Gurugram Trip Overview
Enjoy a meal in a local home, cooked by a food blogger! Uma is passionate about cooking healthy and tasty food and loves to create fusion dishes. She is lovingly called Master Chef Mom at home and now runs a popular blog by the same name, where she shares food experiences and recipes. Uma will prepare an authentic South Indian vegetarian meal and tell you about her family’s favorite dishes. She will introduce you to Indian spices and explain how she prepares her own spice mixes for use in her cooking. This is a unique opportunity to get to know a local family and learn about typical South Indian cooking in a local home.
Additional Info
Duration: 2 hours
Starts: Gurugram, India
Trip Category: Food, Wine & Nightlife >> Dining Experiences
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Enjoy a meal in a local home, cooked by a food blogger! Uma is passionate about cooking healthy and tasty food and loves to create fusion dishes. She is lovingly called Master Chef Mom at home and now runs a popular blog by the same name, where she shares food experiences and recipes. Uma will prepare an authentic South Indian vegetarian meal and tell you about her family’s favorite dishes. She will introduce you to Indian spices and explain how she prepares her own spice mixes for use in her cooking. This is a unique opportunity to get to know a local family and learn about typical South Indian cooking in a local home.
This is a unique opportunity to visit the home of a local and explore traditional culture and cuisine. Uma lives in a simple apartment in Gurgaon with her husband, Raghuraman, daughter, Gayatri, and son, Vishnu. She loves gardening and has a small terrace garden where she grows different herbs that she uses in her cooking. Enjoy a welcome drink panagam, made with jaggery, and snack on some mini idlis (savory cakes) with chutney as Uma tells you all about south Indian food. She will show you the spices and masalas that she uses in her cooking, most which she prefers to mix at home. Your meal will be served in the traditional way on banana leaves and might include dishes such as tamarind rice, coconut rice, mint pulao (Uma’s mother’s special dish) served with achari tomato raita (yogurt), garlic and pepper rasam (a tangy tamarind soup), appalam (a savory pancake made with fermented rice batter), or urulai roast (potato). End your meal with a traditional dessert of curd rice, pickle and payasam (rice pudding).
Stop At:
• Traveling Spoon, New Delhi India
Sample Menu
• mint pulao (Uma’s mother’s special dish) – served with achari tomato raita (yogurt)
• Coconut rice
• garlic and pepper rasam (a tangy tamarind soup)
• appalam (a savory pancake made with fermented rice batter)
• curd rice, pickle and payasam (rice pudding)
