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
- Mix the vegetables, fish or chicken, berma, chillies, ginger, onion and salt.
- 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.
- Cook the bamboo tube over a fire for about 30 minutes, turning it, or simmer the pot until everything is soft.
- Empty into a bowl and mash or pound everything together into a coarse mash.
- 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.