Bhojpuri cuisine is a style of food preparation common amongst the Bhojpuri people living in Bihar.

Bhojpuris are fond of spicy foods and their cuisines essentially contains various mouth-watering spices found in the Indian sub-continent.

The food is tailor made for Bhojpuri lifestyle in which the rural folk burn up a lot of calories in the fields. Because of the reason that

Bhojpuri people take pride in celebrating various festivals and practises various relegious rites, their also food resemble the delicacies of food that are offered to Gods and goddesses. (Further inputs shall be provided by Bharat Prasad).

Some dishes popular in Bhojpuri cuisine include:

• Choley: Chickpeas.
• Rajma: Red Kidney Beans
• Lobiya: Black Eyed Bean
• Dal Makhani
• Aloo Matar
• Bihari Kebab
• Gulab Jamun
• Dal Maharani
• Pooa

These 8 dishes are native to the cuisine of Punjab (excpet for Bihari kebab). Bhojpuri people eat a lot of Punjabi food as they have been doing so for 220 years (around 1790 when these dishes originated).