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Now the monsoon season is over and the flood waters are receding right here in Pakistan, there was an incredible quantity of devastation. Within the native bazaar the worth of hen has plummeted, as a result of poultry farmers are determined to promote their birds as a result of the buildings which housed them have been destroyed within the floods. That is excellent news for the buyer nowadays, however the flip facet is that the worth of eggs has gone by way of the roof.
We now have vivid purple carrots within the bazaar and my husband got here house with water chestnuts when he went to the outdated Raja Bazaar earlier this week. These are referred to as ‘sangaray‘ right here and though Pakistani delicacies does not appear to incorporate them as do cuisines of South-East Asia, they’re utilized in drugs.
When you’ve by no means eaten contemporary water chestnuts you might marvel why they’ve this identify as what do tuberous roots of a water plant have in widespread with a nut? The reply is – the style. A few of these sangaray style like chestnuts which have been roasted on a brazier; others have a extra floral style. Whichever selection I’ve eaten right here although, have tasted very totally different to the canned ones I utilized in Europe.
In Pakistan these water chestnuts are sometimes powdered and used to make roti (chapattis) and the water left after boiling them is combined with just a few water chestnuts, liquidized and given to kids affected by measles. They are saying that sangaray have cooling properties and so are good for heatstroke and fevers. The powdered water chestnuts combined with milk or water is claimed to be good for urinary tract infections reminiscent of cystitis, and the juice from these edible roots is used to remedy indigestion and nausea.
They give the impression of being loads like mouth-watering sweets of their onerous shell casing and must be boiled till the shell is softer. I eat then contemporary from their shells which can be why I believe they’re like roast chestnuts that are discovered on road corners in Portugal, and Greece at the moment of yr.
Sadly on this a part of the Punjab (Islamabad/Rawalpindi) we will not discover these in our native bazaar. The vegetable vendor requested my husband the right way to cook dinner them, so they don’t seem to be as extensively relished right here we suspect as they’re within the southern Punjab round Lahore. There the water chestnut season is eagerly awaited and it’s mentioned that they are going to remedy any fevers that happen after the monsoon. Contact wooden I have never had one but, however it’s good to know {that a} scrumptious remedy is at hand.
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Source by Lynne Evans