1. Bora Chaulor Payas
This dessert is delicious. The ingredients that you will need to prepare this are: milk, sticky rice, bay leaves, and a few cardamoms. This dish has a sweet taste to it and is pretty thick in texture. Bora Chaulor Payas is a famous dish of Assam and some parts of North-East.
2. Komolar Kheer
Komolar or Orange Kheer is a classic Assamese dessert. Its taste is a little bit different from other dishes but in an exciting sort of a way. The ingredients that are used to prepare this dish are almonds, sugar, milk, and orange pulp and depending on your choice you can add cashews to enhance the flavour.
3. Narikol Pitha
This is one of the sweet delicacies in Assamese cuisine. Here, the preparation is pretty much quick and easy. All you need to do is roast the coconut and sugar before mixing them in other ingredients such as flour and milk. Roll the batter in the form of balls and then flatten them before frying it in the oil. It also remains fresh for many days, unlike many other desserts.
4. Xutuli Pitha
Pitha is a different kind of bread or cake made in Assam. Pitha is a fried dumpling with stuffed sesame seeds with some hint of sugar in it. It is a tasty recipe which is easy to make. The name Xutuli comes from a musical instrument and it is also one of the well-known Pitha in the state.
5. Guroor Payash
This dessert is one of the specials of Assam and is a delicious rice pudding. Rice is the main ingredient in it as it is a part of traditional foods for the people living there. Many dishes revolve around this as this dish is the main component. Also, this authentic cuisine is good for health because it has limited amount of oil or ghee in it. You can also add cashews for the flavour.
6. Qubani Ka Meetha
This Indian dessert consists of dried apricots. This dish is also common in many weddings and other important occasions. It consists of a thick soup topped with almonds along with malai or thick cream. This dish is rich in flavour due to the presence of nuts and thick cream.
7. Rava Ladoo
Rava Ladoo is a quick sweet recipe which requires only a few ingredients like semolina, milk or ghee, coconut, and nuts. It is one of the common desserts of the North-Eastern states and also this dish does not require any experts to prepare it.
8. Tekeli Pitha
Tekeli is a different kind of Pitha, consisting of both Xaali and Bora Saul with the mixture of coconut, sugar, and milk powder. In some cases, there will be ground cardamom and dried orange with the whole combination on a hearth furnace for steaming.
9. Khaja
Khaja is a dessert originating in the Eastern part of India and it is also popular in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.
10. Cha Khao Kheer
This dessert is a black rice pudding. It has medicinal properties for those who are health conscious. Assam and Manipur revived this sweet dish which consists of boiled rice with milk and some cardamoms to it.
11. Jolpan
Jolpan is a snack as well as a breakfast dish which contains either roasted or ground rice. The preferred combination is curd, jaggery and cream. You can find this item during Bihu festival, weddings and other important occasions. Jolpan includes the preparation of Pitha, Ladoo, and tea.
12. Rice Payas
It is a creamy rice pudding with enhanced flavour due to presence of cardamoms and nuts. In the Southern part of India, this dish is called Payasam. The recipe is very simple. It includes boiling thick milk with aromatic rice along with ghee or sugar and cashews for the taste.
13. Tel Pitha
Tel Pitha is a snack in which rice powder is the main ingredient. It is available in many varieties varying from sweet to mint taste. The ingredients present in this authentic dish are rice, jaggery, oil, and aniseed. The whole batter is kept overnight for the process of fermentation and then deep fried until there is an appearance of brown colour on it.
14. Chhangban Leh Kurtai
Chhangban Leh Kurtai is one of those dessert that is known for its simplicity. It is a healthy and tasty treat in the states of Assam and Mizoram. The main ingredients are rice flour, jaggery which are then steamed. It is then enclosed within leaves.
15. Koat Pitha
This dessert is one of the examples which shows how North East Indian desserts taste like and is one of the major dishes made at the time of festivals and more importantly during the Bihu festival. The process of making these delicacies include adding mashed ripe bananas and a cup of jaggery to the rice flour for the dough. Then make medium sized balls and fry it in oil or ghee till golden brown colour appears on it.
16. Laksa
Laksa is a spicy noodle soup. It is one of the major cuisines of Assam. It is a combination of Chinese and Malay recipes. It consists of rice noodles with chicken, fish/ prawn in the gravy. You can find this item in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand also.
17. Amitar Khar
The word Khar is a dish unique to the state of Assam. It is a traditional meal and always begins with a Khar because it is believed that Khar cleanses your stomach. Khar is ashes of the skin of banana which is served with some rice. The water which is filtered through the ashes is called kola.
18. Narikol Laru
Narikol Laru or Coconut Ladoo originates from the North-Eastern part of India. This sweet is an evening snack and sometimes also eaten as a post breakfast dish.
19. Khamen Athoomba Ashinba
Although the name seems complicated, this simple dessert is combination of fried tomatoes with the addition of sugar syrup. I am sure this dish looks mouth-watering and complex but it is just simple dipping of tomatoes in syrup and then frying them in either ghee or oil along with some cardamom and jeera powder.
20.Khapse
This dish is the love of people living in Assam and it is the traditional food of North-Eastern India. It is healthy due to the presence of fibre in it and the flour used for its preparation is red millet or rajgara, which is full of iron. When you deep fry it, the biscuits become crisp and soft.
