Chef Sanjeev Kapoor started off the giant imarti’s creation.
AB Wire
MUMBAI: Celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor dropped the first drop of a popular Indian sweetmeat called imarti into a giant cooking vessel which blossomed finally into the largest such imarti in the world, at the Saatvik food restaurant Sanskriti here, which created a new Guinness World Record, and surpassed the Limca Book of Records.
The feat of making the giant 37 kg. imarti, with an average nine feet diameter, was headed by Gaurav Chaturvedi, with a team of 12 people, apart from Kapoor’s helping hand. The sweet dish took three hours and 48 minutes to be created.
There was another world record created at the restaurant: the largest jalebi (another sweetmeat) in the world. Weighing in at 18 kg., with a diameter of nine feet, the giant jalebi with its characteristic rings of delicious sweetness, broke the previous record of 8.2 feet, registered with the Limca Book of Records. It took three hours and 53 minutes to make.
“It’s a proud moment for us and I’m very happy that the purpose with which we attempted this event is achieved,” Sapna Chaturvedi, founder director of Sanskriti restaurant, said in a statement.
“I have always given my best and in future also will continue giving my full support and contribution to make new records in the name of India,” said Kapoor at the meet. “Food, festivity and celebration is the sanskriti of India. A lot can happen with food, like sharing love, joining families, making records and lots of fun.”