A meal that makes you feel warm and cheerful, it is a classic Meghalayan cuisine item that should be tried at least once. The menu is basic and moderate, but an almost common hint of spice and distinctive ingredients set the Meghalaya dish apart from the rest.
Sakin Gata is a rice cake that will make you smile from the second you eat it. This sweet dish will contain numerous layers of rice and toasted sesame seeds, creating such a wonderful nutty flavour combination that a single bite will be not sufficient for anyone. Sakin Gata is recognized as one of the major prepared foods in a Meghalayan thali.
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Sakin Gata
Course : Main dish
Cuisine : Indian
Prep time : 10 minutes
Process time : 20 minutes
Total time : 30 minutes
Ingredients:
Gluten sticky rice - 1 cup
Black sesame seeds - 1/2 cup
Salt - 1 tsp
Banana leaf - 1
Instructions:
Wash and soak sticky rice for 1 hour, strain the water and take 3 tsp of soaked rice and keep aside, with remaining soaked rice, grind to coarse powder
Roast the black sesame seeds slighty, then add in motor-pestel , with salt and crush to coarse powder and keep aside
Place the banana leaf into steamer plate, add soaked rice in the centre of the leaf, then sprinkle coarsed sticky rice
Then sprinkle coarsed sesame seed powder on it
Keep repeating this like a layers
Finally cover the leaf by folding the corners and steam for 1 hour
After steaming cut and serve hot
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