Food habits of Kashmiri Muslims

[lastofthepatriots]

It's what poor people eat in the mountains.

Cheers, Doc

Never heard of this dish. My father's grandmother was a Kashmiran from Srinagar, yet still. Meat chawal? Hmmm.

 

[padamchen]

Never heard of this dish. My father's grandmother was a Kashmiran from Srinagar, yet still. Meat chawal? Hmmm.

It's sold in all roadside redis.

People eat it for breakfast as well. Which for a carnivore like me was a nice experience. Walking out of the hotel for chai, and having a steaming heaped plate of meat chawal.

It's a pyramid mound of white rice, dug out like a volcano in the center, filled with a dark brown meat (lamb) stew. Steaming. With hari mirch on the side.

My staple when I bike there or Himachal. That and aloo paratha, dahi, achar, and egg bhurji.

Cheers, Doc

 

[Kaniska]

Hi,

I'd like to know the food habits of Kashmiri Muslims. I'm a Hindu and have a Kashmiri woman as a cook for my family. My diet at home is vegatarian and the Kashmiri cook said that she also doesn't have money to cook non-vegetarian food everyday.

However, she does not know how to make rice, dal, most vegetable dishes (vegetables common to her region). She only makes one kind of roti, no parathas. We even asked her to just cook the stuff she knows. She is mostly blank.

Since she is from the labour class, i think that she should be knowing how to cook. I'm perplexed since i always thought that Kashmiri Muslims are good cooks.

What do you make of it?

Kashmir food is famous in Indian resturants...Not sure, those variety of foods are cooked at Kashmir people's home or it is all the resturant food.

 

[lastofthepatriots]

It's sold in all roadside redis.

People eat it for breakfast as well. Which for a carnivore like me was a nice experience. Walking out of the hotel for chai, and having a steaming heaped plate of meat chawal.

It's a pyramid mound of white rice, dug out like a volcano in the center, filled with a dark brown meat (lamb) stew. Steaming. With hari mirch on the side.

My staple when I bike there or Himachal. That and aloo paratha, dahi, achar, and egg bhurji.

Cheers, Doc

Interesting. My father's grandmother introduced the staple dish of kareyle(zucchini/squash) stuffed with minced lamb or beef tied together with sewing threads.

 

[padamchen]

Interesting. My father's grandmother introduced the staple dish of kareyle(zucchini/squash) stuffed with minced lamb or beef tied together with sewing threads.

We have something similar in Bihar made with parval as well (called patal there).

Sadly, Parsi women suck at cooking vegetables.

Cheers, Doc