Come winters and there are foods which are referred to as the season's signature.
Every year when winters sets in, for people like me staying near the coast winter is not really wintery...it’s rather pleasant to put it mildly.
Since we can't enjoy the annual brouhaha of North India's ritual of removing warm clothes from trunks, keeping them in the sun, changing everyday wardrobe from cotton to woollens, chiffons to silks, from open footwears to ballerinas and boots or the sudden surge at a dry cleaner to get the carpet cleaned and placed in all corners of the house, basically winter ready and set for winter fashion goals
The only winter fashion we manage is #fashionontheplatea and boy we go overboard on it and how, it is a full blown love affair which lasts till the winter vegetables are laden in the market, though the temperature grows hotter by March but the sunshine on the plate continues.
Yesterday my MIL treated us with her Khatri style #Sarsonkasaag and makke ki roti paired with Makkhan, gud and pyaaz.
In my home sarson ka saag was not a very distinct winter memory I have grown up with since I am a lala bhai ( Kayastha ) from MP so we did consume lot of sarson in combination with chaana, bathua, meethi, palak but not always in form of Sarson da Saag, may be few times in the winter season that's about it.
Also the prep we made was with onion garlic, the typical way it's done in Punjab courtesy the number of Punjabi families staying in our neighbourhood in Bhopal and constant exchange of food ideas and ever evolving culture of eating in each other's home in small towns.
My MIL's recipe of Sarson ka saag is without onion and garlic, largely #UPKhatri's pride themselves of not eating onion and garlic, though things have changed at least in my house but we still consumes all greens sans garlic & onions and over years I have started to love it in few vegetables, if not in all since I am a pure #GarlicPremi
I love my MIL's Sarson da saag because the bitterness of sarson is not covered by dense flavours of onion and garlic and no tomatoes.
Its pure mix of Sarson, bathua and palak cooked till eternity and served with lots of love and makkhan.
May the winter goodness shines on your plate for this season and your support and blessings will help our food givers …..
Don’t forget to extend your emotional and political support to our farmers because that’s all they need from us today….. If they exists we exists.
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