
1.Basundi
Basundi is basically sweet thickened milk with a hint of cardamom and various dry fruits. It is to be enjoyed as a desert and is also very easy to prepare.
Ingredients:
- 4 to 5 cups full fat milk.
- 1 tin Amul mithai mate.
- Cardamom pieces as much preferred.
- A handful of chopped Pistachio, Almonds and Cashew.
- 5-6 strands of Kesar to taste.
Steps:
- Add milk and Mithai mate in a thick bottom saucepan and keep it on a low flame.
- Keep stirring this mixture and bring it to boil.
- Once the mixture starts to thicken, add all the nuts and let it simmer for a minute.
- Garnish with kesar and serve hot or cold, as preferred.

2.Methi Thepla
Methi Theplas are roti made with fenugreek leaves incorporated in them. It is as easy as a roti to make and can also be eaten as a snack with tea.
Ingredients:
- 1cup methi leaves.
- 1 cup wheat flour.
- 1 and a half teaspoon of ginger and green chilli paste.
- Half teaspoon of red chilli powder, cumin powder, dhania powder and salt as per required.
Steps:
- Combine all the ingredients to form a dough.
- Add water as per required while kneading.
- Take a medium sized dough ball and roll it with a rolling pin and place it onto a hot tawa.
- Flip it both sides and serve while hot.

3.Gujarati Kadhi
Kadhi is a very cooling dish and is enjoyed in summer with a rice.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup curd
- 2 cups water
- 2 spoons besan
- Ginger-green chilli paste to taste.
- Coriander for garnishing.
- Cloves, cinnamon, asafoetida, cumin, mustard and fenugreek seeds as per taste.
- 1 tablespoon oil.
- Sugar and salt to taste.
Steps:
- Mix curd with besan, water, ginger-chilli paste, salt and sugar and make a smooth mixture.
- Fry all the seeds together and add the above mixture.
- Bring it to boil and keep stirring.
- Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

4.Aamshrikhand (mango)
Shrikhand is a sweet dish quite like a jam and can be eaten with rotis.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups hung curd.
- 2 tins Amul mithai mate.
- 200-300 grams’ mangoes.
- ½ cup sugar and ¼ cream.
Steps:
- Mix all the ingredients together and chill it in the refrigerator.

5.Bhakri
Bhakri is a famous Gujarati breakfast with a biscuit-like texture, served with ghee or tea.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups wheat flour
- Cumin seeds and salt (for taste).
Steps:
- Mix flour with water and knead it to form a dough.
- Make smalls balls and roll it out with a rolling pin.
- Place the flattened dough on the tawa, until it is golden brown.

6.Khakhra
Khakhra is a flat crispy Gujarati snack to be enjoyed with tea or coffee.
Ingredients:
- 1½ cup Wheat flour
- Salt for taste.
- Oil.
Steps:
- Mix the wheat flour and salt with water to make a soft roti-like dough. Let it rest for 13-15 minutes.
- Grease the platform with a little oil and flatten a small dough ball on it. Dust it with enough wheat flour.
- Flatten it as thin as a papad and cook for less than a minute, on a hot Tawa.
- You may add flavors as you like such as methi khakhra.
- Dust it with any kind of masala.

7.Rice Khichu
Rice khichu is a gooey snack made with rice flour. Khichu is a famous street food in Gujarat.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup rice flour
- Soda-bi-carb.
- Oil and salt.
- ½ tsp cumin seeds
- ½ tsp chopped green chillies
- 1 tsp chopped garlic
Steps:
- Mix soda-bi-carb, green chillies, cumin seeds and salt with 3 cups of water and pour the mixture on a non-stick pan.
- Let it boil on high flame for less than 3 minutes.
- Add rice flour to the mixture and stir until there’s no lumps.
- Cook it for more than 5 minutes.
- In another pan, heat the oil on a low flame and add to it.
- Remove the flame and add chilli powder to it.
- Now, pour a spoon of oil mixture on the khichu.
Serve with garnished coriander.

8.Dhokla
Dhokla is a mouth-watering Gujarati dish. It is as easy to make as it looks.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup gram flour
- 1 tsp Rava / sooji
- 1½ tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp soda-bi-carb.
- 1 tsp crushed green chilli
- ¼ cup curd
- Oil and salt.
Steps:
- Mix gram flour, rava, lemon juice, chilli-ginger paste and curd with water in a bowl. Add salt as needed.
- Stir the batter until there are no lumps.
- Add baking soda to the batter and see it rise up.
- Pour the batter into a greased pan and steam it for 10-12 minutes.
- After the dhokla is done, garnish it with chopped coriander, grated coconut and serve it with green coriander chutney.

