Thekua

Thekua is made from wheat flour, a sweetener such as jaggery or sugar, fat and aromatics. Portions are pressed or patterned before frying, creating a sweet that is firm, fragrant and well suited to keeping.

Its strongest public association is with Chhath, where food is inseparable from observance, preparation and offering. A description of ingredients alone cannot explain that meaning.

More than a snack

Patterns, thickness, sweetness and flavour vary by household. Pranam Bihar will treat family makers as knowledge holders and distinguish an everyday commercial thekua from one prepared within a sacred context.