SLC-S28/W5-“Local Taste, Global Twist”| Cultural Fusion Dish!”

For today's competition, I have combined two dishes, namely Polao rice and Shrimp Bhuna. Today, I have made delicious Shrimp Polao by mixing these two. Usually, in our country, Polao rice is eaten with beef or chicken curry and shrimp curry is eaten separately, but today I have tried to cook Shrimp Polao in Indian style by combining these two. I thought that if you make a new dish by combining these dishes, it will be a perfect combination, so today I have cooked Shrimp Polao in Indian style.

First, I will make onion beresta, for this, I will put a pan on the stove, add some oil to it and add some chopped onions to it. Now, I will fry the onions for some time until they turn reddish in color. Then remove them in a bowl.

Now I will add some chopped onions in the same oil and fry them until they are soft. When the onions become soft, I will add almond paste, ginger-garlic paste and onion paste one by one, then stir well, mix everything together and fry for a while. So that the raw smell in the ginger-garlic paste goes away.

Now I will add 1 cup of water to these and stir well. Then I will add all the powdered spices to it and then grind the spices for a while. Once it is ground, I will add the shrimp to it and then stir for a while and cover the pan with a lid so that the shrimp is cooked well.

When the shrimp is cooked well, I will remove it from the pan and keep it in a bowl. Now add the washed pola rice to the ground spices in the pan and fry them for a while. Once fried, add 2 cups of water to the rice and stir well. Now add cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and two green chilies.

Now stir the rice well and cover the pan with a lid and cook the pola well for a while. Once the pola is cooked, turn off the stove and put the shrimp on top of the pola.

Now take this delicious shrimp pola on a plate and serve it beautifully. Here I have used the fried onion rings to serve it. You can also do it differently if you want.

Yes, of course this mixture worked very well together. I have never tried this before, I decided to make such a dish because of this learning challenge but I could not understand exactly how this new version I made would look or taste. But I am very happy to see that my mixture worked very well, and this new dish was also quite delicious to eat which was beyond my expectations. 🤧

No, I did not face any such challenges while making this fusion. Although this is the first time I have tried to combine two mixtures like this, I was also a little nervous inside, but till the end the new version I made turned out to be quite tempting and delicious. Besides, I enjoyed making it quite a bit, it was a different experience that I had never had before. I tried my best to make this dish perfect but I don't know how well I managed.🥲

In the recipe I made today, I used some flavors that I think definitely represent unity in diversity. Because I tried to create a new taste by combining two cultures. Here I tried to convert our country's pulao rice into Indian shrimp pulao so that a new taste is created in it. I think the combination of these two that I have created will be a very nice complement. So I think the unity of diversity is revealed in the new version that I have created.