Bringing an eclectic flare to your Christmas fare are a host of home chefs and small businesses dishing out everything from Swedish meatballs to Portuguese festive delicacies and a whole lot more.
By Raul Dias
Rummy’s Kitchen
With over a hundred varieties of vegetarian and meat pickles in her repertoire, Andheri West-based Inderpreet 'Rummy' Nagpal of the eponymous Rummy’s Kitchen decided to shake things up a bit this festive week with her rather 'well-travelled' Christmas special menu. “Having relatives all over the world, I thought it best to come up with a range of international festive dishes that I learnt to make on my visits abroad,” says Nagpal. On her a la carte Christmas menu that’s available from Wednesday to Sunday this week are dishes from America like a lemon herb roast chicken with cranberry meatballs (Rs 850) and braised pork ribs (Rs 850) with a side of the Italian staple of polenta. Accompanying these are her German stollen fruit bread (Rs 200), bacon bread (Rs 550) and a very unique Christmas tree pull apart bread (Rs 550). Desserts take the form of a Christmas cupcake with a rum and cream cheese frosting (Rs 150 for two) and a Christmas jar dessert (Rs 350) layered with spiced plum cake bits, cheesecake and piped chocolate ganache.
Call: 9769211608
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CAS
Egged on by friends who couldn’t get enough of his all-vegetarian lockdown dinners, fashion designer turned home chef Chintan Shah decided to start a small, luxury catering outfit called CAS (Culinary, Artisanal, Sensory) in earnest a couple of months ago. Operating out of his Peddar Road home’s kitchen, Shah bases his weekly vegetarian meal menus on his past travels to 101 countries. “My current Winter Wonderland Christmas menu is an ode to my trips to Switzerland where the food is hearty and warming,” says Shah. Packed for two, the three-course meal (Rs 1,900) available from Thursday to Saturday this week consists of a creamy asparagus soup, a Swiss chard, walnut and feta salad and a French baguette topped with the typically Swiss melted raclette cheese. Shah also sends in his wine and craft cocktail pairing suggestions with the meal. For an additional Rs 600, you can even get two servings of a traditional, boozy zuger kirschtorte cake with a nut meringue.
Call: 9969999699
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Cozinha Amorosa
“A loving kitchen” is what former lawyer and passionate home chef Anisha Andrade's three-month-old food business Cozinha Amorosa means in Portuguese. “I learnt the nuances of Portuguese cuisine from my mother-in-law, who, although Goan, has a strong Portuguese heritage,” says the Santacruz West-based Andrade. While her regular menu is full of traditional Goan dishes, she’s doing a number of Portuguese-style delicacies for this festive week. One can expect to relish dishes like a pork and bean stew called feijoada, an arroz con chorizo (sausage rice), a rare-to-find prawn cake called apa de camaro and a creamy tuna moulded salad which are all priced between Rs 450 to Rs 500 a portion, that Andrade says is enough to feed two. Desserts like the biscuit crumb serradura pudding and the tender coconut soufflé (both Rs 150 a portion) are just some of the sweet treats she has on offer. Andrade requires at least 48 hours advance notice for all orders.
Call: 9821399414
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Global Foodie
Taking the home diner on a whirlwind tour of cuisines from around the world is the Christmas menu by Global Foodie. Started a few years ago by advertising professional Prashant Pradhan, this Powai-based kitchen stays true to its name. “Our entire festive menu is made up of dishes from places as diverse as Brazil and Scandinavia to Korea and Italy,” says Pradhan who makes interesting dishes like Swedish meatballs served with mashed potatoes and blueberry jam (Rs 1,250 for a five-person portion). The menu, that’s available all this week, also has a Spanish seafood paella (Rs 1,600 for 1.5kgs), Italian porchetta pork roll (Rs 1,850 for 1.5kgs), Korean fried chicken wings (Rs 450 for a dozen) and Brazilian chicken croquettes called coxinas (Rs 1,400 for two dozen). To finish the feast off is the rich and decadent French chocolate terrine (Rs 400 for 300gms).
Call: 9967353332
(An edited version of this review appeared in the 23rd December 2020 issue of the Mid-Day newspaper, India on page 19 https://m.mid-day.com/articles/christmas-meals-from-around-the-world-by-mumbai-based-home-chefs/23156210)
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