A record number of people thronged the venue of the preliminary round of The Hindu’s Our State Our Taste cooking contest in Gadag on Friday, making it a full house event.
The rules were simple yet challenging and the contestants put up a tough fight. The participants had to cook a traditional Kannada dish or give an interesting twist to the recipe and bring it to the venue.
Prema B. Meti, winner of this round, impressed the judges with her laddu, chakli, kanchi kayi, manglore bajji fry, and a whopping amount of 10 varieties. The first runner-up Gayatri A. Palankar made impressive dishes like mutton curry, chicken sukka, neer dosa, mutton chops, and mutton biryani. The second runner-up Sunita Eshwarsa Merwade made pulao, chicken dry, four types fish, jeera rice, kheema, and raita.
