Comments on: Xacuti

By: Raaga

Raaga — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:46:14 +0000

After having xacuti at a goan restaurant on Saturday, I knew I had to come back and look for the recipe here. Shall try this very soon.

By: jugalbandi » E-D of Indian Vegetables

jugalbandi » E-D of Indian Vegetables — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:57:57 +0000

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By: Yogesh Khandke

Yogesh Khandke — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:09:00 +0000

Even though you say that sagoti the name of a vegetarian Malvani dish, I remember my father long ago telling me that the Marathi word for mutton ‘that is what we called lamb in gravy at home’ was sagoti. No body from our family is from Malvan, my mother was from Mahad, my paternal grand mother from Pune, and my ancestors came to Mumbai from Satara, when there was a famine there. That was before the 1857 cha band, (The first War of Independence).

Also more importantly thank you for telling every body that xacuti is not exotic but very much deshi like every thing else in Goa (well almost, very few of us are comfortable eating swine fed on their own s**t). The gobblesque tom tomming that Goa is showcases an overwhelming catholic Portuguese legacy is at best an exaggeration and almost always a lie. Goa to me feels like a Kokan village except that apart from the monsoons it is too warm for comfort.

By: Rashmi

Rashmi — Wed, 07 May 2008 03:30:12 +0000

Thanks for making goan food accessible to us herbivores..looks delicious !

By: VegeYum

VegeYum — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:35:17 +0000

What a great photo! I love the fact that you can make xacuti with vegetables. I never knew the origin of the dish, or the name. Oddly, I always thought it might be Northern Chinese influence, probably through the spice trading route, as it has similarities to words containing “x” from that region.

VegeYum