vadodara ever heard of bhajias made dates figs a city based former businessman boasts to know the recipe to versions of the most popular indian snack bhajias have been one of the most famous snacks however are not known to the variety of bhajias that be relished patel 78 has a collection of recipes for verities of bhajias the seed of the dates removed and the is dipped in the batter gram flour laced spices and deep fried to make the unique bhajias the bhajiya using figs anjeer are made in the same method the includes bhajiya made of and to those made of macroni said patel who a hobby of collecting recipes patel collected about 41000 recipes has made 4000 items of them interestingly all his recipes are vegetarian dishes from across the country while his collection boasts of 70 different types of pickles are nearly potato dishes for diet foodie throughout my went on to do odd jobs for relatives my village in return of delicacies i the inspiration collect recipes my younger daughter sent few paper cuttings of several snacks said patel who the cash n carry store in park while 25000 of were collected from newspapers magazines books and handouts 16000 recipes were written by patel in his books pocket to large files s house has an inventory of vegetarian three hours in a day is spent in reading and cookery shows have been times that i woke up in the middle of the to catch a repeat telecast of my favourite food shows to note down the recipes patel apart from food recipes also accumulated a vast about clippings of home of various ailments patel to collect recipes and aims to enter the guinness world records