Doi Chire: Quick Breakfast Recipe From The Bengali Cuisine
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Doi Chire is the traditional and most popular breakfast in West Bengal. This dish offers the poha recipe in a unique form. The ‘doi’ is referred yoghurt, and ‘chire’ in Bengali means flattened rice or chiwda. This recipe includes poha, dahi, fruits, honey, sugar, and all these ingredients are good for digestion and metabolism. No more waiting; must try this light on the stomach, one-pot meal on Sunday. Let's jump straight to the Bengali Doi Chire breakfast recipe. 

How To Make Bengali Style Doi Chire? 

Ingredients for sweet yoghurt: 

  • 1 cup flattened rice (poha/chivda)
  • 1.5-2 cups of sweet thick yoghurt

How to get sweet yoghurt?

Boil 2 cups of milk with less water, keep aside to cool. Add two tablespoons of dahi (curd) and add one tablespoon of sugar. Give a good stir and keep curd for curdling overnight. Once it is done, take a muslin cloth to extract the water, and you’ll get thick sweet yoghurt. 

Ingredients:

  • 1 banana sliced 
  • Any other fruit of your choice 
  • Nuts and raisins (chopped)
  • Sugar/ Coconut sugar/ Honey as per taste

Procedure: 

  • Clean the flattened rice (poha) in the running water and rinse the water thoroughly with the help of a sieve. 
  • In the bowl, mix sugar/coconut sugar/honey/. In this process, traditionally, sugar drop candies are used. Bengalis call them ‘bastasha’. Add if you have some; it gives you a crunchy texture. 
  • Now add yoghurt to the same bowl and give a good mix. You can avoid adding extra sugar if you are using mishti doi for this recipe. 
  • Add sliced banana, nuts and raisins; give a final mix to this. 
  • Transfer this to the serving bowl, garnish with some fruits of your choice. Prefer these fruits to taste good such as pomegranate, mango, and grape, in this recipe.

Start your day with this healthy breakfast dish.