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Mumbai food: Italian flavours on Mahim’s streets
- Updated: August 7, 2016
The renouned khau galli, that runs from Midland grill on Mahim’s LJ Road to Makhdoom Ali Shah dargah, has been dominated for decades by stalls hawking slimey khichda, normal sherbet, sheera-paratha, khiri and seekh kebabs and sharp chana-batata.
Today, a travel has twice a series of stalls, and roughly all now sell a baked flatbread, surfaced with chutney, cabbage, chicken, a shower of processed cheese and dollops of mayonnaise. They call it a pizza.
The ‘pizza’ kiosks, mostly a groundless waist-high list holding adult an electric oven, are tough to skip as are a crowds that mob it.
The formula
Most offer dual dishes, a duck pizza and a vegetarian. The breads come from internal bakeries and are zero like what you’ve attempted during quick food joints. These are robust, not frosty white and lift a amiable benevolence that comes from a leavening and sugarine that’s combined to a dough. Use of cheese is meagre — not mozzarella, usually processed Amul. The bottom salsa is tomato ketchup surfaced with shredded cabbage and a peculiar bit of capsicum. The mayo creates this pizza a Mahim special, giving it a same smooth feel Dargah Street’s shawarmas carry.
We started a taste-drive during a initial case we encountered on entering a line from a Makhdoom Ali Shah dargah end.
First pizza case on a left of Dargah Street (enter from Makhdoom Ali Shah Dargah end)
Price: Rs 50 (chicken); Rs 30 (veg)
One of a some-more organised, purify and well-lit stalls, it offers duck and vegetarian pizza and toasted sandwiches. The duck here is boiled, seasoned, shredded, creation a pizza a bit dry though low on calories. Pics/Tanya SM
Adda
Price: Rs 50 (chicken); Rs 30 (veg)
A tiny ahead, on a conflicting side of a highway stands Adda. Two tables underneath a garden powerful reason an oven and public station. The duck brew is corpulent and spicy, and a mayo inexhaustible and garlicky, many like a kind used in shawarmas.
Mohammed Asif’s stall
Price: Rs 50 (chicken); Rs 30 (veg)
The case conflicting Adda is run by Mohammed Asif. His business doesn’t have a name since a day we ate here was his initial day. An easy approach to find a case is to demeanour for a neon illuminated weighing appurtenance kiosk. Like your food fiery? Asif’s pizza is a one to order. The duck chunks come from a case conflicting a road, offered low boiled chicken. Add to that a burning chutney he drizzles over before spooning in some softly honeyed mayonnaise.
Sheeba Fast Food
Price: Rs 30 (chicken)
At a fag finish of a lane, where it opens on to L J Road, is Sheeba. A brightly illuminated kiosk that apparently does sprightly business offers vegetarian pizza, duck pizza, vegetarian and duck pav. The pav offerings lift a same mixture that tip a pizza. We lubricate Sheeba’s pizza a best in a line — righteously spiced with luscious duck chunks, and capsicum for bite. The best bit, it’s also a cheapest pizza hawked in a lane.
Quba
Price: Rs 50 (chicken); Rs 30 (veg)
Quba is easier and manned by one. The duck here is in chunks, juicier and spicier than a initial stall. With an combined covering of a softly sharp red sauce, surfaced with a large drain of honeyed mayonnaise, it’s finished with cheese and a inexhaustible shower of a piquancy mix. The essence here is some-more formidable and a finish outcome delicious.
Under wrap
Khau Galli pays initial reverence to a Lebanese wrap, shawarma, with 3 variations
Shwarma is a Arabic tenure for a Turkish cevirme, that refers to beef roasting on a spit. Encased in pita, it’s quick replacing a kathi hurl as snack, charity tough foe even to a Frankie.
Mahim residents, however, not usually cruise it their bland snack, they are spooky adequate with it to emanate mixed versions.
A customary shawarma elsewhere includes pita surfaced with cabbage, fries, garlic sauce, pickle, harissa sauce, grilled duck and sometimes, hummus. At any of a 10 stalls during Mahim’s Khau Galli, a fries, pickle, harissa or hummus are missing. They offer shawarma in pav (hot dog bun), shawarma in roti (a tiny roomali equivalent) and Khaboos (pita). The pav chronicle (Rs 20 cheaper than khaboos) is packaged with cabbage, sharp salsa and chicken, slathered with garlic sauce. The roti chronicle carries a same filling. It sells for Rs 10 obtuse than a khaboos version.
Zaheerbhai’s stall
Price: Rs 80 (khaboos)
The oldest shawarma case here is Zaheerbhai’s. With over a dozen boys manning 3 shawarma spits, assembling, holding orders and collecting money amid a chaos, this is also a many popular. The duck here is always tender. Their sharp salsa is a closest inland recipe to a harissa; a garlic salsa is indeed garlicky and a khaboos is robust, somewhat coarse
and sweet.
Stall conflicting Yaadgaar sherbet stall
Price: Rs 70 (khaboos version)
Bang in a center of Khau Galli, conflicting Yaadgaar sherbet case is a neat, simple, mobile shawarma stand. The pita is a customary one that internal bakeries sell. The piquancy comes from a orange garlic chutney that goes into travel side sandwiches. The favourite here is a duck – tender, softly spiced and not too salty.
Zam Zam
Price: Rs 60 (khaboos)
A brief travel from Khau Galli is this purify quick food corner with common seating. What they plate out here is a acquire surprise. Pillow-soft pita, a inexhaustible apportionment of subtly spiced duck chunks, oodles of addictive garlic salsa on a bed of fries, beetroot and cabbage. The bummer: They use Schezwan salsa instead of harissa (ask them to skip it).