Assam Food

Famous & Local Food of Assam

The cuisine of Assam is simple in its styles and ingredients. Assamese cuisine doesn't make excessive use of chillies, and in spite of little art in the style of cooking and the minimal use of colourful spices or oil, the food here is rich with exotic flavours and freshest natural ingredients.

The confluence of a variety of cultural influences in Assam has led to considerable diversity in Assamese cuisine. Local dishes mainly consist of rice and fish, and seafood is the central part of Assam?s local cuisine. Fish is prepared in all different textures and flavours and range from sour-curry fish Tenga to smoked and fried fish and fishlings that are seasoned with vegetables. Spices used here are subtle like cumin, coriander, mustard, ginger, garlic, fenugreek, panch foran and cardamom. Assam's Laksa (a spicy-sour fish base noodle soup) is almost as staple and popular as rice. Preparations of exotic fruits and vegetables, as well as fish, duck and squab, are also favourite. Khar, Tenga, Pura, Poitbhat, Pitika, Paan are what Assamese Cuisine is known for and identified with. Another item without which the very definition of Assam is incomplete is Tea. One can indulge in the most excellent varieties of tea in the area and lose themselves in the refreshing and robust flavour and fragrance of the tea produced here.

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