Lia (food)

Lia, ଲିଆ
	Khai offered to Jagannatha in Badadanda, Puri.
Course	Ukhuda, Korakhai, Khai
Place of origin	India
Region or state	Odisha
Main ingredients	Fried rice
	Cookbook: Lia, ଲିଆ;

Lia (Odia: ଲିଆ) (fried paddy^[1]) is a prepared food from rice mainly consumed in the region of Odisha, India.^[2] The other varieties are Khai (Odia: ଖଇ) (fried paddy) and Ukhuda (Odia: ଉଖୁଡ଼ା)^[3] (fried paddy sweetened by jaggery). It is a form of puffed rice (Rice puffs while roasting it with heated sand) which is added with jaggery syrup. "Kora khai", a derived food from "khai" is offered to in Lingaraja temple, Bhubaneswar.^[4]

References[]

^ Das, Patnaik, Raicharan, Dhirendranath (1982). Festivals of Orissa. Orissa Sahitya Akademi. p. 80.
^ Panda, Shishir Kumar (1991). Medieval Orissa: a socio-economic study. Mittal Publications. p. 152. ISBN 9788170992615.
^ Jena, B. B. (1980). Orissa, people, culture, and polity. Kalyani Publishers, Original from the University of Michigan.
^ "Lord Lingaraja, Offerings". Archived from the original on 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2012-03-24.

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[khai-1] Das, Patnaik, Raicharan, Dhirendranath (1982). Festivals of Orissa. Orissa Sahitya Akademi. p. 80.

[pakhala-2] Panda, Shishir Kumar (1991). Medieval Orissa: a socio-economic study. Mittal Publications. p. 152. ISBN 9788170992615.

[3] Jena, B. B. (1980). Orissa, people, culture, and polity. Kalyani Publishers, Original from the University of Michigan.

[4] "Lord Lingaraja, Offerings". Archived from the original on 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2012-03-24.

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