Mumukshu Mohanty
Mumukshu is a senior communications professional with more than 20 years of experience in building and nurturing organisational communication for Fortune 500 companies. Following a post-graduate degree in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College, she also pursued an Executive MBA from IIM (Kolkata). Mumukshu is an avid reader and fiction writer. Her recently released e-book The Saviour: Love and Danger in Pandemic Times is available on Amazon Kindle.
Chef's Recipes
Ingredients
- Aambula (dried mango): 10-15 pieces
- Sour curd: 1 cup
- Mustard seeds: 100 gm
- Cumin seeds: 25 gm
- Garlic: 10-15 cloves, peeled
- Red chillies (without stem): 4-5 pieces
- Turmeric powder: 1 tsp
- Salt to taste
Kaasundi
What’s an Indian summer without mangoes? The golden, sweet, and juicy fruit is the undisputed king of fruits. But, even in…
Ingredients
- Mustard seeds (sorisha): 2 tsp
- Cumin seeds:1 tsp
- Poppy seeds (khuskhus/postodaana): ½ tsp
- Garlic: 6-7 cloves
- Dry red chilies: 2 (or as per taste)
- Prawns: 250 gms
- Malabar spinach (poi saago): 500 gm
- Potato: 50 gm
- Pumpkin: 50 gm
- Colocasia (saaru): 50 gm
- Oil: 3-4 tsp
- Salt: to taste
- Turmeric powder: a pinch
- Water: 1 cup
Poi chungudi
The poi (English name Malabar Spinach) is a humble, glossy green, fleshy-leafed creeper that grows profusely in India’s eastern states like…
Ingredients
- Sorisha (mustard seeds): 2 tsp
- Cumin seeds: 1 tsp
- Poppy seeds: ½ tsp
- Garlic: 6–7 cloves
- Dry red chillies: 2 (or as per taste)
- Rohu or bhakura (Bengali cut): 300 gm
- Potato: 150 gm
- Pumpkin: 50 gm
- Raw papaya: 400 gm
- Raw banana: 100 gm
- Saaru or arbi (colocasia): 200gm
- Tomato:150 gm
- Radish: 150 gm
- Brinjal: 200 gm
- Salt: to taste
- Turmeric powder: a pinch
- Water: 3 cups
- Vadi: 10–12 small, coin-sized pieces
- Oil: 5 tbsp
- Onion (sliced): 1 (medium)
- Phutan (panch phoran):1 tsp
- Turmeric: ¼ tsp
- Aambula (dried mango whole): 2–3 medium-sized pieces (only required if using fish)
- Coriander leaves for garnishing
Besara
All the cookbooks and Masterchef episodes in the world cannot beat one particular source – mom’s recipe. Inevitably, mothers share that…