Mithila Dish

I love to travel and spend life of a foodie  ,to be foodie with ethnic version of flavors makes me more happy day by day.This week I got the opportunity to be in Mithila pradesh of Nepal and have the cuisine there with friends,all of the mithila food is prepared in mustard oil and important ingredient includes coriander, turmeric and red chili powder.Maithil dinner/lunch food plate has essentials including but not limited to Chawal/Roti, Dal, Primary Sabzi/Rohu fish/Meat, Bhujia/Chokha, Chatni.

 Rohu Fish Fry:

Rohu is an auspicious staple food for Maithili people and at occasions, Rohu fish fry is presented to guest just like someone serve sweets to people in other culture.Rohu fish fry is prepared by mixing pieces of Rohu fish simply with turmeric powder and garlic paste and frying it in wok at high flame.

Rohu Fish Curry:

Rohu fish curry in mithila style is essentially prepared with mustard paste mixed with garlic.Preparation: After frying fish in above mentioned manner, curry is prepared separately by frying mustard and garlic paste in mustard oil just perfectly and water is added. Only turmeric, corriander and cilli power is used as spices.Under fry or over fry causes different types of bitter taste. Fried rohu is dipped in boiling curry and fish curry is ready to serve. 

Sukhua : Sukhua means something which is sun dried. So some vegetable like cauliflower are sun dried like adauri and papad and are preserved in jars so as to prepare later in the same manner as any vegetable.

 Meat: Mutton curry is called meat in Bihar/Mithila and is prepared in different style from rest of India using mustard oil and same set of spices i.e turrmeric, chili powder and coriander powder on chopped onion.

Dal puri: Dal stuffed pan fried puri.