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Nawabi food festival @ Khazana

Khazana, as a follow-up to their usual chain of festivals, will be hosting a Nawabi Food Festival. The preparation is already well underway, and as a note of reminder, perhaps it is high time that your appetite is in need of a royal service.

Royal chefs from Lucknow have been flown in and with the Khazana in-house staff, they will be presenting various Nawabi food items for the customers. Chef Kamal Waris and Chef Sayed Iqbal, who have mastered the culinary art of the Nawabs, will be preparing the food.

What sets out the Nawabi menu from the rest is interesting. Time after time, we have heard that cooking depends upon that special intuition of the chefs; that for good cooks, measurements do not matter, and that they let their senses guide them towards the perfect dish.

For Nawabi food items, however, the story is different- chefs are head-strong in their belief in perfect measurements. There are strict codes as to the quantity of spices and ingredients that can be used, and intuition has no role to play whatsoever.

Another trademark of this type of cuisine is the liberal use of zaffran (saffron) that was said to be good for the health. Lucknow is also famous for its 'dum pukht' preparations, where all the ingredients are tossed in and then cooked for a long time over a low flame in a sealed vessel.

So here is a preview of what will be available- Jehangiri Shorba (extract of lamb flavoured with herbs and saffron), Gobi Mussallum (cauliflower stuffed with spices and then barbequed), Murgh Begumbahar (boneless chicken simmered over low fire, to name a few. For desserts, there will be two special items popular with the Nawabs- Badam Zaffrani Phirnee and Lab-E-Mashooq (an exotic dessert of saffron rabri spread on a slice of syrup soaked home-made bread, garnished with dry fruits and nuts).

The dishes will be ranging from Tk.350 to Tk.950 plus tax. The Festival will be stretching form the 15th to the 25th of February.

By Shahmuddin Ahmed Siddiky

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