Mysore Dasara Ahara Mela 2014 – Food Festival
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Mysore Dasara Lighting is must watch at least once in a life
time.
The festival of Dasara brings in lot of entertainment in the
city. Lot of cultural competitions, programmes and functions. Several platforms
and opportunities are created for show casing talent.
Painting exhibition, flower show at Kuppanna park/ground,
dasara exhibition, yuva dasara, ahara mela (food festival), cultural programs
in the Amba Vilas Palace grounds, programmes at Kala Mandir; the list is huge.
These go on for all 10 days. Off late, the city attracts celebrity/star
performances too.
Most of the Dasara entertainments are all free entry. Few
have ticket entry. Even if there are tickets, they are just minimal of about 10
to 30 Rs.
This post shows details of -
Dasara ‘Ahara Mela’.
The traditional and tribal tastes of
all over Karnataka can be tasted here.
There are stalls arranged in series. Each stall has a
variety of menu and different local cuisines. Stalls pertaining to different
regional tastes of Kodagu (local name for Madikeri), Davangere, Dharwad Mysore,
coastal regions and even Rajasthan chats can be found at this food festival.
To name a few of the must taste items are -
- jola rotti – yenne gayi (jowar roti with brinjal curry)
- mysore mallige idli – chutney & sambar
- benne dose (dosa with fresh butter or ghee)
- shenga holige (groundnut sweet chapathi)
- menasu bajji (mirchi bajji)
- bale + benne + gulkand bowl (combination of banana, butter & gulkand bowl)
- masala churmuri (spicy recipes made from puffed rice)
- traditional sweets like mysore pak, jamun, and many more
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| chilli bajji stall decorated with chillies |
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| dasara food stall decorated with chillies |
Along with the food stalls, there is also a stage that is set
up at the centre of the ground which is open for cultural and traditional
performances from artists.
The crowd of people gather to watch the performance with
great enthusiasm. The performances are really worth watching. There is no
ticket at this particular event.
We visited the Ahara Mela ground as early as 7.00 PM since
we wanted to avoid the actual crowd of this food festival. It would be
maddening crowd at the grounds had we been a little late. We left before the
actual crowd of people began pouring in.
Have you visited Mysore?
Leaving you all with this innocent face watching the
Barathnatyam performance, yet waiting for buyers for her balloons.
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