🌴 Core Ingredients Rice – Staple food, eaten as plain rice, bhakri, or ghavane (soft dosa-like crepes). Coconut – Used in grated, roasted, or milk form in curries and sweets. Kokum – A souring agent, refreshing drinks, and digestive uses. Seafood – Fish (Bangda–mackerel, Surmai–kingfish, Pomfret, Prawns, Crab). Spices – Malvani masala (red chili, coriander, cumin, pepper, cloves, cardamom). Cashews & Mangoes – Abundant in Konkan, especially Alphonso (Hapus) mango. 🍲 Signature Dishes Veg Ukadiche Modak – Steamed rice flour dumplings with jaggery & coconut filling. Solkadhi – Cooling pink drink made with kokum & coconut milk. Aluwadi / Patrado – Colocasia leaves rolled with spiced gram flour paste, steamed & fried. Ghavan & Amboli – Soft rice pancakes, often served with chutney or curry. Bhakri – Flatbread made with rice, nachni (ragi), or jowar. Non-Veg Malvani Fish Curry – Spicy ...