What is Jolpan in Assam?
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Cooking Instructions
Soak & wash the poha under running water (2-4 mins)
Now take a bowl. Put a layer of washed poha.
Now pour a spoonful of cream.
Add 2-3 spoons of curd.
On top,add jaggery according to your taste.
Enjoy your JOLPAN.
Jolpan is a snack, breakfast or mini meal, often served at breakfast in the cuisine of Assam, although they may also be served at Bihu festivals or weddings.
The word jolpan includes all the preparations namely jolpan, pitha, laddu and tea. It usually consists of various forms of rice like ground roasted rice (xandoh), boiled in its husk and flattened rice, puffed rice, and variety of glutinous rice found in Assam called as bora saul, kumol saul; this unique variety of rice can be eaten without cooking, just by soaking them and all these rice forms are eaten along with curd /yogurt (doi), jaggery (goor), and various pitha.
Jolpan is also found in Bengal. The word literally derives from “water and betel leaf” but can mean any snack.