A new home smoothness kitchen has managed to container in tasty and authentic transport from Maghreb, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Provence in France, and Spain
Istanbuli kebap
Earlier this week, we set out on a appetizing outing conflicting a Mediterranean segment when we motionless to representation transport from Mediterranea, a newly launched cloud kitchen in Lower Parel for home deliveries conflicting Mumbai. The obvious menu is combined by a founders and childhood friends, Kiran Salaskar (of Country of Origin desserts) and Mahesh Malkani of Creative Eats LPP. “Over a years, we’ve connected over a adore for Middle Eastern and Mediterranean fare. We grown this thought in a lockdown, after we found a opening for this cuisine.” The twin has skeleton to enhance a menu; “Mediterranean food goes adult to Italy and Spain. This is a initial and compress charity to get a round rolling,” says Malkani. For now, we can punch transport from UAE, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Greece.
Fattoush
The sequence is orderly packaged in spillage-free biodegradable bagasse food boxes and cosmetic boxes, and survives a prolonged outing from Lower Parel to a Andheri residence. Each box has instructions with eager postcard notes. We start with a large locate — a Istanbuli kebap (Rs 550) that comes on a bed of saj bread slathered with harissa. The dual prolonged skewered charcoal-grilled, minced lamb kebabs are slim and are served with a sour biwaz of uninformed onion and parsley drizzled with lemon and churned with sumac. We adore a Lebanese garlic aioli called toum that cuts by a spices.
Truffle hummus
A Mediterranean menu’s poison exam is a hummus, and so we sequence dual versions — a new-age truffle hummus (Rs 500) surfaced with roasted mushrooms, and ummus bil d’jaj (Rs 500) that comes surfaced with a luscious and grilled duck shawarma. The worldly smell of truffle oil sets a tinge for a pâté consistency of a fungus hummus. The shawarma and hummus remind us of a indulgent feast during Lina’s, tucked divided in a Christian Quarter of Jerusalem.
Next is a mouhamara (Rs 475), a offset honeyed and sharp mix of walnut, roasted bell peppers, pomegranate molasses, garlic, spices, walnut salsa and olive oil. We can ambience hints of any component in a bite. Before we go ga-ga over a crispy-coated soft-centred beetroot falafel (Rs 350), a side of tahini deserves mention. This is a suacy chronicle compared to a chunkier pastes we have available; this coherence is achieved by violence it with a inexhaustible suit of olive oil. It cuts out a dry vulgarity from a disproportionate grub of sesame and adds a balmy turn of creaminess to a falafel.
Mouhamara
The many flavorful and understated plate is fattoush (Rs 300), a churned unfeeling salad with pomegranate molasses and in-house lemon sauce surfaced with sumac and crispy bread chips. When we eat it a subsequent day, a flavours have intensified, and a break is intact. We adore a courteous further of crispy bread chips that creates it a stuffing option.
Pomegranate and mascarpone mousse (Rs 350) is unenlightened in hardness and a tip covering of a jar is a bed of flattering fruit rubies. The aftertaste reminds us of a acidity of mishti doi. This is a outcome of clever pomegranate rebate sourced from a Middle-East, blended into a mascarpone.
Fully wakeful that a multiple of Turkish coffee and dim chocolate mousse (Rs 350) will be an heated one, we save it for a last. It is a ganache of abounding chocolate and a strength of a well-brewed Turkish coffee. It is an easy charmer, though we strech out for a pomegranate mousse, for it has secretly won us over.
Pick Up Sai Sadan, HS, PB Marg, residence no 25A-27-27A, Lower Parel, conflicting Century Mills, Lower Parel
Log on to: www.mediterranea.in
Call: 9820007347
