Day 7 -Nagaland

Hi friends, 

Next in the north eastern states ,is Nagaland. Nagaland is a beautiful place . It is a must visit state. But it is one tough state to get vegetarian. 

Day 7 - Nagaland 

When I started researching the recipes, I didn't get a lot of vegetarian dishes. Even those which I got had some ingredients that I didn't have. People in nagaland eat healthy. Very very little oil is used. Boiled vegetables are eaten with meat. Here too fermented ingredients and bamboo shoots are used a lot. 

Finally I zeroed in to 3 dishes. Even those dishes had to be changed a little bit. 

Today  I made

Aloo dal

Potato and tur dal cooked in the pressure cooker with green chillies, ginger and garlic.

Galho

It is like a porridge or  a stew. Here rice is boiled with veggies, meat ,bamboo shoots, fermented soy with ginger and salt.

I have just used cabbage,beans.

Tomato chutney 

Here tomato is boiled with green chillies, ginger and garlic. Once cooked it is ground in mortar and pestle. 

All the three dishes ,I didn't use oil. Nagaland has the spiciest chillies. They make varieties of chutneys to eat with rice. They use ginger and garlic in cooking.