kokoro

                 Kokoro

My hunt for my roots sends me to the 'Bengali Market' in Jaipur and 

I discover some new vegetable which even as a child I hadn't tasted or seen. This one has a spiky outer but once cooked tastes like lauki but looks like karela.

My Bahadur insisted that this is how it is pronounced. He was rather surprised at my ignorance. This is fairly common back home for him. I made it with jeera just to get its real flavour.