Of the 13 dishes that he served, khar cooked with raw papaya was one of them. A lavish feast from across India demands a palate cleanser. Also read | Why Assam's small forest patches are worth saving ...

Saikia shares that every Assamese meal must begin with Khar - a dish made with an alkaline liquid prepared from dried vegetable peels. "In Assam, we believe in zero-wastage.

In the earliest recorded times, Assam was part of Kamarupa, a state that had its capital at Pragjyotishapura (now Guwahati).

Explore the vibrant food culture of Assam with these 10 (out of many) ... Their traditional meal made of khar (banana peel’s ash extract), dishes with elephant apples and fiddlehead fern, ...

Khar is from the ashes of sun-dried banana peel or stem of the banana tree cooked with raw papaya, lentils and other vegetables. Khar is so important in Assamese cuisine that many people used to call ...

Guwahati: Foreign players and officials of the 12th South Asian Games (SAG) were treated to an array of ethnic dishes from the state. Hoteliers in the city, who played host to teams from the eight ...

They are descendants of ethnic Tai people. So, there is a great influence of South Asian flavour in the dishes. Like every cuisine in the world, food habits are a confluence of many factors, but ...

Hot, steamed meat and vegetable dumplings were the star delicacies at Rongali - destination, culture, harmony, a festival of Assam which aimed to highlight, among other things, ethnic delicacies of ...