Kitchri

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INDOLOGY , " Sukratu Barve " <sukratu wrote:

 

But isn't there a Sanskrit word for khichri viz., kRsara, kRzara?

Monier Williams gives the word and the meaning 'a dish consisting of

sesamum and grain (mixture of rice and peas with a few spices)',

cites a vartika on Panini 8.3.59 which presumably accounts for the

derivation of the word. I'm not however able to locate this vartika.

 

Lakshmi Srinivas

>

> Interesting. " Khitchri " has apparently been well noticed by

travellers

> to the subcontinent 15 century onwards. Afanasy Nikitin (15th

cent. from

> Russia)

> and Francois Bernier (17th cent. from France) for example found it

> mentionable.

> It is quite likely that the dish was modified to include meat

stock as it

> went

> across westwards. I do not know if one could associate this with

the Roma

> migration which took place a few hundred years earlier. (I am

assuming that

> the vegetarian kitchri of the subcontinent predates middle eastern

> counterpart)

> Sincerely

> Sukratu Barve

> On 5/26/07, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen <Toke_Knudsen wrote:

> >

> > Hello,

> >

> > From this BBC article

> > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6611667.stm> about

Israelis of

> > Iraqi origin:

> >

> > " We used to eat kubbeh and bamia, or okra. The kubbeh, made with

minced

> > lamb, was the national food for the Jews all over Iraq. Thursday

was

> > the day of khitchri - it's a dish cooked with rice and lentils. "

> >

> > There is a recipe of Iraqi Jewish kitchri at

> > <http://chezpim.typepad.com/blogs/2004/05/is_my_email_bur.html>.

> >

> > This sounds like it the same as the kitchari or kitchri of

India. What

> > is the history of this dish? Is there a story to explain that

the same

> > name is used for it by Iraqi Jews and in India?

> >

> > Sincerely,

> > Toke

> >

> >

> >

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