#1000Kitchens Recipe Drop: Shunali
On particularly biting, snowy days, when temperatures below 0 degrees celsius kept all the village kids indoors, they’d beg Palmo Thakur’s grandmother to let them help in the kitchen, so she’d devise a scheme to keep them all occupied: together, they’d make large portions of the time-consuming, hearty, versatile Lahauli dish, shunali, in the warmth of the bukhari (hearth) of their thick stone-walled home.
If you mistake a plate of shunali, with its small, kneaded dough balls tossed in a chunky sauce, for a rustic Italian orecchiette pasta, you wouldn’t be the first. But when placed against the colourful, woven, striped Kinnauri tablecloth that's characteristic of Himachal Pradesh at Palmo’s family’s homestay in Kullu, the dish takes on an unmistakably local flair.
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Words by Sneha Mehta. Photography by Terrence Manne.
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