Description

Sohum Metkut 100Gm is a fine powder of roasted dals ground with turmeric, asafoetida and a few other spices. The name comes from me for methi and kut for pounded, and the whole thing exists to be stirred into rice.

A spoon of metkut with hot rice and a spoon of ghee is the plainest comfort food in a Marathi household, the thing eaten when nothing else has been cooked, when someone is unwell, or as the first course of a meal. It is also dusted over plain dahi rice and used to season a simple bhaji.

What do you actually do with metkut? Mix a teaspoon into a small mound of hot rice with ghee and eat it as it is. That is the whole dish. Some households also stir it into curd rice or sprinkle it over steamed vegetables.

Is it very spicy? No. Metkut is savoury and slightly bitter from the methi rather than hot. The heat in a Maharashtrian meal comes from elsewhere; this is closer to a seasoning powder than to a chutney.

Another Sohum speciality, Sohum horse gram flour, is on the same shelf, and the rest of the shelf in this aisle carries the attas, ravas and besan. Vegetarian. Store it in a cool, dry place in a sealed container, because flour takes up damp and picks up the smell of whatever sits beside it. Order online at Panjab Supermarket for same-day delivery across Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Leidsche Rijn, Vleuten, Maarssen, Zeist, Bunnik, IJsselstein, Vianen, and Culemborg. Free delivery on orders over 49 euros.