Vegetable Prices: Tomatoes sold for Rs 4 to Rs 10 a kilo last year in the wholesale market. This year, they cost Rs 8 to Rs 25. Almost all vegetables have seen a 20% to 150% spike in wholesale prices. Consequently, retails prices too have remained high, nearly double the wholesale price.
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
come together and have generated results? quite often we see top down solutions being developed very far away from the places where they will be implemented and from the people whose lives will be affected. i am cooking food for the whole community, so every day at 12:30pm, they have a dish. it doesn t matter what food there is to cook, i cook. this is my family cooking for our neighbourhood. something that my mum s been doing ever since i was born, she loves cooking. the collective energy and the collective wisdom that we ve all drawn on as part of this movement has really been quite extraordinary in this time of crisis. i think what we ve seen over the last five months is an incredible people led, community led movement. but of course, wider structural change is also needed.