Indian Shows from the 80s
Before I start cooking our Sunday favourite Chicken Xacuti I would like to write about my yesterday Sunday.
I would rush to get back from my art school just to be glued to the television and get my right seat in our bedroom because getting one later when Mahabharata would have started seemed tricky. Mum would have wrapped up her cooking and made a litre of ginger tea because our neighbours and friends alike would have come home to watch it with us. Doordarshan the backbone of Indian television has started airing this again. Quoting the words of Devdutt Pattnaik, “These shows as mythological narrative depict the spiritual truth along with social truth most needed at this moment”. In these shows lies the nostalgia and memories of millions of Indians.
Apart from these shows there are few shows which weaved the social fabric with humour and also highlighted the gullible nature of our society. I hope many of remember these shows and make a comeback.
- Yeh Jo hain zindagi
- Aa bail mujhe maar
- Dekh bhai deka
- Mungeri laal ke hasin sapne
- Kashish
- Nukkad
- Gul gulshan Gulfam
- Weirdly even Krishi darshan
- More apt today, Jaan hain toh jahan hain
- Best out of waste.
I’m leaving this thread here for you to add your shows which evoke nostalgia from yesteryears. I do not want to go into reporting about COVID-19 and there is enough hum around it. And would request all of you to be mindful. Full stop. But I’m here to create joy on your feed and that is my ikigai.
Goan Chicken Xacuti
Sunday menu comprises of a beautiful recipe from my hubby’s heartland Goa, it’s called Chicken Xacuti. With complex spicing, including white poppy seeds, sliced or grated coconut and large dried red chilies and pronounced as शागोती in konkani.
- For the marination
- 1/4 cup Coriander leaves
- 10 Garlic cloves
- 2 Green chillies
- 1 inch Ginger Piece
- 1 tsp Salt
- For Xacuti masala
- 1 Onion chopped
- 1/2 cup Freshly grated coconut
- 2 cloves
- 1 inch Cinnamon stick
- 2 Green Cardamom
- 1 tsp Black Pepper Corns
- 1 tsp White Poppy Seeds
- 1 Star Anise
- 1/2 Mace
- 1/4 tsp Aniseeds
- 1 tbsp Corainder seeds
- Pinch Nutmeg
- 5 Bedgi Red Chillies
- For Frying
- 1 kilograms Chicken
- 1 Onion,sliced
- 2 Green chilies
- 5 Garlic cloves
- 10 Fresh Curry leaves
- Fresh Coriander leaves chopped
- Oil (as required)
- Grind the marination spices together and marinate the with those ground spices chicken for 30 minutes.
- Then in a tawa or flat girdle pan start frying the onions until it gets slightly charred. Followed by the coconut. Then dry roast the whole spices. Then we grind them together into a thick paste with some water.
- In a skillet or a kadhai now add 2 tbsp of oil fry the sliced onions, curry leaves, garlic cloves. Then add your marinated chicken and fry it until the chicken turn pale.
- Now add your Xacuti masala and fry along with the chicken along with it. One the masala has been fried properly add 1 cup of water.
- Cook the chicken with the lid for 15-20 minutes.
- Then garnish it with fresh coriander leaves and serve hot with rice.
Also try some of other Malvani dishes like Malvani Vade Mutton and Malvani Kurle rassa.
