dough in the wet cloth real tight leaving no space for the dough to ferment.

Lunch was delicious prawns pulao. After all that food the dinner was simple varan bhat chappati.

Sunday morning began with another all time favourite of everyone - Poha. Even before the Poha was digested the preparation of Mutton Kheema started and the aroma coming out of the kitchen made everone hungry again. After a good fill of Mutton Kheema, Chappati and Bhaat, we all took a good two hour nap. In the evening we got up to the smell of fresh tea and now it was time for the attraction of the day Pani puri.

Earlier in the day I had made the Imli ki chutney and the green pani, had also soaked a combination of grams and pulses. This was going to be a kalkatta style gol gappa. After boiling potatoes and the grams and pulses together, I mashed them by adding some kala namak, chaat masala, chilli powder.

Now we all were set to start attacking the puris. Me and Mom-in-law started filling the puris with the masala and the cut onions and some sev and filling up everyone’s plate before we could attend to ourselves. The five of us finished around 100 pani puris. Even though our stomachs were full, we couldn’t keep our hands away from the puris and thus was spent a good food filled weekend.

Wasn’t that a lot of food and are you not wondering kya family hai?

Well in the evening when we met Nitin and Shilpa, and Anand was asked to tell three positive things about me the only thing he could manage was that I am a good cook. So, the magic worked and may be the old granny saying that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach is afterall the truth.