Rajasthani cooking class

From the palace, I walked down the street to buy some fruit, and then went back to my hotel to work for a few hours before my Rajasthani cooking class with my host here at Black Pepper.

The class started at 5. It was me and an Australian couple, Barry and Ann. It was good fun, and I enjoyed chatting with them. Durga, my host, was feeling a bit under the weather, but she still helped us to create a feast of traditional Rajasthani vegetarian food. We had masala chai and poha to start with. The latter is traditionally eaten for breakfast. It is steamed, flattened rice stir fried with spices and lemon and topped with sev and red onion. It's very tasty. For main course, we made Dal Baati Churma. This is hard wheat rolls (bati) broken and dipped in ghee, served with lentil curry (dal) and topped with crushed poppadoms. It was another tasty dish, but very carb heavy! I tasted the sweet doughballs we made for dessert, but didn't have a whole one 😀.Read more