Recipe: A cult favourite steamed fish for Parsi new year
Live MintIt’s day one of the Parsi calendar and it usually begins with something sweet. “It means food for a good day,” explains Shelley Subawalla of Zarin’s Kitchen, a Delhi-based, home-run business that specialises in Parsi spices and sweet dishes. “In Parsi cuisine, there are dishes which are served on auspicious occasions, like New Year, birthdays or weddings, and those that are reserved for other days, like a period of mourning,” she says. On Parsi New Year, Mogrelia shares the recipe of patra-ni-machhi—the cult favourite steamed fish in banana leaf. Ingredients 4 pomfrets, medium-sized Salt as per taste Half tsp turmeric 1 coconut, pieces 3 green chilies 1 tsp cumin seeds or powder Handful of coriander leaves, chopped finely Juice of one lime 1 clove garlic 5-6 mint leaves 1 tsp oil 1 tsp vinegar Method Make slim incisions on the pomfrets.
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