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Mumbai Food: Eating with a southern drawl
- Updated: January 22, 2017
Inspired by Tamil breakfast item, Kuzhi Paniyarams, cook Siddharth Kalyanaraman during NRI gives a Mofo Gasy, a sweet-yeasted pancake from Madagascar, a delectable twist. Pic/Datta Kumbhar
Cashing in on a recognition of a flavours of a South, McDonald’s has given a good aged Mc aaloo tikki a South Indian twist, presenting a ‘dosa brioche’ or, as we know it, a dosa burger.
Dosa Brioche Pic/Datta Kumbhar
The alloy examination hasn’t got a soap-box reviews a makers were expecting. The dosa brioche has been during a receiving finish of an array of memes, tweets and jokes and within reduction than a week of a debut, it’s warranted a pretension of “among a misfortune breakfasts ever”.
On Thursday, during a Linking Road outlet, it was a one object with few takers. We dug in and found that while it’s not as terrifying as a reviews, a perfect ordinariness goes opposite it. The potato stuffing is finished in standard masala dosa character and is sandwiched between a buns. One gets a spirit of a South Indian flavours in a stuffing though that’s all.
Yet, McDonald’s isn’t a initial to experiment. Across a city, pizzas, cocktails and all in between is removing a southern touch. We experimented a bit for your sake:
Pic/PoonamâÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂBathija
Leonardo Dra Vidli
Veranda, Bandra West, Rs 300
This plate could good be as thespian as a name. The makers wanted to give this breakfast classical a Western epicurean twist, portion it with a pumpkin gel, instead of a unchanging coconut chutney and sambar. The idlis are some-more like ‘cocktail idlis’ — tiny in distance and can be popped whole into a mouth. They are steamed and afterwards doused in gunpowder and desi ghee. Then, they are placed on a bottom of a pumpkin gel, surfaced with micro-greens and served. On a side is a test-tube of aam-panna to sup down a idlis. Chef Mohnish Rohra says, “The pumpkin gel, with a sweetness, balances out a astringency and neutralises a piquancy of a gunpowder. While idlis are a breakfast staple, we offer this for lunch and dinner. It’s a strike among vegetarians, generally Jains as this is sans onion or garlic. Sometimes on ask we also grill a idlis.” What’s with a name, we ask. Rohra laughs and says, “All a dishes are named after artists. And given Dravidians are South Indians, we suspicion since not Dra Vidli!”
WHAT WE THINK: The pumpkin jelly maybe an acquired ambience for some. Those with a honeyed tooth, competence enjoy
Pic/PoonamâÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂBathija
Murgurita
Door No 1, Bandra West, Rs 500
A integrate of weeks ago, Mihir Bijur, owners of Bandra’s new retro bar, Door No 1, overheard one of his congregation articulate about wanting a South Indian pizza. “They had systematic a Kerala calamari, and wanted a pizza on identical lines. Initially, a thought sounded like a disaster,” he laughs.
However, given a whole grill menu was fusion-based, Bijur motionless to put a thought to test. Chef Rohit Kanojia says, “Mihir, who is from Mangalore, suggested regulating a sambar powder. So, we finished a bottom regulating in-house sambar powder churned with tomato sauce. As topping, we use duck chettinad with cheese. Once done, we supplement a tadka of mustard and curry leaves,” he says.
WHAT WE THINK: Not your standard pizza, we might suffer it for a south Indian element, but, it’s an acquired taste.
Pic/Bipin kokate
Rasam Mary
SamBar, Khar West, Rs 345
This one-month-old place during Khar (which transposed Loca Loca) is all about a South. Not only a food, even a bar menu has been designed gripping a flavours of a Deccan in mind, says Vijay Nair, barkeeper during SamBar. The Rasam cocktail that he rustles adult is already a tip favourite. “It borrows from a judgment of a Bloody Mary, solely that instead of vodka we use tequila,” Nair says. Mixing rasam with vodka, he says, formula in a rather well-spoken drink. Since they wanted a flog in a drink, it was best to brew tequila with clever south Indian ingredients. What’s in it, we ask? Rasam powder, salt and
chilli powder, dual drops of Tabasco sauce, 30 ml orange juice, tequila and
tomato juice.
WHAT WE THINK: It’s not for a gloomy hearted. It’s some-more like a shot than a cocktail. Go delayed and we might find yourself fondness it.
Pic/Datta Kumbhar
Mofo Gasy
NRI during BKC, Rs 250
Being a Tamilian, cook Siddharth Kalyanaraman grew adult on a good sip of Kuzhi Paniyarams, a Tamilian breakfast plate finished with fermented idli or dosa batter. But, a year ago, while crafting a grill menu, he came opposite a Mofo Gasy, a sweet-yeasted pancake from Madagascar. And, a judgment struck home. “Since we was looking during a plate with a story behind it, this fit in good since a bread was engineered by immigrants who were taken to Mauritius and Madagascar as inexpensive labour,” he explains.
However, instead of creation it honeyed with rice flour as is a normal recipe, Kalyanaraman chose to make a plate delectable with a brew of rice flour, separate and dehusked black gram and Amaranth flour. Tempered with dry red chillies, mustard seeds, curry leaves, immature chillies and ginger, a dumplings are baked in ghee, in a special cover with cavities. This, he customarily serves with a coconut Rougaille Chutney, again a South Indian turn to a French sauce.
WHAT WE THINK: At initial bite, it reminded us of home and mom’s appams.