Hina Azmi / Dehradun. For people who are fond of food and drink, a restaurant named ‘The Kulcha Land’ is running in Dehradun, the capital of Uttarakhand. Here you will get to taste soft kulchas and hot delicious chole. Spicy chutney is served here with Kulcha and Chole, which enhances its taste. People like many Punjabi dishes like Makke ki Roti, Sarson ka Saag, Chole Bhature. The taste of Punjabi dishes available here fascinates the food lovers. Amritsari Kulcha is one of them. You get to see the wonders of butter and spices in Kulcha. Apart from plain kulchas, ‘The Kulcha Land’ also offers kulchas with cabbage, paneer, onion and potato stuffing.
Mehul Bhatia, director of ‘The Kulcha Land’, says that like other places, people of mixed culture live in Dehradun. People from the hills to Uttar Pradesh and Punjab also live here. Every year a large number of tourists come here from Punjab and Haryana etc. That’s why I started this restaurant of mine to give Punjabi taste in Dehradun.
He told that even though Kulcha Chole is sold on street vendors, but if we talk about Amritsari Kulcha, they are rarely found here. They say that normal kulchas are made of bread, while Amritsari kulchas are made in flour oven. Stuffing of potato, kasoori methi and paneer etc. is done in it, so it is very different in taste. Mehul told that it is also very different from Tandoori Naan as Naan becomes sticky when kept for some time, but Amritsari Kulcha is soft.
Mehul told that because we want to give the touch of Amritsari taste to the people, that’s why we have called artisans from there too. The result of his hard work is that people like Amritsari Kulcha made by him very much.
Tanishk, who came to ‘The Kulcha Land’ to eat Kulche Chole, said that he is Punjabi. He got the same taste of Amritsari Kulcha here in Dehradun as it is in Amritsar. That’s why they would like to come here again and again.
How to reach ‘The Kulcha Land’
If you also want to taste Amritsar’s Kulche Chole in Dehradun, then you reach MDDA Complex from Ghantaghar. Various varieties will be found in ‘The Kulcha Land’ shop located here. The price of a plate of chole-kulche here ranges from Rs 70 to Rs 150.
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FIRST PUBLISHED : July 02, 2023, 16:40 IST
