In keeping with my anthropological approach to eating whenever I am away I eschewed the regular looking breakfast items and went straight for the steaming bowl of what looked like wallpaper paste.
Eggs and bacon are all well and good but whenever I eat anything like that for breakfast I feel so sluggish and tired, like I want to head straight back to bed, rest a hand on my belly and watch some inane television. This was most definitely not what I wanted to be doing during my holiday. I wanted to be suppressing boundless energy and racing from temple to temple and market to market. Not snoozing in front of Mythbusters in an air-conditioned hotel room.
So steaming wallpaper paste it was. If this was full of enough goodness to keep generations of Asian farmers fed then I was sure it could keep me sated for the next few hours, no matter how many over-zealous tuk-tuk drivers I had to fend off.
I assumed that this rather unappetising looking gloop was cong…
Parottas are different from the popular Indian paratha. Parottas are flaky rotis or layered breads, which are originally from the state of Kerala.
In India, street vendors often sell a spicy version of these parottas called Kothu Parotta. They are shredded and then tossed with spices, vegetables, eggs and most often, meat. I have tried to make a vegetarian version here with eggs. It’s a great meal and one that is very popular in India.
Kothu Parotta with Eggs
(recipe originally from here)
5 Kerala Parottas, shredded into bite-sized pieces (frozen Kerala Parottas are sold in most Indian grocery stores. If you can’t find it, use pre-made rotis or parathas. To make the parottas, here are two links I found very helpful - <a href=”http://foodieshope….
One of the good things about being on vacation for two weeks is that I’ve not been able to cook and add food photos to my hard drive. That has forced me to go through what I’ve already accumulated, and either trash a dish, or make a mental note to post it. Pathetically, when scanning through old photos, I can barely remember what I cooked, anyway. So with the embarrassing addition of more than 750 vacation photos to my hard drive this week, it’s been easy to delete, delete, delete old food photos, and mark the recipe (if I can actually remember where it is) to be made again with much better photos. Sounds like a great plan that, if I know myself, will struggle toward execution. So much food, so little time, right?
In the meantime, it’s the weekend, and although half the world is smack in the middle of summer and not thrilled about turning on their ovens, knowing foodies as I do, sometimes, a recipe that’s easy and delicious makes us rethink…
One of the good things about being on vacation for two weeks is that I’ve not been able to cook and add food photos to my hard drive. That has forced me to go through what I’ve already accumulated, and either trash a dish, or make a mental note to post it. Pathetically, when scanning through old photos, I can barely remember what I cooked, anyway. So with the embarrassing addition of more than 750 vacation photos to my hard drive this week, it’s been easy to delete, delete, delete old food photos, and mark the recipe (if I can actually remember where it is) to be made again with much better photos. Sounds like a great plan that, if I know myself, will struggle toward execution. So much food, so little time, right?
In the meantime, it’s the weekend, and although half the world is smack in the middle of summer and not thrilled about turning on their ovens, knowing foodies as I do, sometimes, a recipe that’s easy and delicious makes us rethink…