9.Mathiya
Mathiya is a special Gujarati item made during Diwali. It is a combination of sweet and spicy.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup mathia dal flour
- 1 cup urad dal flour
- 2 tsp besan
- Ghee, salt and sugar
- 2 tsp papad khar
- 1 tsp Chilli powder
- Oil for frying
Steps:
- Sieve flours and chilli powder and add ghee to it.
- Put papad khar in warm water and knead the dough.
- Make small balls out of the dough and flatten them like roti.
- Fry them until they’re golden brown and sprinkle chilli powder on them.

10.Sevtameta nu shaak
Sebtameta nu shaak is basically tomato curry with crispy sev sprinkles on it.
Ingredients:
- Chopped tomatoes
- Finely chopped ginger
- Green chilli chopped
- Mustard and cumin seeds and hing.
- Red chilli powder and turmeric powder
- Coriander powder and jeera powder
- Salt and sugar
- A packet of sev
Steps:
- Heat oil in a pan and add mustard and cumin seeds. Saute till the colour changes.
- Add chopped ginger, green chillies and hing to it.
- Add chopped tomatoes to it with coriander powder, chilli powder, jeera powder and turmeric powder in the pan.
- Add salt and sugar as needed and stir the mixture until the tomatoes are done.
- Sprinkle sev as wanted on the sabzi.
- Serve it with roti, puris, thepla etc.

11.Fafda
Fafda is a famous Gujarati snack. It is a fried item and comes under street food.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups besan flour.
- ¼ tsp baking soda
- ¼ turmeric powder
- oil and salt
Steps:
- Mix soda, besan, haldi, oil and salt in a bowl together.
- Add water and knead the dough to make it soft.
- Take a portion of the dough and flatten it on a surface to make strips.
- Fry these strips until they’re crispy.

12.Sukhdi
Sukhdi is a sweet dish with crumbly texture, which satisfies your sweet tooth. It is a famous Gujarati dessert.
Ingredients:
- Ghee
- Wheat flour
- ¼ cup jaggery
Steps:
- Grease a plate with ghee.
- Take ghee in a pan and turn the flame on medium-low.
- Once the ghee is melted, add wheat flour to it and make a lumpy paste.
- Roast the mixture for 5 minutes and keep stirring it.
- After the flame is off, add jaggery in it and it would melt right away.
- Pour the paste into the plate and after it is solid, cut into desired shape and size.

13.Patra
Patra is a leafy snack, which satisfy your taste buds with sweet, salty and spicy flavour.
Ingredients:
- 2½ cup besan
- 1 tsp ginger and green chilli paste
- ½ tsp turmeric and chilli powder
- ¾ grated jaggery
- Imli pulp
- oil, salt and hing
- mustard and sesame seeds
- Colocasia leaves.
Steps:
- Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and add water. Mix it until the jiggery melts and the mixture become smooth. Set aside.
- Take colocasia leaves and apply a little besan on it with your finger.
- Apply the besan mixture on other leaf and place it on top of the other leaf.
- Roll the leaves up and do this with as many as leaves you want.
- Take a pan and heat oil in it. Add mustard seeds and let them crackle.
- When the seeds crackle, add sesame seeds and hing to it.
- Fry the patra leaves in the oil pan and when done, garnish with coconut and coriander.

14.Gathiya
Gathiya is a crunchy and spicy fried item made with gram flour.
Ingredients:
- 1½ gram flour
- Carom seeds
- Chilli powder
- Turmeric powder
- Black pepper powder
- Baking soda
- Oil and salt
Steps:
- In a bowl, take gram flour, carom seeds, red chilli powder, turmeric powder, black pepper powder, baking soda, oil, and salt and mix them together.
- Make a mustard colored dough out of it. Add water to make it smooth.
- Fill the handy sev machine with the dough and pour the striped dough that come out directly into a frying pan with oil.
- Fry them until they are golden brown.

15.Batata Vada
Batata vada cannot be called a main Gujarati food as it is made in every other corner of India.
Ingredients:
- Boiled potatoes
- ¼ mustard seeds
- 2 green chilli
- 2 cloves of garlic
- ½ cup gram flour
- Turmeric powder
- Baking soda
- Oil, water and salt
Steps:
- Mash the boiled potatoes.
- Heat 2 tsp oil in a pan over medium flame.
- Add mustard seeds to them. Add hing and paste of green chilli and ginger.
- Turn the flame off when it is done and transfer the mixture onto the mashed potatoes.
- Add chopped coriander and lemon juice to the mixture.
- Make small balls of the potato mixture and keep it aside.
- In another bowl, mix gram flour, baking soda and salt with water.
- Dip each ball into the batter and fry it in oil until they’re golden brown.

