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Rajasthani Food - Dal Baati Thali in Jaipur

Rajasthani Food - Dal Baati Thali in Jaipur

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More Rajasthani food and Indian street food on my website: Like everywhere else I travel, my priority is discovering and sampling the local cuisine, and in Rajasthan, a popular everyday meal is a Rajasthani thali that includes dal and baati. From Delhi, we took a quick train ride to Jaipur, the capital and largest city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The city is also known as the Pink City and there are quite a few things to do and see around the area. I was most interested in the cuisine So my first Rajasthani food meal was at Santosh Bhojnalaya, located very near the bus station in Jaipur. It's a local style Indian restaurant, serving up hungry travelers that need a quick and delicious feast. This local restaurant had little on the menu but a selection of thalis, the Rajasthani version being the most popular. I order the dal baati. I didn't know exactly what I was going to get at first, but unlike south India where rice is dominant, rice isn't all that popular in Rajasthan. The meal I go included just a small side of rice, not the main dish of the meal. Anyways, dal is the lentil soup that ubiquitous in nearly all Indian thali meals. Baati are small wheat balls that in this case were deep fried, about the size of golf balls, and very crispy on the outside. They were crumbly on the inside, thick, and heavy, very hearty too. As soon as I was served my Rajasthani food, the server broke up one of my baatis to show me how to eat it. He then instructed me to mix my broken baati with the dal and mingle it together before taking a bite. The baati was a little on the dry side, but I did really like it. The thali also included a few other different types of dal and a few other vegetarian sides dishes. Along with dal baati, I also had a few chapatis which were served hot and fresh and very oily. My set meal also included a dessert which was like a crumbly nutty pastry. Rajasthan is a dessert dry state in India, so the food reflects the climate and conditions. It's a place where food needs to be preserved, especially when embarking on long camel treks through the desert. Dal baati preserves well and travels well, so that's how it developed the way it did. I highly enjoyed my very first Rjasthani food meal in Jaipur, India
Date: 2019-08-19

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Those batis are an abomination from the looks of it. No wonder he didn't do the closed-eye head tilt. Also that daal looks like its not up to the mark. Traditional bati is not fried, its baked with charcoal or on a metal grill on top of a flame. Then once its is charred on the outside, it is slightly cracked open and then left in a bowl of ghee for 3-4 mins to soak up the ghee and get moist. There is also a softer variant called bafla, its the same thing, except the difference is the bafla is boiled and then baked, or some people just steam it and serve it piping-hot or with ghee. But yeah, that didn't look like a good Rajasthani Meal.
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the sour daal is called kaddi - its made with chickpea flour, yogurt and spices. Rice isnt common in Rajesthan - i believe some kind of rice does grow there but its not basmati rice - the dessert is called churma - you take fried puris and ground then with sugar. rajesthani food like the baati is the heavy side with churma etc - because its a desert and you can sweat out all the heavy ghee. but the lighter side of rajesthani food is the daal, cabbage sabzi, roti and kaddi - which a lot of rajesthanis eat outside of rajesthan because its harder to sweat it all out in the UK and parts of the USA etc.
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Thank you very much Romy. Actually yah, I really do like just about everything I try, but there are a few things I haven't liked that much, but haven't filmed them. That being said I do try to eat food that I like eating, and avoid foods I know are plain or I won't like, because I want to make the most of all my calories Maybe in the future I'll make a video about something I don't like. Thanks again
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The sour yoghurty thing you ate is called kadi (You may have eaten Kadi Chawal (rice) in Delhi) and the sweet dish is called Churma -made of wheat flour, ghee and sugar. Dal Baati Churma is how it is commonly known as. The Baati is soaked in ghee to make it most. Looks like what you ate was not fully soaked to the middle of the ball.
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Hi there Mark wiens. I really love your videos and everytime i see you take a bite of those delicious foods it makes me hungry. I do have one question i hope you can answer it. Can you make food videos of japan. I really love japanese culture and its food. are you planning to visit japan? Greets, from the netherlands
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Whenever you eat veggies with rice or roti. two accompaniments makes the experience heavenly- ghee is one. and a pickle of any variety is a great accompaniment. buy urself a jar of mango or lemon or chilli or onion pickle. and add a dash to veggie. rice/ghee combination. you will loveeee it: ): )
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Dude. come to south india and try some amazing varieties of sea food and other dishes. places like Mumbai(amazing street food, Goa for some breath taking fish and pork curries), Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kerala and stuff and the western and eastern coasts of south india. You will love it
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Bati is a base. like bread or rice. obviously it will taste dry by itself. the taste depends on the daal or chokha that you have it with. And you are supposed to have it with generous amounts of the daal (atleast thats how I like it. the trick is to find the best daal
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you did not try this from a good place so I can see that you did not really enjoy the food. Bati is actually clay oven baked and dipped in ghee. If made properly its heavenly. But the bati I see is fried and kind of hard. Even the yellow dal did not look fresh to me
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hey Mark i am really happy that you enjoy the food from india, and i am also glad that you are eating with your hand instead of fork and spoon and i am sure you enjoy eating with your hand. i am sure you will never forget the taste of indian food.
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