Coconut

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top 1000My Bombay Kitchen
My Bombay Kitchen

By Niloufer Ichaporia King

Published 2007

  • About
Dealing with coconut is an everyday operation in Parsi kitchens. In earlier days, there was no other way of getting coconut milk except by cracking one open. Now there are options. Throughout the book, I will let you know when a substitute is acceptable and when nothing but the freshly prepared ingredient will do.

An exotic in ancient Persia, coconut has become an important part of Parsi ceremonial life and food alike. Our ritual array of symbolic objects, the ses, always has a coconut on it. Coconuts figure as a symbol of fertility and bounty in just about every important ceremony throughout the life cycle, as they do for a large part of India.