Poha is a popular breakfast dish in incredible Madhya Pradesh. It is a quickly made dish at any home thus even popularly seved to guests, visiting any local house thus widely consumed and offered in central India. It is basically a flattened rice dish in Madhya Pradesh. Due to healthy production of rice in central India region, Poha is available in open market at very affordable price thus we can find its availability at all economic category of house from high-earning houses to low earning homes. Poha is a pure vegetarian dish which is used in combination with many other dishes thus we can find variety of it cock-tale variety in market and almost all such dishes are very popular among visitors. Even if you move out early in cities of Madhya Pradesh like Indore, Bhopal, Jabalpur, Ujjain, Khajuraho etc., we will notice number of road side shops, offering poha dish for local visitors, office going people, morning walkers. Even at normal homes, it is prepared 3-4 times in a week. This reveals its deep popularity among local citizens.
Poha (rice flakes) is a rice based dish. It can be prepared in 10-15 minutes of duration, if all the ingredients are available on table. During its poha preparation, required ingredients are usually poha, onion, potato, mustard seed, cumin seeds, curry leaves, green chili, asafoetida (hing), ground nut, turmeric powder, lemon juice, grated coconut, 2 tablespoon oil, salt. Presence of these ingredients increases its calorific value and taste. First, poha is soaked in water to make it soft and then prepared using cooking gas and non-sticky pan with lid. When it is served with other dishes like Jalebi or sauce or some other dish, combination enhances the tase and experience.