The food in Bundi is typically Rajasthani cuisine- spicy and sinfully delicious. Almost all Bundi food involves cooking the edible ingredients in pure ghee or clarified butter.
Vegetarian Food
Bundi cuisine is predominantly vegetarian. Dal-bati is the staple food of the region. Dal-bati is a wheat based dish filled with spicy lentils. The concoction is fried in clarified butter. A number of mouth-watering sweet dishes are also prepared. The partial list of Bundi cuisine includes the following dishes:
- Panchkoota
- Laapsi
- Ghoogri
- Dhungari Chhaachh
- Bail-Gatte
- Chaavadi
- Nukhti
Non-Vegetarian Cuisine
The food in Bundi is made predominantly of locally grown ingredients like beans and dried lentils. Gram flour is a prime ingredient in Bundi cuisine. Popular dishes like khichdi and raabdi use bajra and corn as major ingredients. Rotis usually accompany all the food. Residents of Bundi also relish non-vegetarian food. The list of non-vegetarian food in Bundi cuisine includes:
- Laal maans -It is a meat dish in a curry of red chillies.
- Saanth ro achaar- Wild boar meat is pickled and eaten
- Khad khargosh -wild hare is roasted and eaten.
- Safed maans - A Rajasthani dish of meat that is cooked in curd
- Mohan maans - A dish of meat cooked in milk
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Last Updated on 07 August 2012
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