Ahmedabad takes snacking more seriously than most cities take dinner. There’s a whole category of eating here that sits between meals — farsan, eaten in the afternoon with tea, offered the moment a guest sits down, packed into boxes for anyone travelling. For visitors, working out what to try and what to take home can […]
Walk into any Gujarati home around four in the afternoon and something will appear alongside the tea. Not a meal. Not quite a snack in the Western sense. Something crisp, savoury, usually gram-flour based, eaten by the handful while conversation carries on. That’s farsan – and it’s one of the most developed savoury snack traditions […]
Ahmedabad has always had a special connection with Gujarati food. From crispy khakhras and flavourful namkeens to traditional bhakhri and farsan, local snacks are an important part of everyday life, family gatherings, celebrations and gifting. As more people across Ahmedabad look for authentic Gujarati snacks that offer great taste, variety and quality, Induben Khakhrawala & […]
They’re all flat. They’re all Indian. They’re all made from flour. And people mix them up constantly — including people who’ve eaten all three their whole lives without ever being asked to explain the difference. Here’s the clear version. The short answer Khakhra Roti Papad Main flour Whole wheat Whole wheat Lentil, gram or rice […]
Khakhra is excellent straight from the packet. It is considerably better with three minutes of effort. The base recipe below needs no cooking, no equipment beyond a bowl, and about five minutes. Then five variations for when you want something different — including one for the packet that’s gone slightly soft and needs a purpose. […]
Khakhra has one weakness, and everyone who buys it discovers it eventually: leave a packet open for a few days and the crispness disappears. What was sharp and shattering becomes bendy and disappointing. The good news is that this is almost always a storage problem, not a quality problem — and it’s both preventable and, […]
Every parent has a mental list of tiffin ideas that work beautifully in theory. Then it’s 7:10am, the bus comes at 7:30, and the list evaporates. This isn’t a collection of elaborate lunchbox recipes. It’s a practical guide to what survives until lunchtime, what children actually eat rather than bring home untouched, and what can […]
Nine days of fasting sounds simple until you are standing in a shop at 8pm reading the back of a packet, trying to work out whether it counts. Navratri fasting rules are genuinely confusing, partly because they vary from family to family and partly because a lot of food marketed as “farali” isn’t. This guide […]
Corporate Diwali gifting is one of those tasks that looks simple in September and becomes stressful in late October. The budget needs approving, the recipient list keeps changing, half the addresses are wrong, and someone eventually asks whether the gift is Jain-friendly two days before dispatch. This guide covers the practical side: how far ahead […]
Pick up two packets of khakhra in the same shop and you may find one costs noticeably more than the other. Same flavour, same weight, similar-looking product. The difference is usually how it was pressed — by hand, or by machine. Whether that difference is worth paying for depends on what you want from a […]
