| Our Pukka Place |
| Pukka Cooking Classes Gourmet Indian Vegetarian Style Daily start 4pm lasts approximately 4 hours. Phone Fiona -[0] 9784 7737 49 Visit our home and learn to cook your dinner,. Classes include
Cost is 700 Rp per person |
| Chapati makers we have trained...and fed |
| Our new purpose built kitchen at our Home Farm near Pushkar. |
| IWe take great pleasure in sharing these reviews...we weren't the only ones having a good time! From Sim Dec, 2010 [http://beatnikbeatles.blogspot.com/2010/12/pita-and-jain] Fiona is an Australian who met an Indian, Praveen, and together they run the 'Our Pukka Place' hotel in Pushkar. At their home, though, is a kitchen big enough to school a dozen people in the mysterious arts of concocting the perfect curry. We joined another group (also from Oz) and had a fantastic evening, first buying all the ingredients from the veggy stall on a street corner in town, then seeing the tiny 'hole in the wall' miller's shop where all the locals get their own grain milled into flour while they wait. The secret, you see, to the perfect chapati, is fresh flour. Remarkably, there's nothing else in 'em but flour and water, kneaded, then kneaded some more, before finally being soundly shown who's boss with some more kneading. We all threw ourselves into chopping, peeling and prepping the veg, the ginger, chili and garlic that would, with the addition of spices like cumin, turmeric and coriander seeds, become glorious Indian cuisine. In the process of making our meal of Masoor Dal, Garga Mattar (carrot & peas) and Bengal style sweet & sour eggplant we learned such pearls of wisdom as 'dry spices first, until they pop, then wet spices (garlic, ginger etc.), then vegetables', and 'crush coriander seeds to make powder as coriander powder loses its flavour very quickly in the cupboard'. The ultimate reward, of course, was eating the results. We sat on rugs and scooped the delicious food up with chapatis, not always perfectly round (made by us amateurs), but perfectly cooked over a naked flame by Praveen. It was unlike an Indian dinner party, though. If an Indian family invite you round for dinner they will all cook and serve you, as you are the guests, but not eat with you. After the meal you may catch your hosts glancing at their watches, waiting for you to leave, as only after you've gone can the famished hosts eat the leftovers! |
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