Harissa, a 400-year-old traditional winter dish from Kashmir. This is a mutton recipe, which is made with Indian spices and takes around 12 hours to cook and has to be kept overnight before eating. It is best served with Kashmiri Bread, Kander Kazout. This dish has become the center of attraction for many people and is known as the winter dish of Kashmir. An 85 year old Mr Abdul Rehman Khaksar and his family are the oldest vendors of Harissa in the valley for the last 200 hundred years. The dish was imported from Central Asia during the Mughal period, when 400 hundred years ago, Baba Karim-i-Harisa, a Sufi saint, visited Kashmir and started the tradition, it was embraced by Kashmiris and a tradition in Kashmir. became a popular dish. Not only this but many new brands are opening to promote the dish, one of which is ‘Chilla-e-Kalan’ which is known for free delivery and its quality is owned by a young celebrity anchor Mr. Gibran Dar . While there was a fear of being forgotten among the harissa sellers, on the other hand many new brands are opening up dedicated to selling harissa. The business of selling Harissa online has now become a successful entrepreneurship in the valley
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