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Traditional
Assamese food is cooked in earthenware on a wood fire,
giving it its unique flavor.
Assamese cuisine is a mixture of different indigenous as
well as external influences with a lot of regional
variations. It is characterized by the use of simple
ingredients which are at times very flavorful and at times
very pungent. Fermented food is very widely used, giving it
a very distinct flavor. Preparations in Assam are rarely
elaborate.
People of Assam eat
non-spicy foods and even bland at times. Rice is the staple diet and
other supplementary food includes lentils, fish curry, meat curry
along with herbs and vegetables. The curry is generally seasoned
with ginger, garlic, cardamom, cinnamon, onions and sometimes lemon.
Sweets made during
the festivals are usually made of rice paste. Pitha is a paper-thin
pancake stuffed with sweet coconut paste or sweet black sesame seed
paste.
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