Laccha pyaaz is the simplest Indian tandoori-style onion salad. Very often this is seen served on tandoori style dishes, on slowly cooked gravy or as a side to the giant batura and chole. The often ignored salad was my only favourite when my dad took us to have chole batura at Vasantha Bhavan restaurant near my hometown. I was perfectly happy having just this onion salad with the fluffy puffed up poori. That was a celebration. Years later, the memories catapulted when we ate out at a restaurant here. I am sure the waitress would have wondered why I asked for an additional service of the same…that’s what memories do to you. Now that it etched better in my memory, I wanted to recreate the flavours. I tried combinations of just salt, lemon and tried varied ways. But I knew there was something unexplainable in the masala I was missing. Today the trials struck a chord… I was all long missing the roasted cumin powder. You can imagine my happiness sharing this. This is what food does to some people, creates beautiful memories, lingering ones you don’t want to ever rub off. As I was cutting the onion (and crying […]

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