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🇮🇳 Hindi · Advanced Level 3

PART 2 · LESSON 13 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Dadi ji's recipe

The Sharmas' kitchen, Noah's mother with her notebook: write it for your mother, first the clarified butter is to be heated, keep it simple, the gum is to be fried, the almonds and the coconut separately, half an hour stirring all the time, then everything coarsely ground, one spoon a day for forty days.

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THE STORY

The Sharmas' kitchen in Lajpat Nagar, a February afternoon: Dadi ji dictates the roasted-flour sweet every new mother in her village eats, Noah relays it to his mother's notebook, and Mummy ji keeps it simple; Noah says the polite you to both, Mummy ji says the polite you to Dadi ji.

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अपनी माँ के लिए लिखो, नई माँ की पंजीरी.ap-nee maan ke li-e li-kho, na-ee maan kee pan-jee-ree.Write it for your mother: the roasted-flour sweet for a new mother.
वे तैयार हैं. पहले क्या?ve tai-yaar hain. peh-le kyaa?She's ready. What goes first?
गरम करना हैga-ram kar-naa haiis to be heated
पहले घी गरम करना है, धीमी आँच पर.peh-le ghee ga-ram kar-naa hai, dhee-mee aanch par.First the clarified butter is to be heated, on a low flame.
गरम दूध के साथ खाना है.ga-ram doodh ke saath khaa-naa hai.It is to be eaten with warm milk.
आसान रखिए. उन्होंने गोंद नहीं देखा.aa-saan ra-khi-e. un-hon-ne gond na-heen de-khaa.Keep it simple. She has never seen the gum.
गोंद, बादाम, नारियल, सब अलग-अलग भूनना है.gond, baa-daam, naa-ri-yal, sab a-lag-a-lag bhoon-naa hai.The gum, the almonds, the coconut, everything is to be fried separately.
और आटा कितनी देर?aur aa-taa kit-nee der?And the flour, how long?
हिलाते रहनाhi-laa-te reh-naastirring all the time
आधा घंटा, हिलाते रहना. फिर मोटा पीसना है.aa-dhaa ghan-taa, hi-laa-te reh-naa. phir mo-taa pees-naa hai.Half an hour, stirring all the time. Then it is to be ground coarsely.

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