The essence of maharashtrian culture greatly goes with the essence of malavani culture.rather at some point of time people outside maharashtra widely get confused between Malavani n Maharashtrian culture n food.Though,Malavan is a predominant geographical part of Maharashtra ,its food also has great signifiance all over the places.This Malavani jatra is cast by authentic Malavani mahila Bachat Gat,Vikas gat etc.This fair is generally 10-11 days and keeps rotating its places.
I happened to attend this today at Mahavir Nagar,kandivali west ...in one of the suburbs of mumbai.there were many spectacular ,notable things about this fair.First is the grand historical entrance.the entrance had been built in the form of fort n later welcomed by a statue of shivaji maharaj riding his horse.
then ,there were many enumerable food stalls from street food to authentic Konkani food.Since i was travelling with my kids,I first preferred to taste Ice Ball (Barfacha gola) in kala Khatta flavour.
It was something i was long waiting for.Then I moved on. We took some Manchurian with schezwan sauce on it.Obviously,my little boys aould not have it as sause was too spicy for them.I tasted it.and could rate preety nice by roadside food ratings and mediocre by authentic Chinese food ratings.I moved a stall further and quite surprised to see Ukadiche modak.(Now its really hard to demystify this konkani sweet dish into hardcore English dish).but it was awesome...perfectly cooked,perfectly sweet.each modak was costing 15/-..but i should say it is worth it.
Then the most famout n to-die-for stall was waiting for us.Suka mutton(dry mutton),Mutton rassa(gravy mutton),chicken rassa(gravy chicken) and bhakri(jowar flour bread)was laid on the table.All the dishes were temting n delicious and ofcourse spicy for a Brahmin girl like me...who is not used to so much of hot and spicy food in general.The flavours in all the above dishes have dominant flavours of dry coconut (suka khobra),onion and secret ingredient malavani masala!!...Some stalls had laid tables n chairs for their people who want to relax and enjoy their every bite of food.i liked this concept because then people can sit,chat n have thier at food at peace.Next ,the stalls were for sea food lovers..(not sooo much for me ).even though,i tasted surmai fry,bangda n pomfret fry.Needless to say,all the fishes were evenly fried ,their masala also had soaked into the fish ..the fish were fresh n juicy n every bite was giving justice to our pocket for what we spent for...!Since it was Sunday and the second last day of Fair,people were rushing in groups to eat,play,stroll n enjoy.they also had kept wood toys made in sawantwadi,then malavani masalas,kuleeth peeth,thalipith bhajni,amboli peeth,chicken dry masala powder,mutton dry masala powder n god only knows how many.
All I should say is one should attend this fair atleast once in his life for food entirely.
I happened to attend this today at Mahavir Nagar,kandivali west ...in one of the suburbs of mumbai.there were many spectacular ,notable things about this fair.First is the grand historical entrance.the entrance had been built in the form of fort n later welcomed by a statue of shivaji maharaj riding his horse.
then ,there were many enumerable food stalls from street food to authentic Konkani food.Since i was travelling with my kids,I first preferred to taste Ice Ball (Barfacha gola) in kala Khatta flavour.
It was something i was long waiting for.Then I moved on. We took some Manchurian with schezwan sauce on it.Obviously,my little boys aould not have it as sause was too spicy for them.I tasted it.and could rate preety nice by roadside food ratings and mediocre by authentic Chinese food ratings.I moved a stall further and quite surprised to see Ukadiche modak.(Now its really hard to demystify this konkani sweet dish into hardcore English dish).but it was awesome...perfectly cooked,perfectly sweet.each modak was costing 15/-..but i should say it is worth it.
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| To-die-for desert "ukadiche modak" |
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| various food stalls @jatra |
Then the most famout n to-die-for stall was waiting for us.Suka mutton(dry mutton),Mutton rassa(gravy mutton),chicken rassa(gravy chicken) and bhakri(jowar flour bread)was laid on the table.All the dishes were temting n delicious and ofcourse spicy for a Brahmin girl like me...who is not used to so much of hot and spicy food in general.The flavours in all the above dishes have dominant flavours of dry coconut (suka khobra),onion and secret ingredient malavani masala!!...Some stalls had laid tables n chairs for their people who want to relax and enjoy their every bite of food.i liked this concept because then people can sit,chat n have thier at food at peace.Next ,the stalls were for sea food lovers..(not sooo much for me ).even though,i tasted surmai fry,bangda n pomfret fry.Needless to say,all the fishes were evenly fried ,their masala also had soaked into the fish ..the fish were fresh n juicy n every bite was giving justice to our pocket for what we spent for...!Since it was Sunday and the second last day of Fair,people were rushing in groups to eat,play,stroll n enjoy.they also had kept wood toys made in sawantwadi,then malavani masalas,kuleeth peeth,thalipith bhajni,amboli peeth,chicken dry masala powder,mutton dry masala powder n god only knows how many.
All I should say is one should attend this fair atleast once in his life for food entirely.
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