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Recipe: Roopali Mohanti's Gobi Musallam

July 21, 2023 12:24 IST

Roopali Mohanti's Gobi Musallam requires a whole cauliflower and has a flavourful yoghurt-based gravy. 

A recipe courtesy her family friend Arshi, it goes beautifully with a vegetable pulav and Roopali's Green Mutton Curry

This author of Servings: Simple Yet Exotic is a hotel management graduate, who has worked with a leading hotel chain. Post motherhood she chose the role of a homemaker. 

Her father was in the Indian Navy, which allowed her mom to keep acquiring new recipes wherever the family travelled, and Roopali's thick volume of recipes brings together all she learnt from her mother and her experiments in the kitchen.  

Read more about Roopali in Part I of this feature: 'Introduction to regional food at an early age was a gift from the partly-nomadic life we led' 

Arshi's Gobi Musallam

Serves: 4

Ingredients

For the gravy

Method

For the gravy

Editor's Note: Vegans can substitute ghee with cashew butter.

For a Jain version of this recipe, skip the onions and the garlic used in the stuffing and the gravy, and replace the ginger in the cauliflower stuffing with 1 tsp saunth or dried ginger and in the gravy with a pinch or 2 of saunth.

Excerpted from Servings: Simple Yet Exotic by Roopali Mohanti with the kind permission of the publishers Rupa Publications India.

ROOPALI MOHANTI