Some of the Mithila Cuisine Items (Mithila Food Items)

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Kadhi bari

Some of the Mithila Cuisine Items (Mithila Food Items)

Vegetarian Items

• Bhujia (Sallow fried vegetable in mustard oil with salt, turmeric powder, and green chillies or chilli powder)
• Chitba (a flour-and-sugar pancake) and pitthow, tilba and choora (dishes made from Katarni rice) are specialties of the Anga region

• Kadhi bari—fried soft dumplings made of besan (graham flour), cooked in a spiced sauce of yogurt and besan—is a popular favorite with rice

• Tarua (Marinated or coated deep fried vegetable) etc

• Jhor is a term that reflects thin mustard, coriander based gravy

• Arikanchanak Tarkari is a preparation of Marinated sun-dried Colocasia leaves, steamed and cooked in mustard gravy and is a famous maithil dish

• Daail-Jhinguni (Fried Ribbed Gourd cooked with Lentil and cereals)

• Ramruch is a besan based dish unique to Mithila region

• goidila (a sauce made from green peas and flavorings, eaten with rice or roti) are other specialties

• chura-dahi (beaten rice with creamy yogurt) seasoned with salt, green chillies and

  

  Chura(or chiwda)

  pickles; a spicy mixed-vegetable dish may also be served which is the popular breakfast

• Chura(or chiwda)—rice beaten is also eaten with yogurt and sugarchura is also eaten with mango pulp during summer, and is known as chura aam

• chura ka bhuja (rice sautéed with sliced onion, chopped green chillies and green peas) and masalgar murhi (puffed rice mixed with chopped green chillies, onion, coriander leaves, salt, and mustard oil) is evening snacks for maithils 

• chini wala roti is other breakfast dishes

• suzi rk halwa (semolina porridge)

• makhanaak kheer (with lotus seeds, milk, and nuts) one of the best-known food item

• Malpua is another popular sweet, differing slightly from the malpua of northern India

• ammath (layered mango pulp, sun-dried and cut into small pieces) is preserved fruits

• kumhar ker murabba, papita ke murabba and dhatrikak murabba are some of the dried food items which is stored for later consumption

• Thadia Saagak Teeman is a very easy preparation which could be taken well with chapati and rice both and equally rich in nutritious value as Red spinach is the great source of Iron and Lentil has high Protein content
• “Poori – Aloo dum” is another breakfast item that people like having along with a sweet dish “Jilebi” (also known Jalewi roundels of deep fried fermented flour batter dipped in sugar syrup)
• Makai ke Lawa ( Popcorns)
• Masalgar Murhi ( Rice pops mixed with chopped green chillies, Onion, coriander leaf, salt and few drops of mustard oil)

• Jhilli (jalebi like salted thing made of Besan flour)

• kachari, Shinghara(Samosa) etc. are all famous

• Kadhi bari is a popular favorite and consists of fried soft dumplings made of besan (gram flour) that are cooked in a spicy gravy of yogurt



Panchforan

• Saag ke jhor (leafy vegetable having very thin gravy)

• “Khamarua”  used in various preparation like Sanna (smashed vegetable specially root vegetables)

• Panchforan is a combination of raw spices Jeer, Ajwain, mangrail, sounf and methi, and is different from panchforan of Bengal

• Paan (a sweet betel leaf is flavored with fennel, cardamom, clove, rose petals, sugar, and other ingredients, and chewed after a meal), maach and makhan (betel leaves, fish and lotus seed) are not found in paradise; therefore, one should enjoy them on earth according to old saying

Non-vegetarian Items

• Machchak Jhor is a special fish curry made in mustard paste and is a preparation from

  

  Kankorak Jhor (crab curry)

  Mithila
• Maus is generally mutton or chicken(but not Hen or cock) or squails (tittar/battair) (A Small game bird, and sometimes Gaming animal in spicy gravy and is generally enjoyed with malpuas, sohari(chapatti) puri, or steamed rice etc
• Kankorak Chokha is a Mashed preparation of Crab (Kankor) after roasting the crab
• Dokak Jhor generally is Oysters stew cooked with Onion Gravy