Manipuri cuisine refers to the cuisine of Manipur, a state of northeastern India. Daily meals are based on rice, with a few side dishes of vegetables, fish and meat.[1] A meal would usually have a vegetable stew called ensaang or athongba, flavored with dried or fried fish; stir-fried vegetables called kanghou; and a spicy item, which could be morok metpa (a chili paste), eromba (boiled and mashed vegetables with chili and fermented fish), or singju (a piquant salad). All piquant side dishes are accompanied by a choice of fresh herbs, collectively called maroi. The base and essence of Meitei cuisine is the fermented fish called ngari. Several dishes of meat, mostly chicken and pork,[2] are cooked with unique recipes.[3] As a result of religious taboos, however, the Meitei Pangals do not cook the latter.
A side dish of steamed (a-ngaanba) or boiled vegetables with a hint of sugar (cham-phut) are also quite common as palate cleansers in most meals. The aromatics of most dishes start with frying bay leaf, chives, onion, garlic, and ginger in mustard oil. The rest of the vegetables follow after that. Oil is sparingly used in most of the main stews but the side dishes of kanghou (stir-fried spicy vegetables) and bora (fritters) make up for that. Fish is also a staple, and appears in every meal, either as ngaari or as roasted or fried pieces. While fish is an essential part of the diet, due to increasing prices, fish curry is prepared only occasionally, or during feasts. The Meiteis and the Pangals live in the valley of Manipur where freshwater fish from lakes and rivers and ponds had been plentiful until recent times.
Manipuricuisine refers to the cuisine of Manipur, a state of northeastern India. Daily meals are based on rice, with a few side dishes of vegetables,...
with hands, whisked with a whisker or blend with a blender. Cuisine of Manipur "Manipuris starved of traditional dishes in Delhi Bhavans : 21st sep11...
shavai ani ras (specially flavored with coconut milk). Manipuricuisine is represented by the cuisine of the Meitei people who form the majority population...
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rendering support, you may see errors in display. The Meitei people, Meetei, Manipuri people is an ethnic group native to Manipur. They form the largest and...
Hentak is a thick fermented paste in Manipuricuisine made with sun-dried fish powder and the petioles of aroid plants. The small Indian flying barb fish...
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of perilla are also used for flavoring curries in north east India. Manipuricuisine uses the ground roasted seed in a salad. Its seeds are used in salads...
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