Mysuru: Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda was surprised and overwhelmed to see the humble ragi mudde, introduced by him as an international cuisine when he was the Prime Minister, right in front of him at the food research institute with international reputation. He could not help but immediately roll the mudde into small balls, dip it into the curry and swallow it.
This was the scene yesterday afternoon at the Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI) in city, where he inaugurated the ragi mudde making machine manufactured by CSIR-CFTRI. Each machine can discharge 250 muddes weighing 200 to 250 grams in just one hour. Appreciating the efforts of CFTRI for this initiative, he said, after tasting the mudde, “This is a good effort on the part of CFTRI to come out with a machine that can discharge muddes in such huge quantities. This will help people to prepare more muddes quickly.”
