Famous Dish: In Bastar, a tribal dominated area of Chhattisgarh, villagers prepare many delicious local dishes. The art of living a better life even with less resources can be clearly seen in the villagers here.
This is the reason why they prepare their food items from whatever is available from the forest resources. Now lakhs of people have become crazy about these local delicious dishes. Especially the tribals of Bastar prepare more dishes than non-veg.
Hotels get crowded as the evening approaches
If you are fond of eating non-veg food then you must try the different dishes prepared by the tribals of Bastar. After Chapra chutney, the most popular dish among the delicious dishes is Bastar’s “Chaur Bhaja”.
It can also be called Desi Biryani, but the method of making it is quite different. In rural areas, every evening you will get the aroma of “Chaur Bhaja” in rural areas, for this many small hotels have been built here, which sell delicious “Chaur Bhaja”.
Where local people along with urban people and foreign tourists also enjoy the taste of this “Chaur Bhaja”. Seeing the demand of “Chaur Bhaja” it is also served in rural homestays started for tourists in Bastar, where lovers of non-vegetarian food enjoy its taste.
How is Chow Bhaj prepared?
In other states of the country, tea and pakoras are considered to be very famous dishes during the rainy season, but in Bastar, during the rainy season, as the evening approaches, people from urban areas turn to small hotels in rural areas to taste “Chaur Bhaja”.
“Chaur Bhaja” prepared by the tribal villagers of Bastar can also be called Desi Biryani. Harbandhu Nag, a resident of Kalcha village in Bastar district, said that no frills are required to prepare “Chaur Bhaja”, rather whatever is there is cooked in the same form.
In the local Halbi dialect of Bastar, chaur means rice and bhaja means chicken. To prepare “chaur bhaja”, chicken is cooked with few spices and rice is added to it. Rice is soaked in water beforehand so that it gets cooked along with the chicken.
After that, homemade spices are added to the “Chaur Bhaja” which are hand-grinded and cooked on the stove fire. Harbandhu said that the taste of “Chaur Bhaja” doubles on the stove fire.
Sulfi sip enhances the taste of Chaur Bhaja
Harbandhu says that although it is similar to biryani, it is completely different in taste. Slightly wet, slightly spicy, tangy and delicious, the aroma of Chaur Bhaja attracts its fans. Along with the local people, tourists who come to visit Bastar from far off places also eat this desi biryani with great gusto.
Along with this, sulphi drink is served to the tourists. It is said that a sip of “Chaur Bhaja” and sulphi doubles its taste. “Chaur Bhaja” is prepared in the rural areas of Bastar. As soon as evening falls, there is a crowd of youth, tourists and urban people. Every day the villagers cook it in a big ganj and they also earn a good income by selling it.
Apart from this, Chaur Bhaja is also made from Fervit
Bastar’s Desi Biryani is liked by the people of Bastar as well as the tourists. That is why after Chapra Chutney, “Chaur Bhaja” Desi Biryani is also the favourite dish of millions of people in Bastar.
This is the reason why “Chaur Bhaja” is now being served to domestic and foreign tourists in homestays opened for tourists in rural areas. Tourists praise it a lot after tasting it.
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