New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- Chef Regi Mathew remembers raiding his mother's fridge with his brothers in the middle of the night to steal her special "cloud pudding". Being the youngest of four brothers, he was the one deputed to do the actual stealing, and he would invariably get caught the next morning because his sharp-eyed mother would be able to identify the guilty party from the size of the fingermarks on the squishy surface of the pudding.
The "cloud pudding" is a must order at Mathew's restaurant Kappa Chakka Kandhari, which opened in Bengaluru recently after a blockbuster debut in Chennai in 2018. Very mildly sweet, the pudding is made of equal parts tender coconut pulp and coconut water, set with agar agar. A Syrian Christian speciality...