Restaurant Review: Millets all the way at Kaulige Foods! [4.5/5]

Health is wealth, they say. And if you have to part with a meagre portion of your wealth to retain your health, we end up saying Amen! Barring comfort food and deep-fried goodies, of course. But what if instead of picking just some healthy foods, we make the entire meal healthy? Kaulige Foods does just that, with the option to continue eating healthy present in-house. And, in short, that is exactly why it earns a place of pilgrimage for healthy eaters. For the longer review, read on!

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What is Kaulige Foods?

So what is special about Kaulige Foods? More importantly, what is Kaulige foods? It’s an organisation started by a few people to champion the cause of millets in a country that is facing the ever-increasingly spectre of water scarcity, and also wants to eat healthier. Here is a quick insight, in their own words, as to what they do and how they do it.

Kaulige Millet Corner
What is Kaulige Foods?

So what are millets? They are a group of high-fibre crops that can be grown in water-scarce regions, and do not do need to many nutrients in the soil. Because they are high-fibre, they are easier on the stomach, but also need to be supplemented with some water consumption. Here are seven of the eight varieties of millets Kaulige Foods deals in.

Different kinds of millets

Now, these people aren’t all talk. They are interested in a chin-wag of a different variety, and put their money where their mouth is. So after some of us gathered there, they let us try our hand at cooking some South Indian staples. The base, of course, was fermented millet flour instead of the rice one.

Suffice to say, foodies are more often than not kitchen-enthusiasts, and not too wary of making the odd dish. This was the case with our group, where some of us were allowed to test our hands with cooking with millets. Suffice to say, even the testiest of us found the result tasty and quite to our liking!

The effort and the result

Besides the dosa, an uthapam was also made and consumed before I had a chance to photograph it. As did the first batch of paddu. So I decided to take matters into my own hands – a tad more literally – and made a second batch of paddu. Any comments on my skills here?

Paddu, by yours truly.

The meal

And finally, we come to the meal Kaulige Foods serves every day from noon to 3 pm, where most of the primary and secondary ingredients are either millets or derived from the crop. What you see here – clockwise from top – are a millet bisibele bhaath [nice and spicy, with nary a complaint over rice being not a part of it], curd-millets [a la curd rice, and again nothing to complain about here], a salad of some fresh veggies, cauliflower manchurian [with the coating made from millet-flour] and some sweet millet dish.

The millets thaali!

Final words on Kaulige Foods

These people not only serve their millet meals regularly, but also sell different varieties of millets. Want to switch to a healthier diet? Just approach them and ask nicely, and they will flood you with more recipes involving millets than you thought possible! For that innovative thought and a great idea, coupled with what we can only say is the beginning of a great execution, they score a 90% on the report card. The rest depends on how they go forward.

Got something to tell us about this review or something else? Like pointing out a mistake or giving us some interesting bit of trivia? Right this way!

Arkadev Ghoshal

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