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Cooking subject should be made compulsory in high schools

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 In today's world, there's no difference made between men and women. Wheather in the terms of work, sports, business, etc. Then why it's such that only women are responsible for household chores and why not men? Is it something like only women can cook good food and not men? Well here's the answer In old days, as girl child turns 10, she's forced to do house chores like brooming, mopping, washing utensils, helping mom in cooking food and serving food to family members, etc. and only few were allowed to study. Whereas boy child were allowed to play, study and do whatever they want to do and the same thing is going on in today's generation but the only difference is that parents began to give more importance to education. But still boys are not allowed to do house chores. It's just because they are not taught to cook and other things. When it comes to gender equality, both men and women must be treated equally in the terms of education as well as c...

Dal Makhni

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 Whenever you see or say Dal Makhni, the credits goes to three friends. They are Kundan Lal Jaggi, Thakur Dass and Kundan Lal Gujral. They where the first people to open the restaurant named 'Moti Mahal' in Punjab after partition and to introduce Punjabi cuisine to the rest of the world in 1947. Dal Makhni basically has rich, smooth and creamy texture. Dal Makhni is authentically made with black lentils (black urad dal or kali dal) which is also known as maa ki dal, but now a days people also add red lentils (masoor dal) and red kidney beans (rajma) and also onions (authentically it doesn't goes) in order to make it more rich and increase the consistency of dal and side by to make it more heavier to our palate. It is made up of tomato gravy and with lots of butter and cream. In Punjabi marriage, you will always see the buffet of Dal Makhni as every Punjabi marriage is incomplete without Dal Makhni. Thus Dal Makhni plays very crucial role especially in Punjabi as well as in ...