Mumbai Food: Konkani-Muslim pop-up celebrates all things seafood and coconut

Dry Red Chilli Chutney with Chawrachi Roti
Dry Red Chilli Chutney with Chawrachi Roti

The Konkan seashore is home to many communities for whom fish is a tack during each meal. One such encampment is a Konkani Muslims. This weekend, representation their food during a pop-up organized by Authenticook.

The pop-up will underline food by home chefs Mumtaz Kazi (nee Pawaskar) and her cousin Sameera Gawandi, both Konkani Muslims who accost from a fishing encampment of Harnai in Ratnagiri district.

Bharlela PapletBharlela Paplet

“Coconut is a star part in a food. We use coconut divert instead of H2O when cooking. We even supplement it to rice, that gives it a good hardness and a singular taste. Our dal also uses a milk,” says Mumtaz. She creates a coconut divert fresh. The pop-up facilities recipes she has gleaned from her grandmother, aunt and mother. Another strike part is saunf (fennel seeds), that is belligerent with haldi and a powder is used to supplement aroma and essence to dishes.

Sameera Gawandi and Mumtaz Kazi
Sameera Gawandi and Mumtaz Kazi

If we adore all things fishy, this plate is a treat. The menu includes Bangda Kelyachya Paanat – mackerel cooking in spices, wrapped in a banana root and baked in an earthern pot; Bharlela Paplet – whole pomfret pressed with finely chopped tomatoes, coconut and belligerent spices; Sukhi Kolbi – prawns baked with complicated spices, and Dum Cha Mhaura – fish cooking in spices and delayed cooked.

Other normal food that can be sampled is Chawrachi Roti – a rice chapati done by hot rice flour, kneading a mix and afterwards patting out shapes; Shegalachya Phulachi Bhaaji – done of flowers from drumstick tree baked in tilkoot (Kokni chutney) and Khichidi with Soloni (a thicker chronicle of luminary kadi, flavoured with kokum, black pepper, garlic and jeera).

To finish a meal, sip on Peyushi. Generally done in cashew season, a plate has uninformed cashews, coconut milk, jaggery, turmeric and poppy seeds, coconut divert and eggs.

ON: Feb 12, 1 pm to 3 pm 
AT: Authenticook Underground Studio, Chembur (E).
LOG ON TO: authenticook.com 
CALL: 9833283656
COST: Rs 1,600

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