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The first time I heard the word “Kuska” was a few months back, while we were driving down from Hyderabad to Chennai. Before starting the journey early in the morning, we had decided on having breakfast at some decent restaurant. By the time we decided to stop for breakfast, we couldn’t find a “decent place”. As the hunger pangs started to rise with every kilometre, we stopped looking for “decent” place and instead settled for any food place.

After crossing a few kilometres, we found a dhaba. On enquiring, I was told they had only “Kuska”, which sounded like some alien thing to me. We decided to go further ahead, but got the same reply from the second shop as well. Finally, we decided to stop at the third shop. I went upto them and asked what Kuska is and the cook promptly put a spoonful into a bowl and handed to me to taste. It was rice. On prodding, he said it was rice cooked in mutton broth but won’t have meat in it. Well, how could we say no to that ?? We ate to our heart’s content and I had made up my mind to recreate this at home, of course with some help from the ever resourceful Google After a few failed attempts, I finally found a recipe that was pretty close to what we ate.

I got the recipe from Kitchen Tantra. For those who have a lower heat tolerance, you may want to go easy on the number of chillies used, as this recipe is slightly on the spicier side. Pair it with some cucumber Raita, and it is pure Bliss !! You can prepare this with chicken/beef stock as well.