Author: Dinabandhu Nayak
Odia cuisine has many sweet dishes. Sarapulli is one of the many that are a part of Lord Jagannath’s Chappan Bhog (56 offerings). It is a sweet pancake made entirely from dairy, or more specifically cream. It is quite delicate dish to prepare and needs a bit of care and patience. Its name comes from the Odia word ‘sara’ which translates to cream. Recipe Sarapulli Ingredients 1 cup cream 1 tsp maida flour (all purpose flour works as a substitute) 1 cup simple syrup ghee for frying 1/2 tsp cardamom powder 2-3 strands of saffron More: Wanted to download Odishashop.com…
Odia cuisine has many original dishes that are not found elsewhere. Besara is one of them. Not to say that it is completely unique as Bengali cuisine also has some dishes which are quite similar to besara. What separates besara from regular ghanta curry is the use of mustard paste and mustard oil in the preparation. Sometimes, only mustard oil is enough to qualify a dish as besara. Here we are going to talk of vegetable besara. You an use any seasonal vegetable you have, in fact the ingredient list is almost the same as ghanta curry. Besara: Traditional Odia…
Today, I made pasta by hand for breakfast and lunch. It was a bit of an experiment to see if I could make it. and I could indeed. The pasta was easy to make. Where I failed actually was in completing the dish itself. As I said, handmade pasta is easy to make. There are a ton of recipes online so I will not write down one right now. This is more like a log of what worked and what did not. The pasta I was making was egg fettucini. It was chosen for the simple reason that I could…
As a dish sewain (vermicelli) cooked in milk holds a special place in my heart. Sewain Kheer It;s a dessert I have eaten since childhood and whenever I eat it, I still reminisce of those carefree days in the past when I would come back from the playground in the evening and Mom would have some prepared for me to snack on. Nowadays as I live alone, some times I crave the simplicity of those days. As I cannot turn back time, I’d rather eat some sevain kheer to quell that inner child. Recipe Ingredients 1/2 ltr milk 3-4 pods…
This lockdown has severely limited my breakfast options. As I live outside the town I can no longer get any butter or other ingredients. Alongwith that I now have to stretch my money through French Toast the whole month with nothing to do but sit t home. So I looked for an easy to make breakfast that did not cost too much. I settled on halva. But I had another option in mind: French Toast. The problem here was that nobody was stocking bread this far out of town. Today, I got a break. I managed to get two loaves…
With lockdown projected to extend beyond the 3rd of May, I have been Omelette Sandwich looking around for inspiration for breakfast food. It was in this search that I found this recipe. It is pretty straighforward in that it only needs two eggs, a pinch of salt and two slices of bread. You only have to plop two bread slices on top of a cooking omelette. The complication arises in the execution. As I have made this multiple times, I have come across the major problems that you will face when making it. Keeping the heat high. It ensures that…
There are not many breakfast foods that are native to Odisha. Many of the options available today to eat in the morning are actually imported from other states. So, this makes Chakuli Pitha one of those breakfast items that are very important to Odia culture. Many people would compare it to dosa as the ingredients are same and the methods are also very similar. However, the eagle-eyed ones would notice the difference between chakuli and dosa easily enough. What separates the two from each other is the resting time of the batter, the proportions between rice flour and urad beans and the…
When every state has its own traditions, culture and food practices, Odia Veg Foods Odisha as a north eastern state also continues to remain atop in terms of delicacy and tasteful dishes served on the plates. In an attempt to satisfy the hunger, the dining tables of Odia people are always served with some extremely yummy Odia Veg foods, prepared keeping in view both the aspects of taste and health. Odisha offers a variety of cuisines prepared in every household and also available in top hotels and restaurants. But some delicious and authentic food items specially for the vegetarians listed…
A visit to Puri, a coastal town in Odisha, is incomplete without relishing the mouth-watering ‘Mahaprasada of Lord Jagannath’. The vast kitchen of Puri Jagannath temple offers an array of sweet dishes, appetisers and main course as offering to Lord Jagannath and his siblings out of which “Khaja” or Puri Khaja is a divine speciality loved by all. Mythical folklore underlines the fact that Khaja is Lord Jagannath’s favourite offering out of all. To the quintessential Odia, Khaja is representative of the divine. A visit to Lord Jagannath in Puri is not considered complete without having a bite of the…
Odisha offers a variety of cuisines prepared in every household and also available Authentic Non Veg in top hotels and restaurants. But some delicious and authentic food items specially for the non vegetarians listed below are of great taste and delegacy. After reading the post, we are sure you will have your tongue licking to taste all these. Don’t panic. We are also offering the recipes so that you can try these at home of your own. Especially during the hard times like the lockdown, you would be searching to try for much more recipes. If you are a non-veg…