Dekchi
[dayk-chee]Community Definitions1
A deep, handleless, flat-bottomed metal cooking vessel with an everted rim, essential in Anglo-Indian cookery for biryanis, gravies, and large family feasts.
“Even after moving to Melbourne in the fifties, Aunty Dorothy insisted on cooking her Christmas yellow rice in her favourite brass dekchi.”
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