10 Most delicious dishes from Jharkhand which everyone must try

The cuisine of Jharkhand is not very different from its neighbouring Bihar. It is truly exquisite and consists of a different cooking style which makes it completely unique. They use mustard oil as a medium in cooking which gives it the characteristic aroma. Agriculture is well flourished in the state as cultivable land resources have given a lot of potential for horticulture and forest by-product. Due to the innovative ways of mixing ingredients available to us and making the best use of the natural products Jharkhand’s cuisine stands distinctive.

Let’s explore 10 Most delicious dishes from Jharkhand.

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1. Dhuska
Famous cuisine Dhuska, a delicious dish, fried deeply and taken as a snack with sauce and chutney. The main ingredients include rice, powdered Chana Daal, and sometimes boiled potatoes.

2. Rugra
A type of mushroom which you will find only during the monsoons, often in the forest. It grows beneath the soil and only the locals of the forest will be able to find it. It can be said a special state cuisine due its seasonal and peculiar growth, which no one wants to leave.

3. Bhel Puri
Bhel Puri is a celebration of ingredients on a plate. It’s a delightful union of puffed rice, spices, and different chutneys. Known as one of the most famous street food of India, the dish is a loaded with a slew of flavours. It is an easy to eat low-calorie snack.

4. Puchka
Puchka is also known as Pani Puri that is already a popular Indian street food item. Ranchi’s Puchka reminisces the luscious snack in a slightly different way. The recipe has its main element as fried crunchy Puri stuffed with spiced potato mash, dipped and filled with then tangerine flavoured sour water bringing together the salivating magic of the Puchka.

5. Pitha
It is stuffed by- the famous Aloo ka Chokha of Jharkhand, different varieties of boiled Dals (gram, black lentil, Masoor ki dal/ green lentil), Khoa or thickened milk. The structure of the Pitha makes it more attractive.

6. Arsa Roti
The sweet dish is symbolic of good harvest and the tactics of cooking of the women of the house. A small mistake will result in the loss of a lump of dough of rice flour. So one needs to very careful and conscious while making Arsa.

7. Chilka Roti
A dish made of rice flour served with Oal (yams) ki Sabzi or with mutton curry is a famous dish. Made in a way using rice flour, chana dal, and Urad dal as ingredients this Jharkhand food is a famous dinner of these people.

8. Handia
A festive drink made of cooked rice soaked in water overnight in an earthen pot. It is prepared using Ranu tablet which is essentially a combination of 20-25 herbs acting as a fermentor.

9. Bamboo Shoots
These are the edible parts of the bamboo. Its soft and tender flesh are cut and boiled so that any toxins if present are removed. It is often pickled, curried, or fermented and can be cooked in many different ways. Older shoots need more of boiling as compared to the young shoots. Young shoots are locally called Karil and stored shoots are called Shandhna.

10. Mitha Khaja
Made of Maida or refined white flour, ghee, and sugar makes it a very tasty delight. Firstly, the batter is fried deeply until crisp and then soaked in the sugar syrup. The final prepared Khaja is dry from outside while the inner part is full of sugar syrup. Khaja is a sweet often used during festive occasions as a holy offering, especially to Lord Jagannath.