Nine-Bean Stew

Kwati

Preparation info
  • Serves

    8 to 10

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
We Are La Cocina

By Leticia Landa and Caleb Zigas

Published 2019

  • About

On the holy day of Janāi Purnimā, we didn’t have school. I’d wake up early in the morning, and all the kids from my neighborhood would find ropes and we’d use the ropes to make a barrier across the road. In order to pass, the driver would have to give us money. We’d scream with happiness each time a car came by because we’d get a few coins. In the middle of the day, our priest would come to the house and say a blessing on each of our hands with a rope. He chanted in Sanskrit, and we always