Mumbai Food: Enjoy authentic Manipuri cuisine during this pop-up in Chembur

Baah Gajor Gahori

Growing adult in a regressive home in Imphal, Keisham Kunjakishor Singh, who goes by a names Keisham or Bung, wasn’t authorised to prepare duck and pig in his kitchen. “My relatives never stopped us from eating it though we couldn’t prepare beef inside a home. So, we would move a stove to a courtyard, and fume pig outside. we also remember training how to fume fish during a age of 10. That is deliberate vegetarian in many Manipuri homes,” says a 35-year-old Manipuri conform engineer formed in Mumbai, who moonlights as a home chef. This Sunday, he will offer a ambience of both vegetarian and non-vegetarian transport from a northeastern state, during a pop-up patrician Manipuri Chakhum, presented by Authenticook.

Singju

Take a veggie walk
The dish facilities 10 dishes, including Singju, a renouned transport break served during female-run stalls famous as potphams. It’s a salad done regulating cabbage, lotus base and fenugreek leaves, laced with several herbs. For a mains, we can find comfort in Mangal Ooti, a dal featuring whole yellow peas baked with bamboo shoot, brought in from his local town. “I transport to Imphal each month and lapse with anniversary herbs, black rice, bhut jolokia and spices like brook leaves, Chinese chives and ginger. We grow many of them in a backyard,” says Keisham.

Chakhao Kheer

He’ll use a sharp chive leaves in Maroi Bori Thongba, a curry with black gram and lentil dumplings, while a other spices will be used in Kangsoi, a renouned Manipuri chronicle of a meal done with fresh, anniversary vegetables like tomatoes, cabbage and potatoes. “I grew adult on this stew, and gummy rice. I’ll use my mother’s recipe to make it,” he adds.

The food will be served with gummy rice

Also on a vegetarian menu is Chamfoot, a simple, steamed unfeeling salad. Keisham has prepared accompaniments like Soibum Iromba (fermented bamboo fire chutney) and Kanglayen Iromba (dry fungus chutney).

Know a difference
The non-vegetarian menu stars Baah Gajor Gahori Tender, where chunks of pig are baked with bamboo fire and bhut jolokia chilli. “The Manipuri character of cooking pig is vastly opposite from Naga pork, that customarily is only boiled or steamed. We use several spices to prepare a meats. we make my possess piquancy brew with coriander, cumin, fenugreek seeds, and asafoetida.”

KK Singh aka Keisham

Similarly, Yen Thongba, or duck curry, is prepared by shoal frying a beef initial and afterwards hot it in H2O to thicken it as gravy. The pop-up also facilities Nga Ataoba Thongba, comprising Rohu fish that is boiled and curried in tomato. Keisham will also offer gummy rice that has been wrapped and baked in lotus leaf. “It’s a many normal approach of cooking it. The root infuses an aroma into a rice. For dessert, there’s Chakhao Kheer baked with black rice. It’s something my father would prepare for us in a afternoons when we were kids,” reminisces Keisham.

On: Aug 27, 1 pm
At: Authenticook Underground Studio, Chembur
Log on to: authenticook.in
Cost: `1,050 (vegetarian); `1,250 (non-vegetarian)

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