Gwara Mari (Manglore special pakodas):
This
pakodas reminds me of the bygone days, when we used to go to mamaghar. Our
mamaghar is located near Patan Durbar Square. My granny who was one the most
beautiful and gentle woman I had ever seen, used to bring those hot hot
gwaramari from neighborhood small shop which used to bring smile to everybody’s
face. Gwaramari with hot cup of tea is superb breakfast you want to start a day
with.
This
gwaramari shop is located in front of famous Honocha ko Pasal just behind the
Bhimshensthan, Mangal bazaar. Owner of this shop are one of our close
acquaintance. We call them Maha Kaka and Kaki baje. I always wonder and feel
amazed, how a small skill like that can actually earn livelihood. They not only
raised their five children but also, still is support system for their next
generation. I still cannot forget their
positive attitude and always smiling faces. To my surprise this shop is still
in operation. This is something that inspired me to try their recipe.
This
might not be their actual recipe, but this is what I came up with:
1 cup of
all purpose flour
½ cup of
curd
1 tea
spoon salt
Pinch of
turmic powder
½ tea
spoon of cumin power
¼ tea
spoon baking soda (add this 10 min before frying)
And oil
to fry
Procedure:
- Mix flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl.
- Add water to it, little by little stirring it continuously to make the flour a thick paste.
- Cover the bowl and leave it overnight.
- Heat oil for deep frying.
- Now take a tablespoon of the Flour paste and put it into the heated oil.
- The flour should slowly fluff up. Fry until it gets a good brown color. You can cook as many of them at a time according to the size of your fryer.
- Take out the now prepared Gwar maris and soak the oil in a paper towel.
- Serve hot with tea.
Try this
recipe and enjoy your day with this wonderful hot hot gwara mari with of course
a cup of a hot tea.
While
you all enjoying this awesome gwara mari, I am pretty sure this incident that
had happened to me a long time before, will bring some laughter in your faces
too. This incident happened when I used to work for DSI at Kingsway. Those were
carefree and the happiest days of my life. We used to go to different restaurant
for lunch and try different foods from their menu. One day we happened to order
“Manglore ‘Special’ Pokodas”. We were all anxiously waiting for that, but to
our surprise there came a plate full of gwara mari. We were all bursting with
laughter not only what we saw but being silly and had to pay price ten times
more.
LoL haha
haha haha!!!
