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DAHIBARA ALUDUM

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DAHIBARA ALUDUM -AN EMOTION   They say "Hyderabad aye aur biryani nahi khaya toh kya khaya" it's the same for Odisha also "Odisha aye aur Dahi bara nahi khaya toh kya khaya".  Dahibara Aludum is a household name in all the Odia homes. Whether it is a sunny, rainy, or winter day you can find people eating it in every corner of the streets.  I still remember our summer vacations were all about having Dahi bara aludum for breakfast for most of the days and the Dahi bara aludum will be not homemade but a person coming on a cycle with two big brass containers and a small one which had ghuguni or as we say white chickpeas curry or safed chana sabji and letting us know "dekho mai aagaya" with his banging of the brass container. I have been very lazy or in other words a morning sleeping person my whole life but at this time of the day as the sound of the Dahi bara person coming would be heard I and my sister would run to the courtyard and would be waiting for...
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Odiya delicacy- macha patrapoda(fish baked in banana leaves)

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MACHA PATRAPODA(FISH BAKED IN BANANA LEAF) This recipe is just not a recipe for me but a rememberance of my grandmother's love and affection and how she use to feed us. So this recipe is for my Aai or mother's mother or as we all say nani maa. So before giving you the recipe let me tell you how this recipe got evolved in my grandmother's kitchen. STORY BEHIND MY NANI'S RECIPE So, when she was young they had to cook in a chulha or using wood logs inserted inside a clay   hand made stwere not available. So while she was cooking the fish fell down and got nowadays what we call as grilled or barbecued but for them  was burnt. And she was  what she would do about it so what she did to get rid of the charcoal smell she used the banana leaves covered it and then cooked the fish for around some minutes and then her signature dish arrived and the recipe got passed on from one generation to another.  But when it came to me I was little confused that how can I make it as...
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