Kharia

Lamb Trotters

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Route to Parsi Cooking: From Pars to India and Beyond

By Niloufer Mavalvala

Published 2024

  • About

Kharia is a dish best eaten in the winter months. It is generally made from lamb or goat, with lamb being fattier and meatier, while goat trotters are skinnier and leaner. Many in the Western world prepare it with pig trotters, as these were the only kind easily accessible six decades ago when Parsis from the subcontinent started migrating to the West.

This dish can only be cooked in large quantities and is a long, slow process. It is therefore common to have this as a one-di