Assamese Sweet Vegetable Pulao

You may wonder to read the name of my today's post, yes Sweet Vegetable Pulao, this dish is from Assam cuisine. Actually, even i was surprised when i crossed this dish at Sunita's space, and this dish is really very easy to give a try. Though sugar is used in this one pot meal, they dont dominate much and we enjoyed thoroughly this incredible pulao with paneer masala. Every month,we are cooking from Regional cuisines of India for Shhh Cooking Secretly, a monthly event started by me, which is now hosted by Mayuri Patel. After Andhra Pradesh and Arunachal Pradesh, this month we are landing to Assam. Assam is a state of Northeast India, which is situated to south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahamaputra and Barak river valleys. Assam is known very much for its tea and for their silk. Coming to their cuisine, an Assamese meal consists of rice, dal, fish curry along with meat curry or with a curry prepared with herbs and vegetables.

Gooror Payash - Assam Special

Assam is situted in North Eastern part of India with natural beauty, this mesmerizing state is blessed with beautiful hils, forest, valleys and the mighty river Brahmaputra.Assamese people are very simple to get to know and their cuisine is also as simple as much and very easy to cook.As like the neighbourhood states, Rice is the main ingredient of Assamese cuisine, rice is a part of their traditional breakfast and all the other dishes are prepared revolving around it. Authentic Assamese cuisine is excellent for health as it uses very small amount of oil,ghee or spices though this cuisine is somewhat rustic and blend.

For my today's post for Assam state of my long blogging marathon, am posting is this simple, delicious sweet with rice, chopped dates, jaggery and cashew.Initially i want to make their Aloo pitika, a mashed potatoes recipe which is quite a favourite item among the Assamese, as the potato are the most popular vegetable of Assam. While going through google, this Gooror Payash caught my attention from Sunita's Space. I prepared this delicious sweet pudding  few days back for our lunch and we loved it. With simple ingredients, this gooror payash tastes absolutely fantabulous, usually this payash is served thick as much as like South Indian sweet pongal, but i loved mine as semi thick and i just enjoyed it thoroughly.

Sweet Kordois

After an authentic Hyderabadi dish, we are landing to Assam for this month's Indian Cooking Challenge, actually Assamese cuisine is quite new for me which i seriously want to learn more. When  Srivalli chosed Kordois, a crispy evening snacks from Sunita's space i was really excited to try this snacks which ressembles quite like Andhra's panasa thonalu which means jackfruit buds in Telugu. Sunita shared two versions of kordois, but my choice went directly to the sweet version, since we are all sweet tooth at home. However i'll make some the savoury too very soon.

Definitely this challenge is seriously very interesting and easy, kordois is often made during a festival called Bihu in Assam. Do you know 'Kordoi' is star fruit in Assamese, this snacks tastes fabulous as an evening snacks with a cup of tea. We couldnt stop yourselves munching these beauties, i have already prepared twice at home, especially my kids are great fan of this kordois.