Baking humour: Stand-up comedian Atul Khatri gets a new purpose during home

Shaguna with father Atul Khatri during their Juhu residence. Pics/Tanvi Phondekar
Shaguna with father Atul Khatri during their Juhu residence. Pics/Tanvi Phondekar

When we arrive during stand-up comedian Atul Khatri’s Juhu home, his mother Shaguna greets us during a door. Dressed in a fuschia dress with hair descending ideally over her shoulders, a veteran hairstylist guides us true into her kitchen; we’re here to spend an afternoon perplexing her baked goodies.

Atul looks on as Shaguna bakes in a kitchen
Atul looks on as Shaguna bakes in a kitchen

Atul plays a ideal husband, stealing “ugly calendars” out of a frame. “Should we pierce this burst chair? Social media will be abuzz with comments like ‘Atul is so Sindhi, he won’t change a damaged chairs in his home!'” he quips.

Early beginnings
From baking cakes as a propagandize lady during her grandmother’s home in Jodhpur to holding orders in a early 2000s, Shaguna picked adult a passion for baking bread final year. “I adjust recipes from YouTube videos. we even got a sourdough starter from a US.

Shaguna during work
Shaguna during work

You feed it with flour and water, and keep an eye to safeguard it doesn’t go bust,” says Shaguna, while prepping for Cinnamon, and Garlic and Cheese Rolls.

She cuts her proven brew to exhibit sufficient gluten strings. “This means a bread will be soothing and fluffy,” she smiles. Baking, she explains, starts with a few fiascos. “The initial focaccia bread became a naan!” says Shaguna, now easily flattening a brew with a rolling pin, mostly interlude to let it rest.

Garlic And Cheese Roll
Garlic And Cheese Roll

(Pea)nuts over this
Once, Shaguna prepared a brew brew for whole wheat bread and instead of proofing it for dual hours, she cut a generation to 45 minutes. “Of course, it didn’t rise. While we couldn’t send it to anyone, it indispensable to be consumed within a subsequent integrate of days,” admits Shaguna. Atul adds, “Every morning, she would ask me if we wanted peanut butter toast. we am always asked to control my diet though here, we was being offering peanut butter. Then we realised it was given that bread had to be finished!”

Shaguna has finished staining a cinnamon-butter-sugar brew on a flattened dough. She spreads coriander-butter-garlic brew with cheddar and mozzarella cheese on a other, before folding them into rolls.

Shopping list
While we wait for a buns to rest before they are sent to a oven, Atul recalls a new outing to Singapore. “I had walked out of a food store with 6 kilos of several flours for Shaguna when we bumped into a fan. She commented: ‘You get flour in India.’ we told her that given a coolie is in Singapore, he competence as good do some residence work,” he grins.

After 20 minutes, what comes out of a oven are buttery, honeyed and delectable rolls that are decadent nonetheless comforting. “I am a bali ka bakra for all her baking. Whatever she gives me to try, we contend it is amazing. If we contend it is somewhat off, I’ve had it!” he teases.

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