Farsan (food)

Farsan

Khandvi, a popular Gujarati snack (Farsan)
Course	Snack
Place of origin	India
Region or state	Maharashtra, Gujarat
Main ingredients	Potatoes, gram flour

Farsan (Gujarati: ફરસાણ, Marathi:फरसाण) is a collective term used for a type of snacks in Maharashtrian cuisine and Gujarati cuisine, from the Indian state of Maharashtra and Gujarat.

Some are fried items which are then dried and can be stored, others are fresh or steamed. Some popular examples are:

• Shev
• Ganthiya
• Namkeen (food) or farsan mixture
• Dhokla
• Khandvi
• Ragda (garnished fried potato patties)
• Batata vada
• Patra (colocasia leaves rolled up with a spiced gram flour batter and steamed and garnished like dhoklas)
• Samosa