SF Legacy Business Needs Your Help

BY TAMARA PALMER

If you’re able, please consider contributing to the GoFundMe to save New Delhi, an official San Francisco Legacy Business that has served the city for an incredible 32 years. As of this writing, the campaign has raised just over $10,000 of a $17,000 goal. Chef and proprietor Ranjan Day has spent most of that time doing selfless fundraising and work for vulnerable communities in need both here and at home in India.

Ranjan grew up in Kolkata, India eating a street food snack called Mughlai paratha, a multi-layered flatbread stuffed with ground meat and egg. Once he started a family in California and opened New Delhi, which is also San Francisco's longest-running Indian restaurant, he figured out that flour tortillas are a perfectly decent shortcut instead of making paratha when he craves these flavors after a long night at work. He shared his easy technique for California Eating Issue 2 and for the first episode of the California Eating podcast, and I’m now sharing it online:

To make Ranjan's Cali Paratha, simply beat an egg and mix it with one serving of cooked lamb or ground meat/faux meat of your choice, tomato, green onion and jalapeño.

Spoon onto tortilla in pan and cook over medium-low heat like a quesadilla, folding half of the tortilla onto itself after about a minute of cooking. Flip over a few times until the egg is cooked and puffy and the tortilla achieves your desired crispness. Slice into three pieces and serve with ketchup for dipping — trust him!

New Delhi, 160 Ellis Street, San Francisco; (415) 397-8470; www.newdelhirestaurant.com