The wait for rain, the craving for pakoras
KARACHI: What is it about rain, or even cloudy weather for that matter, that everyone wants to have pakoras?
“Looks like it is going to really pour today,” my friend observes looking out her balcony. “Let me check if we have besan [chickpea flour] at home to make pakoras,” she says. And locating the big plastic jar of gram flour in a kitchen cabinet, she goes about checking what vegetables she can use in making the fritters.
Outside on the roads the aroma of fresh fried fritters beckons as it complements the scent of rain falling on the dry muddy ground. There are queues forming outside all the places making pakoras.
There is Mohammad Yamin Lahooti selling sizzling pakoras near the Sindh Secretariat. He has a choice on offer. There are the potato and green chilli fritters and the mix vegetable fritters. The potato and mix vegetable ones cost Rs100 per quarter kilogram, which is the ideal amount to buy for a person. And each long green chilli fritter is for Rs10.