Bhakarwadi

Bakarwadi is a traditional crispy, deep-fried, disc-shaped, sweet and spicy snack popular in the western state of Maharashtra in India. It was already popular before 1960 when these were not Gujarat or Maharashtra states; they were both a part of Bombay State, and both cultures added their own flavors to each other's recipes. It is believed that bhakar comes from bhakri and once rolled with masala stuffing and cut and fried, it becomes bhakar-vadi. Chitale Bandhu of Pune and Jagdish-Farsan of Vadodara popularized the snack by distributing it nationally and internationally. It was popularized by Raghunathrao Chitale, a Marathi businessman. In the 1970s, Narsinha Chitale tasted bakarwadi, a popular Gujarati snack made by his neighbor. The only difference was that the neighbor made a "Nagpuri" variant of the snack. Popularly known as pudachi vadi, this "Nagpuri" variant was an extremely spicy roll, whereas the Gujarati staple snack had more garlic and onions. The amalgamation of the spicy pudachi vadi and the shape of Gujarati bakarwadi is the Chitale bakarwadi. "They combined the spiciness of the Nagpuri pudachi vadi and the shape of the Gujarati bakarwadi and deep-fried it for more crispiness," says Indraneel. The recipe, perfected by Narasinha’s elder sister-in-law, Vijaya, and wife, Mangala, went on sale in 1976.

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