16.Khandvi
Khandvi is a famous Gujarati dish. It is a rolled version of spiced and seasoned gram flour.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup gram flour
- Sour curd
- 1 tsp ginger paste and green chilli paste
- Turmeric powder, salt and hing
Steps:
- In a bowl, take some curd and add water to it to make it thin.
- Add ginger and chilli paste, turmeric powder, salt and hing to it.
- Add gram flour to the mixture and keep stirring it until the lumps are gone.
- Pour this batter in a frying pan and keep stirring it until the consistency is equal.
- Grease oil on a flat surface like the back of a plate.
- Pour a little batter on the surface and spread it to form a thin layer.
- Allow it to cool then add coriander leaves and grated coriander on top.
- Roll up the khandvi after it cools down, off the plate in desired shapes and size.

17.Handvo
Handva is a cakey mixture of rice and vegetables. It is a famous Gujarati dish that people have their breakfast.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup rice
- Toor dal and Chana dal
- Urad dal
- Curd
- Turmeric powder
- Baking soda
- Ginger paste and green chilli paste
- Grated bottle gourd, grated carrot, green peas (1 cup)
- Salt and oil
- Mustard, cumin and sesame seeds (2 tsps)
Steps:
- Rinse rise and soak in water for 4 hours.
- Rinse toor dal, urad dal and chana dal in water for 4 hours.
- Drain the water and mix both of them in a bowl, with curd and salt. Blend these ingredients together.
- After blending, cover with lead for 10 minutes.
- After the batter gets fermented, it starts bloating and contains air bubbles.
- Then add all the vegetables, grated bottle gourd, grated carrot and green peas with ginger and chilli paste, turmeric powder and oil, to the batter.
- If the batter is watery, add 2 spoons of rava and 1 tsp baking soda.
- Add 1 tsp lemon-juice to the batter.
- In a pan, heat 1 tsp oil. Add mustard seeds, sesame seeds and cumin seeds in it.
- Then after the seeds have crackled, add the batter to it.
- Cover the pan with a lid until it is cooked and the surface becomes light brown.
- Flip the handva with a spatula and wait until the other side is cooked.
- Serve it as whole or in pieces.

18.Puran Poli
Puran Poli is a Maharashtrian as well as a Gujarati dessert. This dessert will satisfy your sweet tooth.
Ingredients:
- 2 cup flour
- 3 cup chana dal
- 3 cup sugar
- 1 cup ghee
- green cardamom
- Salt and water
Steps:
- Mix flour with water and knead it. Set aside covered with a lid for 2 hours.
- Cook dal until the dough is done.
- When the Dal is cooled, add sugar and ghee to it. Cook on low flame until the Dal mixture is sticky.
- Add salt and oil to the dough.
- Add milk to the dal mixture to make it smooth.
- Add cardamom powder to a small sized lump of the dough and a larger sized lump to the dal mixture.
- Make small balls out of the mixed dough and flatten them like roti.
- Add a little ghee on a plan and cook the puran poli and keep adding ghee on the sides.
- Serve this dessert hot.

19.Dudhi Muthiya
Dudhi muthiya is another famous Gujarati food. It can be served as breakfast or evening snack and is a spicy and salty combo.
Ingredients:
- 2 cup grated dudhi
- 1 cup wheat flour
- ¾ cup gram flour
- Ginger and green chilli paste
- Turmeric powder
- Baking soda
- Oil, salt and water
- 2 tsp chopped coriander leaves
- Mustard, cumin and sesame seeds
- Hing
Steps:
- Put grated dudhi with wheat flour, gram flour, coriander leaves.
- Add ginger and green chilli paste to it.
- Then add turmeric powder, baking soda and oil, salt and water to it.
- Now, mix all the taken ingredients properly to form a dough.
- Make small rounds with your hand out of the dough.
- Put the small balls in idli stand and steam them for half an hour.
- Let them cool down after they’re done.
- In another pan, heat oil and add cumin seeds, mustard seeds and sesame seeds.
- After the seeds, crackle, add lemon juice, salt, coriander leaves and muthia to the pan.
- Cook it for 5-7 minutes.
- Serve it with coriander chutney or pudina chutney.

20.Dal Baati
Dal baati happens to be a Rajasthani food item, which comes under Gujarati food. It is just the same as Dahi vada, but with a Gujarati twist of daal instead of dahi and baati instead of baati.
Ingredients:
- 1 cup wheat flour
- ¼ cup rava
- Baking soda
- Ghee
- Salt and milk
Steps:
- Add rava, baking soda, ghee and salt to wheat flour.
- Mix all the ingredients together and make them crumbly.
- Add milk in a small quantity to bind them together and make a stiff dough out of it. Cover the dough with a lid for 10 minutes.
- Make small balls out of the dough and bake them in the oven at 375 F, until bottom turns light brown.
- Flip the baati on other side and let it bake.
- Dip each baati in melted ghee and when serving, pour daal over it.
