Recipe: Dolly Mumma's akuri, Indian-style masala scrambled eggs | Food Stuff | Stuff.co.nz

When Indian cooking enthusiast Perzen Patel was little, her grandmother, Dolly Mumma, asked her what she wanted to inherit. Patel thought about it for a moment and replied, “a big, never-ending bowl of her curry” to always remember her by.

Patel grew up learning to cook at her Dolly Mumma’s knee in India, but when she moved to Aotearoa-New Zealand at 15, she lost her knack for traditional Indian cooking.

A visit home, years later, reignighted her love of flavours beyond the orange tikkas and yellow butter chickens she’d grown used to in New Zealand. On returning home, she started her Indian cooking sauce company, named it after her grandmother, and never looked back.

"When it came to Indian food, I was really tired of hearing people just talk about the same four or five dishes. I felt like we were ready to move further,” she says.

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[theloveyourfacegal]

I never had eggs soupy before, I'll have to try it love ❤️ your kitchen :)

[IndianFoodwithPerzen]

Thank you for watching everyone. You can find out more about Dolly Mumma and how we help you go beyond butter chicken - www.dollymumma.com