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The famous Chura Lai of Jharkhand-Bihar is a nutritious and delicious sweet for winters. Adding ginger and roasted sesame seeds to jaggery syrup adds medicinal properties and unique taste to it. This traditional dish that keeps the body warm is very popular during Makar Sankranti. It is very easy to make it at home.
Hazaribagh: With the arrival of winter season in Jharkhand and Bihar, a significant change is seen in the food habits. In this season, many types of traditional dishes are prepared in every home, which are not only excellent in taste but are also considered very beneficial from health point of view. Especially the importance of bangles increases a lot in the winter season. Chuda is associated with the tradition and culture of Jharkhand and Bihar, many special sweets are made from it. In this season, sweets made from bangles are especially cooked in every house. Which people eat with great gusto in winter.
While sharing the recipe, Raveena Kachhap, a resident of Hazaribagh, says that Chuda Lai sweets are definitely made in every house during the winter season. This sweet is not only delicious in taste, but it is also very easy to make. The special thing is that children, youth and elderly all eat this sweet with great enthusiasm. The demand for this sweet increases even more around Makar Sankranti. During festival days, this sweet also becomes special to serve to the guests coming to home.
Crunchy bangles are prepared
He further told that the biggest specialty of Chuda ki Lai sweets is that it does not require many ingredients to make it. This is a traditional sweet made with less ingredients, which is easily prepared in every home. To make this, first of all the Chuda is roasted well in a pan on low flame, so that the Chuda becomes crisp. In this, care is taken that the bangles do not burn, otherwise the taste of the sweet may get spoiled.
Ginger-sesame flavoring
After this, some water is poured into the same pan and jaggery nuggets are added to it and cooked. The jaggery is cooked with continuous stirring until a good syrup is prepared. As soon as the syrup is prepared, lightly grated ginger is added to it, which gives a slightly spicy aroma and taste to the sweet. Along with this, pre-roasted sesame seeds are also mixed in jaggery syrup, which makes this sweet more nutritious.
this is called chooda ki lai
When jaggery, ginger and sesame seeds mix well, then roasted chuda is added to it. After this the entire mixture is mixed well, so that the syrup gets completely absorbed into the Chuda. When this mixture cools down, small laddus are made. Within some time, the delicious and traditional Chuda Lai sweet is ready.
This sweet helps in keeping the body warm in winter. The mixture of jaggery, sesame and ginger is beneficial for health. This is the reason why this sweet is especially made in Jharkhand and Bihar during the winter season.
