Thursday, 9 April 2015

Forgotten snacks- II

In my earlier post, I talked a bit about our indigenous snacks.  Here, in this update, I will describe more about the forgotten indigenous snacks of the Meiteis. 
Kabok, leibak-hawai heingaan, heimang heingaan, chana hawai manggal are the other indigenous snacks.  It is easily available in the market, but people hardly buy this. 
Kabok is made up of roasted and puffed uncooked rice with molasses.
Leibak-hawai heingaan (leibak-hawai means groundnut) is made up of groundnut and molasses.  Groundnut will be mixed with molasses and will be dried in the fire or sun.
Hawai manggal is dried peas roasted with sand.  In a concave griddle, dried peas with sand will be heated.
Heimang heingaan is another indigenous snacks made up of a typical fruit mixed with molasses.
All the indigenous snacks of Meiteis are mostly roasted.  It showed us the health benefits of all the snacks.  Meiteis hardly use oil in cooking and in snacks.  All these packaged food items are conquering the market.  It is making the people unhealthy.  We are neglecting our indigenous food items and adopting all those fast food items.

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