Morigaon Breakfast

Name: Morigaon Breakfast
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Indian (Assam)
Ingredients: 150g poita bhat; 150g freshwater prawn tenga (sour prawn curry with tomato); 100g aloo pitika; 1 cup tea

🍗 Non-veg🌾 Gluten-free📊 Medium

Traditional 73. Morigaon Breakfast recipe

⏱️10 minPrep

🔥20 minCook

🕒30 minTotal

🍽️2Serves

🧺 Ingredients

150g poita bhat
150g freshwater prawn tenga (sour prawn curry with tomato)
100g aloo pitika
1 cup tea

👩‍🍳 How to make Morigaon Breakfast

Make prawn tenga (20 mins, medium heat): Fry prawns in mustard oil with turmeric. Add tomatoes, water, kaji nemu juice. Simmer 12 minutes to a light sour broth.
Prepare fermented rice and aloo pitika: As per recipes #1 and #12.

📖 Cultural notes

Morigaon district, adjacent to the Brahmaputra flood plains, has abundant freshwater prawn (galda chingri) populations — prawn tenga is a local specialty that combines the universal Assamese souring technique with the district's most prized freshwater resource. ---

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