Food For Special Occasions
There are food that are served during special occasions, such as during Diwali a Bahji (vegetable dish) called Chiti-Kuni is made with seven vegetables. If some gets chicken pox and after it is gone, it is common to make an offering and make "mitho lolo", a sweet griddle-roasted flatbread: the dough is wheat flour mixed with oil (or ghee) and sugar syrup flavored with ground cardamom. Sai bhaji chawal, a popular dish from Sindh consists of white steamed rice served with spianch curry which is given a 'tarka' with tomatoes,onions and garlics.
Vermicelli, typically served as a sweetened (sometimes milk-based) dessert, is popular: Muslim Sindhis serve it on Bakri-Id and Eid ul-Fitr. On special religious occasions, mitho lolo, accompanied with milk, is given to the poor.
Mitho lolo is also served with chilled buttermilk called Matho on various occasions.
A special sweet dish called 'Kheer Kharkun' are prepared and served on Eid ul-Fitr, it is prepared by mixing dates and milk, and slowly simmering the mixture for few hours. The dish is eaten hot in winters and cold in summers.
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