Food
Sonipat is famous for its monsoon time sweet dish Ghevar. It is also well known for its Dhabas (local restaurants) at Murthal on Grand Trunk Road for its Pranthas.
Here food includes ghee and butter as they are home made and is used liberally in their routine diet. The home made butter is known as Nooni Ghee and is daily churned fresh in most homes. Some of the popular food in Haryana is Hara Dhania Cholia, Kadhi Pakora, Bathua Raita, Bajra Aloo Roti, Kachri ki Sabzi, Bhura Roti with Ghee, Kheer, Churma, Halua, lapsi, Malpuas, Rabdi, Dalia and Besan Masala Roti with Makhan (Butter). The food is considered to be incomplete without Lassi and Thandai.
Festivals
Lohri is the marks of winter culmination, and is celebrated on the 13 Jan a day before Makar Sankranti. People gather round the bonfires, throw sweets, puffed rice and popcorn into the flames, sing songs and exchange greetings. Basant Panchami is celebrated in Haryana, Delhi and Punjab to welcome spring season. The main attraction of this festival is Kite flying. Baisakhi is the New Year's Day for Panjabis is celebrated with joyous music and dancing . It falls on April 13, though once in 36 years it occurs on 14 April. Holi is a religious spring festival also known as festival of Colors. People throw Gulal (scented powder) and colors on each other. Men folk throw water on women who retaliate by a mock beating with sticks or kolras (twisted cloth strips). Janamashtami is celebrated as the birth anniversary of Krishna, the incarnation of Lord Vishnu. The temples witness an extravagant and colorful celebration on this occasion. Gugga Naumi is a religious festival, celebrated all over Haryana. It is connected with snake-worship and observed in August–September. Dusshera is probably the chief Hindu festival, being associated with the great Epic
