Chef Ajay Markan at the news conference on Kebabs and Curries Festiva. Picture by Bhola Prasad

Jamshedpur, Sept. 2: Want to tickle your taste buds with north Indian delicacies that promise not to affect your health? Head for Fortune Hotel Centre Point.

An array of mouthwatering dishes will be on the platter at the Fortune Hotel Centre Point from September 6 to 14 and it promises to be good for your health. So if are afraid to try or rich, spicy food as it might affect your health the Kebabs and Curries Festival is the place for you.

From kebabs to curries, a wide range of dishes would be there on the menu from which the visitors can chose from at the restaurant.

And master chef Ajay Markan from ITC Maurya Sheraton, New Delhi, will be at your service during the nine-day food festival. What more, the chef will also conduct cooking classes for the women.

“Kebabs and Curries Festival will be a change from the usual preparation. The USP of the food festival is that though the curries would be prepared at the hotel, the food will have a very homely touch to it. People who would have the food here will come back again,” said Rajiv Walia, the general manager of Fortune Hotel Centre Point.

The dishes the chef recommends the people of the steel city to have during the food fiesta are yakhni firdoush (garlic aromatic chicken with a touch of saffron), tandoori murg and reshmi kebabs.

Markan also suggest to try the chicken curry cooked with shahi jeera (cummin powder) with butter nan.

If you are the adventurous sort and want to try something uncommon, there is nalli gosht (mutton curry), paneer khurchan (paneer cooked in tomato sauce with fenugreek).

“The kebabs and curries that I cook here will be rich in taste but will be good for health also. I want the people of Jamshedpur to taste the north Indian food and become addicted to it that is the rea- son why I will cook the dishes. And if people want to know my secret inside the kitchen, I will take up culinary classes for them. I will teach the ladies the correct way of cooking kebabs and curries so that people can have restaurant like food at home,” said chef Markan. The cookery classes will also start from the first day of the festival. There will be two sessions per day. One for the vegetarians foods and the other for non-vegetarian delights.

“The vegetarian classes will take place in the morning and the non-vegetarians delicacies would be taught in the evening. We have kept the cost of the cookery classes to nominal charge of Rs 250,” said Walia.