Traditional Swati rice dish finds new life at Pakistani valley’s roadside eatery

Traditional Swati rice dish finds new life at Pakistani valley’s roadside eatery

Wasim Sajjad SWAT: At a small mudbrick, hut-style restaurant in Pakistan’s picturesque Swat Valley, customers are showing up to try a traditional delicacy: warjale.  A local version of vegetable rice served with clarified butter, yogurt, cheese, milk, fresh cream and sometimes with the sauce of chicken meat, warjale, an old regional dish, is being kept alive as the main attraction at the Kawdareen Traditional Restaurant (KTR) in Mingora city. Kn…