Massive INDIAN WEDDING FOOD for 1,500 People! Kasaragod, Kerala, India

My turn. Tough job. Chunks of duck here. What do we got? Good morning everyone. I hope you're all doing great. This is David Hoffman from David's Bin here in Kasigat, Kerala, the northernmost part of the state. Today I'm super excited because I'm attending an Indian Christian wedding. Now the way it works here is that once the bride and groom get married, there's a huge reception. 1,500 people are attending. So they have to cook a feast for 1,500 people. So what we're going to do right now is we're going to go straight to the kitchen, see them cooking a massive feast. Then we're going to go eat and hopefully dance with the bride and groom. Alright, are you guys ready? I'm excited. Let's go inside. This is it. They're cooking up so much food. They have onions, papaya. What's up guys? Wow. Huge. So right here guys, we have the duck roast masala. Check this out. Oh my god. This masala smells fantastic. The aroma hits you hard. A little bit of chilies. So many spices. What is this? This is amazing. Amazing. Oh, I can't wait to eat this one, man. David, this is Kuttanad. Kuttanad is Alpi. We have been to that place. We have been to that place. This is Kuttanad duck. Duck curry. After boiling the duck pieces, then we have to mix it with masalas. Masalas are pre-cooked. But David, why don't you try? Come. My turn. Oh, this is a tough job. Huge chunks of duck here. What do we got? 50 ducks? This is really amazing. The color is so nice and yellowish. Oh man, this is tough. Alright, I can't. Salad. David, this is a part of biryani. This biryani is completely different from Kozhikode biryani and Thalassery biryani. Here, chicken and masala are kept separate. And rice will be cooked separate. In the plate, they will mix it together. And this side, this is beef. Beef curry. It's not curry. Beef roast. So, what they are going to do is, they are going to cook this one for 3 hours. Slow cooking. And all this gravy, it should dry out. So, it's really hard to be in this kitchen. There's a lot of smoke. But as you can see, this beef roast. You can smell the spice. It hits you hard. Oh my god, this is really awesome. Yeah, I gotta stay away from this pot. It's bursting out of heat. There's a lot of wood under it. This gentleman right here is making rice dough. The way it works is that he grabs a plate, 2 plates, 3 plates of rice, puts it into this machine, and then he grinds it down and makes dough. He keeps pulling it out, throws more, pulls out. And that's how he makes the rice dough. Next up over here, we have them grating coconut flesh. So, they cut the coconuts in half, and then use this machine to grate, and that's it. Oh, that's the best. Can I have a little bite? Oh, wow. That's good. Over here, they're squeezing all the limes, and they gave me some lime juice. Mmm. Oh, wow. So refreshing. Look at this. So much work. So much work to feed 1500 people. I mean, that's a lot of people. Wow. Incredible. Rice, duck roast, coconut, chilies, rice, dough, lemon. These guys don't stop with the rice. They keep making more and more biryani. They just took out the rice from over there, separated it from the water, brought it over here, put it on this huge pot, and it's like a humongous rice soup, which will eventually break down, and that will be biryani. Over here, this is like a fish curry. It looks super rich. There's curry leaves. I'm sure it's going to be spicy. Dude, I'm going to try every single dish. Every dish. Can I have a piece of chicken? That's a biryani. The rock they are putting for weight and charcoal. It's burning charcoal. While we cover and keep, there will be vapor. Vapor is coming on the leaf, and it starts raining inside. So, it spoils the biryani. So, to absorb that vapor, they're using the rock on the top. Sorry, the coal on the top. Once they seal the biryani, they have to let it sit there for about 90 minutes. Now, what they're going to do is, they're going to mix the chicken masala. They're going to put all the ingredients to make the masala, and they're going to add the chicken. Okay, let's watch it. They're mixing. This is putanadan duck curry. In our place, we call it as mappas. Duck mappas. We tried this one in Toddy Shop. Similar version. Similar one. They just opened up the first biryani. As you can see, you got coriander, cashew nuts, raisins, crispy onions, and the aroma just hits you. So good. My God. Can I wait for this one? Let's open the next one. Almost done. Do you wish to try one? Yeah, I'll try one. Let's take one piece. Oh my God. How is it? Oh my God. It's like butter. It just evaporated in my mouth. A little spicy. Not so bad. You definitely need something to go with it. Maybe some rice, maybe appam. Appam, patri, paratha. That's enough. No, we'll give you some more. This is the chicken pieces in masala. For Kasago chicken biryani. Demi, you can try one small piece. This is chicken. Let me take a small piece. It's really hot, right? Yeah. This is like a nice, spicy fried chicken. And slightly sweet. Slightly sweet. Is that what it is? I was thinking the coriander, but it's got a lot of Thai beans right here. Oh wow. This is slightly sweet. Oh my God. It's so good. I love fried chicken. David, this is known as chicken 65. It's fried chicken, but specifically chicken 65. There are two reasons why it's known as chicken 65. One, the chicken is cut into 65 pieces. That can be one reason. Another reason people say is that it has 65 different masalas. Both ways people explain it. We're walking over to the reception area and here you can see they're doing a live kitchen. So they're pressing all the dough, making some puris. Over here they're making what? This is apam flame hapus. Love them. I've seen a lot of this in Sri Lanka. Oh, he's just throwing them like that? He's just tossing them? I want to see that again. These two guys don't stop making apam. Look at this. So they have eight different pans. Two finished. They'll throw them in the air. Then they'll put dough again. 