With the arrival of winter and the start of harvest season, villagers in Maharashtra’s Raigad,Ratnagiri district region gather to enjoy the bounty in a unique way: they host a popti party or in some konkani region it is called as Popti or Monga .
Popti is a one-pot harvest dish cooked with seasonal vegetables, tubers, beans, local spices, chicken, and eggs. Field beans, also known as val beans (वाल पावटा) in western India, are the dish’s star and grow abundantly here.
This is the season when we get fresh val phali and sheng (groundnuts) from the farmers, both of which go into the dish alongside other ingredients
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Procedure by local style :
The dish is made in an earthen pot with onions, eggs, chicken , chilly powder & beans . The pot is further stuffed with the leaves up to its neck. Then it is placed in the fire created by lighting the dry leaves and wood in and around the farm.
POPTI is never eaten alone, its always for a party!!!
The pot is kept in the center and everyone sits around the pot warming themselves idyllically in the warmth of the now dying embers of the fire on which the Popti was cooked.
Come and enjoy this traditional delicacy before the POPTI season ends.
Wow @Praniketmore . Love to see how the bounty of harvest is celebrated with this delicious dish. Your photos took me a savory journey of how it’s made. I loved how it’s made in a pot that others also gather around to warm themselves- bringing a sense of community.
The end result looks extra delicious and I can imagine the food being covered with the leaves also makes it tender and juicy.
I have heard about the dish before, but just came to know the details about the dish. There’s really a value for our traditional and regional dishes. Also our dishes have many health benefits. Thanks for your informational post.
@Gurukrishnapriya thank you, ya actually ,Indeed, the use of natural ingredients and a dirt pot has numerous health benefits. The entire dish is cooked using steam heat, meaning that no oil is required at all.
actually when I publish this after the following day, we will again cook this dish, so fresh posts I repost in the post, thus I did not include their serial number.
Now I rearrange it and gives numbering to all photos Thank you
