Bollywood veteran Jackie Shroff serves up home-style fare for Farah Khan at his countryside haven
Mumbai – Indian film star Jackie Shroff treated filmmaker-choreographer Farah Khan to an intimate cooking session at his eco-friendly farmhouse outside Pune.
Farah visited Shroff’s green retreat where he prepared a rustic, wholesome meal featuring dishes such as cholai ka saag, baigan bharta, and dahi bhaat, each cooked in claypots and with freshly harvested produce.
Shroff’s culinary style reflects his grounded lifestyle: he chops and pounds ingredients himself, uses earthenware and local greens, and avoids any lavish or overly processed additions. The result is simple food that emphasises flavour, tradition, and the “connection with the soil” rather than extravagance.
Recipes from the day:
For the dahi bhaat (curd rice) Shroff’s version involves cooking rice, letting it cool fully, transferring it to an earthen pot with a little warm milk, adding a smashed onion and a slit green chilli, and then leaving it overnight to ferment naturally, finishing it with a tampering of oil, spices and salt.
For cholai ka saag (amaranth-based greens) he recommended crushing a mix of green and red amaranth leaves along with moringa and dill, pounding ginger‐garlic into a coarse paste, then sautéing onions, curry leaves, the paste, and the crushed greens in oil and ghee until well blended, with chopped tomatoes stirred in for richness.
The visit and cooking session underscored Shroff’s philosophy that food needn’t be extravagant to be meaningful, it can simply be soulful, sustainable, and rooted in tradition.