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Pork bafat with Sannas:

Pork bafat is what Sunday afternoons are made for. The bafat is a Portuguese-influenced spice-powder mix made primarily of chillies, coriander and peppercorn. The pork is slow-cooked in the bafat masala and the aromatic curry is almost always eaten with fluffy, cotton-wool-like sanas, a cousin of the idli that is usually fermented with toddy. Sample it at the Mangala Restaurant & Bar, or William Pereira Hotel. (Text: Colin D’Souza; Image: Nikhil Pai)