“Chakhum” in manipuri means kitchen, the name a tribute to Manipur, my native place.
This is an attempt to capture my journey of learning cooking, trying out food and hence will contain my fav. recipes/food from all different places I have been. I will be introducing and talking about manipuri food/vegetables too.
This will help me to organise on the recipes I love. These are my favourite collections from other’s recipe and some my own (which have been discovered by fluke and will be very less in numbers). Cooking so far has been hit & trial and I depend heavily strickly on the recipe and cannot cook without my recipe book/printout in front of me… If It’s a lucky day, the food turns out to be awesome 
but there are days where the whole food goes to the thrash :(.
Thanks to all the food blogger from whom I get most of my recipes & aspiration to tray & cook and I don’t take credit for it 
. For dishes I want to try/like, I generally put a link of the original recipe and also paste the recipe (I do this because I have had cases where the link doesn’t work or blogger deleted content) content in my blog (with/without changes to suit my taste) and I would have given a comment to the original recipe owner. But in any case, if anyone has a problem in me doing this, please let me know, I will put just the link in my collection.
Picture of my favourite “Manipuri Ushop Mathen”.
September 25, 2006 at 10:07 am
Hi Monica,
I am so happy to see the Unniappam’s recipes, one of my husbands favourite. I have taken the recipe which i will try this thursday being a holiday. I will tell u how well it came out.
I cook some kerala dishes which everyone likes it and one of the famous one is Parippu Pradhaman. I will send you the recipe if you have not tried bofore.
Thank you so much for recipe.
Roshni.
October 17, 2006 at 1:24 pm
thanks Roshni, yes please share any of your fav. I am all for trying out new dishes.
November 21, 2006 at 8:23 pm
Oh my gosh! What a spread. Are those all Manipuri dishes? Is that a special festival meal? Never made any manipuri dishes. I had quite a few Manipuri classmates at nursing school. Hoping to learn more Manipuri dishes from you.
November 23, 2006 at 2:43 pm
Hey…awesome job!!! with all the recipes….u make me miss home food real bad….But u have missed one key dish…the singju…Plz a meitei without singju is like a trouser without zip…..we just ain’t gonna be we
May 16, 2007 at 11:06 am
HI
Monica it’s been lovely to tell u that u have done a great job in making a collection of manipuri dishes.Hope u do well in different different collection’s.May god be with u always
and i really appreciate your good work.
Thanks and u take care.
Biky(Delhi.
May 22, 2007 at 10:36 am
Dear Monica,
It is really fasinating to see this all manipuri dishes available in net.As i am far from home and not knowing how to cook ( A man ), i really and from heart appreciate you…….
take care and dont forget to update you list..
J.Huidrom
August 29, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Dear Monica,
Its really nice to see ur website full of manipuri dish… Try to add some more manipuri dish like chagempomba, utti, paknam ..etcc.. etc.. and yes i want to learn how to make pork pickle.. if u have the recipe then please share it with me.. All the best..
Deepa
September 9, 2007 at 10:18 am
Hi Monica,
I left manipur about 30 years ago but still my mouth waters when I think of ‘Irongba’ spelling may not be right but you have guessed its boiled veg mixed with raw onion and green chilies and added heethal, the stinky fish…please can you give me the right recepies.
Rhea
September 9, 2007 at 10:18 am
Hi Monica,
I left manipur about 30 years ago but still my mouth waters when I think of ‘Irongba’ spelling may not be right but you have guessed its boiled veg mixed with raw onion and green chilies and added heethal, the stinky fish…please can you give me the right recepies.
Rhea
September 10, 2007 at 11:58 am
i m extremely happy to see the dishes of manipur in the net. Actually i am the student of Master in tourism administration and its my duty to develop the tourist places in manipur. So food is the important thing as in my mmind and as i was far from my home i have not tasted “pakora” since six month. Our food somewhat different from others.
Bijen Thokchom.
September 13, 2007 at 7:21 am
Dear Monica !
Even though cooking is my hobby…and love to cook always….but i miss the PURE MANIPURI DISHES, mostly the Utsav mathel,Cairaoba, Ningol Chakaoba. Its really great and appreciate you…please do update
Suresh Huidrom
http://www.sureshhuidrom.com
September 13, 2007 at 7:22 am
Dear Monica !
Even though cooking is my hobby…and love to cook always….but i miss the PURE MANIPURI DISHES, mostly the Utsav mathel,Cairaoba, Ningol Chakaoba. Its really great and appreciate you…please do update
Suresh Huidrom
Bangalore
http://www.sureshhuidrom.com
September 25, 2007 at 8:02 pm
I WAS DREAMING …OF MANIPURI DISHES SUDDENLY I TYPED MANIPURI FOOD IN GOOGLE I FOUND UR WEBSITE ALONG WITH A PICTURE OF VARIETIES OF DISHES…WELL! I THG FR SURE U MADE MY MOUTH WATERY GUD JOB
November 3, 2007 at 3:16 pm
hey monica,
i wanna thank u for all the dishes u posted..but ya i want soem help from u…i wanna knw if there is anything called NAARY/NAARRI…in manipur..actually im not an maniputi but ya got married to an manipuri…even i wanna give her some surprise by making manipur dishes for her…can u plz help me out…
November 18, 2007 at 2:30 pm
i dont know who r u.But it really amazing to see dese dishes.
November 28, 2007 at 10:44 am
tha-gat chari.
u r great
January 14, 2008 at 10:14 am
hi monica
you really made me miss home food.you ve done a great job. Hope this site will help some of my friends who are anxious to know more of our manipuri dishes. wish you luck. bye
merina.l
January 17, 2008 at 11:06 am
What a brilliant and innovative idea of yours lol. i am quite flaterred with the way you have popularised typical meitei dishes over the net.
Regards to your innovative action and keep up the same.
February 8, 2008 at 6:18 pm
hai monica
nice to see some1 doing a gr8 thing to show our beautiful culture.aeidi henjang thongba se yamna haite aduna i really admired u… best wishes for u.. n thank u so much ..
March 7, 2008 at 9:41 pm
Hi Monica
It’s great seeing the mouth watering manipuri dishes.Can you please post the recipe for Singju, manipuri dal and Iromba without Nagri or any other alternative-as this lovely fish is not available in NewZealand(country where I live)
Can you post is sooooon please as I am just waiting and longing to prepare it!
April 11, 2008 at 9:07 pm
hello,
u can get yonchak maru in hong kong market
in frozen section it is called SATOR it will be in small plastic bag but only the green seed.
April 27, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Hi,
Do u have the recipe for Eron ba. I used to love it. If possible, could u pliz mail it to me. I have not eaten it since I left Imphal in 1984.
Thanks
April 29, 2008 at 12:10 am
i really dont know what to say its 5.40 in the morning and am still trying to sleep (unsuccessfully) and also remembering that had i been home i will probably be in the “chakhum” making tea. back home i wasn’t much of a foodie and really didnt appreciate Meitei cusine but now… wow my mouth watered at those usop mathens and the yongchak sungju … great … its good to see my yenjhang mathensing after so long