300-400 apams. They're not going to stop until they have at least 1,000. At least 1,000, right? Looks like puris. They are known as naipathas. It's very special in Kannur district. Puri is from wheat flour. But this one is from rice flour. The way they make the naipatha is almost the same as a puri, right? So he bashes the dough, flattens it. Then he throws it in the fryer. Takes like two minutes and it puffs up. Here we go. Basically the same thing. Just by flour. The flour is different. I love this because with this, you scoop up everything. Very crispy on the outside. I love how there's still a little dough in the inside. This is good with mutton. Gotta save some space. Got a lot of food coming. As soon as the guests enter the reception, they're going to be greeted with some shakes. There's watermelon, they also have kiwi, they have pineapple. It's pure, but they add a little bit of sugar. Fantastic. I'll have another one. That's damn toasty. Super refreshing. It's super hot outside right now. We were also in the kitchen, so it's like an extra heat. But I need something to cool me down. Oh, super minty. Lots of sugar though. Oh, that's great. Almost like a daiquiri. Like a banana daiquiri. That's the thickness of it. And this is what, pineapple mint? Pineapple mint. Cheers. Good combination. 1,500 people reception, you have to go buffet style. Obviously you can't have servers serving 1,500 people. That would be crazy. So what do they have here? They have apam, naif batal, so the two doughs. They brought the chicken to the back and the biryani to the back. Huge pots, right? And they serve the chicken and they serve the rice in separate plates. So when you serve yourself, you put obviously chicken and then rice. I can't wait to eat this food. It's going to be really, really amazing. I have to see the entire process of cooking every single dish. Put it in my mouth finally. Can't wait. Indian wedding food. Let's do this. Everybody's just sitting down. Over here we have the old man just playing cards. So Evan, I see people are standing and eating. Is this like, people do this here? No, actually we are supposed to sit and eat, that's the way. But they do not have that much time to go for the second round. So they decided to stand and eat. So people are sitting, some people are standing. It's a mix, right? Mint tea. Mint lemon tea. A meter and a half chai. It looks like a meter and a half chai. It's scorching. Mint tea, lemon. David, this is Jomish. He's the one who invited us here. Thank you, Jomish. Wonderful experience. Thank you. David, let's start with the status. This is chicken 65. We're starting off with the chicken 65. Masala, chicken, fried. I think there's a little bone here. Nice and juicy. Not spicy, nice masala. Hello, how are you? I'm good, how are you? Very good, you hungry? Yes, I'm hungry. What's your name? I'm Sebi. All right, join me, Sebi. There's too much food here. We have to pass it around. And I grab this like this? Yeah. What is this again? Bitter gourd. It's nice. It's super dry though. Still some moisture inside. Super. Deep fried. And that juiciness. David, you can either take appam or neipatal or both. Both? You can take both. Got one of each. Got the beef curry, got the duck curry, got the appam and the? Neipatal. Neipatal, which is like the rice curry. Similar. So let's start with the appam and the beef. Grab a little bit of appam. One hand. Little bit of that beef curry. Let it absorb it. Great marriage. Nice with the beef. I like curry, not too spicy. I think the duck is going to be spicier. I think beef is spicy. So next I'm going to get some of this and some duck. And what you have to do is break up the duck. You don't want to get any bones in your mouth. Get some of that flesh. Rip it apart. Duck has tiny bones. Just got to separate. Very similar to like a chicken, right? And then you mix this. Get some more of that. So the curry. Mmm. I love the crispiness of this. Nice and doughy. Again, super light. Nothing is too spicy here. Very easy going. Mmm. Bone. I personally like the beef more. Which one is spicy? Beef, but nothing crazy. My two favorites are the beef curry and the ney patel, which is like the puri. So what I'm going to do next is I'm going to join them. Let's get enough. Good portion of the masala right there. Boom. Just straight to the mouth. Mmm. Next up we have to try the chicken biryani. So we got the rice. Oh wow. Mountain of rice. And a nice chicken. A little more chicken, a little more chicken. Thank you. That's how we do it. Break it up. And once you break off a little bit, you go in and start mixing. You don't want to put too much, right? You want the masala to be absorbed by the rice. Make a nice little ball. In the hand like that. Mmm. Oh wow. Nice and creamy. Small grain rice is amazing. And the best part is the friedness. This is actually, it's like a light fry, but it still feels like fried chicken with masala. Incredible. It's almost having that 65-65 with rice. Similar. In North Kerala, it's all about biryani. You can go to Calicut, Destiny, and here. And this one, I'd say it's up there with those two. I mean in terms of quality, deliciousness. It's not sweet, it's more just creamy, right? Oh. Kasargod. Kasargod. This is biryani plus meals together. I added biryani, curry, fish, chicken, pickle, everything. And I add the fish to mine. Super red. Red biryani. Mmm. Nice and delicious. So creamy. And lastly, we have dessert. We have kheer halwa and we have ice cream with some fruits. So I'll just mix it all together. Mmm. Blueberries, pineapple. I love the kheer halwa. It's almost like a carrot cake. A little different, but similar. Mmm. The best thing to do is to get the vanilla ice cream, get a bunch of fruit from the bottom, and just straighten them out. This is the perfect dessert for this weather. It's really hot, this cools you down. And yeah guys, that's our Indian wedding. My first, not my last. I went to the kitchen, saw how they made everything. 1500 people. Crazy. Beef curry, duck curry, chicken biryani, appam, and the nepata. Everything was super delicious. What I love doing, getting the nepata, and mixing it with the beef curry, and also when I added the fish, like that fish curry into the biryani, that was like stellar. I mean the entire experience is awesome. You know, you see the bride and groom come, everybody starts eating, they're standing, they're sitting, they're mingling, that's what this is. It's an experience. You get to be with friends and family. 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