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In pics: Litti chokha festival in Burrabazar draws savoury connoisseurs from across Kolkata
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In pics: Litti chokha festival in Burrabazar draws savoury connoisseurs from across Kolkata
Surge of diners proves popularity of Bihar and Jharkhand’s most favourite easy-to-eat snack
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Published 08.01.24, 07:26 PM
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Ready-to-baked littis in the oven at the 23rd Litti Chokha Bhoj Utsav at Posta in Burrabazar on Sunday. Litti chokha is the prime example of Bihar cuisine’s spicy and savoury deliciousness and is an incredibly easy-to-eat snack whose main item is the litti
Photographs by Ashim Paul
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Cooks prepare the favourite snack of the Hindi heartland at the festival. Litti is a dough ball made using whole wheat flour, and it is stuffed with a spiced earthy mixture of roasted black chickpea, sattu, or kala chana flour
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The yummy littis nicely served on a plantain leaf platter for drooling food lovers
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A young lady serves the chokha to be consumed with littis by diners at the event
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Litti connoisseurs demonstrate the correct way to relish the spicy and savoury baked dough ball
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State minister of women & child development and social welfare Shashi Panja helps herself to a litti
