Umrani Farms’ brown raisins are darker in colour than the commercially available golden raisins because they are sun-dried, and not chemically treated.
Unlike most red rice varieties that are thicker and have a bolder appearance, Sidda Sanna has slender long grains with a pleasant aroma and a nutty taste.
This long-grained variety of rice has a greenish hue, and gets its name because the paddy resembles flowers of the Illupai tree, and emanates a bright fragrance similar to its flower.
From dining at a 100-year-old family wada to walking through sugarcane fields—this edition of Chef on the Road explored what ‘organic’ actually entails at an ancestral farm in Maharashtra’s Bhodani village.