Khajing Bora (Shrimp Fritters)

Khajing Bora (Shrimp Fritters)

Green chillies from Kachai village of Ukhrul district, Manipur, marinated with fresh curd, spices and fried Khajing bora ne 😋

Fresh shrimp fritters made Manipuri way:

1.  Dry roasted the fresh shrimps and whirred them coarsely
2.  Added cut chives, salt, chilly powder, turmeric, whole cumin seeds, a pinch of asafoetida and mixed with little water
3.  Fried in small batches in hot oil. That's it

Green chillies:

1. Slit the long green chillies midway 
2. Marinated with thick fresh curd, salt, spices
3. Pan fried them.

It's an amazing combo!!!!! Do try it none have regretted it .

Ngaton- Sok

• What makes our food different 😋

      Food differentiates people, each community has one favourite item without which no meal is ever complete. The MOROK-METPA is one such food without which no meal however tasty it could be, is complete. Imagine having yen thongba, nganu ngauba, San sa thongba without Morok-metpa 😆.

Ngaton Sok

 The homechef hidden in me (recently resurfaced 😜) went a step ahead and made the MOROK-METPA the usual way with roasted ngari and morok angangba but added fried NGATON to the entire lot and did a SOK with nakuppi (chives), tejba (oops it's local parlance for bayleaves) and jeera mapum (whole jeera). I swear I won't ever regret this mischief. 

Please feel free to try this one out, I promise you your mealtimes would be a happy one.

PAKNAM - Traditional Manipuri flat baked dish

Paknam - A traditional Manipuri flat baked dish.

Indigenous communities have one such item which is traditional and symbolizes home and hearth. One such is PAKNAM literal translation being a flat bake. It's a flat bread made with the ingredients listed below:

Besan, King Chilly for heat and aroma, green chilies for the zing, roasted fermented fish NGARI for the flavour, Fresh chives and salt to make it...a dough for baking/steaming.

It's magic touch comes from the fresh turmeric leaves used to envelope it before its journey over the fire.

The taste is indescribable in its awesomeness.