MORE MOR-KALI.

Today early morning 5:00 am I was chatting with my cousin when she mentioned that she loves Morkali (I dont know how to spell this better, anyways she had spelled it morkali so am using the same :) ) and which is unusual. I replied her back saying that even I love morkali especially my mom made morkali and that is when we both decided that whe have to write something about morkali.
What is morkali.Morkali is a south indian dish. Its kind of like a upma but is made with rice flour and curd. It would be more tasty if the curd is sour. (Actually its a must that the curd is sour). Now the recipe is simple. Add curd to the mixture. And set it aside. Then do seasoning, add this mix and stir it till the whole mixture turns to brown and yummy kali is ready.Sounds so simple right :)
Now I dont know probably my mom adds more oil or whatever when she makes it it just tastes really yummy and there will be a big competition between me , my sis and my dad. And It just would taste heavenly and always would feel like its not enough.
So now after my marriage, I wanted to prepare this heavenly dish for Pavan. Now when I explained about this to Pavan, he was really scared. First thing is am already a great cook and he has to suffer my daily routine and if I am going to prepare something for the first time then you can imagine how much he should be afraid. On top of it he told me that he generally doesnt prefer to eat the kali kind of stuff. And finally out of the newly wed crush he one day offered to try it out.
So I started my ordeal. Well its so simple to do it. I just told him wait for 5 minutes and you are ready to try out the most heavenly and blissful dish. So all set, the mixture is done. And I lit the stove, put the pan , add oil , mustard seeds and red chilly..And then poured the mix in the stove and started to stir it. I was just hoping that it would turn brown soon but it doesnt. Well am I doing the right thing. So I called my mom and checked and she confirmed everything is as per I have done and asked me to have some patience. By the end of the discussion when I was going to kitchen,I could see the kali but well..how hard I try I was not able to remove the spoon from the dish. I switched off the stove and was trying with all my energy to remove the spoon from the dish. Otherwise it tasted just fine and yummy :). Then I called Pavan. He told me to wait till the dish gets bit cold. But I was telling him that mor kali tastes fine only when it is hot. He gave me you-still-have-the guts-to-ask-me-to-taste look and told me to wait. And then he tried and tried hard in vain.
Right time there was a ad in TV. Fevicolin balamana inaippu.. I mean Fevicol just sticks so strong that you can never remove it. And my husband started laughing. He was telling me that even If he manages to remove the spoon there is no way we can ever seperate the dish from the pan. Its like two souls united forever. I still dont understand what went wrong.And I had to disown my pan, the spoon and the mor-kali. Such a sad ending to a good start :(And I definitely could not wait for our maid to come and clean the pan because already it was so hard getting maids in Chennai and we both were pretty confident that if I let her see the pain and the kali that would probably be the last day she worked in our home. After that I never ever even dared to mention about mor-kali to Pavan but I had the longing of trying it again.
So next time I tried to make mor-kali is after around 4 years of my marriage at my moms place when I was pregnant. I then tried once when I was alone at home to save any further embarrasment. So this time I took very little of everything and started to make mor-kali. I just let my friend know that and she told me that however good I prepare I should not eat it as its a big risk for the baby inside. What if it gets stuck :). So this time thankfully it looked great and I really wanted to taste it but well why take chance during pregnancy. So my cousin (poor soul) unexpectedly came to see me in the wrong time.And I offered him. Well I prepared very little and definitely only one person can eat and he got the chance.
He told me that he dont want to eat anytihng but I told him that when a pregnant lady offers he should not be saying no and that am already having lots of mood swings and if he dont eat I will start crying :):):). So he managed to eat it and when he was eating he literally tried so hard in between so many times to tell me that it tastes good but he could not open his mouth as it was still sticky :). Finally after he finished eating he told me that I should thank god that I am pregnant :)and he never knew till that day that I had so much of hatred for him :) Well thats to the lighter side, actually he said it was good but I till date dont know if it really was good and thats the second and last time I tried mor-kali. After that I never got a chance but now..to think about it probably I will try to make it this weekend. Anyways I have one old pan which am thinking to get rid of. So do you want to come home this weekend to try mor-kali????