Mizo cuisine

Rice is the staple food of Mizoram, while Mizos love to add non-vegetarian ingredients in every dish.

A popular dish is bai, made from boiling vegetables (the ingredients tend to differ from household to household) with bekang (fermented soybeans) or sa-um, a fermented pork, and served with rice.

Sawhchiar is another common dish, made of rice and cooked with beef, pork or chicken.

[1][2] The staple food of most of the Mizo people is rice, with meat and vegetables served on the side, ranging from the homely bai, a simple vegetable stew, non veg stew with sesame, garlic, onion and herbs.

[3] Lunch in a Mizo home differs from house to house .Food eaten in lunch can range from Simple biscuits to even noodles and also sometimes "chhangban" (a snack prepared from finely ground sticky rice) which is usually accompanied by kurtai (jaggery) and tea.