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Gudok

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Vegetables and fish or meat cooked without oil, often in a bamboo tube, then mashed with berma and chillies.

Region: TripuraOccasion: Everyday and festive mealsTime: 45 minServes: 4Non-vegetarian

Ingredients

  • 2 cups mixed vegetables (such as potato, brinjal, pumpkin, jackfruit, beans), chopped
  • 250 g fish or chicken (optional)
  • 1 piece berma
  • 5–6 green chillies
  • 1-inch piece ginger
  • 1 onion, chopped
  • Salt to taste
  • A green bamboo tube or a heavy pot

Method

  1. Mix the vegetables, fish or chicken, berma, chillies, ginger, onion and salt.
  2. Pack them into a green bamboo tube with a little water and seal it with leaves. Or cook in a covered pot with ½ cup water.
  3. Cook the bamboo tube over a fire for about 30 minutes, turning it, or simmer the pot until everything is soft.
  4. Empty into a bowl and mash or pound everything together into a coarse mash.
  5. Serve with rice.

History

Cooking food inside green bamboo over a fire is an old method of the hill communities of Tripura.

Significance

Gudok shows the oil-free style of Tripuri cooking, where flavour comes from berma, chilli and the bamboo itself.

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