The blog strictly features Vegetarian recipes from Sindhi cuisine, ranging from simple snacks like Dal sandwich to popular ones like Ragda Pattise from the pride of Sindhi cuisine, the traditional Sindhi Kadhi, koki, Saibhaji, to the innovative Vegetarian fish (Made from Arbi). What are the kind of recipes you feature? I share fairly simple recipes, with no exotic ingredient list, simple to follow cooking instructions, helpful tips, and the food pictures to give an idea about the texture and look of the final dish.ģ. Their craving for Sindhi food can be satisfied by turning to my blog. The fact that it’s the only food blog that features typical, traditional, authentic and homestyle Sindhi recipes does make it special, at least for those who now have a home away from home.
What’s the special something about your food blog? After nearly 175 exclusively Sindhi recipes published, food blogging still remains a passion for me.Ģ. It has been three and half years since then. That prompted me to come up with, a website dedicated to Sindhi Cuisine. In the ocean of recipes on cuisines of the world, Sindhi recipes were nowhere in sight in the virtual world. So while searching for fool-proof recipes online, one thing that bothered me was that there was no dedicated website to learn Sindhi cooking.
Well to begin with, although I started cooking when I was still in school, managing a full fledged kitchen after marriage, cooking all the meals on my own was very intimidating. Why did you decide to start a food blog and how long has it been on? On the Menu: Recipes For Mirchi Pakora Chaat, Seyal Bhee and Macaroni Phoolpatasha on pages 2, 3, 4.ġ. Well, looks like the way to a man’s heart and technical wizardry is surely through his stomach!
She says, “It was Deepak who created the website for me, who taught me how to post and publish, how to click pictures…everything…everything I owe to my rock-solid supportive husband!”
Her husband, Deepak, a technical architect, is savvy with computers and runs several websites dedicated to the Sindhi community on music, books, movie and even online Sindhi radio. It will be like stepping into the kitchen of a Sindhi family and sharing an intimate meal.įor Alka, blogging has had an added bonus – it’s brought the family closer together. Do try out these recipes and visit Alka’s Sindhi Rasoi for very special dishes from appetizers to dessert.
The dishes we’ve selected are typical vegetarian Sindhi fare which you will not find in any other ethnic cuisine in India or in any restaurant. Most of the recipes Alka shares are from her mother who made sure that all her children learned to cook food the correct way, guiding them every step of the way.
And we know how painful the memories are…their misty eyes say it all when they talk about the sweet, simple life of Sindh.” “Hence all I can say is that it was a traumatic period for Hindu Sindhis, and though we all have moved on, the nostalgic memories of the past still remain in the hearts of our elders, especially my husband’s grandparents. “My father was just a few years old when the partition happened, so he has very faint memories of that era,” says Alka. Alka of Sindhi Rasoi with the littlest chef