This recipe is from Esther David’s Bene Appetit: The Cuisine of Indian Jews, published in 2021 by HarperCollins. The Indian Jewish community comprises a tiny but important part of the population.
In Bene Appetit, Esther David, a Bene Israel Jew herself, records traditions and closely guarded recipes from Jewish communities from across India. In this excerpt, she travels to Andhra Pradesh to learn about the cuisine of Bene Ephraim Jews.