This blog is not for those of you who believe in biting into an apple in the same way as was shown in the advertisements of Dabur Laal Dant Manjan some years ago.
After eating apple with milk, buttermilk (laban), as a milkshake and with many other accompanying liquids including chai, mind you chai, I finally hit upon the simplest, elegant and most tasty way to eat an apple.
Chop an apple into 18 pieces (basically into poppable size chunks). Sprinkle some salt and powdered pepper on it. If you have some left over fried curry leaves (kadi patta), you may add them. (I had some that I had weeded out of the diwali mixture and kept aside, possibly for this day)Your apple is in the best company for consumption.
Believe me this way of eating an apple makes even the dullest documentary on BBC quite bearable.
In case you overdo the pepper bit, you won’t realise it while eating, but there will be a lingering feeling of the spice in your throat and this could be a nice excuse to feed small children with glasses of milk that they otherwise refuse to take!
This is a grand old practice of the delhiwalahas and Raju has perfected it in our guest house dessert menu. An addition of lime juice makes it sublime, and of course some other fruit slices especially banana and gauva(amrut) adds to the taste.
ReplyDeleteSekhar should sit up and notice the recipe column is catching up. Kanchu can also watch out for a competition. Jai Ho
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Well... food interests everyone.
ReplyDeleteBTW the recipe sounds a lot like fruit chaat.
Pondering over whether one should wait for Diwali to obtain mixture from which to weed out bits of curry leaves and purchase apples at extortionist off-season rates or tear some leaves off surreptitiously from the neighbour's potted curry leaf plant and use the apples I have. Decisions decisions *sigh*
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