…ons as well as other accompaniments like wedges of lime, slices of onions, cucumber pickles & fried green chillies. They had amazing cold flavored milk in glass bottles & also some lovely mithais. Mona Food still exists with a different management but they still live in their past glory & try to cash in on their Chole Bhature which is no longer the same. The place is an enclosed restaurant & the prices are high. I have tried to…
…small seeds compactly packed in each tendli. It looks somewhat like a mini cucumber. Tendli tastes good even when it is eaten raw & it has a crunch. When it ripens it turns red & looks like a tomato but these are usually discarded as they do not taste good. In India, Tendli is used for curries, pickles & bhajis (vegetable). It is a nutritious vegetable & has vitamins A,C& Beta Carotene, minerals. Every part of the vegetable has…
…skin. It is ethnic to India, especially to North India. It belongs to the cucumber family & is an elongated gourd which grows from creepers. Padwal is slender, cylindrical & tapering at the ends. While selecting padwal for cooking, avoid padwal which is yellow, puffy, have sunken water-soaked sections or are wrinkled at their tips. For stuffing padwals, select slightly thick ones & thinner ones for preparing curries or chopped dry veg…