Government of IndiaBai
Bai is a signature dish of the Mizos. It is a stew prepared out of an assortment of vegetables. Bai can be prepared in a variety of ways by combining different kinds of seasonal vegetables. Mixed vegetable Bai is easy to prepare and is one of the most popular household dishes of Mizoram.
| Cuisine: | Mizo |
| Total time: | 20 mins |
| Preparation time: | 05 mins |
| Cooking time: | 15 mins |
| Serves: | 2 |
Ingredients
| 1 medium-sized: | Potato |
| 3 medium-sized: | Eggplants |
| 10: | French beans |
| 1 medium-sized: | Carrot |
| ½ cup: | Chopped chives |
| 4: | Ladies’ fingers |
| 3: | Slit green chillies (you can add more or less as per taste) |
| 1tablespoon: | Bekang (dry fermented soy bean) |
| 1 teaspoon: | Baking soda |
| 1 teaspoon: | Vegetable oil |
| 3 cups: | Water |
Salt as per taste.
Directions
- Chop the vegetables (except the ladies’ fingers) into medium sized inch-long shapes.
- Boil water in a pan, and then add salt and baking soda to it.
- Now add the chopped vegetables along with the slit chillies. Boil for around five minutes on a medium flame.
- Keep stirring the vegetables continuously while they boil.
- Add bekang and oil. Boil further for another 5 minutes.
- Now add the ladies’ fingers and put the flame on sim. Partly cover the lid. Boil for 3 minutes. The Bai is done.
Bai is best enjoyed with steamed rice and fiery chilli chutney.
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