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Aaksalu
Preparation
KindDish
Part of the plantSeed
Also calledaksalu
Place and time
CountryIndia
First recorded2018[1]: 128
Still madeYes
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Aaksalu is a winter dish of the Manikaran valley in Kullu District, Himachal Pradesh, made from hemp seed "along with wheat, rice flour", with either salt or sugar. It is cooked in stone pots called patel. Many women of the valley prepare it in the winter season.[1]: 128 With siddu it is one of the traditional foods flavoured with hemp seed in the valley's villages, where the seed is called mangolu.[1]: 127–128

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Rathore, S.; Shashni, S.; Samant, S.S.; Sundriyal, R.C. (2018). "Indigenous uses of wild hemp (Cannabis sativa) by the local inhabitants in Manikaran Valley of Himachal Pradesh, North Western Himalaya". Journal of Non-Timber Forest Products. 25 (3): 127–130. doi:10.54207/bsmps2000-2018-7393KF.