Mushroom Chatani

Our Gran’s chatani were legendary. Usually based on chicken, these dry, sour curries were so fiercely hot that we kids were given just about a spoonful of them with a whole bowl of rice. When our parents came over on the boat from India, they were really worried that there would be no kosher food and they wouldn’t be able to eat anything on board, so they brought with them a milk churn filled with chatani. They would get rice from the ship’s kitchen and have the chatani wit