Lucknow's Tunday to tickle veg tastebuds too

Lucknow: Lucknow's Tunday Kababi, renowned for its delicious kebabs, has for the first time in its 118-year history added a number of vegetarian options, including kebabs, on its menu. Named after the legendary one-armed chef, late Haji Murad Ali 'Tunday', the outlet has set up a separate kitchen with separate workers and utensils, but will use all its old “secret“ spices.

The experiment has started at its Kapoorthala outlet in Lucknow. Tunday Kababi has a chain of restaurants in Lucknow and other places.For food connoisseurs in Lucknow, it is synonymous with kebabs while its unique flavour and aroma have found patrons world over.

“For several years, we have been getting requests to develop a vegetarian menu, and now our patrons are happily welcoming it,“ said Mohammad Rizwan, Ali's grandson. Ali was a royal khansama from Bhopal whose mix of spices made the traditional galaoti kebabs scale new heights of taste.

Now, potato, ridged gourd (turai), yam (jimikand), chana dal, gram flour and the mouth-watering secret spices go into veg galawati kababs. Besides, there is Begum Ki Pasand Daal, paneer dishes, vegetarian biryani and other vegetable options.

“Even in a large group of customers, there would be at least one vegetarian. So we decided to extend our hospitality to them in the most befitting way,“ said Faraz Siddiqui, Ali's great grandson.

“I used go to Tunday in Lucknow's Aminabad with my friends but later had to eat at a vegetarian outlet. But now Ican also enjoy the famous taste,“ said Shiwangi Awasthi.