Phul Gobi (Cauliflower)

Ingredients

• cauliflower
• ghi or clarified butter
• a point of garlic
• pepper
• salt
• water

Method

1. 1

   Break cauliflower into small branches.

2. 2

   Cook garlic in ghi until red, add cauliflower, stir, and add a little water.

3. 3

   Add pepper and salt, cover, and stir occasionally.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Banquets of the nations (1911) by Robert H. Christie, page 147. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Phul Gobi (Cauliflower) Aloo Ka Tarkari (Potatoes) Patta Gobi (Cabbage) Sivaya Phirni Zarda Nukti (Sweet Spiced Vermicelli) (Rice and Fruits) (Sugar Balls) Angir Murabba Naringi Murabba Shen Murabba (Fig Preserve) (Orange Preserve) (Apple Preserve) Kalakand (Milk Sweets) 363 BANQUETS OF THE NATIONS Phulka. (Wheat Cakes.) Mix wheatmeal and salt with water, and knead well. Divide into small portions, roll out ; bake on a girdle, and when cooked spread with ghi or clarified butter, and rub one against the other. Eaten with all kinds of vegetables. Parantha. (Pastry Cakes.) Wheatmeal and salt. Mix in same way as phulki. Roll out, and put on pieces of clarified butter ; fold, and roll out again. Again put on pieces of butter, fold, and roll out. Rub girdle well with clarified butter and cook on a flat piece of iron standing a little above the fire. This is like puff paste, and mostly eaten with jams or preserved fruits. Kachauri. (Lentil Croquettes.) Two pounds wheatmeal, half pound of clarified butter and salt. Mix all with water, knead well, roll into small balls, and flatten out with hand. Make small dents in the centre, into which put a little lentil paste (dal). Gather all together into a ball, flatten a little, and drop into boiling ghi or clarified butter, and cook. Soak one pound of large lentils, and rub off the skin ; grind it ; add quarter salt-spoonful of red pepper and half a one of black ; of big and little cardamoms, aniseed, black cumin seed, and salt of each a teaspoonful, and cook in water (very little) till a very thick paste. 364 RAJPUTANA (Brahmin) Ghol-Ka-Baka. (Lentils and Curds.) Clean and soak two pounds of lentils, and put in a pot with eight ounces of thick milk curd. Stir in a quarter saltspoonful of red pepper, half a teaspoonful of black pepper, a teaspoonful each of cinnamon, large cardamoms, little cardamoms, black cumin seeds, cloves, and cook till quite soft. Mitcha Chanval. (Spiced Rice.) Wash two pounds of rice and put in a pot with water, which should stand two inches above the rice. Stir in half a teaspoonful each of red chillies and black pepper, a teaspoonful each of cinnamon, cardamoms, aniseed, cumin, cloves, and sufficient saffron to give a good colour. Bring to the boil and simmer at the side of the fire till all the water is evaporated ; but see that the rice is quite cooked, not pulpy, but all the grains separate. Phul Gobi. (Cauliflower.) Clean and break up cauliflower into small branches. Put into a pan some ghi or clarified butter. Chop a point of garlic

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