Crisp, hollow fritters filled with boiled potatoes, sprouted mung beans and chutney, often served by the roadside.
Cottage cheese made from curdled bottled milk, like a cross between Ricotta and tofu. It can be fried and curried.
A confection which is fried to resemble the Indian plum or ber, a plum-like fruit which is a small, sweet, reddish-black berry which fruits during the monsoon.
Papaya. There is great discussion about the difference between papaya and paw paw or papaw. Essentially, they are all the same thing. It just depends where you are. The size of a large avocado, it has soft-textured, fragrant, apricot-coloured flesh with small black seeds which must be stripped out. It is a great breakfast fruit. If you have an unripe papaya which you wish to ripen overnight, pierce it with a sharp knife several times. It should be cut lengthways as this facilitates the removal of the seeds.
