चकली
Bhajani ChakliThe one everything is judged by. Our own roasted bhajani, ova, til and a pinch of hing — pressed by hand and fried till it snaps clean.
Roasted bhajani. Pure cow ghee. Small batches, every single day.
Twelve faral recipes from our own kitchen in Satara — ground, kneaded, rolled and fried by hand. No palm oil, no preservatives, no shortcuts. Packed the morning it reaches you.
Swaadved started in Satara, on a terrace where the year's rice and dals were sun-dried for भाजणी — the roasted flour blend that decides whether a chakli shatters or sighs. No recipe was ever written down. We learned it the way it is meant to be learned: standing next to Aaji, getting the dough wrong, and trying again.
“भाजणी चांगली, तर चकली चांगली.”
Get the bhajani right and the chakli takes care of itself.
We still roast our own bhajani in an iron kadhai — rice, chana dal, urad dal, poha and jeera, each roasted separately because each browns at its own pace. We still fry in pure cow ghee. And we still make only what the day's orders need, because faral is not meant to sit on a shelf.
Nothing here is a factory step. This is simply how faral has always been made.
Rice, chana dal, urad dal, poha and jeera are washed, sun-dried and roasted separately in an iron kadhai, then stone-ground warm.
Dough is kneaded with boiling water and mohan — hot ghee worked into the flour. This is what makes the difference between crisp and hard.
Fried in small batches in pure cow ghee, temperature judged the old way — by how a scrap of dough rises to the surface.
Cooled completely on cotton, then sealed in food-grade tins the same morning your box goes out. Nothing is stored overnight.
Short documentary clips of the traditional techniques our recipes rely on — hand-rolling sweet poli, frying in ghee, and drawing the rangoli that greets the festival. These are archival films from Wikimedia Commons, credited below each clip, not footage of our own kitchen.
A baker rolls out obbattu — the Kannada cousin of our puranpoli — stretching the stuffed dough thin without tearing the puran. Exactly the wrist our Aaji uses.
Subhashish Panigrahi · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Batter hits hot ghee in steady spirals. Watch how the halwai never checks a thermometer — the sound and the rise of the bubbles are the thermometer.
Subhashish Panigrahi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Before a single box is opened, the doorstep is drawn. A street vendor lays down colour with a mould — the same welcome your faral arrives into.
Subhashish Panigrahi · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Packed in reusable tins, tied with cotton thread and a marigold tag. Custom mixes on request.
Orders are cooked to a queue, so please give us 3 days for boxes and 5 days for anarse and chirote. Diwali week closes early — book by the 15th.