Avra Mitra - Fusion food cuisine is an assassination of a good dish.
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Name – Chef Avra Mitra
What is your favourite food
memory from childhood?
Since
my father was in a transferable job, I used to keep visiting my parental home. My
earliest food memories are of my grandmother running after me (being the
youngest grandson) with a bowl of payesh.
What’s your favourite comfort
food?
I am more of home
cooked food lover. I love my rui maacher
jhal with mustard paste with rice or luchi
aloo dum.
3 reasons why you consider yourself a Foodie?
I'm born into a family where food plays an immense role. My father was famous
for his hospitality and I grew up witnessing it from childhood. Being an adventurous
kid, I would visit a friend’s place and savour something new. My mother, being
a wonderful chef, used to make them and used to include in daily meals.
Even while
choosing careers, Hotel Management was my first option. I started reading, rediscovering
food from world and travelling globally gave me an opportunity to explore new
food flavours.
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Which are your three favourite
cuisine? Why?
I love
the Kashmiri cuisine as the entire cooking process makes an elaborate use of
spices. Besides this, I'm an ardent lover of lamb dishes.
The
next cuisine I loved learning also is Lebanese. It’s a healthy cuisine, not
much of spices, yet fresh and nutritious.
Being a
Bengali, it’s also my favourite since I'm born into the community. ..
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What is your favourite fruit and
vegetable? And your favourite herb/spice?
Favourite
fruit - Raspberries.
Favourite
vegetable - Green peas
Favourite
herb – Rosemary
Favourite
spice – Cumin
Which
oil do you use for cooking?
Sunflower
oil if I am cooking Indian. Mustard oil for Bengali food or special vegetables
like eggplants, bitter gourd, etc.
Your take on:
Keto
diets - I have never tried it.
Intermittent
fasting - I did experiment with it. Unfortunately it didn’t work me, I became
sick and had gastric issues.
Fusion
food cuisine – My interpretation of fusion food is naming it as Hawa ka jhoka. Frankly
it’s an assassination of a good dish.
What are your favourites?
Indian street food – Chicken
egg rolls (Kolkata style)
Indian dessert – Gujjia
Hidden gem restaurant of your
city (and why) – I'm a vagabond so it is difficult to
pinpoint. Yes, I do have a few favourites. In New Delhi, it would be Karims. Their
food has an amazing kind of aroma, texture and flavour which cannot be recreated.
Over-rated Indian restaurant in
your city (and why) – Tenali in New Delhi. The restaurant is
over-hyped. The food is average, nothing great. The ambience is minimalist, service
is great but the attitude of owners sucks.
The restaurant you keep going back to - In Kolkata, it’s definitely Aminia, in Mumbai,
it would be BAGHDADI, and in New York it is Mings.
How do you detox your body after an overdose of eating out?
I have lots
of aerated drinks with lemon wedges.