Pop star Anaida’s pop-up Persian menu has recovering properties

Musician Anaida, a ‘oova oova’ lady who pennyless a song cocktail charts in a 90s, grew adult in Abu Dhabi, tuning her physique to a healthy cooking of her naturopath mom. She has combined a pop-up Persian menu during Sodabottleopenerwala’s Thane outpost, that’s on offer compartment Feb 25. And this, she says, is a food that’s not only finger-licking good, though is packaged with recovering properties too.

One plate that stands out is a Corriander Chicken Soup. “My friends call it my sorcery soup for a get-well-soon properties,” she says, adding that it is brimful with pearl barley, churned sprouts, turnip, mushroom, carrots and roasted vermicelli, a pick-me-up for anyone feeling underneath a weather.

“Coriander, or geshneez as it is called in Hindi and Farsi, for a anti-inflammatory properties, turnips or shalgam as an antibiotic, onions for crunch, and garlic for a calm of vitamin C, vitamin B6 and Manganese,” she explains, adding that a mixture are good for a skin, hair, eyes, cholesterol, blood sugarine and diabetes.

Persian food, she explains, has no masala like Indian cuisine does. It has some-more of sauces. “Every domicile follows a poetic tradition of fixation a basket with around dozen opposite uninformed spices and vegetables (mint, basil, leek, radish, carrots, etc) that they eat tender along with a food,” says Anaida. As distant as spices go, saffron is a core piquancy in each dish, along with cinnamon,” she adds.

In this cuisine, rosewater is ordinarily used in desserts. “The Shole Zard, is a sheera coherence finished from wheat, fruits, dry fruits and nuts. Each spoonful has a abounding essence of saffron and rose, a dusty fruits and nuts supplement a crunchy texture. we like regulating certain kind of rose petals in my cooking. They are so appreciative to a senses,” she explains.

If we are sleepy of tomato and onion gravies, let Persian food enthuse we to spin fruits and dry fruits into thick sauces. The Fesenjan is a duck plate baked in walnut and pomegranate pulp sans oil. “Finely abrade a walnuts and supplement pomegranate extract or puree. Once a duck is cooked, mislay a pieces and concede a gravy to continue cooking compartment a walnuts give out oil,” says Anaida. This gravy needs no oil, as a walnuts prepare in their possess oil. “Once a gravy is cooked, supplement in a duck piece, and let it prepare for a dual to 3 mins and we are done.”

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