Eat Street: Odisha Rasagola!
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Everyone has surely tasted the delicious syrupy dessert called Rasagola. Today, we have some ‘sweet’ information about Rasagola!
Origins of Rasagola
- Rasgulla comes from the words ‘ras’ meaning juice and ‘gulla’ meaning ball.
- It is made of chhena (cottage cheese) cooked in sugar syrup.
- The dessert is called ‘Rosogolla’ or ‘Roshogolla’ in Bengali and ‘Rasagola’ in Odia.
The Odisha Rasagola recently received the Geographical Indication (GI) tag.
- A GI tag is a recognition for a product confirming that it originated in a particular locality or region.
- According to Odisha’s historians, the rasagola originated in Puri as ‘khira mohana’.
- It is traditionally offered to Goddess Lakshmi at the Puri Jagannath Temple.
The love for Odisha Rasagola
West Bengal also got the GI tag for ”Banglar Rosogolla” in 2015.
- West Bengal has its own rosogolla history.
- It is believed that a Kolkata-based maker of sweets named Nobin Chandra Das introduced the rosogolla in West Bengal in 1868.
- Mr Das made it by processing the mixture of chhena and semolina* in boiling sugar syrup.
This concludes our story on “Odisha Rasagola”. We hope you liked the story and found the narrative simple, and easy to understand. Write to us in the comments section below!
Be sure to check out this simple recipe of making “Rasgulla”, shared by “Yummy” on Youtube.
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