Misal Pav

'Misal Pav'

is a marathi movie to be released in the late 2011 under the banner of M D movies.

produced by: Madhu K Pandit

Director: Vishwjit Masal

Actors: Vijay Chavan, Usha Nadkarni, Viju Khote, Anshuman Vishare and others.

Misal pav (Spicy curry with bread - "pav" is the Indian colloquial for bread) is a traditional Indian dish. It consists of spicy curry usually made of sprouts, mutter, chick peas and chilly powder gravy. The final dish is topped with Punjabi mix, Farsan or sev (Indian noodles), poha(another Indian cuisine), onions, lemon and coriander (cilantro). It is usually served with bread toasted with butter and buttermilk or curd and papad. It is very nutritious. Misal from Kolhapur (a place in South-West India, is very famous for its high spice content and is particularly known as Kolhapuri misal. It is made of a particular variety of sprouted lentil called "Matki" Matki which has a sweet aroma. Misal in its original form is prepared using onion, ginger, garlic and other spices. It has two parts, a thick curry of matki called "Ussal" which has less water content and watery and spicy "cut" or a "bite". usually people mix these two accordig to their taste and requirement. In most restaurants which serves misal-pav, usal and cut will be served together later on only cut will be added. It is basically a spicy reciepe but very tasty. One can see red chilli powder and oil floating over (called as Tarri in local language). There are various ways to prepare it. Its sweeter version is famously known as Brahman Misal.