Recipes from Maithili kitchens

Two grandmothers share traditional recipes for dal pithi, bagiya, thakuwa and litti chokha.

Sixty-five year old, Tetari Yadav, from Anarban, Mahottari, has been cooking since she was ten. She is known in her village for her excellent food. Nowadays, she doesn’t cook much; she only cooks sometimes when her grandkids make a fuss. Her twelve-year-old grandson, says food made by dai (grandmother in Maithili) is his favourite.