Nagaland cusine

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1. NAGALAND FOOD CUISINE PRESENT BY ANKUR KURKUMAR

2. Nagaland , located in very Northeastern India, is a state that’s just north of Myanmar and just south of China and Bhutan

3. sixteen main tribes in Nagaland, each with similar yet unique traditions and practices. While food from each tribe overlaps, there are also certain dishes that are specifically known from a certain tribe. Rice, pork, chicken,  dog ,  insects and worms , vegetables, and famous chili sauces are essential in the Naga diet

4. Tathu : This is a hot preparation or chutney. It is usually prepared by making paste of chillis and leaves or dry meat or fermented fish. Leaves of Colocasia esculenta are boiled and then smashed and dried for preparing chutney Ghabe :- It is prepared by boiling only green leaves. No garlic, chilli , fermented soyabean or dry fish are added. Figure 3 shows Ghabe .

5. Galkemeluo : It is prepared by boiling wild leaves with bamboo shoot, garlic, tomato, potato, dry or smoked meat, dry fish, fermented soyabean , Zanthoxylum rhetsa and Zanthoxylum armatum . Tomato is specially added to give slight sour taste. Galkemeluo of snail and fishes (especially Clarias ) are also prepared. For preparing Galkemeluo of Clarias , banana flowers are separately boiled and cooked with flesh of Clarias , leaves of Zanthoxylum armatum or Zanthoxylum rhetsa and chillis . Figure 4 shows Galkemeluo

6. Dried Pork A traditional Naga kitchen is outdoors because a fire is one of the most essential components of cooking. Hanging above any Naga kitchen fire will be pieces of meat (both pork and beef), that slowly dry out and smoke high above the flames. After weeks or sometimes much longer than that, the meat is ready to be consumed. For one meal we just ate some of the smoked pork, and another time we enjoyed a stew made from the meat.

7. Smoked Pork Stew Just as good as the plain smoked meat, was the smoked pork stew. The dried smoky pork was chopped into bite sized pieces before being boiled in a thin soup that included potatoes, tomatoes, and chillies .

8. Nagaland Pork w/ Dry Bamboo Shoots One of the most famous Nagaland food dishes is dry bamboo shoots cooked with pork. This was one of the first dishes I had as soon as I arrived to Nagaland, and I was thrilled. In Nagaland, just like in Thailand or  Korea , they are serious when it comes to pork. So you won’t be eating thin strips of bite sized pork, they cook with huge chunks of pig. Often the pork is quite fatty, often big cubes of pork belly mixed in. If you’re a pork lover, you’ll have a blast in Nagaland.

9. Boiled Vegetables With nearly every meal I ate in Nagaland, we had a number of different boiled vegetables – most of the time cabbage, long beans, and melon. Vegetables are most commonly boiled without any seasoning.

10. Roasted Intestines Since pig is such a huge part of Naga food culture, you can be assured that nothing is wasted, and internal organs happen to be some of the most prized possessions (and rightfully so, they are some of the most flavorful).

11. This healthy earthy mixture included beans, tomatoes, peas, cabbage and all sort of other natural Nagaland ingredients. It was a delicious concoction that wasn’t overly strong in flavor, but more of a garnish for rice and intended to be eaten with other stronger chili sauces and curries. Beans Mix

12. Being a huge fan of bitter melon, I was happy to see a big bowl of it for one of our meals in Nagaland. They were the little Indian bitter melons. Bitter Melon

13. Bamboo grows everywhere in Nagaland, and it has many different uses. One of the common ways to cook is using tubes of bamboo. Cooked by Grandfather himself, fish were stuffed into a hollow tube of bamboo with a few light spices and then placed in the ash of the fire to cook. After the fish were cooked, they were simply emptied out of the bamboo into a bowl and ready to be served. They were quite plain and boney, but I could detect a nice hint of bamboo flavor in the fish. Along with some of the chili sauce, they were really good. Bamboo Steamed Fish

14. Chicken Glutinous Rice Soup Few things are as pleasing a purchasing a live chicken at the market and  eating her just a few moments later . We went to the market in Dimapur , chose a nice little chicken, a free range village chicken that is, and went back to the house. The chicken was cooked in a glutinous rice sauce. Just like many other Nagaland foods, it wasn’t cooked overly spiced, but it was served along with some chili sauced which provided extreme flavor.

15. Crab Chili Sauce Another great combination was the crab version. It was a little runnier than the dry eel chili sauce, but this was also very good. I was surprised how non-fishy it tasted.

16. Naga Ghost Chili Sauce On my last night in Nagaland, a friend cooked up a feast that contained dishes specifically from her home village in Nagaland. This blend of ingredients (I’m sorry, I honestly don’t know what all was in here) was miraculou

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