Sepu Badi

Made in home kitchens across Upper Shimla, mostly by women, in the weeks before a wedding or festival season.

Sun-dried on the same roofs everything else here dries on.

• Handmade in home kitchens
• Sun-dried, no preservative
• Traditional dham ingredient, Upper Shimla

Fry lightly in ghee until they colour.

Simmer in a spinach or curd-based gravy until soft through.

Serve with rice as part of a dham thali.

Sepu vadi is one of the defining dishes of a Himachali dham, and these are what it starts with.

Made from lentils, they're a source of plant protein like the pulses they're ground from.

These are general facts about this food, not tested claims about this specific batch. We'd rather tell you what we know than invent numbers.