Your Arunachal Pradesh Tour will be incomplete if you don't try the local cuisine of this amazing place. Here you will find some authentic lip-smacking dishes that you never can try anywhere in India. Here are some of them worth mentioning :
Rice
In Arunachal Pradesh, the people are more focused on their main food rice. Cooking rice in the traditional Nyishi style is very popular in Arunachal Pradesh. The Nyishi community is the largest inherited community in Arunachal Pradesh. In Nyishi tradition they cook rice in a hollow bamboo with hot coal. This way the rice gives a different flavor and delicious taste.
Momo
Everyone who ever lived in the town of
India is very familiar with Momo - the delicious food of North India. Momo is
dumpling stuffed with vegetables (Veg-Momo) or chicken, beef or mutton
(Non-veg). This food is available in Arunachal Pradesh in ample number and a must try during Arunachal Pradesh Trip.
Bamboo Sprout
Bamboo shoots or bamboo sprouts are newly
come digestive shoots of many bamboo species. Arunachal uses these bamboo
sprouts as the main ingredient in their various cuisine. Without the bamboo
sprouts their cuisine like get incomplete. They have a different flavor and
mouth-watering taste. One must try to get the authentic cuisine flavor of
Arunachal Pradesh by frying Bamboo sprouts and use in various boiled vegetables
or cooked meat.
Pika Pila
Pika Pila is a popular food item in
Arunachal Pradesh. It is a type of pickle made by Apatani
tribes. Apatani tribes live in Ziro, the mysterious state in Arunachal
Pradesh. The pickle is made by using pork fat, bamboo shoots and adding the
flavor of chili. It is very good in taste but not very spicy. It is a must-try whenever you are on your Arunachal Tour.
Lukter
Lukter is a simple dish of dry meat with
chili flakes or Bhut Jolokia. The recipe of Lukter is the dried meat is grilled
with hot king chili. It is a traditional side dish and eaten with rice in
Arunachal Pradesh.
Pehak
Pehak is an Assamese dish. The recipe of
Pehak is made by use of fermented Soya bean and King chilly. In this cuisine,
the king chili is used as the main ingredient. This is also used as a side
dish with rice. The pickle is hot and very spicy that gives the rice a very unique hot flavor.
Pehak is very popular among Assamese and Arunachalis.
Apong
Are you wondering about ‘Apong’? Well,
Apong or Apo is another name for rice beer. It is a traditional drink of
Arunachal Pradesh. The Mishing tribes that reside in Assam have certain customs. They
drink this rice beer Apong in this custom. The cooked rice is laid out from the
bamboo or banana leaves. Then E’pob mixed with the rice and put inside a drum
for 6 days. After proper fermentation, the mixture is filtered and the liquid
used as ‘Apong’.
Marua
Marua is a local beer of remote valley
in northeastern state Arunachal Pradesh. Marua is also a beer made by millet.
If you visit the remote valley in Arunachal Pradesh the local people will
welcome you with this traditional beverage. It is better than coffee or
tea. To prepare Marua the complete
fermentation process takes 15-20 days. The room where the fermentation process
is done always remains clean.
Chura Sabji
You will love this simple and delicious
food in Arunachal Pradesh. It is a curry made of fermented cheese which is made
by either yak milk or cow milk. Few flakes of king chilly make this dish a
delicious and spicy.
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