Lia (food) explained

Lia, ଲିଆ
Country:India
Region:Odisha
Course:Ukhuda, Korakhai, Khai
Main Ingredient:Fried rice

Lia (fried paddy[1]) is a prepared food from rice mainly consumed in the region of Odisha, India.[2] The other varieties are Khai (fried paddy) and Ukhuda [3] (fried paddy sweetened by jaggery). It is a form of puffed rice (Rice puffs while roasting it with heated sand) which is added with jaggery syrup. "Kora khai", a derived food from "khai" is offered to Lingaraja in Lingaraja temple, Bhubaneswar.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Das, Patnaik, Raicharan, Dhirendranath. Festivals of Orissa. 1982. Orissa Sahitya Akademi. 80.
  2. Book: Panda, Shishir Kumar. Medieval Orissa: a socio-economic study. 1991. Mittal Publications. 9788170992615. 152.
  3. Book: Jena, B. B.. Orissa, people, culture, and polity. 1980. Kalyani Publishers, Original from the University of Michigan.
  4. Web site: Lord Lingaraja, Offerings . 2012-03-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120502041651/http://khordha.nic.in/lingaraj/lingaraj.htm . 2012-05-02 . dead .

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