Thursday, October 17, 2013

Poppy Signs Or Kash Kash Are quite White in Pakistan


I hadn't remarked that poppy seeds come in any shades; I always thought they were black, as they are in breads in Europe, so I was surprised to be told the fact that the small grains of sand I was shopping at were in calculation, seeds from the poppy foliage. Then I was shown different coloured seeds, some dark-blue, and some more of a yellow than white colored. Because bread as we know which could popular, or common in the Pakistan, there is very little bread with poppy facilities. The typical roti (or chapattis) are plain, as are the naan type breads, while others naan are like pizza, and topped with spud paste or gram flour insert with slices of tomato but just as hot green chillies. Only paratha are filled up with vegetables such as grated mooli, these are eaten at weekends absolutely no, when people aren't ready to go to market study. Nowadays, where I are in Rawalpindi, very few people bother to prep roti, as they are subsidized which included a provincial government, and sell at their 2 rupees per roti. Given used up and effort it takes to prep roti, it's much easier to buy them within the tandoor ready made.

The Latin good reputation the poppy, Papavar somniferum (the poppy of sleep) always jogs my memory of the scene once they "Wizard of Oz" when Dorothy together companions succumb to the somniferous involving the flowers and go to sleep in a field and if poppies.

The ancient Greeks associated the poppy with minor god Hypnos, the god respite, so I guess the opium obtained from the poppy was stuck just using his twin brother, Morpheus, a major god of dreams. Before I arrived at Pakistan, I thought poppies would be more cultivated, but I haven't found any poppy fields and there a fortune be a social problem involving the use of morphine, although heroin is a type of different matter. Poppy seeds contain little if any trace of narcotics, even though the plant they come from are identical one that provides us with codeine and morphine.

Traditionally poppy seeds are utilized in medicine on india. They are cooked having green cardamoms and sugar to deal with diarrhea, and extract from the poppy plant are utilized to reduce fevers, help with all liver complaints and get rid of TB.

In Pakistan poppy nuts and seeds, or Kash-Kash as they're called, are used ground to thicken sauces along with refreshing drinks. They can even be sometimes added to rice dishes to deliver a different flavour. Essentially the most drinks is Serdai, this is made with milk and even water.

SERDAI

Ingredients

1 litre whole milk or water

30 gr blanched almonds

50 gr poppy seeds

4 green cardamoms, seeds removed and husks discarded

6 all black peppercorns

ice

sugar to taste

Method

Grind the poppy seeds know exactly. Then grind the cardamom crops and almond

Put the black peppercorns, sugar and milk or water into your pan and bring to your boil. Remove from the heat, put all the ingredients except ice in it and leave to cool.

Serve chilled, with glaciers.

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