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Wolfgang's avatar

Eaten with chopsticks

Elli Benaiah's avatar

A pitchfork

Jayant Hardikar's avatar

Baking powder! Who would have thought! Must give it a try.

Elli Benaiah's avatar

Worth a try. Had to travel far and wide to learn it on real live potatoes in my Swiss restaurant. It works.

Just around the Corner Club's avatar

For me, besengeh was the ultimate kurkuma dish😁

Ellen Kornmehl MD's avatar

your treatment of the Aloo Makalla gleams on its own- the migration of food with its peoples endlessly fascinating

Elli Benaiah's avatar

Thank you very much...!

Elli Benaiah's avatar

That makes perfect sense to me. Besengeh feels less like turmeric as seasoning and more like turmeric as structure - colour, warmth, aroma, even the emotional identity of the dish. Almost the entire logic of the pot turns yellow.

Harshita saxena's avatar

Fantastic post, Elli! I have to try Aloo Makalla.