Updated On: 24 October, 2022 09:44 PM IST | Mumbai | Nascimento Pinto
The festival of lights is a lot about the sweets but it is also about the delicious savoury items that are enjoyed during the festive season. If you want to experiment with your dishes, then Mumbai chefs will give you more than one reason with a unique chakli preparation, calzone, bruschetta and even rabdi

Chef Gauri at the newly-opened Youkoso suggests giving a twist to the traditional chakli by infusing Asian flavours to make Tom Yum chaklis. Photo Courtesy: Youkoso
Diwali is almost here and while it is popularly called the festival of lights one can’t deny the influence that food has on people during the festive season. People are excited as can be to celebrate it after two years of the Covid-19 pandemic and rightly so because it is one of the most enjoyable festivals during the year.
While most of us will be busy gorging on the mithai and laddoos and all other different kinds of sweet meats, let’s not forget that chakli and other savoury items are also popular during this time, and even a plate full of it is never going to be enough. Yes, many people have resorted to buying it readymade over the years. There are many others who still make their own Diwali ‘faral’ (snacks) or simply other dishes during the festival, that are mostly vegetarian but also have non-vegetarian delicacies in some parts of the country.