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Magic in monsoon
PHOTO: V. SUDERSHAN
ENJOY! Chef Sunil Dutt Rai
The Cha Bar at Oxford Bookstore in Connaught Place might claim to "move tea drinking from a dry page in history to a contemporary urban living experience" but it still needs to do a lot more to compete with the Baristas and Café Coffee Days that rule urban life and the market today. Nevertheless, it was one up on its competitors when it worked up some monsoon magic recently.
The occasion was a demonstration by Chef Sunil Dutt Rai of The Park hotel of his culinary skills, who prepared some easy-to-make monsoon recipes like iced tea, chicken tikka sandwiches, tomato mozzarella salad, banana smoothie, pudina lachchas and bhutte ki chaat, the last dish in particular so suited for the monsoon.
An easy preparation bhutte ki chaat, great as an appetiser and low on calories, can be prepared by mixing blanched corn, green chillies, coriander, mint chutney, saunt chutney, chaat masala and salt - all ingredients freely available in the market.
Chef Rai, who specialises in Italian food and whose favourite dish out of the ones he prepared was the tomato mozzarella, suggests that one should "always taste and serve". And he went about personally tasting all dishes! But, curiously, he forgot to taste the iced tea (made by mixing cranberry juice and light tea, garnished with mint leaves and lemon), which tasted more like a medicinal syrup than a stimulating drink.
Well, not quite the day for chai at the Cha Bar that day!
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