Bai
Vegetables cooked in salt, chingal (soda) and sa-um(fat)
- Category: Mizo Recipes, Soup Recipes
Ingredients
- potatoes
- bean
- cabbage (zikhlum)
- lady-fingers (bawrhsaiabe)
- 4 chili pepper (hmarchapui)
- 4 garlic (purunvar)
- ginger (sawhthing)
- 1 teaspoon dried soya-beans (bekang)
- 1/2 tablespoon chingal (or Soda)
- 1/2 tablespoon saum (fermented pig fat) or Butter
Instructions
- Heat around 5 cups of water. As it starts boiling add harder vegetables (potatoes, beans, others). Cook for 10-15 minutes.
- Add chili peppers, garlics, ginger slices, bekang (dried smelly soya-beans), saum (fermented pig fat) and chingal or soda (potassium bicarbonate) . Keep stirring.
- As potatoes are cooked add lady finger and salt.
- Cotinue heating till all vegetables are cooked.
- Serve Bai hot.