VegChhattisgarhi Chila
Thin rice batter crepes flavored with ginger, green chilli, and cumin—a light, nutritious tribal breakfast.
Chhattisgarh produces one third of India's rice varieties. Its tribal cuisine celebrates fermentation, steaming, and unprocessed forest ingredients.
Bastar's tribal communities have some of India's most intricate oral food traditions, including 36 varieties of cooking rice in bamboo stems.
Chila—the Chhattisgarhi crepe—is made from rice batter fermented overnight and cooked on clay griddles. Bafauri are steamed chana dal dumplings.