Summer Traditional Cuisines That Connects People To Assam

Food of Assam has remained the centrifugal part, connecting people and communities of varied places to it with serve of nutrient based mouth watering summer cuisines of simple and tangling taste.

Giving you the real kick to start the day fresh and keeping you smiling with health and energy. Assam has a tradition to quick serve Indian style meal with whole lot of green and non-veg items with the same ingredients used in nationwide in its own unique style. Making you feel that you had hit into a new food court.

Special attraction of Assam food joints are that they deliver homely food mostly even if you feel you’re out in a different world and doubtful eating out. But the stories of Assam food often go bland with not much spice to add but yet very tasty and healthy. If you certify Assamese people as health conscious foodies won’t be wrong where some signifies to poor man’s meal but it is better to abstain from harmful ingredients that enhances food and secure your health. For there are few who don’t bank on health rather than on taste buds. 

Indulging on senses is not bad if you follow the right technique. One of the examples is Assamese Khar recipe that has whole richness of taste, nutrient and aroma but finally a bland product. Flavors of grounded sesame and banana ash taste are the soul of Assamese Khar recipe that goes with the of a pinch of soda and desired additional stuffs like papaya, cabbage, cauliflower leaves and rice.

Medicinal insight of khar recipe will open your eyes to how you can relish tasty food without any harmful effect. It is retained to be as a never forgetting experience for those non-spicy foodies after trying on Khar. To prepare Khar recipe you need to first of all skin out the Bheem Kol banana and burn it to gather the ashes from it. One teaspoon of ash is enough which you need to soak it for sometime before adding to a medium proportion of cooked papaya, cauliflower tender leaf stalks, crushed large cabbage leaves or rice prepared items. A touch of salt, teaspoon of grinded ginger and garlic paste, pinch of soda and two pinches of turmeric powder adds more richness and taste to it with lingering aromatic essence. This recipe works as a medicine for tender stomach to help in healing or faster recovery. 

But returning from Assam without treating your taste buds with traditionally prepared royal duck meat which is famous for its heavenly vegetable combo with ash gourd flesh would be an incomplete journey. This occasion based delicacy of Assam which is prepared by simply frying normal key ingredients of meat before adding the duck pieces into it. Once the meat is stirred fried with the ingredients then overlap on top of it with the gourd flesh and seal the utensil with air tight cover. Lower the flame and cook till tender. 

Another divinely pleasure is tangy fish curry to beat the extreme summer heat of Assam and to stir the metabolism of the system.  Maasor Tenga Jul or tangy fish curry with sprinkle of coriander leaves is an exclusive culinary dish which remain to be Assamese food culture identity. Prepared simply with onion, fenugreek turmeric, salt and dry chillis which are sautéed at high heat before bringing the flame to medium level. To add chopped green or ripe tomatoes for best tangy taste. Allow the tomatoes to melt without adding water. Later add a cup of water to it or as per to your gravy essentiality. Raise the flame later to bring the water to boil and seal airtight bringing down the flame, cook till the gravy thickens slightly to help loosen the cluttered rice and for easy swallow.