Jakhiya - An essential spice in Garhwali Cuisine. #IncredibleIngredients

Jakhiya - essential Garhwali spice. I am not really sure when my affair with Jakhiya first began...  Was it with my first taste? At my first breakfast after I got married, on a cold Dun morning, when it crunchily asserted itself in the Hari Bhujji we ate, with ghee walli moti rotis... Or was it later, when it crackled noisily at me from hot mustard oil in the kadhai as Mom Chachi taught