01 Food tours
Original food tours, curated with our local tastemakers to showcase the neighbourhood kitchens, markets and family-run eateries that define Jodhpur.
Marwari Meals
Jodhpur
A curated food tour through the streets, markets and family kitchens of the destination — flavour by flavour.
Blue City Bites
Jodhpur
A curated food tour through the streets, markets and family kitchens of the destination — flavour by flavour.
Mirchi vada stuffed with masala potato, mawa kachori, mohan maas, gatte ki sabzi. The desert kitchen leans on gram flour, dried chilli and yoghurt.
04 The pantry
- Mathania chilli, sun-dried red chilli for desert cooking
- Mawa, reduced milk solids that go into every sweet
- Besan, gram flour used for gatte and mirchi vada
- Yoghurt, thick curd used as gravy base in place of water
- Dried mango, amchur for the sour edge
05 In the kitchen
- Deep-frying mirchi vada stuffed with masala potato
- Reducing mawa for hours to make dense sweet fillings
- Slow-cooking mohan maas in yoghurt and milk with dry fruit
- Rolling gatte gram-flour dumplings for spiced yoghurt curry
- Dry-frying ker sangri desert beans in mustard oil
06 Eat this first
- Mirchi vada, potato-stuffed chilli fritter dipped in tomato chutney
- Mawa kachori, syrup-soaked fried pastry filled with reduced milk
- Mohan maas, royal mutton curry cooked in milk with dry fruit
- Pyaaz kachori, spiced onion-stuffed fried pastry
- Makhaniya lassi, saffron and cardamom yoghurt drink topped with cream
What happens inside a hammam kitchen
A morning with the cooks who feed the neighbourhood before dawn. Charcoal, dough, the smell of a bakery working its second oven.
10 Field Notes
Quick field notes to help you get accustomed to Jodhpur.
Weather
Desert climate. Hot summers (45°C-plus in May–June) with occasional dust storms, cool nights in winter (5°C in January), and short pleasant spring and autumn windows.
Currency
The Indian rupee (INR). Cash for auto-rickshaws and markets; cards for restaurants and hotels. UPI dominates for locals.
Language
Hindi and Marwari. English is spoken in tourism.
Etiquette
Modest dress at temples and in the old city. Cover shoulders and knees at Mehrangarh Fort's Jain and Hindu shrines. Ask before photographing people.
Getting around
The old city (Blue City) is atmospheric on foot but its lanes are narrow. Auto-rickshaws are cheap. Uber and Ola both work in the newer city.
Prayer
Deeply Hindu with strong Jain and Muslim communities. Temple bells and calls to prayer both mark the day. Ask before entering active shrines.