Bhojpuri cuisine

Bhojpuri cuisine is a style of food preparation common amongst the Bhojpuri people living in Bihar.

Bhojpuris are fond of spicy foods and their cuisines reflect this.

The food is tailor made for Bhojpuri lifestyle in which the rural folk burn up a lot of calories in the fields.

Bhojpuri people take pride in celebrating various festivals and practices various religious rites, and as a result, their food resembles the delicacies offered to gods and goddesses.

Some dishes popular in Bhojpuri cuisine include:

• channa (chickpeas)

• Rajma (red kidney beans)

• Lobiya: (black eyed bean)

• Dal makhani

• Chokha, roasted tomatoes or roasted aubergine or roasted potatoes

• roti, pizza stuffed with cooked potatoes or yellow peas

• Aloo matar

• Bihari kebab

• Gulab Jamun

• Dal Maharani

• Pooa

• Daal poori

• Bati

• Nimona (made of green peas)

• Dahi chiuda (Curd and chiuda)

• Daal pithouri

• Gojha - stuffed with Daal and cooked in steam

• Gujhiya