TASTES LIKE HOME
“I hold many culinary memories dear to me, but this rather basic, rustic meal is one that was my dad’s signature dish, and I think of it as my inheritance recipe. The dish, originally from the eastern part of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, was often cooked for us by Dad when we were growing up. It’s funny – my mother cooked three meals a day for the five of us in the family, 364 days a year, and we hardly noticed them; whereas Dad cooked one meal a year and it has stuck with me!