Though its main ingredients are bamboo and glutinous (sticky) rice, it is also made with binni rice, milk, sugar, coconut, and rice powder. This unique delicacy is prepared when sticky rice is stuffed inside young bamboo and smoke slowly. It is popularly known as a distinct and traditional food in Bengali cuisine. This traditional delicacy is famous in Assam.It is prepared at the time of Magh Bihu or Bhogali Bihu, a harvest festival celebrated in India's northeastern Assam. Gradually, the food started to be popular from the hills to the bengali living in the plains. In the course of time, this chunga (bamboo tube) dish came to be known as chunga pitha.
Though atap rice is the main food of ...