Yongchak Eronba

Winter's favourite dish of Manipuris

Main Dish

Vegetarian

Stinky Bean

Kanglei

Curry

Pressure Cooker

Yongchak Eronba

Saturday, February 12, 2022 By : KH MATHOU

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Winter's favourite dish of Manipuris

5 Ingredients
25 Mins
4 People

Eromba, a generic name of the dish prepared with crushed boiled vegetables, fermented fish with chilly. It is one of the simplest cuisines of Meiteis of Manipur, yet it is spicy because chilli is one of its major ingredients. It contains no masala. Among the Meiteis, Eromba is a favourite because of its simple, great taste. And for this reason the cuisine has become integrated throughout the sibling communities of the state and the neighbouring states of North-East India.

Eromba can be prepared with any compatible, seasonal vegetables and hence, can vary across regions and seasons.

If you don't have fish, fear not. You can still make Yongchak Eromba! Fry whole dry chillies in oil instead of steaming. Make sure that they get crispy but not burnt. Also fry onion/ garlic/chives or all. Mix the chillies first with salt. then add the onions/garlic/ chives.
The mixture can replace the fish. Although the taste is a bit different, it's still tasty.

Yongchak Eronba

Preparation Time
10 minutes

Cook Time
15 minutes

Total Time
25 minutes

Servings
4 servings

Ingredients
5 ingredients

Directions
6 steps

Ingredients

Primary

	2 - Stinky Beans (Yongchak)
	5/6 - Green chilli Raw preferred
	3 pieces - Potato Peeled
	Half Cup - Spring onion Chopped
	As required - Salt

Directions

1
Take peeled Petai beans (Yongchak), peeled potato, dried red chilies and pressure cook until two whistles.
2
Take Ngari (a manipuri fermented fish) roast it in low flame and sprinkle a little bit of water and soak in it.
3
Take the pressure cooked chilies in a bowl , mix it with the Ngari, add salt (as per your taste) and mash it with your hand.
4
Mix all the pressure cooked vegetables along with the ngari paste and add water (preferably left over water from the pressure cooker or lukewarm water). The consistency shouldn't be very watery.
5
Season it with coriander, raw chopped onion or any other favourite seasoning herbs.
6
Viola!!! your yongchak eronba is ready.