By Sushmita Sengupta
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Her husband and biggest fan would often call Harbhajan Kaur’s home kitchen ‘Bhajan’s Dhaba’, and Harbhajan wouldn’t stop blushing.
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While she was more than happy to feed her family, their favourite delicacies, it was much later, while talking to her daughter, that she got candid about her one, true dream.
“I told her that I have lived a very fulfilling and honourable life but don’t know how it feels to earn my own money. That night the whole family came together and decided that I should do what I enjoy the most – cooking, and what I am best at - making besan barfi,” Harbhajan told us.
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Her daughter got her ingredients and pastry box next day, and she got to making Barfi, for sale at an organic Mandi. “My grand-daughter hand-painted some stickers and coined the tagline, “Bachpan yaad aa jaaye”, added Harbhajan.
Her next big cook-out was at her granddaughter's wedding in 2019, where the whole family got together to help her make 300 boxes of barfis. That’s when they considered cooking in bulk as well.
“I sold my first order at a farmer’s market in 2019 and earned my first pay-check of Rs. 2000. Since then, there has been no looking back”
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