Cooking with the Earthen Pot
Cooking food with an earthen pot is gourmet travel, full of colors, tastes and smells.
An earthen pot is a beautiful thing, with round, sweet and solid curves to see, to admire and to feel. A warm invitation to more than satisfy your appetite.
Baked earth (clay) has been used for many centuries. Tough and fragile at the same time, it needs some safety measures.
Cleaning
Before using the pot for the first time, you have to rub its outside with a clove of garlic. You have to do that regularly and absolutely if the pot is fissured.
The pot needs to breathe, so store it in a ventilated place, and it’s cover must not be well closed.
It needs to be washed without any detergent. If some vegetables burned inside, it’s enough to let the pot soak, then to wash it. When it’s dry, rub it inside, with paper and sea-salt.
Cooking
The pot needs to cook slowly and regularly. It will take a gas flame or an electric burner but it needs to be isolated from the flames of a wood fire.
It’s better to begin to cook using a heat diffuser under the pot.
To cook with this type of pot means to cook without any fat or water, preserving the food nutriments. It’s why you have to start with some vegetables that add water on the bottom of the pot, like onions, tomatoes, salads…. and then add eventually a few drops of olive oil, and then, other vegetables, cereals, potatoes, fruits, seaweed, or soy proteins, depending your taste.
During the cooking time, the cover must stay shut and the appetizing smell, which little by little fills the kitchen, will tell you very clearly how the cooking is progressing. Sometimes, it’s good to shake the pot a bit to make sure the contents are mixing well.
You can also cook with your pot in the oven, but before, it’s needs to soak in water a long time enough to be re-hydrated. If animals proteins are cooked in the pot they impregnate it, giving the taste to the next dish, and above all, become rancid and saturated. To clean the pot, boil water and vegetables peelings in it several times.
To cook with an earthen pot needs a special time which has nothing to do with the rhythm of a microwave oven. It’s another world, another way to feel food and health. The earthen pot is absolutely complementary with the norwegian pot, in where the contents continue to cook, slowly.
When you put the earthen pot on the table, nice, hot, perfumed and curved, it makes lovely twittering music with its contents. And when you take its cover off, very delicately, its sweet smells emerge and become stronger, and the make hungry stomachs crazy, but even before the first morsel, everybody offers their gratitude to the unknow potter, who made the beautiful pot.
where can we get earthen-cookware in hyderabad…………………….?
Hi Friends,
If you are in PUNE. You can buy the utensils @ KUMBHARWADA, its near Shanivarwada,
Dengate Bridge, Near Signal.
There are many many utensils available there… that also very cheap starting from 30 – 80
Aao milke Rajiv Bhai ka sapna pura kare, Swasat Bharat Banaye.
where i will get earthen pot in pune??
u can all me on 8983882775
Please let us know from where to procure earthen wares as they are not available in market.
If u can teach me, I can start making n selling them on my own
Lota is a good vessel to dring water from since the circular part lowers the surface tension of water, so that its helpful to body, however dring water from a glass will have more surface tension and harmful. This I came to know about from the lectures of Rajiv Dixit in Chennai. I purchased the mpr cd at just Rs.40/- in Bangalore, when he had come about 2 years ago. Its a health tip for all of us to dring water from round vessels like pots.
WE HAVE STUDIED THE MITTICOOL PROJECT INTRODUCED BY MANSUKH BHAI ,PRODUCTS ARE VERY USABLE AND GOOD FOR HEALTH ON CHEAPER PRICES.BUT NOT AVAIALBLE IN OUR PUNJAB WE ARE GOING TO INTRODUCE WITH MANSUKH BHAI.WE THINK BST SHOULD HELP TO INTRODUCE THESE PRODUCTS.
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