Topic started by R (@ bgp530486bgs.ebrnsw01.nj.comcast.net) on Tue Dec 24 08:23:31 .
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Hi,

I saw ur old thread about making Deccan/Muslim Briyani. I live in NJ and yesterday, we went to a restaurant which is a Hyderabadi Deccan.

They had a vegetable briyani which is so colorful and had the vegetables like boiled carrot and tomato(round slices) and also plantain!! It is not in pieces, they addded half of the plantain directly. Forgot the name, but it started with T, can u pls tell me what it could be and send the recipe for it?? It was so unique and never tasted like that.

One more clarification-for double ka meeta, which is a traditional one? bread soaked in milk directly, or should we fry in ghee?

I saw in so many sites and tried by frying it in ghee, but in hyderabad restaurtants, it was mentioned that simply bread soaked in milk. Even, my hyderabdi friend did the same. So, which is a traditional way of making??

Thanks a lot for sharing ur time..

Responses:

• From: Ivete (@ ) on: Sat Aug 7 05:46:07
  
  Mr. Trivedi,
  I have a question for you.
  A friend of mine has a health food shop and yesterday she told me the calcium found in cow milk is not absorbed by our body. The one from goat and sheep yes and also the one added to soy milk. That's why nowadays they add calcium to cow milk. Is it true? I don't believe it because there are so many campaigns to prevent ostheoporosis where doctors tell you to have at least 3 glasses of milk a day. I think it's all a marketing trick when you see milk with calcium added it's more expensive than the normal ones.
  What do you think?
  
  
• From: Hemant Trivedi (@ 203-195-212-199.now-india.net.in) on: Sat Aug 7 06:04:06 EDT 2004
  
  Hello Ivete,
  You have rightly said it. It is a marketing trick.
  Its just that goat milk is very easy to digest because of its lower fat content.
  Absorption of calcium by women in age beyond MS at about 48 starts getting reduced and that's why women in old age when they have fractures , especially of hip bone, are very difficult to heal properly.
  Its better to use calcium rich foods/greens etc along with iron content.
  
  

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