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What Is the Pahadi Topi? The Pahadi Topi is a traditional flat cap worn by men across the hill districts of Uttarakhand — particularly...

What Is Chuk? Chuk is a traditional souring agent from Uttarakhand, made by slow-cooking and reducing the juice of hill lemons — small, intensely...

What Is Pahadi Rajma? Rajma — kidney beans — needs no introduction in Indian kitchens. But Pahadi Rajma, grown in the high-altitude villages of...

If there's one ingredient that defines the soul of Kumaoni cooking, it's Bhatt Dal — the small, dark black soybean grown in the high-altitude...

What Is Gahat Dal? Gahat Dal — called horse gram in English and kulthi in Hindi — is a small, reddish-brown pulse that grows...