Sutta Gassu
Sandage…Badaga Recipes…
Ever heard of Sutta Gassu Sandage?
It is
one of the vanishing food items of badaga community of the Nilgiris. Taking
part in a national seminar on ‘Heritage Foods of India’ at AJK College of
Arts and Science here, senior chef H N Vijivan of
Taj Vivanta Hotel in Coimbatore said the delicious badaga food item
is made out of potato. Potatoes with skin are cooked over live
charcoal, cleaned and salt and spices applied on it to make sutta
gassu sandage.
According to him, there are over 20 exceptional varieties of
food items of badagas and they need to be introduced to the gourmets
across the world. Mouth-watering delicacies include ganjikke (boiled wheat
pearls in an earthenware pot mixed with jaggery and coconut),
eragi hittu (finger-millet balls made out of raggi flour,
hot water and salt), badagaru koi uthakka (badaga chicken curry) and
belle boungue sandage (roasted garlic chutney).
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