Given the tough time local small businesses have to cope with, back in
Goa, I sometimes appreciate the work they put in.
While scrumming around for a snack in the kitchen, I came across this
packet of "Goan caldine masala". Fifty grammes for Rs 18.
It contains a mix of spices, coriander, pepper, cummin seeds, tumeric etc.
How does one prepare it? It sounds simple enough, that even someone
profoundly ignorant about the cullinary arts like me might be tempted to
try: For quarter kg cauliflower/tendlim/pumkin, add 250 gms of prawns.
Add 1.5 tablespoon of Pat's Goan Caldine Masala, two green chillies,
two large onions, a piece of ginger, six flakes of garlic, one teaspoon
sugar, five gm tamarind an done large coconut. Grind all to a fine
paste. Saute this mixture in two tablespoons of oil till mixture leaves
the side of the pan. Add two cups of water and bring to a boil. Add
previously boiled vegetables and prawns and salt to taste.
You can contact Pat & Ann at Ambekhand, Reis Magos, Verem, Bardez, Goa
Phone +91-832-2402001 or 2402929.
