Trying to keep the Lakshmi Puja tradition alive, I made khichuri again. Only this time, the proportion of dal was more than rice. It was fine.
Preparations had started a day in advance. That was because Monday Dad said he had got some pointed gourd. If you wonder what that is, in simple terms, in bengali we call it POTOL.
Store bought and not plucked from a field. Why am I saying this? Remembering the bengali saying 'plucking potol' or 'POTOL TOLA' to refer to someone dying. I wonder how this idiom came into being? Reminds me of a similar idiom Pushing up the daisies? That means the same. How did this one come about?
Anyway, Monday I had a potol r dalna ready , and also friend some quartered potol and sliced potatoes.
For the dalna, I fried some potatoes, then added halved potol, added turmeric, red pepper, salt, cumin powder. A bit of frying and then added diced tomatoes. And water and let it boil on low heat.
I did not have it on Monday.
Yesterday, I microwaved some papad. I tried it differently. Some papad soaked in little water and oil, and microwaved for 90 seconds. The 90 seconds (not minutes) was in 20 second intervals. At the end, oven fried papad was ready.
So finally, Khichuri, alu bhaja, potol bhaja, potol r dalna, papad and to end it - chocolate ice cream.
Nice dinner.
Preparations had started a day in advance. That was because Monday Dad said he had got some pointed gourd. If you wonder what that is, in simple terms, in bengali we call it POTOL.
Store bought and not plucked from a field. Why am I saying this? Remembering the bengali saying 'plucking potol' or 'POTOL TOLA' to refer to someone dying. I wonder how this idiom came into being? Reminds me of a similar idiom Pushing up the daisies? That means the same. How did this one come about?
Anyway, Monday I had a potol r dalna ready , and also friend some quartered potol and sliced potatoes.
For the dalna, I fried some potatoes, then added halved potol, added turmeric, red pepper, salt, cumin powder. A bit of frying and then added diced tomatoes. And water and let it boil on low heat.
I did not have it on Monday.
Yesterday, I microwaved some papad. I tried it differently. Some papad soaked in little water and oil, and microwaved for 90 seconds. The 90 seconds (not minutes) was in 20 second intervals. At the end, oven fried papad was ready.
So finally, Khichuri, alu bhaja, potol bhaja, potol r dalna, papad and to end it - chocolate ice cream.
Nice dinner.
How could frying a Papad took 90 minutes ??
ReplyDeleteThanks Kousik. It was 90 seconds not minutes
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