Mumbai Food: Tuck into jams, pickles done out of pig and bacon

Priya John
Priya John

A lovable pinkish pig dressed as a cupid, angel and demon smiles during us from a labels of several 200gm bottles that we’ve picked adult from Jar-ry Eyed Surprise, an Andheri-based home run try by Priya John, launched this April. These enclose mayonnaise, jams and even plight – all done regulating pork. When refrigerated, they final adult to a month. “I’ve found variants with other meats though frequency anything with pork. Since we adore bacon and pork, we motionless to examination with it and came adult with a bacon jam first. When my sister [Preeti] attempted it, she suggested we should start a venture, and even came adult with a name,” says a 31-year-old, who also runs a conform appendage label.

(From left) Spicy Porker, Sweet Pork, Porkerizo, Pokernaise and Pork Pickle
(From left) Spicy Porker, Sweet Pork, Porkerizo, Pokernaise and Pork Pickle

She delivers opposite Mumbai, and ships equipment to other tools of a nation too. However, we need to sequence in advance. We initial puncture into Porkerizo, a chorizo jam with jelly like coherence that greases a ambience buds with honeyed and sharp flavours, finished off with a smoked aftertaste. The samples embody dual forms of Porkers – honeyed and sharp jams – done with bacon. While honeyed chronicle is simple, with usually sugarine and bacon, a sharp offers a spirit of cinnamon too. “I’ve attempted them as pizza toppings, in mac and cheese and surfaced them even on chocolate pancakes,” reveals John.

Adding a mental note to make a sharp porker waffle sandwich, we pierce to Pokernaise. Unfortunately, a mayonnaise tastes some-more like a mustard sauce, lacking a graphic bacon flavour. Instead, we find condolence in Pork Pickle that packs a punch with a sour and sharp flavours dripping in by soothing pig bits. We feel sorted for lunch as we mop it adult with aloo parathas, happy to have detected a go-to choice when we’re longing comfort food. John tells us she’s in a routine of perplexing bacon butter and bacon salt. When refrigerated, these equipment final for upto a month.

Call: 8097075107
Email: eat@jarryeyedsurprise.com
Cost: `300 (200gm); `650 (500gm)

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