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 |
