The Hindu religious festival Holi is all about color, but it’s also an excuse to eat foods that awaken the senses and keep your spirits high. The food eaten on Holi mostly consists of your usual Indian cuisine. However, a few special dishes are prepared in different parts of India to celebrate Holi.
Here are traditional foods and drinks you should make and enjoy during the Holi festival:
1. Thandai
This sweet, creamy milk drink is a Holi staple. Saveur explains that the drink is “flavored with nuts and mixed with spices such as cardamom, fennel, rose petals, and poppy seeds. On Holi, the refreshment is traditionally served with the addition of bhaang.
2. Puran Poli
Puran Poli is a very popular sweet in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. It is a kind of sweet, buttery flatbread, and although it resembles a roti in appearance, a poli is actually very different.
3. Dahi vada This Indian chaat (savory snack food) is prepared by soaking fitters made from lentil, chickpea flour, or potato (known as vadas) in a thick Indian yogurt (known as dahi). The hot deep fried vadas are first put in water, then transferred to thick beaten dahi.
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