Cuisine of Orissa

•      Cooked rice with dal and curry

•      Sun dried and par-boiled rice

•      Cooked rice soaked in water overnight, called pakhal

•      Payas

•      Khiri prepared with milk

•      Pitha, i.e. cakes and pastries either fried in ghee or oil

•      Kanika, cooked with ghee and sugar

•      Khechudi, cooked with pulses

•      Bhaji (fry)

•      Bharta, a mixed vegetable curry

•      Besara/mahura (spiced curry)

•      Jhola, the curry with gravy, vegetarian or non-vegetarian

•      Ambila/sakara (sour or sour-and-sweet preparation)

•      Tea, the most common beverage

•      Pan or pall or betel with or without tobacco

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