Northeast Indian

Chira Doi Gur (Flattened Rice with Curd and Jaggery)

Name: Chira Doi Gur (Flattened Rice with Curd and Jaggery)
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 3 servings
Cuisine: Northeast Indian
Ingredients: 1.5 cup flattened rice (chira); 1 cup curd; 3 tbsp jaggery, grated

Bandana Gogoi @bandana_ghy

Chira Doi Gur (Flattened Rice with Curd and Jaggery) is Northeast Indian home cooking, eaten at breakfast. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

10 min Easy Heart healthy Low sodium Vegetarian Halal Gluten free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1.5 cup flattened rice (chira)
1 cup curd
3 tbsp jaggery, grated

How to cook it

Rinse the flattened rice briefly under running water, just enough to dampen the flakes without turning them mushy.
Let it sit for 2 to 3 minutes so the rice softens and swells slightly.
Spoon the softened chira into a bowl and top with the curd.
Scatter the grated jaggery over the top, or stir it through for a more even sweetness.
Serve at once at room temperature; this needs no stove at all and is ordinary Assamese breakfast, not only a Bihu specialty.

Watch how to cook Chira Doi Gur (Flattened Rice with Curd and Jaggery)

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Serve it with

A Northeast Indian breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chira Doi Gur (Flattened Rice with Curd and Jaggery), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The sharp little thing
- Coconut Chutney
  
  15 min

A course labelled with another kitchen's name comes from a cuisine in the same family, which is where this plate usually borrows it from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chira Doi Gur (Flattened Rice with Curd and Jaggery) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Chira Doi Gur (Flattened Rice with Curd and Jaggery)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Akhuni Yam (Fermented Soybean with Yam and Mustard Greens)
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 200 kcal
Protein: 5 g
Carbs: 38 g
Fat: 3 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 14 g
Sodium: 30 mg
Saturated fat: 2 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Chira Doi Gur (Flattened Rice with Curd and Jaggery) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.