Umbadiyu - Gujarat s Original Winter Barbeque | How To Make Umbadiyu (Recipe Inside)
Umbadiyu - Gujarat s Original Winter Barbeque | How To Make Umbadiyu (Recipe Inside)
Overshadowed by its more popular cousin undhiyu, the similar sounding and looking umbadiyu is a unique, hyper-regional Gujarati winter speciality, worth waiting the whole year for.
Highlights
Umbadiyu has a rich, smoky aroma and taste.
Serve it with spicy green coconut chutney and chilled chaas (buttermilk).
This isn t one of those food pieces where I start off by waxing eloquent about my lifelong love for a particular dish - in this instance, the hyper-regional and winter seasonal Gujarati speciality called umbadiyu. In fact, up until a couple of months ago, I hadn t even heard of the all-vegetarian, green-hued, rustic dish also known as ubadiyu or to use a more local moniker Gujarati Barbeque ! It was an article on how the many stalls - dishing out the delicacy on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway at Dungri in so